Local clubs set the mood for 2003.Byline: LEWIS TAYLOR The Register-Guard IF YOU THINK you've seen all the various mind-sets of Mood Area 52, you might want to be at Sam Bond's Garage, 407 Blair Blvd., on New Year's Eve. That's the night the instrumental tango ensemble gets vocal. The group will host a cabaret-style New Year's Eve party that culminates with the staging of a scene from the classic 1950 film `Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. .' "It's just a matter of doing something new," said Michael Roderick, the band's accordion player. "We've got a pretty good fan base as we are as an instrumental band, but having each of the musicians in this band sing, which is a really personal and kind of revealing thing to do, just shows a different side of all the people that are involved." It isn't just the members of Mood Area 52 who will be singing either. The band will accompany the night's opening act Ed Cole, who comes on at 9:30 p.m. with his group the College Girls College Girls is a Channel 4 documentary series, first transmitted in the UK from 8 September 2002. The documentary followed the lives of six students who studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, the last remaining single-sex college at the University of Oxford, between 1998 of Tora Bora Tora Bora (Pashto: تورا بورا, “black dust” ), known Locally as Spīn Ghar, is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains (Safed Koh) of eastern Afghanistan (), in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, . The band also will be joined by a number of guest vocalists including Reed Gilchrist from the Passout Kings, Marietta Bonaventure, owner of Foolscap fools·cap n. 1. Chiefly British A sheet of writing or printing paper measuring approximately 13 by 16 inches. 2. A fool's cap. Books, Tracy Dougherty and Peter Wilde. Roderick wouldn't offer too many specifics about the songs, but he did say the music would include jazz standards, Latin tunes, cabaret music, country and pop. For his part, he will be performing original country songs for kids. "I think the material they (the vocalists) pick will kind of show something about them and also give them an opportunity to be creative in a different way," Roderick said. "The whole notion of doing a cabaret night just seems to fit with the whole band." The highlight of Mood Area 52's performance will come just short of midnight, when the group will sync up with the clock and re-enact re·en·act also re-en·act tr.v. re·en·act·ed, re·en·act·ing, re·en·acts 1. To enact again: reenact a law. 2. the New Year's Eve party scene from Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard." The band plans to play behind a movie screen where the film is being projected and act out the scene, leading up to Gloria Swanson's famous line, "Happy New Year, darling." The "Sunset Boulevard" scene has special meaning for Mood Area 52. Roderick - who co-founded the group with his brother and two other musicians - was inspired by the tango band featured in the film. Named by Sam Bond's bartender Ty Connor after a local fixation with the number 52, the group is basically a quartet that frequently plays with guest members. The core group features Roderick, Dan Schmid (bass), Adam Wendt (guitar) and Amy Danziger (cello); guest members include Kee Zublin (tenor sax), Dustin Lanker (piano) and Anthony Dyer (violin). Zublin and Dyer will both be playing with the group for Tuesday's show. Lanker will be in Florida performing a New Year's Eve show with the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. The cover for Tuesday's show is $5. Here's a few of the other New Year's Eve events happening in our area: The DoubleTree Hotel, 3280 Gateway St., Springfield, plays host to California's Little Charlie and the Nightcats at 10 p.m. The high-octane jump-blues band stirs up blues, Texas swing, rockabilly, surf and R&B. Tickets to Tuesday's show are $20 in advance or $25 day of show. A reunited version of the group Jambay will be the highlight of the WOW Hall's celebration at 291 W. Eighth Ave. The improvisational jazz, rock, blues, folk and soul group, which was formed at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , has Eugene roots. Matt Butler (drums, vocals) and Chris Haugen (guitar, vocals) grew up here. Butler recently moved back to the Emerald City. The late Ken Kesey Noun 1. Ken Kesey - United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) Ken Elton Kesey, Kesey once called Jambay "the best band since the Warlocks (otherwise known as the Grateful Dead)." The group, which also features Shelley Doty (guitar, vocals) and Mike Sugar (bass, vocals), will be joined by its acoustic alter-ego the Lazy Porch Dogs. Sugarbuckit - the three-way marriage of the Sugar Beats, Honeybuckit and Matt Butler - will open the show at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or at the door. Deb Cleveland will fill the room at Luna, 30 E. Broadway, with her rich mix of soul, R&B and blues starting at 9 p.m. Joining Cleveland will be Tom Wheeler on guitar, Jeremy Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
The Danged will usher in Verb 1. usher in - be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period" inaugurate, introduce commence, lead off, start, begin - set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. the new year with three sets of swampy blues-rock and rockabilly at Mac's at the Vet's Club, 1626 Willamette St. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. The cover is $2. Papa's Soul Kitchen headlines the Wetlands' funky New Year's Eve celebration at 922 Garfield St. The Southtown Hounds get it started at 9 p.m. The cover is $5. The Satin Love Orchestra will add some sheen to the McDonald Theatre's New Year's Eve bash. The group is hosting a disco ball A disco ball, mirror ball, glitter ball, or ball mirror is a roughly spherical object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complex display. at the venue, 1010 Willamette St. The mirror ball will start spinning at 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 day of show. Rubberneck is back at the Wild Duck Music Hall, 169 W. Sixth Ave., for a 10 p.m. New Year's Eve show. The Latin funksters from Portland have something besides 2003 to celebrate: the release of the new album "EgoManic" (not to be confused with "egomaniac'). Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 day of show. Bands that won't stop here Floater Floater A bond or other type of debt whose coupon rate changes with market conditions (short-term interest rates). Also known as "floating-rate debt". Notes: For example, a floater bond may have the coupon rate set at "T-bill rate plus 0.5%". will bob into Portland's Crystal Ballroom Crystal Ballroom is a name associated with numerous buildings and ballrooms worldwide, including:
The Eugene-born rockers will headline an evening that also features King Black Acid. Tickets (if you can find them) are $22 in advance or $25 day of show or $45 for VIP tickets. Oregon's favorite lounge- cabaret ensemble Pink Martini Pink Martini is a 14-piece music band from Portland, Oregon. The band was formed by pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale in 1994. They blend such diverse genres of music as Latin, lounge, classical, and jazz. will put the olive in a New Year's Eve mixer at Portland's Tiffany Center that's being called Wild Kingdom Rhumba V. Eugene's own Los Mex Pistols del Norte Del Norte can refer to multiple things:
Portland's Paul deLay Paul Joseph deLay (b. January 31 1952, Portland, Oregon - d. March 7 2007, Portland, Oregon), was an American blues vocalist and harmonicist. DeLay's musical career[1] will usher in 2003 with some seaside blues at Eden Hall in Gleneden Beach. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $24 by calling (541) 764-3826. CAPTION(S): Rubberneck, those Latin funksters from Portland, are back Tuesday night for a New Year's Eve show at the Wild Duck Music Hall. Rockin' New Year's Eve |
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