Maya offers 1960s folk with distinctly Latin flavor.Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard POP NOTES Trova singer and songwriter Alfonso Maya will be in Eugene on Wednesday for a concert that will both raise money for an elementary school elementary school: see school. and expose most of the audience to a new kind of music. Maya's concert, at Cozmic Pizza, will highlight the accomplished young performer's Mexican trova stylings, some of which are included in Mexican songbooks of the genre, according to a news release. Trova originated in Cuba in the 1960s with a tradition of progressive and sometimes political lyrics, much like modern folk music has here. Musically, trova is rooted in Latin American rhythms. But like North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. folk, it is known for fostering singer-songwriters and producing melodic and mellow songs. Maya hails from Cuernavaca, Mexico, which has a similar cultural relationship with Mexico City that Eugene has with Portland. The smaller city's inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. benefit from the proximity to wider choices in art and music. Mexico City is at the forefront of the evolving trova tradition, the release says, and Maya's peers acknowledge him as one of the leaders of the movement. Part of the proceeds from Wednesday's show will go to Crest Drive Elementary School. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for children 12 and younger. The show starts at 7 p.m. at 199 W. Eighth Ave. Matt Vrba Today, Luckey's Matt Vrba and his Portland-based trio will bring their take on alt-country to Eugene today. A full-time musician, Vrba has played more than 300 shows in 34 states and three countries in the past two years, a news release says. His trio performs what a bio calls "high-octane" alt-country, which touches on the pop sen- sibilities of such singer-songwriters as Glen Phillips (from Toad the Wet Sprocket Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American folk rock band consisting of singer Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. Early career ) and Ryan Adams. Vrba is at work on his third full-length album with the help of Don Grierson, whom a news release says discovered Heart, Cheap Trick and the Indigo Girls. J. Malem opens at 10 p.m. for a $3 to $5 cover. Luckey's is at 933 Olive St. Gill Landry Saturday, Sam Bond's Garage Gill Landry, touring with a brand-new release, "The Ballad of Lawless Soirez," headlines a diverse lineup Saturday at Sam Bond's. Landry, who plays 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 steel guitar for Old Crow Medicine Show, performs songs of loss, dashed dreams and "of devils in dresses any color than blue," a news release says. "These songs read like a book, ... a collection of stories, of narratives charting the restless wanderings of a vagabond VAGABOND. One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordinances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms. Dalloz, Dict. Vagabondage. See Vattel, liv. 1, Sec. 219, n. musician," the release says. "These are not songs about Main Street. These are way back. `They are an alternative soundtrack to the American nightmare. Southern Gothic meets noir." Skillet opens the show at 9:30 p.m., followed by Portland's Oz Street Fossils, a project song "inventor" Robert Felix spear- heads. The Fossils feature Mikah Sykes on drums. Felix is best known as washboard and banjo player for the Kitchen Synco- pators. The cover is $5. Sam Bond's is at 407 Blair Blvd. The Dry Gulch Ramblers Saturday, Cozmic Pizza The Dry Gulch Ramblers is a seven-piece country band presenting an evening of swing Saturday. Tables will be moved out of the way to make plenty of space during this dancing event to "swing around the room," according to a news release. The Ramblers are one of the many incarnations of local blues musician and dedicated charity fundraiser Jerry Zy- bach. He describes it as a "big ass" country band that plays old-style, twangy swing music. "Remember the days when you couldn't have a country band without a fiddle and a pedal steel?" a bio asks. The group is "out to bring the fun back to both country and Western music." The band features Zybach and Brook Adams on vocals, guitars, mandolins, banjos and ukuleles; Scoop Mc- Guire on standup 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; Larry Blom on pedal steel and vocals; Rob Tobias on honky-tonk piano, 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. and vocals; Theo Halpert on drums; and various guests on fiddle. The show starts at 7 p.m. for a $3 cover. Couples get in for $5, and children younger than 12 will be admitted for free. Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle Tuesday, WOW Hall This is the first national tour for Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle, which is visiting 25 cities in support of its debut album, "Battery Milk," on Hyena hyena (hī-ē`nə), carnivorous, chiefly nocturnal mammal of the Old World family Hyaenidae. Although doglike in appearance, hyenas are more closely related to civets (family Viverridae) and cats (family Felidae) than to dogs (family Records. On this tour, Dillon is the percussionist and vibraphonist, JJ "Jungle" Richards is playing bass and "Go-Go" Ray Pollard is on drums. Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle formed in 2006. It has since walked "a fine line between old school, sou-jazz grooves and Frank Zappa irreverence," a news release says. Dillon's reputation as an experimentalist has led to collaborations with MC 900 Ft. Jesus MC 900 Ft. Jesus is the stage name of Mark Griffin, a classically-trained musician turned rapper and experimental musician born in Dallas, Texas. Griffin's work was often considered well ahead of its time, and much of his sound and experimentation predates artists like Beck , Secret Chiefs 3, the Polyphonic The ability to play back some number of musical notes simultaneously. For example, 16-voice polyphony means a total of 16 notes, or waveforms, can be played concurrently. Spree and Sex Mob. He is a member of Les Claypool's Frog Brigade and Ani DiFranco's touring band. Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle opened for Primus at the Hult Center in November. Eugene's Eleven Eyes will open. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. The WOW Hall is at 291 W. Eighth Ave. Tim Reynolds Wednesday, WOW Hall Dave Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds is sharing a date with Marcus Eaton on Wednesday at the WOW Hall. Since he was 12, Reynolds has been "cutting killer riffs and spooling (Simultaneous Peripheral Operations OnLine) The overlapping of low-speed operations with normal processing. Spooling originated with mainframes in order to optimize slow operations such as reading cards and printing. rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. with funk and soul," according to a bio. In the 1990s, he started to get recognized as a highly skilled acoustic musician on jazz guitar, bass, piano, sitar sitar (sĭtär`), fretted string instrument with a gourdlike body and a long neck, similar to the lute. It has from 3 to 7 gut strings, tuned in fourths or fifths (or both), and a lower course of 12 wire strings that vibrate sympathetically with , 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. , violin and various ethnic percussion instruments. "He is an underrated master," the bio says. Reynolds has played on all the Dave Matthews Band releases and joined the band on countless tours across the globe. In 1999, he and Matthews released the double-disc acoustic album, "Live at Luther College." The music starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15. The Broken West Wednesday, Sam Bond's The Broken West has a new record: "I Can't Go On, I'll Go On." The band's publicity representative called the band's sound "a little Wilco plus Teenage Fanclub, with sparkly spark·ly adj. spark·li·er, spark·li·est 1. a. Giving off tiny flashes of light; glittery: a dress with sparkly sequins. b. California pop added." The Broken West set starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday, with Hello Stranger as the headliners. The cover is $5. |
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