Mikey Dread is the star of annual Marley tribute.Byline: Carolyn Lamberson The Register-Guard Bob Marley, the king of reggae, would have turned 60 on Feb. 6. To mark the milestone, Mikey Dread Michael Campbell (born 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica), better known as Mikey Dread, is a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster. From an early age, Campbell showed a natural aptitude for engineering and electronics. will headline the WOW Hall's annual Bob Marley Celebration tonight. Dread's career dates back to 1976, when he started as a DJ and audio engineer with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. He eventually left that gig to concentrate on his own mu- sic. Dread went on to work with the Clash on the single "Bank Robber" and the album "Black Market Clash." He also produced several reggae tracks for the album "Sandinista!' Dread's most recent album is 2002's "Rasta in Control.' Tickets to today's 9:30 p.m. show are $15 at the door or in advance, available at CD World, CD & Game Exchange, House of Records, Taco Loco and the Erb Memorial Union ticket office and the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave. Joe Craven Joe Craven is a bluegrass musician who is known for wearing oversized Hawaiian shirts, playing fiddle, mandolin, and anything that he can get his hands on, such as a mug, a credit card, or a jawbone. Joe Craven can play music on anything and everything. He's made music on stringed instruments made out of bed pans. He's made percussion instruments This is a list of percussion instruments. Tuned percussion
Since 1989, Craven has been the percussionist for the David Grisman David Grisman (born March 23, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is a noted bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music. Quintet. He's also played with Jerry Garcia, Stephane Grappelli Noun 1. Stephane Grappelli - French jazz violinist (1908-1997) Grappelli , Psycho- grass and Eugene's own David Jacobs-Strain. Tonight, he'll perform material from his solo release, "Camptown," when he takes the stage at Cafe Paradiso. Setting the mood will be opener Laura Kemp. Tickets are $15 day of show. Showtime is 8 p.m. Cafe P is at 115 W. Broad- way. Domeshots San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden metal band Domeshots is one of those bands that constantly tours. And this latest neverending tour - in support of Domeshot's debut feature-length CD, "Self-Titled" - will stop Saturday at the Black Forest, 50 E. 11th Ave. The free show begins at 9:30 p.m. Under the Stairs and Sleep in Fame also are on the bill. Zen Tricksters The Zen Tricksters are up to their old tricks. The rock-jam four-piece will bring its patented mixture of 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. , hillbilly jazz and Dead-Dylan-Young-esque rock to Diablo's, 959 Pearl St., on Saturday night. Now in their third decade of band life, the Zen Tricksters have shared the stage with the David Grisman Quintet, Suzanne Vega, the Jefferson Star- ship and a host of others. Joining the Tricksters will be Reeble Jar and a special guest. The preshow entertainment begins at 8 p.m., and the music will kick off at 9 p.m. Admission is $12.50 in advance or $15 at the door. Promoter Steve Andreason of Siren Productions said he would donate his profits from the show to tsunami relief efforts. The Itals cancel The Itals, scheduled for a night of Jamaican reggae Sunday at the WOW Hall, have canceled. For ticket refund information, call the hall at 687-2746. Steve Forbert In a 25-year career, singer-songwriter Steve Forbert has blazed a trail from Mississippi to Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. to Nashville. Along the way, he's written dozens of deeply personal songs that caused him to be hailed as "the new Bob Dylan." Forbert's road leads to Eugene on Sunday, when he sets up on the Cafe P stage for a night of folk-rock. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $15.50 in advance or $17 at the door. Downer down·er n. A depressant or sedative drug, such as a barbiturate or tranquilizer. Trio Back in high school in Montana, the saxophone-playing Joel RL Phelps was known as a band geek. But a love of bands such as Joy Division, Comsat Angels and Public Image Ltd. led him out of the band room and into rock. Phelps played in two Montana bands - Ein Heit and Silkworm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. . Silkworm headed to Seattle in '90; four years later, Phelps was on his own. He gathered up drummer-bassist William Herzog and guitarist Robert Mercer to form the Downer Trio. Last year, the group put out its fourth full-length CD, "Customs." The trio is on a West Coast tour with Treasure State. The bands stop by Sam Bond's Garage, 407 Blair Blvd., at 9 p.m. Monday. The cover is $5. Barrington Levy Reggae pioneer Barrington Levy will stop by the Jungle, 23 W. Sixth Ave., for a show Wednesday night. Levy, who is Jamaica's top headliner, has a new album in the works, "It's About Time It's About Time may refer to:
The show will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25, $23 in advance, and are available at the Jungle, Old Joe's, CD World, House of Records or all TicketsWest locations. Vince Herman, Shanti Shanti (from Sanskrit शािन्त śāntiḥ) can mean:
When it comes to Colorado "newgrass," there are few bigger names than Shanti Groove and Vince Herman (aka the frontman front·man n. 1. also front man A man who serves as a nominal leader but who lacks real authority. 2. Music A leading singer with a group. for Leftover Salmon). Together, these two artists are out on a West Coast tour, with a visit to Luckey's Club Cigar Store Luckey’s Club Cigar Store was purchased in 1911 by Tad Luckey, Sr., the son of Irish immigrants and an early Eugene pioneer. It is the oldest retail business in downtown Eugene, and one of the oldest bars in Oregon. , 933 Olive St., on the agenda. Herman will perform solo, then join Shanti Groove for the second set. The show will begin at 9 p.m.. The cover is $8. Merauder Merauder, Hoods, Agents of Man and the Risk Taken will team up for a night of hard-core metal on Wednesday at the WOW Hall. New York-based Merauder, part of the '90s wave of metalcore, most recently put out "Bluetality," with songs focusing on excessive police force and how citizens must fight back. Sacramento's Hoods have been around for 10 years, playing their version of DIY DIY abbr. do-it-yourself DIY or d.i.y. Brit, Austral & NZ do-it-yourself DIY abbr DIY do it yourself a DIY shop/job. punk metal. Their most recent album is 2003's "Pray for Death." Showtime is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door or $8 in advance from WOW Hall out- lets. Julie Patchouli/Bruce Hecksel As former Eugene residents, Julie Patchouli patchouli or patchouly (both: păch`  lē, pəch and Bruce Hecksel are
glad to back before a home crowd.
The acoustic folk duo will take the stage for a free show 8 p.m. Thursday at the Buzz Coffeehouse, on the ground floor of the Erb Memorial Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. Rogue Wave We here at Pop Notes Central get a lot of band press releases. Some good, some bad, but few as charmingly vague as the one that arrived from San Francisco band Rogue Wave. Here's what we know: Rogue Wave will headline a show with Film School and DeVotchKa at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the WOW Hall. The cover will be $7. We also know that Rogue Wave put out an album in 2003 called "Out of the Shadows" that was remastered for re-release in 2004. But what kind of music does Rogue Wave play? Well, that's apparently hard to pin down, according to the press release. But here's what we are told of the band's formation: "Effortless friendship spawned the refreshingly organic actualization actualization Psychiatry The realization of one's full potential of Rogue Wave, a band whose commitment to songcraft and to each other is nothing short of astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, ." OK. And we're told that, "The quartet effuses vitality, all the while infusing their damaged melodies with casual charm.' We can't say what kind of music Rogue Wave will play. But we're pretty sure the vocabulary quotient will be high. CAPTION(S): MIkey Dread lent a reggae flavor to tunes by the Clash. |
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