K k JUNE 2016 K g VOL. 28 #6 H WOWHALL.ORGk On Thursday, July 7, trading into his stage performanc- Emporium Presents welcomes es. Buckethead’s persona repre- Buckethead back to the WOW sents a character that was “raised Hall. by chickens” and has made it his, Buckethead is back after a “mission in life to alert the world brief hiatus from the road! His to the ongoing chicken holocaust last show was New Year’s Eve in fast-food joints around the 2012 in San Francisco. During his globe.” live appearance absence, Buckethead is best known for Buckethead has released more his electric guitar playing and is than 200 pieces of product referred considered one of today’s more to as “pikes”. innovative guitarists. He has Buckethead is a virtuoso gui- been voted number eight on a list tarist and multi-instrumentalist in GuitarOne magazine of the whose style encompasses several “Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders genres of music. He has released of All Time” as well as being 256 studio albums, four special included in Guitar World’s lists of releases and an EP. He has per- the “25 all-time weirdest guitar- formed on over 50 more albums ists” and is also known for being by other artists. His music spans in the “50 fastest guitarists of all such diverse areas as progressive time list.” He performs primarily metal, rock, funk, blues, jazz, as a solo artist, though he has col- bluegrass and avant-garde music. laborated extensively with a wide When performing in his theat- variety of high profile artists such rical persona, Buckethead used to as Iggy Pop, Les Claypool, Bill wear a KFC bucket on his head, Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Serj emblazoned with an orange bum- Tankian, Brain, Mike Patton, BUCKETHEAD per sticker that read “FUNERAL” Viggo Mortensen, and was a in capital black block letters, and member of several big bands such an expressionless plain white cos- as Guns N’ Roses, Col. Claypool KICKS IT HERE tume mask. More recently, he Bucket of Bernie Brains, and has switched to a plain white Praxis. bucket no longer bearing the KFC Tickets are $20 in advance, logo. He also incorporates nun- $25 at the door. Doors open at chucks, robot dancing and toy 6:30 pm and showtime is 7:30. H

INSIDE THIS ISSUE MARCHFOURTH! P2 CCPA ANNUAL MEETING REPORT P3 MUSIC’S EDGE 2016 SUMMER ROCK CAMP P4 MIRAH & JHEREK BISCHOFF P4 GREEN & YELLOW GARTER BANDS P4 THE GROWLERS P5 VOIVOD P6 WHITE BUFFALO P7 SNOW THA PRODUCT P7

ers. He was offered an audition by BB King but could not afford the trip to Memphis. Bud played the Blues continuously until 1975; at that time

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Nonprofit Organization THIS BUD’S also played with the Skuna Valley Male Chorus. But to play the blues you’ve go to live the dues -- Bud earned his living by carrying a chainsaw up and down the hills and hollows of North Mississippi, logging for 35 years. FOROn Thursday, JuneYOU 30, the Community Center for the Leo does not believe that Blues is the devil’s music but a Performing Arts and KRVM’s Breakfast With The Blues way of expressing the highs and lows of one’s life through proudly welcome Leo “Bud” Welch to the WOW Hall. song. He had played his guitar for close family and friends Leo “Bud” Welch Sr. was born in Sabougla, Mississippi in for over 65 years and remained under the radar, undetected by 1932. Bud picked up a guitar for the first time in 1945. He the vast majority of blues aficionados, until April 19, 2013 and a cousin would sneak in and play the guitar while the after being secretly recorded performing at the 50th birthday actual owner of the guitar (Bud’s older cousin R.C. Welch) of his now manager. was away working. Since then, Leo “Bud” Welch has taken the listening musi- As he became confident in his ability to play guitar, Bud cal world by storm. His debut album Sabougla Voices was was caught red handed by the owner of the guitar, playing the released January 7, 2014 -- just two months before his 82nd forbidden-to-touch instrument. Bud’s older cousin was so birthday -- and his sophomore album I Don’t Prefer No Blues impressed with his playing that he gave Bud free reign to was released on March 24, 2015 -- just two days after his 83rd RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Community Center for the Arts Performing 291 West 8th 97401 OR. Eugene, continue playing the guitar. birthday. By 1947 at age 15, Bud could play well enough to perform Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Doors open publically and garnered the blessing of many elder guitar play- at 7:00 pm and showtime is 8:00.

