June 21 - July 30
Summer SongFest! 2010
Where: Jaqua Concert Hall - The Shedd When: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Daily Schedule
Every year, elementary school children enjoy The Shedd Institute's Summer SongFest, one-week music enrichment camps with kid-friendly themes. This year's themes are:
Fly Me To The Moon (June 21-25)
Paws, Claws, Scales & Tails (June 28-July 2)
Play With Your Food (July 5-9)
Creepy Crawlies (July 12-16)
Globetrotter (July 19-23)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (July 26-30)
Each camp introduces children to the world of American sounds through song and instrumental music, dance, visual arts, rhythm games, folktales, and much more! Campers will learn about, listen to, and sing a wide range of American songs related to camp themes ("When You Wish Upon a Star", "Yes We Have No Bananas" and "Purple People Eater" to name just a few!).
Participants will also learn to play the ukulele, harmonica, penny whistle, and jaw harp! Even more fun awaits campers as they brush up on their joke-telling skills, create stage sets for an end-of-camp show, and enjoy healthy, themed snacks-Muffaletta, Martian Soup (aka Jello) or Mozzarella balls anyone?
Contact Info: 541-434-7000
868 High St. - Eugene, Oregon 97401
To learn more about this event... Visit Website of The Shedd >>July 23 - August 7
Oregon Festival of American Music 2010
Where: Jaqua Concert Hall - The Shedd | Silva Concert Hall - Hult Center When: Various Times
Brush Up On Your Shakespeare - A Literary Romp Through The Songbook!
With OFAM 2010, BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE, jazz director Ken Peplowski and his usual assortment of cohorts and other worthies will take you on a "literary romp through the American Songbook" with a special emphasis, of course, on our special American take on the Bard of-Avon, with stops along the way ranging from great classical literature and children's classics to the Jazz Age writers and the Sunday funnies.
And this year's musicals? Well, KISS ME, KATE, of course - Cole Porter's 1948 tour de force musical adaptation of Shakespeare's TAMING OF THE SHREW (6 performances at the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall, July 24-August 8). And THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, Rodgers & Hart's wildly funny 1938 send up of the bard's A COMEDY OF ERRORS (7 performances at The Shedd Institute's Jaqua Concert Hall, July 22-August 7).
The festival's concert series opens Wednesday, July 28th at the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall with SWINGIN' THE DREAM, a hot evening of classic swing built around Jimmy Van Heusen's 1939 swing version of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM with a little HOT MIKADO (1939, with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan) and THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (1938) thrown in. That series closes on Saturday, August 7th with I COULD WRITE A BOOK, an evening that explores the interrelationship between mid-century jazz and popular music and American "urban" literature featuring the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald (who filled his books with jazz and popular music references), Damon Runyon (whose characters Frank Loesser memorialized in GUYS AND DOLLS), and John O'Hara whose PAL JOEY letters in The New Yorker inspired Rodgers & Hart's extraordinary musical of the same name.
Ticket Pricng: Various Prices
Contact Info: 541-434-7000
868 High St. - Eugene, Oregon 97401
For complete music schedule of this event... Visit Website of The Shedd >>July 27 Jackson Browne Where: The Cuthbert Amphitheater When: 7:30 PM Tuesday
With David Lindley.
Jackson Browne, his debut album, came out on David Geffen's Asylum Records in 1972. Rolling Stone wrote in its original review that, "Jackson Browne's sensibility is romantic in the best sense of the term: his songs are capable of generating a highly charged, compelling atmosphere throughout, and - just as important - of sustaining that pitch in the listener's mind long after they've ended." The now-classic LP introduced ten original songs, including
"Rock Me On The Water" and "Jamaica Say You Will," featuring David Crosby on harmony vocals. Crosby and Graham Nash sang on "Doctor My Eyes," the album's first single, which became a #8 hit on Billboard's pop singles chart.
Browne's 1973 follow-up, For Everyman, included "These Days" and "Take It Easy," co-written with Glenn Frey (it been The Eagles' debut single and breakthrough hit the year before). 1974's Late For The Sky - cited by Rolling Stone that year as one of the "100 Best Albums," again in 1997 as one of the "200 Essential Rock Collection Albums" and in 2003 as one of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - was Browne's masterpiece of lyrical introspection, with classic songs including "Fountain Of Sorrow," "The Late Show" and the title track. 1976's The Pretender also made Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time," and was Browne's first to chart in Billboard's Top 10, peaking at #5. On the heels of that success came what stands as Jackson's top-selling album, 1977's 7X platinum, life-on-the-road concept opus, Running
On Empty.
Browne's next project was the all-star series of concerts organized by Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, John Hall and Jackson in 1979 to benefit MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy). In addition to serving on the board of MUSE, Jackson helped edit and compile 1980's 3-LP live album from those shows. No Nukes/The MUSE Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future featured a line-up including Bruce Springsteen, The Doobie Brothers, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Ry Cooder, Chaka Khan, Peter Tosh, and Tom Petty, among others. The album, which includes Jackson's "Before The Deluge," climbed to #23 on Billboard's pop chart, a major feat for a triple album. Currently, Browne, Raitt and Nash are mobilizing behind Nukefree.org, opposing federal bail-out of the nuclear industry.
