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The Cherry Poppin' Daddies Now in their 19th year, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies are poised for a whole new phase, starting with a brand new record. Contact Info: N/A Visit Cherry Poppin' Daddies Website >> The Chorus The Chorus was formed in early 2009, and are currently in the studio creating their debut release. The Chorus is Levi Morgan, Justin Ernst, William Seiji Marsh, Mike McCarthy and Ben Schaaff. Contact Info: N/A Visit The Chorus Website >> David Jacobs-Strain David Jacobs-Strain, a consummate finger-style and slide guitarist, plays in the blues tradition but isn't from it. You'll hear echoes of Skip James, Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson, and a song or two by Fred McDowell or Robert Johnson in his solo performances. But as a modern roots musician, singer, and songwriter, "I come from the language of the country blues, but it's important not to silence other influences," he says. Contact Info: N/A Visit David Jacobs-Strain's Website >> Eagle Park Slim After playing for many years throughout East St. Louis, and across the river in St. Louis, with such masters as blues pianist, Johnnie Johnson (of Chuck Berry fame), Slim ventured out to Denver, Colorado. There, his Mile High Blues Band took the city and area by storm, belting out the real blues throughout the 1970s. In 1980, the road called him again and he headed west to Oregon. While many places throughout the Northwest , like Seattle, hold a special place in his heart, he fell in love with Eugene, as it reminds him of his hometown in Eagle Park. He's made it his home ever since. Contact Info: N/A Eagle Park Slim's Website >> Eugene Peace Choir We honor the birthright of every human being to sing and to experience the harmony of different voices. We also honor the causes we support in song by dedicating ourselves to crafting polished, spirited performances. Contact Info: n/a Visit Eugene Peace Choir's Website >> Eugene Concert Choir Contact Info: Brahms Requiem Saturday, February 27, 2010 Visit Eugene Concert Choir's Website >> Eugene Symphony As a guiding principle, the Eugene Symphony is committed to serving, educating and developing the widest possible regional audience through its programs. Approximately 27,000 people now attend Eugene Symphony's classical, family and special performances each year. Contact Info: N/A Visit Eugene Symphony's Website >> Gaye Lee Russell Blues, rock and jazz have been Russell's forte and she is a powerful entertainer. Gaye Lee has been a voice-over artist and vocalist on many regional, national and international commercial jingles and has recorded for other top artists as well. Known in Eugene for her strong vocals and entertaining style with bands such as The Gaye Lee Russell Band, Women in Blues, Diamond Jackson, The Jazz Bros, Stone Cold Jazz, Two Leg Lucy, The Random Blues Band and The Gaye Lee Russell Experience (a Janis Joplin Tribute), she has built a large following of fans and continues to perform with the best musicians and venues in the area. Contact Info: N/A Visit Gaye Lee Russell's Website >> Group Therapy Jazz Quintet Group Therapy has become a Quintet and has two new players to augment their excellent Jazz repertoire. Well known to the Northwest, saxophonist Jesse Cloninger, on Alto, and Eugene's own, Glenn Griffith on Trombone. From time to time we have Tim Clarke appearing with his marvelous Trumpet -- and that makes six! Contact Info: n/a Visit Group Therapy's Website >> Steve Goodbar An award winning guitarist, mandolinist, and songwriter, Steve has been performing for more than twenty-five years entertaining audiences at County Fairs, folk and bluegrass festivals, pubs, coffeehouses, and charity benefits all over California and the Southwest where he lived for fifteen years. Steve is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Eugene, Oregon. Contact Info: N/A Visit Steve Goodbar's Website >> Laura Kemp Consistently winning the Eugene Weekly reader's poll for Best Local Singer-Songwriter, Laura Kemp has gained a reputation as one of the finest performers in the Northwest. She has been a fixture on the folk scene since moving to Oregon in 1990 and over the past 18 years has produced 5 studio albums as well as two live CD's with the power girl group, Babes With Axes. Contact Info: Eugene Holiday Market - December 21 -10:30am Visit Laura Kemp's Website >>
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The Cherry Poppin' Daddies came together in the gray light of the pre-grunge dawn, when a University of Oregon chemistry major named Steve Perry posed a question to fellow musician friends: what if a punk rock rhythm section shared a practice space with jazz-schooled horn players and an equally trained keyboardist? The beaker-busting result made a stellar EP, sold out local clubs and soon drew comparisons to contemporaries like Fishbone, Faith No More and Bad Brains. It also irritated the local PC police.