K k The Community Center for the WOW HALL NOTES 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 12:00-6:00 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 2016 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 Managers - Jason Bailey, Chris Evans, Davis Koier, Lighting Director - Sebastian Letelier, Office Managers - Donna Carbone, Ross Shuber, Bookkeeper - Melissa Swan, Volunteer Coordinator - Laura Farrelly, House Manager - Sam Harmon, Concessions Manager - Angela Lees, Shawn Lynch Custodian - Jona Waterstone Volunteer Staff: 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, Members: Jacqueline Hamer, Steve Lasky, Jesieh Love, Mysti Rose Frost, Jon Silvermoon, Daylon Sloan, Terri Wilson

call in a structural engineer because the roof was nearly blown clean off!» -Yale Cohn, Little Village Magazine MARCHFOURTH! Eugene’s High Step Society is an all-live electro swing band. A STEAMFUNK ROCK-N-ROLL CIRCUS PARTY Digging deep into the traditions of On Friday, June 3, the CCPA of stilt walkers, acrobats and American jazz, and melding them and KLCC proudly welcome Vaudeville-style performers, with electronic music technology, Portland’s MarchFourth! back to MarchFourth! whips the crowd they’re bringing the new hot the WOW Hall along with into a celebratory frenzy with sounds of electro swing break beat Eugene’s own High Step Society. high-energy compositions, colorful to the WOW Hall dance floor. An Oregon Country Fair favor- costumes, hilarious stage Unlike the usual DJ-based sets, ite, MarchFourth! is a genre- shenanigans and infectious these cats are doing it in the breaking FORCE in the world of jubilation. This is not a band that moment, with real instruments live entertainment — a sonic simply puts on a show. and the improvisational chops of explosion delivered by 20 MarchFourth! delivers a multi- live players. Band members are: musicians and dancers who tour faceted, indelible experience that Rebecca Conner (guitar/vocals), the country, year-round, stealing leaves audiences flabbergasted and Ethan Rainwater (bass/produc- the festival wherever they appear breathless! tion), Nara (production), Phil and taking audiences on a joy- “How do I describe this group? Allen (drums/machines), Alex inducing, booty-shaking, soul-stir- A sweaty, beautiful, chaotic, “The Moose” Misar (saxophones) ring journey that defies categoriza- organized, hyper-realized, super- and Parkpoom Aempoo (trumpet, tion. Word on the street: You tight, fever-dream of a monster clarinet). have to see it to believe it! that defies categorization and Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 “You could call MarchFourth! pumps out so much beat and at the door. Doors open at 8:00 a Vaudeville circus, or a sexy car- rhythm that the venue should soon pm and showtime is 9:00. H nivalesque sideshow of animalistic proportions where all sense of decorum is beaten into submis- sion. I call it a panoply for the senses, a celebratory feast of friends, a visually stunning perfor- mance that sears itself into your brain.” Mike Greenblatt, The Aquarian Combining funk, rock, jazz, Afro-beat, Gypsy brass and Big Band, with a visual kaleidoscope