Jackson's studio discography continued with 1980's Hold Out, a #1 album, featuring the hits "Boulevard" and "That Girl Could Sing." In 1982, Browne scored a #7 hit with the single "Somebody's Baby," from the Soundtrack for Fast Times at Ridgemont High. 1983's Lawyers In Love also delivered several popular singles, including "Tender Is The Night" and "For A Rocker."
Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic." Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources. Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments including but not limited to Kona and Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar, Turkish saz and chumbus, Middle Eastern oud, and Irish bouzouki. The eye-poppingly clad "Mr. Dave's" uncanny vocal mimicry and demented sense of humor make his onstage banter a highlight of the show.
Ticket Pricing: $50 Reserved Seating | $30 General Admission
Contact Info: 541-762-8099
North east corner of Alton Baker Park, Martin Luther King JR Boulevard
Eugene, Oregon 97402
Big Head Todd and The Monsters release Rocksteady, their eighth studio album, on July 20. For Rocksteady, the band draws on a surprising body of influences. The album cuts across a broad swath of stylistic terrain including R&B, reggae and even punk rock. Throughout, the collection's 11 tracks are funky, lilting, and melodic - all the qualities that have become signature to the band's sound during their 25 years of making music.
The band was formed in 1986 with Todd Park Mohr on guitar and vocals, Brian Nevin on drums and vocals and Rob Squires on bass and vocals. The trio had attended Columbine High School together. Todd Mohr attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins and transferred to the University of Colorado to join Brian and Rob. The three began touring clubs in Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder as Big Head Todd and the Monsters in 1987. The band name is a tribute to legendary blues/jazz "heads" (eg. Eddy Clean-head Vincent, etc). It was actually just a fluke, as they were scheduled to perform their first gig, but had no name. Todd came up with the name at the spur of the moment and it stuck.
The band soon built up a following throughout Colorado and the West. They toured extensively throughout the Mountain States and West Coast of the United States in their van dubbed "The Colonel", which clocked up over 400,000 miles.
In 1989, the band formed Big Records and released their first album Another Mayberry in 1989. Midnight Radio was released the following year. By 1993, Big Head Todd and the Monsters had developed a considerable live following across the United States. Their first live album Big Head Todd and the Monsters Live was recorded at the H.O.R.D.E. Festival in 1993.
Visit Website of The W.O.W Hall >>July 28 Midsummer Night's Dance Where: Downtown at Broadway Plaza - Eugene, OR When: 6:00 PM Wednesday Downtown's Broadway Plaza transforms into an open air dance parlor! You'll be inspired at Midsummer Night's Dance! From 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., watch dance demonstrations of swing, tango and blues and receive dance instructions from professionals. Starting at 8:00 p.m., you can dance the night away under the stars with Eugene's own Mood Area 52 and more.
Also at this event:
Cut your chances of becoming a property or person crime victim. Eugene Police Crime Prevention Experts will be on hand at every downtown event with the latest tips and programs for you and your family.
Imagination Station: Let your creativity flow at M.E.C.C.A's imagination station! At 6:00 p.m. at every Summer in the City -- Downtown event, be a part of the magic and create your own themed art projects: stickers, hats out of paper bags, headbands, masks, shoe art, face painting and much more!
100% of proceeds will be donated to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research,
a group that is leading wildlife cleanup and rehabilitation efforts
in the Gulf of Mexico, and Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary,
an avian care group in Florida
Gift Baskets for raffle winners will contain LOTS of gift certificates from places like Sundance, Off the Waffle, Market of Choice, Green Store, Ron's Hawaiian Grill, Corn Bread Cafe, etc, etc.
Then we will also have a silent auction for the larger items: three massages, three therapeutic touch healings, free family portrait sitting, etc.
The early part of the evening is hosted by Village School Grade 6.
The schedule will be as follows:
5-6 Don St. Clair and the Sunhearts
6-6:30PM Jugglers/Circus Arts (students participating)
6:30-7PM Green Speaker from Green Store
7-8PM: Belly Dancers
8-9PM: Psychanaut unplugged (with belly dancers performing to some songs)
9 PM: Raffle Winners and Silent Auction winners
9:15-11: Acoustic Jam/dancing
Ticket Pricing: Buy 1 raffle ticket for just $2.00
This is the third straight year Cap'n Trips has played on Jerry's birthday (the second at the WOW Hall). The band will play two long sets and sing Happy Birthday to Jerry with the crowd at midnight. There may even be a birthday cake!
Cap'n Trips is: Tom Lemmon (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Marcy Andrews (mandolin), Trey Longstreth (bass, vocals), Anthony Forcellini (lead guitar, vocals), Ken Sokolov (drums) and Bob Becker (drums).
Born August 1, 1942, Jerome "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. One of its founders, Garcia performed with The Grateful Dead for their entire three-decade career (1965 to 1995). Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders-Garcia Band with longtime friend Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary. Garcia co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson. He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story. He died of a heart attack in August 1995.
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Ticket Pricing: $50 Reserved Seating | $30 General Admission 
