On Friday December 31, the CCPA and KRVM proudly host a New Year’s Eve Party with Medium Troy, Twinkle Thizz and The Big Dippers and special guests.

Medium Troy has quickly risen from a bedroom production collective into one of the areas most popular bands. They’ve won numerous awards including “Best Band” twice in the 2009 and 2010 Eugene Weekly Awards and “Favorite Local Act” in the 2008 and 2009 WOW Hall Poll.

The band refers to their super eclectic mix of reggae, rock, dub and hip-hop as as Bohemian Dub Music. Their live shows and recordings can range from folk rock to dubbed-out glitch-hop.

Eugene Weekly reports that the, “beats are liquid, golden and epic, and the instrumental segments of the group’s show will either have you standing in awe or kickin’ back and nodding your head. The guys throw down some sweet rhymes, get silly, jam out and overall just blow minds.”

Medium Troy’s fi rst album, aptly named Bohemian Dub, has been an underground success; it is constantly sold out and does well internationally through Itunes.

A haggard west coast tour to support the album got the band discovered by

the Warped Tour founder and the band got a big break by being booked on the Warped Tour in the summer of 2008.

Medium Troy has been producing their second album for almost three years. The release date has been moved back numerous times. They released a limited collectors’ edition EP this summer for the 2010 Warped Tour featuring early mixes of studio tracks as well as four live tracks from the Oregon Country Fair. The band members are currently working to complete what they hope will be the last studio recordings needed to fi nish the album.

One DJ infamously pegged Medium Troy as: “Too raging to be a reggae band, too stony to be a rock band.” Their shows have become a social phenomenon for people who like to

party, with a dedicated following known as the “Squirrel Crew” that is known for getting extremely hyphy at shows.

Twinkle Thizz and The Big Dippers is a post-psychedelic electro dance group that is frequently compared to MSTRKRFT, the Knife and Kraftwerk. The band followed Medium Troy’s midnight set last year and is expected to do so again.

Special guests are to be announced, so check the WOW Hall website for updates (or sign up for the e-mail list).

Since we are about to welcome the year 2011, tickets are $10 in advance, $11 at the door. Ages 6-11 are half price at the door when accompanied by parent or adult guardian; ages fi ve and under are free. Doors open at 7:30 pm and showtime is 8:00. ★

On Friday, December 17, the CCPA and KRVM bravely welcome the Monsters of Accordion 2010 plus special guests Aeon Now.

With squeezeboxes strapped to their chests, the “Monsters of Accordion” (Jason Webley, Corn Mo, Renée de la Prade, The Petrojvic Blasting Co.) are launching an assault on West Coast cities from Seattle to Los Angeles.

“When I’m on tour, I meet so many amazing accordion players, and the idea is just to bring them together,” explains Webley, who organizes the annual tour.

The result is a tour-de-force featuring many of the most entertaining accordionists currently working in North America. But don’t expect a night of polkas, b e c a u s e these aren’t your g randmothe r ’s accordion

monsters. Instead Webley and company will be delivering an evening of squeezebox-fueled drinking songs, Celtic-punk jigs, retro-rock anthems and Balkan gypsy music.

New York City’s Corn Mo plays a mixture of glam-rock and circus music which Rolling Stonehas described as, “the future of rock.” With a powerful voice that rivals Freddie Mercury, Corn Mo has toured the country with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, The Polyphonic Spree, They Might Be Giants and Ben Folds. He has written six albums and the rock opera Alice Wakeman, which debuted at New York’s Ars Nova Theater. In addition to his epic accordion performances, Corn Mo is an accomplished pianist, short story writer and lead singer in the band .357 Lover.

Pink-haired accordion pin-up goddess Renée de la Prade comes armed with a low-slung button

box and a funky fusion of old Celtic melodies, zydeco and punk rock power. De la

Prade adds her boot stomping and squeezebox

fi re to Bay Area groups Culann’s Hounds and Whiskey and Women. In 2008, she

began publishing the annual Accordion Babes Pin-Up

Calendar which has

sold tens of thousands of copies and features players from around the world. When not on stage or hanging on your wall, de la Prade works as an accordion teacher and repair specialist at Smythe’s Accordion Center in Oakland.

Originally from Nashville, The Petrojvic Blasting Company is one of the most talked about rising stars in the LA scene. Founded by brothers Josh and Justin Petrojvic, The Blasting Company has traveled across North America and Europe in a variety of confi gurations with their accordions, trombones and foot-drums. Recently, the brothers returned from a pilgrimage to Eastern Europe, where they shared the stage with some of ex-Yugoslavia’s best musicians and performed everywhere from the streets of Belgrade to an ancient Roman coliseum.

Street performer turned cult musician, Jason Webley has been carrying his squeezebox to the far corners of the earth since 1998. Known for his huge gravelly voice and a battered porkpie hat that dances around his head as he stomps out the beat, Webley’s relentless touring schedule and legendary live performances have built him a loyal fanbase across North America, Europe and beyond (he is especially loved in Siberia.) Webley’s specialty is

involving his audience in his performances - most concerts end with the entire crowd locked arm-in-arm, singing at the top of their lungs. Recently, Webley fi nished a world tour with Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls as one-half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn.

