Batons, knitting and singing, too.Byline: Carolyn Lamberson The Register-Guard Perhaps it's telling that Christine Lavin's performance idol is Dame Edna. The singer-songwriter, guitarist and comedian will mix up her genres when she performs Monday at the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave. "I wanted to write about really profound things," Lavin says in a news release, `but funny things seem to come easier for me. It's never been a plan; the work just leads me." Her show, which also includes baton-twirling and knitting, will feature songs from her many CDs, including "The Runaway Christmas Tree Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. " and "I Was in Love With a Difficult Man." Tickets are $18 at the door and $16 in advance, available at the WOW Hall and its outlets: CD World, CD & Game Exchange, House of Records, Taco Loco and the Erb Memorial Union ticket office. Showtime is at 8:30 p.m. David Lindley David Lindley may refer to:
There are a lot of "eclectic multi-instrumentalists' out there. But there probably aren't many who mix up folk, blues and bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. along with African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy - that's from Madagascar - and Turkish musical traditions. One guy who cooks with all these musical spices is David Lindley, and he's coming to Cafe Paradiso, 115 W. Broadway, at 8 p.m. Monday. Lindley - who played for years with the likes of Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon and Crosby, Stills & Nash - plays an array of acoustic and electric stringed instruments. His repertoire includes Hawaiian lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, from which other types developed. There are three main types of lap steel guitar:
n. A musical instrument of northern Africa and southwest Asia resembling a lute. [Arabic '  d, wood, stem, lute, oud.] and Irish
bouzouki The Irish bouzouki (colloquially, the "zouk") is a derivative of the Greek bouzouki.The bouzouki, in the newer tetraxordo (four course/eight string) Greek version, was introduced into Irish Traditional Music in the late 1960s, by Johnny Moynihan, and popularised . Tickets are $16 in advance, available at Cafe P, or $18 day of show. Everton Blender Reggae dancehall dance·hall n. 1. or dance hall A building or part of a building with facilities for dancing. 2. See ragga. dancehall Noun a style of dance-oriented reggae star Everton Blender will stir it up Thursday at the Jungle, 23 W. Sixth Ave. Blender will be backed by the Blend Dem band. The San Francisco-based Reggae Angels open. Blender is on tour in support of his latest release, "Traveled the World." Blender, who was born and raised in Jamaica, scored his first hit in 1992 with the single "Create a Sound." His first full-length album was 1994's `Lift Up Your Head.' The music is scheduled for 9 p.m.; admission is $13 in advance for the 21-and-older show, $15 at the door. Snatam Kaur Eugene singer Snatam Kaur, joined by fellow Spirit Voyage recording artists Thomas Barquee and GuruGanesha, will celebrate peace and music with two concerts on Saturday in Eugene. Kaur, who celebrates the release of her new album "Grace," is a Sikh who combines Gurmukhi verses, Kundalini yoga Some of the information in this article or section may not be verified by . It should be checked for inaccuracies and modified to cite reliable sources. : Main articles: Kundalini and Yoga Kundalini yoga mantras and English verse. "Grace" is her sixth album. On Saturday afternoon, Kaur and GuruGanesah will host a free "Children's Celestial Singing Hour" from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Yoga West, 3635 Hilyard St. Children - and their parents, who are encouraged to attend - will learn animal yoga positions through stories and songs. At Saturday evening's Celebrate Peace concert, Kaur, GuruGanesha and Barquee will perform a chanting and Kirtan This article is about Kirtan in Sikhism. For Kirtan in Hinduism, see Bhajan. Kirtan is one of the pillars of Sikhism and in that context refers to the singing of the sacred hymns from the Guru Granth Sahib to set music normally in classical Raags concert at First Christian Church First Christian Church can refer to:
