Rooster Blackspur with Bella Cooper

Open Arts Center presents its OAC Music Series starting with Rooster Blackspur. Rooster Blackspur was born and raised in Alaska, the daughter of a dog musher, and shaped by the wild expanse of the Last Frontier. Described as “equal parts Johnny Cash grit and outsider revival preacher,” she carries that frontier spirit into her music, weaving raw storytelling with threads of Western, folk, and unholy gospel. An old-time journeyer with a modern voice, Rooster writes from the wild edges of experience—where grit, soul, and a little bit of the untamed meet.

Bella Cooper is a Bend-based singer-songwriter whose narrative writing style and honest instrumentation lets you feel like she is walking the listener home, waxing together about what it means to learn from heartbreak, grief, and joy. She is also the driver behind the wheel of local indie-rock outfit Chiggi Momo.