Aeon Now is a dreampunk brigade consisting of Olive

Delsol (vox, accordion, lyrics), Moriah West (drums, lyrics, vox), Elijah Salazar (washboard, vox), Morgan Hagar (violin, banjo, accordion, vox), Aaron Long (trombone, bells, saw, vox, et al) and Jade Gardner (upright bass).

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Doors open at 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00. ★

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INSIDE THIS ISSUETHE POSIES &

BRENDAN BENSON P.2CHERRY POPPIN’

DADDIES P.3UNKLE NANCY P.3

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On Tuesday, December 7, the CCPA and University of Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM KWVA fl orally welcome The Posies and Brendan Benson (of The Raconteurs) plus special guest Aqueduct.

The Posies are touring in support of their newly released seventh album BLOOD/CANDY. Wrapping up in their hometown of Seattle on December 11th, the tour spans over 20 major U.S. cities.

The Posies’ founders, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, will also join Brendan Benson’s set contributing bass, guitar, keyboards and backing vocals. Both have a remarkable knack for interchanging their musical roles and are active members of other bands. They have lent their production and musical contributions to a myriad of artists including R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Big Star, the Minus 5, Bob Mould, Neil Young, the Disciplines, John Wesley Harding and William Shatner.

Prior to their full-fl edged international tour, The Posies performed the fi rst live set of BLOOD/CANDY at their offi cial album release show in New York City. Once fans were notifi ed about the event, all the seats were sold within two hours!

From the very beginning, The Posies sired a succession of classic LPs — including the now seminal Dear 23 and Frosting on the Beater — that served as joyous rejoinders to a generation mired in grunge. And yet, for much of their history, the band has been playing a game of genre tag semantics, dodging facile and limiting descriptions like “power pop” and “retro pop”.

“There are so many infl uences and styles woven into what we do and we’ve never made the

same record twice, not even close to it,” states Auer. “This record has more of a ‘Science Fiction’ sound to it, if you will, more buzzes and electronic bells and whistles percolating throughout — we wanted to keep everyone’s eardrums guessing with this, always on alert for the next left-of-center waveform.”

Following a professional and personal split between Auer and Stringfellow at the end of the ‘90s, the second act of The Posies’ career began with 2005’s triumphant reunion effort, Every Kind of Light. The group’s fi rst studio album in nearly a decade was a musically plangent and lyrically politicized album that reintroduced The Posies to the world in grand fashion.

BLOOD/CANDY is the band’s fi rst album in fi ve years and a testament to their evolving sound, boasting melodic hooks, provocative lyrics and intricate layers of instrumentation that blend far-out, spacey sounds with sophisticated hues. The band teamed up with guest artists including the angelic-voiced Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo, Lisa Lobsinger of Broken Social Scene and punk legend Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers.

Brendan Benson’s voice has a

gleam to it, a West Coast shimmer, the shine of a sleek new fender. It is a style he has honed, of course. On 1996’s One Mississippi, the songs came roughhewn but charged with hooks and with wit; 2002’s Lapalco brought a perfect pop ripeness, and by The Alternative to Love in 2005, there was something quite brilliant, quite burnished about his songwriting. Along the way he has co-written and recorded two spectacular albums with the Raconteurs — Broken Boy Soldiers and Consolers of the Lonely.

For Benson, The Raconteurs was not just an opportunity to play with close friends Jack White (The White Stripes) Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler (The Greenhornes) but also an chance to roll around in the rock, psychedelia and blues that had shaped his musical taste.

“My stuff is all chords and melody,” he said. “And so playing with the Raconteurs is so liberating because, when you play the blues with other people, you’re all on common ground, you all know the same basics.”

His latest offering, My Old, Familiar Friend, gathers together all of his infl uences to create something truly exceptional. Recorded in Nashville and London, mixed in LA, produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters) and mixed by Dave Sardy (The Rolling Stones, LCD Soundsystem, Oasis) it is a marriage of passion and perfectionism, an illustration of all that is special about Benson — from the glimmer of “Feel Like Taking You Home” to the Motown swoon of “Garbage Day”.

Seattle’s Aqueduct (David Terry) is supporting Or Give Me Death, his third full length release.

Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 at the door. Doors open at 7:30 pm and showtime is 8:00. ★

WOW HALL NOTESThe Community Center for the Performing Arts is located in the Historic Woodmen of the World Hall (W.O.W. Hall), 291 W 8th, Eugene, Or 97401, (541)687-2746, info@wowhall.org, www.wowhall.org, Box office hours Mon-Fri, 12-6 PM. Printed monthly by Western Oregon Webpress, Circulation 3,800, General Support made possible by a grant from Lane Arts Council with support from City of Eugene Cultural Services Division, Copyright 2009 All rights reserved Notes Staff: Copy Editor & Advertising Representative - Bob Fennessy, Layout & Design - James Bateman CCPA Staff: Program Coordinator - Calyn Kelly, Membership Coordinator & Publicist - Bob Fennessy, Office Managers - Tim Helferty, Donna Carbone Stage Manager - Cameron Clark, Bookkeeper - Carole Goerger, Volunteer Coordinator & House Manager - Kayte McDonald, House Manager - Hannah Finley Concessions Managers - Angela Lees, Jessica Syverson, IT Asst - Sam Harmon, Development Coordinator - Liora Sponko, Booking Assistant - Lauren Taich Volunteer Staff: Donna Carbone, Dan Wathen, Art Gallery Director - Robert Adams CCPA Board of Directors: Chair - Michael Zarkesh, Vice Chair - Mayo Finch, Treasurer - Michelle Smith, Secretary - Jesse Conway, Members - Ted Butler, Sean Cannon, Robby Green, Colin Quisenberry

This month the Community Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Directors and staff are proud to unveil our sponsorship appreciation plaque. Shaped as a large record, the plaque publicly appreciates local businesses and grantors who have donated at least $500 to the CCPA over the past year. Recognition of our sponsors emulates the recording industry’s award programs:

$500 ~ Gold$1,000 ~ Platinum$2,500 ~ Multi-Platinum$5,000 ~ Diamond

The plaque will be permanently displayed in the WOW Hall lobby. Many thanks to our sponsors for supporting the CCPA and helping us provide accessible arts and educational programs for our community. Special thanks to Joe Valasek from Heartwood Carving Studios for creating the plaque and Dorene and Kevin from Royal Awards for engraving the plates for each donor.

If you are interested in learning more about the CCPA Sponsorship Program, please contact Liora Sponko, Development Coordinator at development@wowhall.org ★

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On Friday, December 3, Square Pegs Concerts paternally welcomes the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies with special guests Greenlander.

The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2009 with an induction into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame — joining notables such as Robert Cray and Doc Severinsen.

CPD put on a show where high schoolers and their grandparents can dance in the same audience. Their impressive range of popularity makes them a hit with colleges, festivals, casinos and fairs. The Daddies play high-energy swing music with enough of an edge to not come off as bland or plastic, and more than enough chops to satisfy any jazz fanatic.

The band emerged in the late 80’s with a style that wed the energy of contemporary rock and roll with infl uences from the golden age of the American songbook — the 30’s and 40’s. Prime compositional infl uences include Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford, Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan. In addition to a main course of very hip infl uences, the Daddies garnish the plate with touches of more exotic fare: Jamaican ska, fl amenco, samba, rockabilly, soca, and even glam rock!

Propelled by the mega hit single that has become one of those staples in the canon of fun American pop, their classic

album of 1998, Zoot Suit Riot — The Swingin’ Hits of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, went double platinum.

The Daddies touring history has included the requisite panoply of swanky, uptown affairs — from the Tony Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, to the Playboy Jazz festival at the Hollywood Bowl, to a performance sandwiched on a bill between General Colin Powell and Dana Carvey, and for hundreds of dot com CEO’s at a convention held in a blimp hangar in Silicon Valley! They have appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve, The View, and were the sole musical act featured in a tribute to Duke Ellington in an hour long special on American Movie Classics.

After keeping a slightly lower profi le over the past several years while singer/ songwriter Steve Perry fi nished up his degree, the Daddies have reemerged with a vengeance — with two albums released in 2009: Susquehannaand Skaboy JFK-The Skankin’ Hits of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.

Of course, none is this is news to our regular readers. The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies have been rocking the WOW Hall from their start (although they weren’t always allowed to use their name here). Probably half

the population of Lane County learned how to shake their lovemakers from Steve Perry and Company.

True to their college-town smarty-pants roots, the Daddies released Susquehanna as, “a post modern attempt at a concept album, strongly infl uenced by Jean Luc Godard’s classic new wave fi lm, Pierrot le Fou.” In contrast, Skaboy JFK is an exercise almost radically straightforward. While overall a wide-ranging exploration of ska aimed at an all ages audience, the material at times adopts an uncommonly sophisticated point of view, only to shed it three seconds later as it boomerangs into a scatological warped drive skank-along.

Eugene’s Greenlander started to take shape when all of the members attended high school together. Since then, this group of funky music nerds have been attending the University of Oregon as music majors, and have also released a debut album, all while performing with regional and national talent.

Over the last year the band has been working on an EP, which is due in January, with a very talented team including Austin Kovac, platinum-selling recording engineer Billy Barnett, and Grammy nominated producer, Jon Gass.

Tickets are $16.50 in advance, $20 day of show. Doors open at 7:00 pm and showtime is 8:00. ★

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On Saturday, December 4, the CCPA and KRVM welcome with a heavy heart Unkle Nancy & the Family Jewels Last Show Ever!

After almost eight years as a solo artist, and four years as an ensemble, Unkle Nancy and the Family Jewels are retiring.

