MANZANITA — Portland acoustic blues artist Mary Flower will perform live at the Pine Grove Community House at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18.

Spud Siegel on mandolin and Jesse Withers on bass will join Flowers for the show.

The concert is a benefit for the Pine Grove Community House, located at 225 Laneda Ave. Tickets are $15 and available in advance at the venue.

An internationally known and award-winning picker, singer/songwriter and teacher, Flower, a Midwest native, relocated from Denver to the vibrant Portland music scene in 2004 and hasn’t looked back since. She continues to please crowds and critics at folk festivals and concert stages domestically and abroad, ones that include Merlefest, Kerrville, King Biscuit, Prairie Home Companion and the Calgary Folk Festival, among many.

Flower recently released her 10th album, “When My Bluebird Sings,” this time on her own label, Bluesette Records.

“This CD is a departure stylistically from my previous recordings,” Flower says. “The CD is a mix of lap slide instrumentals and guitar pieces with vocals, all original. Some of these tunes have been rumbling around in my head for quite a while and seemed well-suited for a solo project. Many of you have asked for more solo and more slide — so here it is, the raw and unadorned. Enjoy.”

Flower’s immense fingerpicking guitar and lap-slide prowess is soulful and meter-perfect, a deft blend of the inventive, the dexterous and the mesmerizing. Her supple honey-and-whiskey voice provides the perfect melodic accompaniment to each song’s story.

A finalist in 2000 and 2002 at the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship, a nominee in 2008 and 2012 for a Blues Foundation Blues Music Award, and a 2011 Portland Muddy Award winner, Flower embodies a luscious and lusty mix of rootsy, acoustic-blues guitar and vocal styles that span a number of idioms — from Piedmont to the Mississippi Delta, with stops in ragtime, swing, folk and hot jazz.