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About Redhare
In the summer of 2007, Redhare owner, Scott Docherty, had bought a sailboat
and sought out the least expensive marina on the West Coast to move to. Not finding anything near his longtime
home in Los Angeles, he decided to sail, single-handedly, to Astoria, Oregon. After a life-changing journey,
Scott arrived in Astoria at the beginning of what became the worst winter in a hundred years. His intention
was to live and build Web sites aboard his boat, but after a series of storms and even surviving a hurricane,
Scott began to look for office space in Downtown. What he found was a magical place, one block from the
Columbia River, in an old building. With innexpensive rent, and much more space than needed for simply working on
the computer, the dream took shape, and work began on an art gallery and music venue.
Scott, with the help of several friends, remodelled the entire 1300 square foot space. It took about 6 months
of cleaning, building walls, stage, counters, sound booth and a stairway. Redhare opened on May 17, 2008
with a memorable ribbon-cutting ceremony that included his dad, who flew up from L.A., Astoria's mayor,
Willis Van Dusen and state senator, Betsy Johnson.
From the very first night, Redhare has gained a reputation for presenting high quality visual and musical art. The stage has
seen performances from amazing artists such as Moe Dixon, James Hurley, James Lee Stanley, Jill Trenholm,
John Batdorf, and more. Original members of Jefferson Airplane held a reunion concert here and the Marty Balin
Band played a secret show. Redhare was featured on the A&E Television show, Intervention, as one of that show's
subjects played 2 shows here - one of which was filmed and aired in 2008.
Scott Docherty continues to build first-rate Web sites and is enjoying his new life in Astoria. We hope you
can visit Redhare next time you are in the Pacific Northwest! And for those of you Internet hipsters out there,
Scott has a blog and photos from each week's performances at
MySpace, and regularly updates his
Facebook page. He also maintains a group on Facebook called
Northwest Singer/Songwriters.
Press Articles
Here are a few pieces of "good press" the Redhare has received. Click on the images for each complete article.
Photo Album: Building the Redhare
Click on the following thumbnails to see some photos of us building the gallery and celebrating our Grand Opening.
Moving In
December 2007
Building the Hare
January-May 2008
Grand Opening
May 17, 2008
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About The Owner
Born on the 20th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1961, Scott Docherty is an Internet professional, graphic
designer, musician, music promoter and art dealer . He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents, Jim and Marie Docherty. Scott
has an older brother, Jimmy, who lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patricia, and daughter, Casey.
Scott has been writing and playing music for over 30 years. He made his debut with the "Alternative Chorus Songwriters
Showcase" at the world-famous Improvisation on Melrose in 1976. He worked with the late, great Jack Segal (who wrote
"When Sunny Gets Blue", among many other Tin-Pan Alley favs) at the "American Guild of Authors and Composers" while
Segal was the west coast president. He was first published in 1982 by Kin Vasey, for an ill-fated Motels cut. Scott has played
on scores of recordings and in countless venues since. He has been fortunate enough to have played with great artists,
such as Edgar Winter, Tony Award winner Scott Waara, Jason Wade from Lifehouse, international opera star, Juliana Gondek,
Nashville recording Artist, Kate Miner, internationally acclaimed bassist, David Miner (Leon Russell, producer of
Elvis Costello's King of America), Ron Aniello (producer), Jack Kelly (internationally acclaimed drummer), the late, great Dave McKelvy
(one of the top harmonica players ever), Mitchell Sigman from Berlin, British rocker, Steve Counsel and many more.
In 2003, Scott played keyboards on tour with Mary Ramsey and John Lombardo, original members of 10,000 Maniacs and John
and Mary and with Ted Mason, of Modern English, The Blue Mocking Birds and president of Mi5 Records. Scott played
keyboards with up and coming country music star, Gis Johannson and Big City, and in 2007, gigged with Latin heart-throb,
Roberto Enrique.
Scott has been a salesman, a commercial fisherman, a Deadhead, a member of a cult, a short order cook, a recording
assistant for Capitol Records, a dishwasher, a Conroys flower delivery guy, a Starbucks barista, an independent record
label A/R executive, and built custom fishing rods ScotRods of Morro Bay (and although ScotRods has been out of
business for over 14 years, my work is STILL out there catchin' the big ones!) But through it all, the constant thread
has been music and art. Since that debut at The Improvisation at 16, Scott has managed to continue playing and writing music
in between the "B-flat gigs" that have paid his bills all these years. Now, all of his passions have joined together
with the founding of Redhare Astoria.
Reluctantly getting into computers in 1990, Scott quickly began programming hundreds
of midi-files and learning to
be proficient at digital music at it's very beginning. In the mid-90s, he worked with Sound Source Interactive
(TDK MediaActive), which designed sounds for synthesizers, and pioneered computer audio clips, including officially
licensed Star Trek, Star Wars, and 2001: A Space Odyssey computer products. Scott has been designing and building web
sites since 1996. He was an integrator, promoted shortly to producer at Disney Online, working on the Number One
entertainment web site on the 'Net. In 1998, he started his own business called Red Hare Graphics. After over 11
years, Redhare still designs, hosts and maintains web sites for dozens of clients from around the country, and
creates logos and graphics for companies like Yahoo, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Paramount Studios, General Motors, and
many more. You can view Scott's complete portfolio of web design, as well as some print and visual art work, on this site.
You can see more of Scott, listen to a few of his recordings at
ScottDocherty.com, view thousands of family photos at
VelvetElvis.net, and see even
more photos at his Flickr page.
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