Based out of Newport, the band claims Eugene as its home, and will be performing here on December 4th to a disbelieving crowd.

Due to some harmless pranks in the past, the band’s fanfare is having a hard time accepting the truth: that this really is the end of an era. However, Nancy and the rest of the Jewels are moving on to work on different projects and explore new artistic avenues.

The character, Unkle Nancy, will have a hard time being laid to rest after recording over 35 different albums, all of which will live on after the fourth, but most

memorably, those of which were recorded with the band. The Family Jewels’ albums; Lovely, Gypsy Pirate Blues, Vagabond Tramp, Off The Map, and Lost At Sea, is what really brought locals out of the woodwork to appreciate the Unkle Nancy phenomenon. These are the albums that allowed the group to tour the NW as well as headline the Whitaker Block Party three

years in a row. This performance will be

something extraordinary, to be sure, so if there is one thing you may want to save your money for after Black Friday, it’s for a toast to Unkle Nancy and the Family Jewels as they depart on their last voyage.

Doors open at 8:30 pm and showtime is 9:00. Admission is $5 at the door. ★

Unkle Nancy & the Family Jewels Last Show Ever!

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ServiesLeslie ShawverJennie & Liam

SherlockJacque Travis &

Mark Siemens Nancy SilversJeff SimonsEd SmithMichelle SmithNan SmithPam SmithGillian SmithlineKen Sokoloff Paul SolomonLiora SponkoAllison Stage-KluteJoe StankunasJessica StedmanKristine SteeleCandace SteffenDan SternBrad StewardDean & Kim StillKaren StingleCecilia StoryTina StreightJohn StricklandBarbara Corchnoy

& Russell StylesDebbie Lynn

SummersMartha & Gregory

SutherlandJim SwansonDave SwanstonCorbin SweenyTim & Sharon

SweetJay & Susy Mejia

SwinsonJayne SyversonJessica SyversonJoanne TabebLoren TaichCal TaylorCatherine “KC”

TempletonRichard TetleyCary ThompsonGeoff ThurnerDavid & Amandala

TiptonKelley TottenMatt TrederPhil Means &

Sharon TriggDeb TristPam TuttAsha Jenny UlrichNancy UlrichWendy UnreinCindy VailGregg & Becky

VollstedtJoe WaksmundskiKevin WaldropZoe WalmerSue WalzPhil WarnerDan WathenJoe WaxEdward & Linda

WaymireTravis WeaverCarolyn WeissZoe WerthamerDave & Susan

WesterfieldMarilyn Ripley &

Michael Whitenack

Donna WhitneyRichard WhyteChris WiddopGuy Wiederhold Carlyn WierdaTom E. WilliamsWendy WilsonJim May &

Jenny Wilson John WiltTom WiltGeorge WinfieldRobin WinfreeKatherine WingJohn WinslowJanet WinterSabine WolberAndrea WolfLoretta

WolfenbargerJen Salvatore &

Thomas Wright-Hay

Andrea DiPalma & Alseny Yansane’

Tony YoscoLapis & Michael

ZahendraLinsey ZellerBonnie Henderson

& Charles Zennache

Pete ZhunJeff ZiglinskiSteve ZornPete ZugelderDavid Zupan

by Bob Fennessy On Saturday, December

11, the Community Center for the Performing Arts hosts the WOW Hall Membership Party — celebrating thirty-fi ve years as caretaker of the historic Woodmen of the World Hall with musical guests The Whiskey Chasers, Eagle Park Slim, Kef and Basin & Range. The event features an amazing array of food and beverages donated by Eugene’s fi nest producers and restaurants.

Doors open at 7:00 pm for the annual Membership Party. Those in the know will be waiting in line for the doors to open — having skipped a meal in preparation for the feast to come. Last year eighty-nine area restaurants and other businesses contributed prepared food, beverages and other items for a buffet-style dinner and a similar number are expected to this year. Expect to fi nd two rows of serving tables covered with breads, salads, hot and cold main dishes, pizzas, snacks and desserts. New dishes are presented throughout the event, so you don’t need to come early to get a great meal. We’ll cut the Sweet Life cake at 9:00.

The basement will also be offering an assortment of nibbles as well as some special deals on adult beverages that have been donated for the occasion.

And on the Main Stage we are pleased to offer a fantastic and diverse lineup of performers:

The Whiskey Chasers are Gracin Dorsey (mondo/vox), Kevin Davison (guitar/vox), Tony Cipoli (banjo), Cindy Ingram (washboard), Seth Kimmel (bass) and Gregg Volstedt (dobro).

Hold on to your plates people... these kids play fast and happy!

The Whiskey Chasers play bluegrass tunes and old school country classics about trains, lost love and whiskey drinkin’ with a few crowd pleasing spirituals thrown in for good measure. Original tunes by Gracin and Kevin may make you shed a tear or start drinkin’… or both. The Whiskey Chaser’s treasure trunk of originals combine fast pickin’ and powerful harmonies with the feeling of a small town grange picnic on a sunny summer day.