2 JUNE 2016 WOW HALL NOTES FIND US ONLINE: WWW.WOWHALL.ORG CCPA ANNUAL MEETING REPORT The WOW Hall Annual Membership Meeting was spoke briefly and stated that, with or without a finan- held on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Forty-five mem- cial backer, the CCPA needed to produce one or two bers of the Community Center for the Performing sold out shows per month. That, combined with a Arts gathered to approve the organization’s policy new $1/ticket on-line service fee (still no fee at the statement and budget, and to elect members to the WOW Hall office), should put the WOW Hall back board of directors. in the black next year. He said that grant support A pre-meeting social featured pizza donated by was needed for the WOW Hall to produce the “cul- Mezza Luna and waffles from Off the Waffle, as well tural” shows that everyone says the Hall should have as potluck food donated by WOW Hall board and but that are not well attended. Also, that the P&L staff members. does not reflect the additional assets of a $6000 Members present approved the following policy soundboard (made possible by a donation from James statement: “For the fiscal year starting July 1, 2016 it Bateman) and several thousand dollars worth of new will continue to be the general policy of the CCPA/ coolers. KLCC TAKES YOU THERE! WOW Hall to serve all ages, nationalities, races, eth- Melissa Swan, the CCPA’s new bookkeeper as of nicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and July 2015, presented the Financial Report. For the religions of our community without discrimination. fiscal year ending this coming June 30, the CCPA is This includes the staff, CCPA members, volunteers, projecting a net loss of $12,759 (as compared with 89.7 FM community members, and Board of Directors of our $14, 944 for 2014-15). Although income from ticket organization. We will embrace our community and sales increased slightly, figures were lower for rentals, involve our membership in as many ways as possible. downstairs concessions and grants. Numbers were up We will continue to operate with financial care on all for classes, memberships and poster service. The klcc.org projects and decisions. All construction and expan- organization currently has $110,706 on deposit, sions will be done with respect and compliance to the including $52,083 in reserves. WOW Hall’s historic requirements. Further, it will The Facilities Committee is continuing work on continue to be the goal to expand financially as we the Woodmen of the World Interior Restoration LISTEN LIVE July 8,9,10 look forward to the long-term viability of our organi- Project and the Historic Streetlamp Restoration zation.” Project. This year hot water was installed in the Oregon Country Fair Members were presented with a comprehensive bathrooms, new coolers in the basement, big leaf Visit the KLCC / written report (available at the WOW Hall office) maples were planted alongside Lincoln St., and the Main Stage & More W.O.W. Hall Booth that included Staff Reports, Management Report, Woodmen of the World Historic Exhibit was pre- near Main Stage! Profit & Loss Statement, Revenue and Expense grafts, sented. On tap for the coming year are the UO Reports from the Facilities, Fundraising/Education Archive Project, Iron Railing for the outside staircase, and Personnel Committees, Proposed Budget and Courtyard Drainage Project, Southside Facade repairs, Capital Budget, and Organization Goals. and numerous minor restorations. Performance highlights for the year include The Fundraising/Education Committee hired a Icelandic folk artists Arstidir, legendary hard rock new grant writer – Ahava Oblak. Board members band Shellac, spoken word from Shane Koyczan, conducted a 4th quarter membership drive that recruit- acoustic songwriting from Kimya Dawson, experi- ed 55 new members. mental gypsy tinged alt-rock from Man Man, neo The Personnel Committee has completed updating classic hip-hop with Blackalicious, independent blue- job descriptions – 14 total. PC has developed and grass from The Oh Hellos!, Wild Child, Elephant implemented a new process for performance apprais- Revival, Mandolin Orange, R&B from The Internet, als that is goal-based, and hopes to be able to provide and more from varied artists such as The Dandy staff bonuses. Warhols, Cherub, Yo La Tengo, The Grouch & Members were presented with a proposed budget Eligh, Lucius, Moon Taxi, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, for 2016-17 with a projected income of $627,060 (up Chicano Batman, International Guitar Night, Lettuce, from $600,860 15-16) and an equal amount of expens- We invite you to join us Shabazz Palaces, Wanderlust Circus, Zion I, Trick es. The budget was approved with one member vot- in our wooded setting, Pony, and reggae from New Zealand with Katchafire. ing no and one abstention. It was a bumpy year, including record lows in Organizational goals for 2016-17 were: 1. Continue 13 miles west of Eugene terms of attendance in March and record highs in Educational Expansion; 2. Reorganization/Staff near Veneta, Oregon February and April. Support Mechanisms; 3. Restoration and Facility The WOW Hall also hosts up to seven regular Upgrades; 4. Membership Outreach Enhancements. for an unforgettable classes per week. Cynthia Healey’s Zumba classes Nominations were then taken for the board of adventure. are so well attended that she can hold them three directors. With seven seats up for election, the vote times a week. We also had three summer camps -- would determine five two-year positions and two one- two kids rock camps hosted by Tim McLaughlin and year terms. Bass Camp. Created by Calyn Kelly, Olive Del Sol Thirteen members were nominated for the board and other local musicians, Bass Camp has now been and eight accepted. After speeches by the nominees picked up by the City of Eugene Parks and Recreation the vote was held. Elected to two-year terms were and is being presented by them in partnership with Daylon Sloan, Jacqueline Hamer, Jon Silvermoon, the WOW Hall. Calyn also hosts periodic workshops Mike Janes and Terri Wilson. Elected to one-year in sound, lights and production. Our 40th Year terms were Aaron Dietrich and Jesieh Love. Anniversary show was a great success and ushered in The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled Advance Tickets: a new tool in our programming that has already for 6:30 pm Thursday, June 16, at the Growers Fri. $26 ★ Sat. $29 ★ Sun. $24 enabled return performances with Built To Spill, Market Building, 454 Willamette St., upstairs. Business Save! 3-Day Ticket only $68 Elephant Revival, and MarchFourth. will include election of board officers. All CCPA Day of event: Publicist/Membership Coordinator Bob Fennessy board meetings are open to the general public. H Fri. $29 ★ Sat. $33 Sunday $27 *There will be a $1.25 TicketsWest service charge on all single day tickets sold. There will be a $3 Ticketswest Service charge on all three day tickets sold.

