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K k DECEMBER 2014 KWOW HALL NOTES g VOL. 26 #12 H WOWHALL.ORGk JASON WEBLEY & FRIENDS: STEEL WHEELS MARGARET ALBUM/BOOK RELEASE WITH CHICKEN JOHN RINALDI A scrapbook found in a San Margaret to hundreds of people, Francisco dumpster inspires new but last year when he showed the music and stories by Jason Webley, scrapbook to accordion trouba- Chicken John Rinaldi, Eliza dour Jason Webley, he learned a Rickman, Shenandoah Davis, Led bit more about who this woman to Sea, Lonesome Leash, and spe- was. Not only was she born in cial guests. Webley’s home town of Everett, On Friday, December 19, the Washington - she was the daughter Community Center for the of one of the town’s founders, and Performing Arts and KRVM is buried in the enigmatic pyramid proudly welcome Jason Webley & that sits above the town. Friends Book/Album Release Show Fueled by interest in the local for Margaret. community, Webley and Rinaldi Twenty years ago, San Francisco held a special event in Everett this showman Chicken John Rinaldi past April. They assembled some State. Shenandoah Davis, Led to Sea, Chicken John Rinaldi and found an old scrapbook lying at of the best songwriters in the coun- This December to celebrate the Lonesome Leash, and special guests Webley. You can pre-order it for the bottom of a dumpster. The try to write new works inspired by release of Margaret, Webley, in each city. $25 (plus shipping) at jasonwebley. book documented the life and Margaret Rucker’s life and writ- Rinaldi and the others are getting The Margaret album is a full- com. death of a woman named Margaret ings. The response to that concert together to perform these songs length CD housed in a 90-page The tour begins on Margaret Rucker, born in 1907. Chicken was overwhelming, and a together for the last time. They hardcover book. It features music Rucker’s birthday and comes to John was captivated by this myste- Kickstarter campaign to record this are taking the show on a short by Jason Webley, Led to Sea, WOW Hall in Eugene on Friday, rious woman and her tragic story, material raised more than six times tour retracing Margaret’s life from Jherek Bischoff, Eliza Rickman, December 19th. Tickets are $12 in captured in sepia images and dark its initial goal, making it the sec- Washington State to California. Shenandoah Davis, Lonesome advance, $15 at the door. Doors poetry. ond largest crowd-sourced music The concerts feature performances Leash, Zac Pennington and Mts & open at 8:00 pm and showtime is KOver the years, he introduced project to come out of Washington by Webley, Rinaldi, Eliza Rickman, Tunnels, as well as writings by 9:00. H k INSIDE THIS ISSUE Darol Anger’s 2nd Annual Keepin’-It-In-The-Fam Holiday Show with the Cascadia All-Stars Horse Feathers Whirled Pies Benefit JOHNNY MARR WOW Hall Membership Party By Sean Cummins On Thursday, December 11, Double Tee and Dead Arto & Antti (Workshop & Performance) Nation present Johnny Marr (of The Smiths) with Phutureprimitive special guests Hooded Fang. The Smiths. The Pretenders. The The. Black Cobra Electronic. The Healers. Worlds Collide. Modest Author & Punisher Mouse. The Cribs. Eight seminal bands, one man in common: Johnny Marr. Emerging from the aftermath of punk and post-punk, in 1982, an 18-year-old Marr tracked down a poet by the name of Steven Morrissey, and together they invented indie rock by founding The Smiths. By the age of 23, The Smiths were disbanded, and Marr had cemented PAID his position as a rock and pop guitar legend. Drawing U.S. Postage U.S. Permit No. 303 No. Permit inspiration from artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, Iggy Eugene, OR 97401 Eugene, Nonprofit Organization and the Stooges, the Animals, and Dusty Springfield, Marr has lent his guitarwork to an impressive list of bands over the last 27 years, both as a member and as a guest con- tributor. Fast forward to today, and we find Marr continuing to broaden his horizons – you can find his work on the soundtracks to both Inception and The Amazing Spiderman 2, and, in 2013, he launched his solo career with his debut release, The Messenger. Currently on a world tour in support of his second solo album, Playland, Marr will be performing at the WOW Hall on November 11th. Joining Marr for this leg of the U.S. tour are guests Hooded Fang, a Canadian indie band with a big, melody-driven sound, full of fuzzed out guitars, surf rhythms, pop vocals, and reverb. Tickets are $20 in advance. Doors open at 7:00 pm and showtime is 8:00. H RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Community Center