The word “legend” gets used way too often in the music publicists’ jargon, but in this case it is justly deserved. It is the CCPA’s great honor to present our friend and neighbor and a true local legend — Eagle Park Slim.

Eagle Park Slim, recipient of the Eugene Rainy Day Blues Society’s “Rooster Award” for Lifetime Achievement, has been playing his brand of rhythm, blues and soul across the country since 1954, sharing the stage with

such legends as James Brown, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, Percy Mayfi eld, 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.

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.

During my years as a student at the University of Oregon (class of ‘82), Eagle Park Slim performed daily solo shows in the EMU Breezeway during lunch time. His reputation as Eugene’s resident bluesman grew and grew as the years went by. Generations of performers have been infl uenced and mentored by Slim.

Eagle Park Slim’s life story is a fascinating one — one you’ll be able to read about one day in his autobiography — now in the works.

The word “Kef” refers to that spirit and energy shared by a group of people in celebration. It is a state of being, an intangible quality approaching ecstasy, often engendered by musical experience. Kef is a Turkish concept and term that has become naturalized across the

Balkans throughout the former domain of the Ottoman Empire. That same cultural force left an indelible mark on the music of the Balkans. Today, Slavs, Roma and a multitude of other ethnic groups – even Americans – play and dance to music that is an amalgam of Turkish infl uences and indigenous regional styles.

Kef, the band, has been performing for dancers, festivals, cafes and bars since 2007. Their music is a sampling of the regional genres found across the Balkans, from Bulgarian wedding music to Serbian brass band, from 1960s radio-style orchestrations to melody/drone-based village music. Most of the repertoire comes from the folk tradition, learned from recordings or directly from notable musicians in the Balkan music community. Each musician brings a unique aspect to the music stemming from the diversity of their

individual musical experiences and aesthetics.

Band members are: Alex Lowe (trumpet), Sharon Rogers (accordion and vocals), Cody Simmons (trumpet and truba), Ken Sokolov (percussion) and Dan Gibson (bass).

Basin & Range is a constantly evolving entity, diffi cult to label, undeniably funky, occasionally reckless and sure to get your body moving in ways you cannot practice. These four misfi ts draw on a wide variety of infl uences, merging elements of funk, psychedelia, hip hop and dirty electro-grit into a sound that is wholly original. Instrumental by nature, B&R has been wrecking dance fl oors all over the Northwest since 2005, bringing a new spin on instrumental dance music.

Band members are: Phil Allen (drums/samples), Mark Macomber (alto sax/keys), Dan Mahoney (electric guitar/keys) and Johnny Schlea (electric bass/keys).

The Community Center for the Performing Arts was incorporated thirty-fi ve years ago to save the Woodmen of the World Hall and keep it available to the community. On December 10, 1975, the WOWATHON began with live entertainment 24 hours a day for fi ve days in order to raise the down-payment. Today, the Hall remains community-owned and democratically operated. The CCPA completed payment on the mortgage in 1983, and in 1996 the building was offi cially designated a historic landmark. The organization enjoys a broad base of community support, as demonstrated by the membership list published in this issue. Hundreds of others have completed training as WOW Hall volunteers, a large number of them area teenagers.

Each year the Membership Party serves to thank the supporters of the CCPA, a nonprofi t (501c3) arts organization. A short program includes an introduction to the CCPA board of directors and staff and recognition of all those who donated to support the event.

Admission to the Membership Party is free for members (members note: If your mailing label reads “This is your party ticket” your membership is current; you don’t need the label to get in but it makes it faster). Memberships are available at the door for $15 or more (members are encouraged to bring guests at a cost of $10 for adults, $5 for ages 6-11; fi ve and under free). Doors open at 7:00 pm with The Whiskey Chasers at 7:15, Eagle Park Slim at 8:15, a short program at 9:00, Kef at 9:15, and Basin & Range 10:15ish. ★

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On Monday, December 6, the CCPA and KRVM are mighty glad to welcome Frazey Ford (of The Be Good Tanyas) along with special guests Tyler Fortier and Ivan & Alyosha.

Best known throughout the last ten years as a member of the critically acclaimed Vancouver trio The Be Good Tanyas, Ford is now ready to tell her own story with a solo album she describes as being “moved by motherhood, earth and land.”

Obadiah is a collection of songs hand-carved by the hardships and exaltations of life, and stained with the rich colors of soul and folk music that fueled artists like Joni Mitchell, Ann Peebles, Neil Young and Donny Hathaway. After a period of stillness, it’s the sound of Ford fi nding herself once again.

“I began to write just for the joy of it,” says Ford, refl ecting on the past few years. “I realized that I was just me, and for the fi rst time I understood that was enough. A lot of this album is coming out of healing that I’ve done. The knowledge that in all grief there is joy, and in all joy there is grief.”