Tickets are available at all TicketsWest locations including most Safeway Stores. Order online at: ticketswest.com ★ Charge by phone: 800-992-8499 For more information: oregoncountryfair.org No tickets are sold on-site Advance parking $10/day Parking on-site $15/day. Ride LTD to the Fair for Free from two Eugene locations. You must have an admission ticket to enter the parking lot or gain access to the Fair site.

FIND US ONLINE: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEWOWHALL WOW HALL NOTES JUNE 2016 3 MUSIC’S EDGE 2016 SUMMER ROCK CAMP Registration is now open for the Music’s Edge 2016 Summer Rock Camp at the WOW Hall. Director Tim McLaughlin will host two dif- ferent weeklong camps: July 25-29 and August 15-19. The program is designed for ages 10-18. Music’s Edge began as a unique music program that was created by MIRAH & JHEREK BISCHOFF Tim McLaughlin in 2004. This will be the WOW Hall’s tenth year BAM, Adelaide Festival and hosting this very successful rock camp. Each session goes full-steam all Tasmania’s MONA FOMA. His week and ends with a full-blown, rockin’ show, with all the lights and work as a composer has garnered sound that would make any rock star proud. The two “gigs” will be GET STRUNG OUT commissions from Kronos Friday, July 29, and Friday, August 19. Each camp will also have a On Wednesday, June 8, the ings, Pitchfork has praised her, Quartet, Lincoln Center and St. second show at the Saturday Market on July 30 and August 20 (3:30- Community Center for the “incredible voice — a versatile Ann’s Warehouse and perfor- 5:00 pm). Performing Arts and KRVM coo that can flit from low, sultry mances by Seattle Symphony, Music’s Edge is interested in all skill levels and all instruments. Tim proudly welcome Mirah and tones to high, airy falsetto in one Adelaide Art Orchestra, Wordless McLaughlin, bandleader of the acclaimed group Eleven Eyes, heads up Jherek Bischoff back to the WOW breath.” Music and yMusic. a pro staff that includes Zak Johnson, John Shipe, John Raden plus Hall. This is a seated concert. Mirah has always sought the The Guardian’s 4-star review special guests. Music’s Edge features different workshops each day with Brooklyn songwriter Mirah creative company of unique col- of his 2012 release Composed music industry professionals and performers. Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Los Angeles laborators, from multi-media art- hailed his work as a, “collection The camp lasts from Monday through Friday and goes from 9:30 am musical polymath Jherek Bischoff ists and orchestral composers to of lavishly orchestrated pop to 3:00 pm. The students will be divided into different bands based on have teamed up for an evening of DJs. A partial list of some of her songs.” The year 2014 saw his age, ability, instrument and interest. The week will be spent rehearsing songs arranged for strings. The collaborators includes Phil musical scoring debut with Johnny a set of rock, metal, funk, jazz, blues, hip-hop and pop tunes to be night will feature sets from both Elverum (The Microphones/ Breitwieser at Vienna’s performed at the two shows following each camp. Mirah and Bischoff, with a eupho- Mount Eerie), Merrill Garbus Schauspielhaus. And in 2015, “This was AWESOME!” - Music’s Edge Student nious string quartet rounding out (tUnE-yArDs), Tara Jane O’Neil, Bischoff ventured into television, Tim’s main motivation with Music’s Edge is to offer a music pro- the band. Expect to hear tried Khaela Maricich (The Blow), contributing work to Starz’ Blunt gram like no other and give up-and-coming musicians opportunities he and true faves along with new Melanie Valera (Tender Forever), Talk and Netflix’s Wet Hot only dreamed of when he was that age. There are many music camps music from both Mirah and Lori Goldston, Britta Johnson and American Summer: First Day of that teach musicians how to play better music, but Tim wanted to go Bischoff’s forthcoming albums. Ginger Brooks Takahashi. Camp. beyond that. Creating a full set of non-stop music, and performing with Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn has Jherek Bischoff is a Los This year, Bischoff will release confidence and charisma on a big stage with huge sound and lights was been creating incorruptible inde- Angeles-based composer, arrang- his highly-anticipated, Kickstarter- one opportunity Tim wanted to offer. To be able to play a “festival- pendent pop music since the late er, producer and multi-instrumen- funded album Cistern, a collec- style” set on an outdoor stage is also an important experience to have. 1990’s. She has released over a tal performer. In his 30-odd tion of ambient works recorded “What a great thing you do.” - Pete Peterson, KWVA DJ dozen solo and collaborative years, he has collaborated with with a live orchestra. Music’s Edge continues to grow every year. It has been amazing to recordings on K Records, Kill the likes of Kronos Quartet, Bang Tickets are $12 advance, $15 at see some of the students go on to great college music programs, have Rock Stars and various domestic on a Can, David Byrne and Neil the door, with seating on a first successful bands, and continue having music in their lives. If Music’s and foreign independent labels. Gaiman and has performed in come, first served basis. Doors Edge helped even just a little bit with those achievements, then Tim Defined by her graceful songwrit- venues and festivals around the open at 7:00 pm and showtime is couldn’t be happier. ing and adventuresome record- globe including Carnegie Hall, 8:00. H “You guys are amazing! Thanks for giving our kids the rock star experience!” - Amy Parker, parent Camp tuition is $289 and includes two tickets to the Friday WOW Hall performance. To register, please call or visit the WOW Hall at 541-687-2746 during box office hours. A non-refundable deposit is required at the time of registration. Space is limited, so please don’t GREEN & wait to sign up. H YELLOW GARTER BANDS On Saturday, June 4, the Athletic Bands include the Oregon and enjoy the 2015-16 garter bands, University of Oregon Athletic Marching Band, the Oregon as many members will graduate Department proudly hosts the Basketball Band, the Green Garter and never play together again. Final Performance of the Green Band and the Yellow Garter Band. Once they’re gone, they’re gone so and Yellow Garter Bands. Members of these bands proudly come get it while you can. The Oregon Athletic Bands carry on a tradition of pride, Admission is free for UO stu- provide energy and enthusiasm in enthusiasm and musical quality to dents. For the general public tick- the stands at athletic events uplift fans and ultimately drive ets are $5 advance or at the door. throughout the year. Under the Oregon teams to victory. Doors open at 6:30 pm and show- direction of Dr. Eric Wiltshire, the This is the last chance to hear time is 7:00. H