The Chorus is an alternative-rock band based out of Oregon's Willamette Valley. Their songs focus on topics that are particularly meaningful to the members of the Chorus, including love lost, love found, and the current socio-political circumstances of our nation. They embrace a wide variety of influences, ranging from western classical traditions to 20th century minimalism, post-rock, electronic, jazz and folk music. 
David Jacobs-Strain is one of those wunderkinds who is so young and
has been honing his trade in the music business for years already.
David recorded his first album while still in high school and was
a faculty member at a local country blues workshop in his teens.
Lately he's been touring the country, playing his sweet Delta-soaked
blues to clubs, theatres, and coffeehouses. He's definitely a force
to be reckoned with.
sharing the stage with such legends as James Brown, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, Percy Mayfield, Ike Turner and many others. He developed his sound and style learning from greats and playing his music at his mom's club, The Village Tavern, in Eagle Park, Illinois.
In 1984, during the "deep freeze" phase of the cold war, two women forged their visions together to found the Eugene Peace Choir. One vision is of a compelling choral ensemble promoting the message of peace with the same intensity, quality, and power as the nation?s military choirs employ to promote patriotism, heroism, and militarism. Another vision is of a diverse, inclusive group of people, bonded together by joyful harmony into a mutual support system, embodying the concept of peace directly through loving, compassionate, respectful interaction. These twin visions have been two beacons guiding the choir?s existence all these years. 
The Eugene Concert Choir is a vibrant part of the cultural life of the Eugene-Springfield region. A resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts since 1997, the Concert Choir is a symphonic masterworks chorus that brings the grand works of the great classical composers to the stage.
Now entering its 43rd season, the Eugene Symphony is recognized as the cornerstone of the performing arts in Oregon's southern Willamette Valley. Under the leadership of music director Giancarlo Guerrero, the Eugene Symphony pursues its mission to "enrich lives through the power of music" by presenting annual classical, pops and community outreach performances, regularly commissioning and premiering new American works, and disseminating its performances via radio broadcasts and recordings.
Singing on a local Los Angeles television show at the age of three years of age Gaye Lee Russell began her musical career without realizing that it would be a life long journey. At the ripe age of fourteen Gaye Lee toured briefly with Muddy Waters and continued to perform with major rock and blues acts throughout her life. Sharing stage and studio nationally and internationally with musicians such as Robert Cray, Curtis Salgado, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Gil Scott Heron, Linda Hornbuckle, Paul Delay, Sonny and Nancy King, Robbie Laws, Akbar Depriest, Mel Brown, Thara Memory, Mason Williams, Joan Jett, John Mellencamp, Hank Williams Jr, Dan Segal, Meredith Brooks, Norman Sylvestor, Paul Biondi and a continuing list of professional musicians of many genres throughout the years.
Group Therapy plays jazz standards of the 30'w, 40's, and 50's , and some of the more contemporary favorites. Special arrangements and original works by Bob Boyers are also featured. Jim Douglas contributes vocals of fine style and versatility.
Preserving our musical heritage is the primary focus of an all-acoustic performance by Steve Goodbar. His versatility and choices of material will take audience members on a virtual trip through early American folk songs, ballads, and instrumentals to contemporary originals and the blues. Steve's music draws on the influences of Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Mississippi John Hurt, and Charlie Poole just to name a few. 
"With songs that range from sassy rockers to ballads, covering topics from pets to television and every angle on love imaginable performer extraordinaire, Laura Kemp (has the) ability to make an audience chuckle, tear up, and feel an instant connection with her lyrics - all in the course of one song."