Recorded during a blissful Vancouver summer at the studio of co-producer and multi-instrumentalist John Raham, Obadiah came to life with the help of an intimate assembly of guests. Trish Klein of The Be Good Tanyas lay down yards of velvety smooth electric guitar, while next-door neighbor Caroline Ballhorn, contributed vocals to “Gospel Song” and “Hey Little Mama”. Ford’s landlord even dropped in to play keyboards, as Cuban style chords go back and forth with warm Wurlitzer licks on the playful “Like You Better”.

By putting her faith in an assortment of capable companions, Ford let the songs unfold naturally, embracing the little experiments and happy accidents that give the album so much character.

“Not being in a band allowed me to feel less worried about things working out in a certain way,” she admits. “I felt a lot of trust with the direction people were going in, and they added a lot of their own feel.”

In that way, Obadiah plays out like a fi reside conversation with an old friend; rich with stories about love, loss and life that unravel at their own colorful pace.

A true storyteller with a voice that defi es comparison, Ford’s greatest talent is her ability to inhabit completely the mind of her song’s protagonists. On “Firecracker” she’s a hard-drinking, deal making son-of-a-gun that talks to angels with a wry smile. On “Gospel Song” she looks back on her family life through the eyes of country preacher. It’s a gift she attributes to her journey through motherhood.

“As soon as you’re caring for another human being, you’re outside of yourself,” says Ford. “You think about things in the long term. You perceive yourself as a foundation for someone else’s existence. That experience affected my songwriting to the point where it just felt like I had removed myself from

being myself. I suddenly felt this ability to zoom out and feel people’s lives and then sing that story. I hadn’t done that before.”

Though in many ways Ford’s journey is just beginning, Obadiah is a lasting testament to a life fully lived, whether it be her own or that of a character from her songbook.

There are points in Tyler Fortier’s (pronounced for-teer) new record This Love is Fleeting (released April 15, 2010) when it seems that years of emotions are crammed into a single song. Fortier has crafted an album ripe with the sort of folk honesty that rarely rises into the veins of today’s popular music, but replete with rock and roll underpinnings that give the 12-track disc a distinctly modern and timely feel.

This Love is Fleeting, Fortier’s fourth record, is the product of a singer songwriter who already has an accomplished recording and touring resume under his belt, even though he’s still only 25 years old. Based out of Eugene, Oregon, Fortier grew up in Camas, Washington, playing in punk bands, then venturing out as a solo performer, initially under the name 11th Avenue Hopeloss and then The Waverly Plan. While attending the University of Oregon, Fortier spent an increasing amount of hours on his writing, building the artistic and poetic muscle that he’s used to craft the emotive and thoughtful lyrics that are found in his music.

On This Love is Fleeting, Fortier displays a sound that refl ects his own musical upbringing as it’s soaked in the roots rock authenticity of Neil Young, but with the modern edge of one of the many next generation of songwriting wave-makers like Josh Ritter and the accessibility of an artist like Brett Dennen.

Talk of faith and exalted things is rare in indie rock today. Enter Seattle band Ivan & Alyosha. Throughout their second release, the fi ve song Fathers Be Kind EP, the band chart their own course between divinity and disbelief.

Named for characters in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, Ivan & Alyosha began in spring 2007 after Tim Wilson met Ryan Carbary. Ryan and Tim began playing and recording together and a trip to Los Angeles to work with Eli Thompson (Richard Swift, Delta Spirit) spawned the name Ivan & Alyosha. According to Tim, Thompson is a huge Dostoevsky fan and the name stuck. With that, Wilson and Carbary released The Verse, The Chorus, their debut EP on Cheap Lullaby Records. The stand out track “Easy To Love” earned NPR Song of the Day honors as, “a propulsive, sweetly booming ode to love as a feat of endurance.”

Tim says he writes songs about what’s current in his life. He recently married and had a son.

This time around, Tim and Ryan are joined by two others - Tim Kim and Pete Wilson, Tim’s brother.

Tickets are $12 n advance, $14 at the door. Doors open at 7:00 pm and showtime is 7:30. ★

December 21 is the beginning of winter. This is the night of the longest darkness. So we gather as a community each year at this time to remember those who are most often forgotten. The annual Homeless Memorial is a time to remember, refl ect, and respond to the fact that too may homeless folks die on our streets. We will read each name and honor the memory of our homeless friends. This is done on this night in cities across the nation in solidarity with the National Coalition for the Homeless and sponsored locally by Free People (www.FreePeopleEugene.com), a grass roots organization bringing help and hope to homeless folks.

For more information contact David Robertson: phone 541-461-1278 cell 541-579-9174. ★

Homeless Memorial

On Saturday, December 18, the CCPA and University of Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM boldly welcome Elenora, Forever Ends Today, Her Death And After and Tigerss.

Tigress is a Portland indie rock band started in 2009 featuring four remaining members of two Alaska based music groups Strept and The Sudden Death Squad. Featuring the vocal guitar and piano talents of Jerry Brunnhoezel, the drumming ability of Jason Howe, the bass skills of Greg Lambert (Strept), and the guitar/vocals of Wes Phillips (The Sudden Death Squad).