4 JUNE 2016 WOW HALL NOTES FIND US ONLINE: WWW.WOWHALL.ORG See what you’ve been missing! CAMPUS 343-3333 “Graveyard’s Full” off of their 732 E. 13th Hot Tropics album. With every WESTSIDE move he made, Nielsen inspired a 343-5555 response from spectators, like a 1740 W.18th THE GROWLERS melodic ringleader backed by an SHELDON artillery of best friends whom 484-9999 have now been around the world 2540 Willakenzie ATE MY HEART together in the name of music. By Kim Conlan which was followed by Gilded Most times, a song would start On Tuesday, June 14, the Pleasures late in the same year. and the entire room of bodies CCPA and Dead Nation Presents By the time Chinese Fountain hit would become lost in the music, proudly welcome to the WOW shelves in 2014, The Growlers had chanting along word for word Hall The Growlers’ “Wet Dreams become ambassadors of the while twisting in rhythmic Summer Tour” plus the Super Orange County music scene with motions. Every song, like Duper Sounds of DJ Johnny Basil. a fan-base so big that their back- “Dull Boy”, carries a story of Years ago when I first started to-back Valentine’s weekend some sort, and people were stirred watching The Growlers perform, shows of their 2016 tour quickly by the emotion that wafted from The Couples recordings had just sold out in their local county. the speakers and out onto them, transitioned into their Are You In Since the event happened to causing an equivalent reaction in Or Out? LP. The first time I fall on Valentine’s Day, lovebirds audience members. interviewed singer Brooks Nielsen, attended in droves. Swirling After almost a two-hour set the boys were just experiencing around in excitement, the attend- encompassing tracks from all their their first of many national tours. ees were immersed in a scene set recent releases, the band took a Every time they returned home for grungy psychedelic romance. quick exit, only to enter again for from their latest musical excur- And in their view, could there be an encore fanatically welcomed by sion, their local fans seemed to be anything more saccharine than attendees. Smart phones emerged exponentially multiplying. Brooks Nielsen serenading a venue to catch the final moments left Then came the birth of The full of young ladies and gentle- with this audience’s favorite Observatory concert venue reha- men? Orange County band. bilitated from the remains of the Pandemonium struck once the Despite the feeling of romance, fading Galaxy Theatre. From blacked-out stage started billow- Nielsen reminds during “Love that modest first Beach Goth fes- ing fog, and one by one the band Test” that, “Love isn’t as easy as tival of only 15 local bands on the members -- consisting of Matt it seems.” It was obvious The bill blossomed many more sold- Taylor on lead guitar, Kyle Straka Growlers were grateful, as depict- out shows and three more Beach on second guitar, Anthony Perry ed by Nielsen’s wide grin as he Goth festivals, each much bigger on bass and Scott Montoya on bid his admirers goodnight with than the last. drums -- filed onto the stage. admiration. By 2013, the Growlers substan- Once Nielsen entered, there was Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 tiated their musical collection with an uproar from the audience, and at the door. Doors open at 7:00 their release Hung At Heart, the beat surged and revealed pm and showtime is 8:00. H IN THE GALLERY For the month of June, the Lobby Art Gallery fea- tures Glass-on-Glass Hand Pulled Screen Prints by Kathy Engholm. Kathy began fusing glass in 2002, making func- tional items including plates, bowls, clocks and jewel- ry. Since retiring from engineering in 2013 and taking Bullseye’s Powder Printing class, she has been develop- ing and refining techniques to create photographic images in glass-on-glass screen prints. The process starts with one of her photos, from which she digitally strips all color so she can focus the Kiln firing melts the powder onto the sheet glass. story using only black, white and a few shades of gray. Every piece is fired at least once, but a picture with Later she may add color back into the image to empha- multiple colors might take many trips through the kiln. size a point or to re-imagine the scene. From the Some of the colored glass powders (vs. black, grays processed image, she creates multiple film positives and white) are printed using silkscreens, but most are (transparencies) that will be photo-exposed onto silk- added free-hand using spoons, clay-working tools or screens, creating stencils. Then she scrapes various palette knife. colors of powdered glass across the different screens, The Lobby Art Gallery is open to the public during causing the powder to sift through the stencil openings box office hours, noon to 6:00 pm, Monday through and down onto a sheet of glass resting just below. Friday. H

