This week, young and old sing out, and loud.Byline: BUZZWORTHY The Register-Guard This is so perfect. The weekend the music documentary "Young@Heart" finally arrives in Eugene, there are myriad live programming options from the biologically young. Students from the UO's Cultural Forum and Women's Center are putting on festivals this weekend. And "Young@Heart," which bows at the Bijou tonight, documents the process of getting a bunch of senior citizens to sing contemporary songs for paying audiences. Segments of the film have been posted on YouTube?.com, with Fred Knittle's performance of Coldplay's "Fix You" nearing1 million views. That song was planned as a duet, but Knittle's singing partner died during the course of filming. Knittle ends up giving a stirring and vulnerable performance alone at center stage, his oxygen tank at his side, backed by a chorus of his peers. For live entertainment, nothing beats the 37 acts lined up to playfor free at the Cuthbert Amphitheater Saturday and Sunday for the newly christened Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its Music Fest, sponsored by the UO Cultural Forum. Although no longer a folk festival A Folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. Regional Denmark
As news of the wider focus spreads, surely there will be even more musical and ethnic diversity in the future. But the 2008 version does include a bunch of fresh and original artists, including Skyler Stonestreet, Debra Arlyn and Gypsy Soul. Local reggae star Norma Fraser plays the main stage Saturday, and an ensemble cast An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows for flexibility for writers to focus on different of Eugene all stars dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the Best of Eugene Orchestra closes the night. At the WOW Hall tonight and Saturday, the Out/Loud: Queer Women's Music Women's music (or womyn's music, wimmin's music) is the music by women, for women, and about women (Garofalo 1992:242). The genre emerged as a musical expression of the second-wave feminist movement(Peraino 2001:693) as well as the labor, civil rights, and peace Festival manages to cover a lot of ground. It's got spoken word, hip-hop dance, folk music folk music: see folk song. folk music Music held to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of its society, and preserved usually by oral tradition. Knowledge of the history and development of folk music is largely conjectural. and performance art. |
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