The band mostly deals in energized, melodic rock songs with a melancholy or angry message conveyed through the lyrics and refl ected through the music itself. Thematically, it covers a broad range of topics including interpersonal relationships, civilizational paranoia, and angsty “fi nger pointing” songs.

Her Death And After Her Death and After is a Post-Hardcore outfi t originating from Southern Oregon. After recording their freshman EP (The Living Room Wars) with producer Kris Crummet (Emarosa, Dead and Devine, Closure in Moscow) in the summer of 2009, they began to gain acclaim for their unique dancing rifts, haunting choruses and highly literate lyrics.

The band’s name is derived from a Thomas Hardy poem of the same title written in 1898. The poem exemplifi es the inevitability of beauty after tribulation.

Since their fi rst EP release, HDAA has focused on touring the western states in hope of spreading their fan base and achieving a connection with the people who listen to their music. After many miles traveled, a move to Portland and a few member changes, the band stepped into the studio once more in the Summer of 2010 to record their most recent release, the Hot and Bothered EP, with Ryan Furlott of Rain City Audio (It Prevails, Years Spent).

In a short time HDAA has gained plenty of renown from independent music sources, shared the stage with many of the scene’s best bands (including a stop on the Van’s Warped Tour) and fi ne-tuned a sound as diverse as the music that infl uences the band.

Eugene’s Forever Ends Today is made up of members just out of high school (Jairus, David, Brandon and Jack). The band formed in mid-2009 and recorded their fi rst EP, Parallels, with producer Dan McCall. After a year of fi ne tuning their sound, in June of 2010 the hard work of Forever Ends Today paid off. They went to record at Raincity Audio in Portland, where they worked with producer Ryan Furrlot. The fi nished product, Moments Waiting, represents FET and were they are heading as musicians.

Headliner Elenora is a melodic hardcore band from Medford, Oregon. Go ahead and check out their entire streaming EP if you already haven’t and then vote for them if you feel like it.

Tickets are $7 in advance, $10 at the door. Doors open at 7:30 pm and showtime is 8:00. ★

Frazey Fordof the Be Good TanyasA Night of Hardcore

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On Friday, December 10, the CCPA and KRVM jubilantly welcome Great Britain’s legendary Ozric Tentacles along with Eugene’s own Reeble Jar.

One of the most infl uential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, the Ozrics layer ambient and ethereal landscapes with freeform dub trips, incredible rave grooves and psychedelic progressive rock. Over the course of 25 years, the band has fl ourished through lineup changes, spawned several side projects (including Eat Static and Nodens Ictus), created their own record label (Dovetail & Stretchy), put out close to 25 albums, scored a hit single and sold over a million albums worldwide.

A campfi re at the Stonehenge free festival in 1983 witnessed the birth of Ozric Tentacles. It was there that composer and band leader Ed Wynne (guitar & keyboards) and brother Roly Wynne (bass) stumbled upon keyboardist Joie Hinton and drummer Nick ‘Tig’ Van Gelder. After a session of warming their bones and discussing imaginary breakfast cereals, the group went on to perform an impromptu late jam session. Sometime during the epic six hour performance, an audience member inquired as to the name of the band. Randomly thinking back to the group’s former conversation, visions of ridiculous mythical mueslis entered Ed’s mind, and consequently he replied “Ozric Tentacles”.

From that very fi rst jam session, a musical compatibility was evoked that has since been a trademark of the Ozric Tentacles. It’s a signature blend of hippy aesthetics and raver electronics with spiraling guitars, textured waves of keyboards, midi, samplers and super-groovy bass and drum rhythms. The band swiftly claimed their place as a staple of the UK’s burgeoning festival scene, and are now credited as one of the infl uential musical linchpins of the scene.

1984 saw the band’s fi rst cassette release, Erpsongs. Recorded at home on a barely more than a domestic hi-fi and lined with hand drawn covers, it ignited the underground psychedelic scene.

1986 was a very productive year for the band with three cassette releases, Live Ethereal Cereal, Tantric Obstacles and There Is Nothing. The latter featured more ethnic elements; scales, styles and samples gathered by Joie on visits to India and Ed on trips to Thailand became deeply entwined with the band’s sound.

Following the departure of the group’s second synth player, Tom Brooks, in 1987, Ed found himself forced to fi ll the sonic gap by focusing more on his own synthesis and keyboard skills. This shift would prove to be not only a success for Ed, swapping seamlessly between guitar and keyboards, but the ethereal sounds of his Sequential Circuits Pro-One synth and Roland D-50

keyboard would essentially become the molecular base of the Ozrics’ DNA.

1988 saw the band’s most cohesive and endearing of the early cassette releases, Sliding Gliding Worlds. Around the same time, drummer Tig evaporated, and Ozrics’ recruited Merv Pepler, a 21 year old phychobilly drummer from Somerset. Six months later the band closed the tape only period with a collection of odds and ends from the 1985 - 89 time period, Bits Between The Bits.

