Carlile heads south again to kick off her winter tour.Byline: POP NOTES By Carolyn Lamberson The Register-Guard Last year turned out to be pretty good for Seattle area singer-songwriter Brandi Car- lile. Her self-titled major label debut (on Columbia) got good notices from critics across the country. Her single "What Can I Say" was played on an episode of ABC's hot doctor drama "Grey's Anatomy  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled. .'
Readers in Seattle also love her, naming her the Puget Sound's best singer-songwriter in the Seattle Weekly's annual readers' poll. Eugene area fans had several chances to catch her act in 2005. In 2006, Carlile will return to Eugene to kick off a winter tour at the WOW Hall. With "the twins" in tow - backing musicians Tim and Phil Hanseroth - Carlile will bring her country-tinged folk-rock to town for a show beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $8 in advance - available at the WOW Hall, CD & Game Exchange, CD World, House of Records, La Oficina, the Erb Memorial Union ticket office and online at www .ticketweb.com - or $10 at the door. Taarka Today, Sam Bond's Garage Taarka, the self-described "seismic-Gypsy-hypno-jazz" band from Portland, again will venture down Interstate 5 for a night of music in Eugene. The band - featuring David Tiller on 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. , Enion Pelta-Tiller on violin, Jason Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the on bass and Dale Largent on percussion - draws from Middle Eastern, Gypsy, swing, Latin, Celtic and world beat influences. Taarka has shared the stage with the Yonder yon·der adv. In or at that indicated place: the house over yonder. adj. Being at an indicated distance, usually within sight: "Yonder hills," he said, pointing. Mountain String Band, the String Cheese Incident and Spearhead. It has participated in the Everyone Orchestra and plans to release an album in 2006. The jammin' quartet will perform today at Sam Bond's Garage, 407 Blair Blvd. Showtime is 9:30 p.m., and the cover will be $8 at the door. Railroad Earth Saturday, WOW Hall Ask most bands to define the kind of music they play, and you'll likely get some hemming and hawing speaking hesitantly and inarticulately, with numerous pauses and interjections. See also: Haw . `We don't like to be boxed in Adj. 1. boxed in - enclosed in or as if in a box; "boxed cigars"; "a confining boxed-in space"; "felt boxed in by the traffic" boxed-in, boxed enclosed - closed in or surrounded or included within; "an enclosed porch"; "an enclosed yard"; "the enclosed check by mere genres," they'll say. `It's hard to describe. It is what it is." Such is the case with Railroad Earth. In the band's publicity materials, members of the group label themselves as "souped-up acoustic," or "country and Eastern," or call themselves an "amplified string band with drums." Railroad Earth also has performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is held annually in Telluride, Colorado by Planet Bluegrass. Although traditionally the festival focuses on bluegrass music, it often features music from a variety of genres. In 1973, its first year, it attracted 1000 participants. and been selected by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and founding member of the rock band, Grateful Dead; he played bass guitar in that group throughout their entire 30-year career. to open for and play in his Phil Lesh & Friends band. Still don't have a clear picture? You'll have to wait to check out the band's latest album, the live, two-disc `Elko," which will be released on Jan. 24. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , you can sample Railroad Earth live when the band plays the WOW Hall on Saturday. The Hackensaw Boys also are on the bill. Showtime is 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, available through WOW Hall outlets, or $12 at the door. The WOW Hall is at 291 W. Eighth Ave. Tone Bent Sunday, Sam Bond's Garage Talk about an artistic pairing. Bill Horvitz is a guitarist known for his jazz and new-music compositions. Robin Eschner is a painter and printmaker - Barry Lopez Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American essayist, poet, fiction writer and prose stylist whose work is best known for its ecological concerns. He began attending the University of Notre Dame in 1966 and earned a graduate degree there in 1968. is among her collaborators - who also sings and plays guitar. As their press release puts it, they began playing together 2 1/2 years ago, `caught the `one more song' bug and have been watching the dishes pile up ever since.' The musicians, playing under the name Tone Bent, will play their original songs and "tweaked" covers on Sunday at Sam Bond's Garage. Headlining the show will be Dennis Smith. Showtime will be 8:30 p.m. The cover is $5. Sound Tribe Sector 9 Thursday, McDonald Theatre If you missed Sound Tribe Sector 9 when the band played the McDonald this past April, now's your chance. The collective of musicians and artists will return to the McD on Thursday for a dose of the band's electronica-flavored rock. So what will be different this time? For starters, the band has two recent albums to cull cull the act of culling. Called also cast. material from: "Artifact" and "Artifact: Perspectives." "Artifact' was released in spring of 2005. Its companion piece, "Artifact: Perspectives," came out this past October. The newer CD features remixes of the "Artifact" tracks by a variety of `beat freaks' - so says the All Music Guide's Rick Anderson - for a collection of songs that are "deeply groovy groov·y adj. groov·i·er, groov·i·est Slang Very pleasing; wonderful. groov  i·ness n. .'
Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance from all local TicketsWest outlets or online at www.ticketswest.com. Tickets on the day of the show will cost $21. The McDonald is at 1010 Willamette St. |
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