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"The Watershed Rock Opera" is a multimedia rock opera about the Columbia Gorge featuring 20 local musicians and performers, along with a handful of storytellers. Music director and percussionist Leila Kaneda is shown standing in the foreground performing during a rehearsal that took place in Hood River on April 7, 2025. The backdrops were made by producer Sarah Fox and her mother from donated kiteboarding kites and wings that were disassembled and cut up to resemble the topography of the Gorge, with the Oregon side on the left, the Washington side on the right and the sky above and Columbia River below.

A rock opera about the Columbia Gorge watershed comes to life

We hear from the creative team behind a rock opera about the Columbia River Gorge which is kicking off in a series of sold-out performances this weekend in Hood River.

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