The live performances from this time have become something of folklore amongst the hardcore fan-base. Tape trades amongst these fans has reached the feverish dedication shown by Deadheads in the USA.

Realizing that signing with any of the established companies would inhibit their creative freedom, in 1989 the band formed their own record label, Dovetail Records. Their fi rst major release available on CD, vinyl (and cassette), Pungent Effulgent, is a blinding example of the live experience and the raw energy the Ozrics put into every performance.

In 1991 the band’s fi rst and only single was released. “Sploosh!” scored the group a #1 in the indie charts, and spilled the band into the mainstream. The single was released just as dance music was exploding in the UK and the ravers embraced its hypnotic pulse. The subsequent album Strangitude took the music to a new level.

With the band’s 1993 release Jurassic Shift, which debuted at #11 on the British indie chart and climbed into the Top 10 in the National Album Charts, the Ozrics found themselves heralded in publications such as NME and Melody Maker.

Over the years Ozrics have toured extensively both at home and abroad, performing regularly throughout Europe, Asia, North America and South America.

Last year Ozric Tentacles released The Yumyum Tree — their fi rst studio album since 2006’s The Floor’s Too Far Away. It follows the previous year’s live CD/DVD set, Sunrise Festival.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Doors open at 8:30 pm and showtime is 9:00. ★

Ozric Tentacles

In The Gallery For the month of December, the Community Center for the

Performing Arts will feature Portrait Paintings by Taylor Warne in the Lobby Art Gallery at the WOW Hall.

Says Warne:“My name is Taylor Warne and I have been painting ever since I

can remember! My musician paintings started when I was in 10th grade in painting class. I chose to paint the musician Lil’ Wayne for my fi nal project. I entered this painting into the Lane County Fair Youth Art Show where it won fi rst place, then I entered it into the high school art show at Lane Community College where it was noticed by the art instructor Robert Adams and he asked me to paint fi ve to seven more paintings for a show at the WOW Hall!”

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 2, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The Lobby Art Gallery is open for viewing during offi ce hours, 2:00 to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday. ★

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Recording for demos and albumsSteinway grand pianoProTools HD3 Accel+Waves MercuryCD masteringTape restoration and transfer to CD

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Frazey Ford (of The Be Good

Tanyas)Tyler FortierIvan & Alyosha7:00 PM$12 Advance$14 DoorSinger-Songwriterwww.myspace.com/frazyford

WOW Hall Membership Party:

The Whiskey Chasers

Eagle Park SlimKefBasin & Range7:00 PMFree to CCPA Members; guests of members $10

Ozric TentaclesReeble Jar8:30 PM$15 Advance$18 DoorPsychedelic Rockwww.ozrics.com

Board of Directors6:30 PMMeets at Growers’ Market Build. (454 Willamette)

The PosiesBrendan Benson(of The Raconteurs)Aqueduct7:30 PM$17 Advance$20 DoorRockwww.theposies.comwww.myspace.com/theposieswww.brendanbenson.comwww.myspace.com/

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ElenoraForever Ends TodayHer Death and AfterTigerss7:30 PM$7 Adv / $10 DoorHard Rock

Free People11:00 AM - 3:00 PMMusic, Food, Clothing, Fellowshipfreepeopleeugene.com

Monsters of Accordion:

Jason Webley Corn Mo Renee de la Prade The Petrojvik Blasting Co.

Aeon Now!8:00 PM$10 Advance$12 Doormonstersofaccordion.com

Merry Christmas!Offi ce ClosedOffi ce ClosedHomeless Memorial

5:00 - 7:00 PMwww.freepeopleeugene.com

Jean GreyThe FoolOnly NightmaresPantheonArkhum6:30 PM$8 Advance$10 DoorHard Rock

New Year’s Evewith Medium TroyTwinkle Thizz & The Big Dippers

7:30 PM$10 Advance$11 DoorBohemian Dubwww.facebook.com/

MediumTroywww.myspace.com/

mediumtroy

December 4Unkle Nancy & the Family Jewels’ Last Show Ever!

8:30 PM$5 DoorFolkhttp://www.myspace.com/

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Greenlander(Square Peg Concerts rental)7:00 PM$16.50 Advance$20 Day of ShowRock-Funk-Swingwww.daddies.com

Art Reception for Taylor Warne

5:00 - 7:00 PMFree

Facilities Committee Meeting6:30 PMMeets at Allann Brothers Beanery on 5th

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UPCOMING1/15 KRVM’s Women in Blues

1/22 Indubious

1/25 Ra Ra Riot

1/27 Asylum Street Spankers

1/29 Bandest of the Bands

1/30 The Wood Brothers

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Classes, Meetings and Workshopsfor December:

Every Saturday (except 12/25): West African Dance with Alseny Yansane 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Every Sunday: Coalessence: Community Ecstatic Dance 10:30 am - noon

Every Monday: African Dance Fundamentals with Alseny Yansane & Andrea DiPalma 7:00 - 8:15 pm