n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. begin at 6:15 p.m. with a serving of tea. The music will start at 7 p.m. Tickets for the evening concert are $12 in advance, available at Stargate Books, 1374 Willamette St., or $16 at the door. Children younger than 12 will be admitted for free. Northwest Royale Fans of Northwest Royale will have one more chance to see the band before it heads back on the road for a national tour. Fresh off recent Jagermeister Music Tour dates with Slayer and others, Northwest Royale brings its brand of metal back to the WOW Hall for an all-ages show today at 8:30 p.m. Also on the bill are Domeshots, Five Foot Thick and Blunt Point. Admission is $5 at the door. Dan Neal Dan Neal (born August 30, 1949 in Corbin, Kentucky) was a former American Football player who played offensive line for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983 for the Baltimore Colts and the Chicago Bears. Dan Neal, the Eugene lawyer turned singer-songwriter, is back on the stage at Cafe P at 9 p.m. Saturday. This time, however, he won't be alone. He's gathered up a gang of local musicians, named them the Dan Neal Band, and worked up a few new songs since his last gig in November. The band includes guitarist Paul Hobbs, Pete Burger on drums, Matt Treder on keyboards and Mike Nemeth on bass. Singers Joseph McKinney and Zefora Alderman also will join in. The show will begin at 9 p.m. Admission is $7. Peter Hwosch Singer-songwriter Peter Hwosch will perform in a benefit concert at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cozmic Pizza, 199 W. Eighth Ave. Joining Hwosch on stage will be percussionist Matt Butler and bassist Damian Erskine. Proceeds from the show will support the Seedlings of Peace summer camp in the Balkans. Hwosch will show a clip of a video he has produced about the camp's peace and reconciliation work with young people in a postwar environment. Admission will be a suggested donation of $5 to $10. Hem Back in 1999, songwriter Dan Messe and producer and engineer Gary Maurer wanted to make a record that would explore traditional American music while draping draping, n in massage, technique of securely covering and uncovering parts of the body and moving the client. draping covering the animal with sterile drapes for surgery leaving exposed only that part of the body that has been it in contemporary stylings. They enlisted friend Steve Curtis (guitar, mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. ) and hired Sally Ellyson to sing. The band's name? Hem. The band's first album, 2001's `Rabbit Songs,' features traditional instrumentation (accents of mandolin, pedal steel, piano and stand-up stand·up or stand-up adj. 1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar. 2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar. bass) and Ellyson's sweet, mysterious vocals, according to allmusicguide .com. And now, with the album "Eveningland" in the band's "completed" column, the group is on tour. That road will lead to Cafe Paradiso at 8 p.m. Sunday. Also on the bill are David Mead and Dawn Landes. The cover charge is $7. Shantala Shantala, featuring Heather and Benjy Wertheimer and bamboo flute master Steve Gorn, will team up Saturday for music and meditation at Tamarack tamarack: see larch. Wellness Center, 3575 Donald St. Heather Wertheimer is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. Benjy Wertheimer is a multi-instrumentalist, at home playing tabla tabla Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in Hindustani music of northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The higher-pitched daya, played with the right hand, is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. , congas, percussion, esraj, guitar and keyboards. Gorn plays bamboo flute and soprano saxophone in concerts and festivals around the world. He has performed with a number of musicians, including Paul Simon, Jack DeJohnette and Allesandra Belloni. The evening begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance - available at Stargate Books and Four Winds Yoga Center - or $15 at the door. Paige Hamm Paige Hamm is stepping out on her own. The singer, formerly with the alt-country outfit Grasshopper grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with powerful hind legs and strong mandibles, or mouthparts, adapted for chewing. , has lined up a gig at 8 p.m. Thursday at Luna, 30 E. Broadway. Joining her will be Scott Perey (the Sugar Beets) and Paul Hobbs (Roughstock). Hamm majored in opera at the University of North Texas in Denton. She moved to Eugene from Austin about three years ago. Her show will feature original songs plus covers of tunes by Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi, Shawn Colvin, Toni Price, Tracy Chapman and Patty Griffin. The cover charge is $5. CAPTION(S): Snatam Kaur will celebrate the release of her new album with performances this weekend. Paige Hamm will hop up on the stage Thursday at Luna. |
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