Booking committee casts a wide and wacky net.Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard It's hard enough picking a CD that everyone at your own small dinner party will like. So how do you make the music selections for an entire city? The same way you do anything else in Eugene. Have a long discussion. "There were some really interesting acts out there this year and it sparked a lot of discussion," said Steve Remington, managing director of the Eugene Celebration The Eugene Celebration is an annual community celebration and civic event held in downtown Eugene, Oregon, United States. Featuring bands and performers from throughout the Pacific Northwest, the three-day festival is held in early September and attracts more than 40,000 attendees , who oversaw the festival's eight-member entertainment com- mittee. "It's been a very intense year of working through the music. ... There are little gems that each of us fought for." Some of the gems on the music stages this weekend include the swing and jump blues This article may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since June 2007. Jump blues is a type of up-tempo blues music influenced by big band sound. act Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, who play tonight on the Fifth Avenue Stage, Fifth Avenue between Oak and Pearl Streets. Then there's Portland's banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. and slide guitar ace Tony Furtado Tony Furtado is an award-winning banjo player and slide guitar player of Portuguese and Italian heritage who was born in Pleasanton, California. A two time winner of the National Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas (1987 & 1991). and his band, the American Gypsies. They play Saturday on the Broadway Plaza Broadway Plaza is the name of various places:
On Sunday, you'll find the Arizona mariachi/alt-country duo Calexico (Broadway Plaza Stage) and the masked instrumental surf-rockers Los Straitjackets (Fifth Avenue Stage). "You can choose between punk rock at John Henry's 200-seat venue and a once-in-a lifetime concert by (blues harmonica harmonica. 1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline. player) Carey Bell up on the Fifth Avenue main stage among 4,000 of your closest friends," Remington said, emphasizing the breadth of the music lineup. `We've always been eclectic, but we're stretching stylistically. There were certain genres, like 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. (and) Americana, that we leaned more heavily toward. The `O Brother, Where Art Thou?' phenomenon was something we were sensitive to.' Some of the bluegrass and Americana acts to look forward to include good-humored country and "punkgrass" band Luther Wright and the Wrongs Luther Wright and the Wrongs are a Canadian alternative country band, consisting of Luther Wright, Camille Giroux, Burke Carroll, Dan Curtis and Sean Kelly. The band began as a side project for Wright when he was a member of Weeping Tile. (Sunday, Fifth Avenue), "jamgrass" favorites the Waybacks (Saturday, Broadway Plaza), the Salem bluegrass-Americana-pop act the Severin Sisters (Saturday, Wineries Stage) and Eugene's own bluegrass mixologists, the Sugar Beets (Saturday, Broadway Plaza). Blues also is well represented. Along with the aforementioned Bell, who will play Saturday with Northwest's blues harmonica king Paul deLay and his five-piece band, the Fifth Avenue Stage will feature bluesman Big Monti on Saturday and blues diva and former adult film star Candye Kane tonight. The expanded Rooster's Allstars show also returns to the Fifth Avenue Stage on Saturday. Three times as big as it was last year, the giant blues jam honors the late Eugene blues DJ Gavin "Rooster rooster its crowing at dawn heralds each new day. [Western Folklore: Leach, 329] See : Dawn rooster symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85] See : Virility " Fox with 50 to 80 musicians playing for 3 1/2 hours. In other genres, you'll find Donna the Buffalo Donna the Buffalo is an American band from Trumansburg, New York. They play several musical styles: zydeco, jamming, folk-rock, country rock, reggae and bluegrass. They play both originals (primarily written by Jeb Puryear and Tara Nevins) and covers. , a tribal funk band from upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. (Saturday, Broadway Plaza), the a cappella act DaVinci's Notebook (Sunday, Wineries Stage) and the Jake Blair Band (Saturday, Fifth Avenue), an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink group that combines "soul, jazz, blues, world, funk, reggae and classic rock." And moving to the inside ... John Henry's, the downtown rock club at 77 W. Broadway, joins the celebration this year. Centrally located, the club seems an apt setting for an event that boasts the theme "Heart of the City." The venue will turn the spotlight on local rock talent, including the Wheel of Meat spinoff Scrambled Ape and 1970s-inspired punk rockers the Courtesy Clerks (both playing tonight). Pop duo the Visible Men and tango ensemble Mood Area 52 both take the stage Saturday. John Henry's isn't the only new location for music. The Wineries of Lane County Stage, which last year was located memorably atop the Parcade parking garage, has been relocated to the parking lot across the street from the Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave. The stage will hosts "Afro-Celtic/flamenco/violin/world/ jazz" ensemble the Guarneri Underground as its headlining act today, world beat percussionist Vinx (Saturday) and Celtic-bluegrass ensemble Misty River (Sunday). Other Wineries Stage highlights include the jazz-funk outfit Tim McLaughlin's Eleven Eyes (today), Eugene rocker Dan Jones and his band the Squids (Saturday) and the Boise jazz-rock/world combo Marcus Eaton and the Lobby (Satur- day). The Strand Building, 199 W. Eighth Ave., also has been added as a venue. The space - which houses Cozmic Pizza, Theo's Coffeehouse and Indra's Net - will resonate with the sounds of laughter and music. On Saturday, the venue hosts a "Right to Laugh Party," and on Sunday the world/Middle Eastern act Americanistan performs. Today, the stage will be the site of a songwriter's showcase featuring several local bands. The WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave., will host local and regional talent on its Urban Stage. Tonight, hip-hop artists D-Styles, Busdriver Awolene and Daddy Kev will join local acts the Organic Assault Weapons and Genus Pro. On Saturday, the hall hosts the second coming of `Blood- stains Across Eugene,' a punk rock showcase featuring performances by Blasphemous blas·phe·mous adj. Impiously irreverent. [Middle English blasfemous, from Late Latin blasph Abnormality, Pocketface, Capgun Suicide, the Real Bastard Saints, Monkee Torture, Big Bubba bub·ba n. Slang 1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Brother. 2. A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers. and the Defecators. Getting your 8 cents' worth Other pockets of entertainment can be found away from the main stages. Classical Corners, a collection of quieter performances, will shine the spotlight several local ensembles. At 7:15 p.m. today, the Brass Bash - a performance featuring a trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. trio and a brass quartet - happens at the Atrium, 99 W. 10th Ave. At 3 p.m. Saturday, the Emerald Strings, two horn players and violinist Tricia Shen Shen, in the Bible, place, perhaps close to Bethel, near which Samuel set up the stone Ebenezer. , will have an open rehearsal of W.A. Mozart's Divertimento divertimento Eighteenth-century chamber music genre consisting of several movements, often of a light and entertaining nature, for strings, winds, or both. Though the name was applied (c. No. 17 in D at the Eugene Hotel, 222 E. Broadway. And at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Shen and several other players will repeat the same piece at that location. In all, a total of 100 performers will be spotlighted. If it were possible to see every entertainer (and if you buy your tickets in advance), Remington figures you'd pay just 8 cents an act. Now that's cause for celebration. CAPTION(S): Los Straitjackets, the mad masked surf rockers, play Sunday. |
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