for the Arts Performing 291 West 8th 97401 OR. Eugene, K k WOW HALL NOTES The 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, [email protected], www.wowhall.org, Box office hours Mon-Fri Noon-6:00 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 2014 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, Stage Manager - Selena Frame, Asst Stage Manager - Justin Showker, Office Managers - Donna Carbone, Ross Shuber, Bookkeeper - Jana Silver, Volunteer Coordinator - Laura Farrelly, House Manager - Sam Harmon, Concessions Manager - Angela Lees, Custodian - Shawn Lynch Volunteer Staff: Sam Hitchcock, Zac Townsend, Dan Wathen, Art Gallery Director - Sam Harmon, Poster Distribution - WOW Hall Poster Crew, CCPA Board of Directors: Chair: Aaron Dietrich, Vice Chair: Mike Janes, Secretary: Sara Shmigelsky, Treasurer: McKenzie Goodwin, Members: Sean Cannon, Mayo Finch, Jacqueline Hamer, Craig Lawrence, Mike Meyer DAROL ANGER’S 2ND ANNUAL KEEPIN’-IT-IN-THE-FAM HOLIDAY SHOW WITH THE CASCADIA ALL-STARS: EMY PHELPS, ALEX AND TATIANA HARGREAVES, WES CORBETT, JAKE JOLLIFF, MILA PHELPS-FRIEDL, ETHAN JODZIEWICZ On Sunday, December 21, the he has spent his career enlighten- recorded projects, Jake is a fre- Community Center for the ing and inspiring his fellow musi- quent guest of the David Grisman Performing Arts and cians, and vice-versa. Currently Quintet, and has played with KLCC proudly welcome Darol an Associate Professor at the Ronnie McCoury, Chris Thile, Anger’s 2nd Annual Keep-It-In- Berklee School Of Music, he Ricky Skaggs, Joe Craven, Bryan The-Family Holiday Show with tours internationally with The Bowers, Tim O’Brien, and the the Cascadia All-Stars. For the Furies and Mr. Sun. Irish super-group Solas. second year in a row, some of the Oregon’s own Emy Phelps is a At 19 years of age, playing country’s best pickers will cele- remarkable vocalist, songwriter both fiddle and banjo, Tatiana brate the holidays at the WOW and musician. Trained in Hargreaves has already steeped Hall! Ashland’s world-renowned the- herself in the archives of Acoustic music legend Darol atre program, she worked for Appalachian music and song. In Anger joins with his singer-song- years in Festival events. She was 2009, Tatiana won the Clifftop writer partner Emy Phelps in also a founding member of Brian Appalachian String Band Festival organizing some of the country’s Ransom’s Ceramic Ensemble, Fiddle Contest in West Virginia. hottest young string musicians for touring internationally from She participated in the prestigious the second multigenerational 1980–1987. String Music Program at the musical show orbiting around the Emy’s touring career was put Savannah Music Festival in 2012 holidays. Award-winning fiddler on hold while obtaining a degree and in 2013. Alex Hargreaves and his equally in education, teaching school and Tatiana appears on the Violin brilliant kid sister Tatiana, Joy raising four children, but now her Shop (Nashville) Fiddle Masters Kills Sorrow alumni Wes Corbett public work continues as a Concert Series DVD Volume III (banjo) and Yonder Mountain recording artist, a member of The and has a CD entitled Started mandolinist Jake Jolliff, teen cel- Furies, and as a duet with Darol Out to Ramble produced by lo-phenom Mila Phelps-Friedl, Anger. In addition to her current Bruce Molsky. and the phenomenal bassist Ethan release, Look Up, Look Down, A native of the Pacific Jodziewicz –- all Pacific she released a previous recording Northwest, 27 year-old Wesley Northwest Natives -– will join entitled As It Should Be on Sweet Corbett has been playing the forces. In addition to the super- Mercy Records. banjo since he was 16. He has hot picking, there will be no lack Alex Hargreaves, a native of performed with many of the most of glorious singing and great Corvallis, was the youngest-ever influential acoustic musicians of songs of the season. Grand National Champion fid- our time as well as touring inter- Meet the players: dler. He is also the accompanist nationally with the Indie-Popgrass Darol Anger is a freestyle fid- for singer Sarah Jarosz, and prob- band Joy Kills Sorrow. As of dle guru, unique in range and ably the best jazz violinist who 2011, Wes has been the professor depth. Anger has spent three ever lived -- all at the age of of banjo at Berklee. decades reinventing American 22! Alex recently completed the Emy’s daughter Mila Phelps- string music to encompass his prestigious Berklee Global Jazz Friedl first picked up a cereal-box explorations of bluegrass, jazz Institute under the artistic direc- cello at age two. Mila has since and world traditions.