FIND US ONLINE: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEWOWHALL WOW HALL NOTES JUNE 2016 5 THANK YOU SPRING CLEANING VOLUNTEERS The annual WOW Hall Spring Cleaning was held Sunday, March 20, from 3:00 to 8:00 pm. Thank you to the many volunteers, members, staff and board members who donated an afternoon to clean, paint and spruce up the historic WOW Hall building. This year we accomplished a special project that took some muscle – installing the new coolers in the basement concessions area. WOW Hall volunteers can earn credit for Pure Volunteer Hours. Volunteers who collect ten become a member of the Community Center for the Performing Arts -- eligible to vote to elect WOW Hall board members and/or run for the board if so inspired. Food was provided by Off the Waffle and Track Town Pizza.

Thank you to: Calyn Kelly Dave Bulloch Davis Koier Simon Boom Angela Lees Bryan Calza Sebastian Letelier Estephanie Castro-Hernandez Shawn Lynch Rita Embry John Mathison Gator Embry Ross Shuber Juan Esperanza Tonja Smith Cheddar Farrelly Jona Waterstone Dimension Hatross, Nothing- Bob Fennessy Koryan Wilde face, Angel Rat, The Outer Lim- Selena Frame Addison Wilson its, Negatron, Phobos, Stan Funkhouser Leslie Wilson Katorz, Infini and Target Earth. Onyx Gjertsen Terri Wilson Drawing influences from the Sam Harmond Zach Wright thrash, grind, hardcore and punk Miron Huberlee Galen Wright-Watson scenes of the 80’s and 90’s, Australia’s King Parrot has a new sound created by fusing those styles with a fresh approach that encapsulates their aggression, MUSIC VOIVOD humor and intensity. A MUST TO ATTEND King Parrot’s new offering On Thursday, June 9, the between tours, we are steadily Dead Set lays waste to the senses WANTED Community Center for the Per- finding our way through record- with high-octane grind, thrashing The CCPA/WOW Hall is forming Arts and University of ing the next album at RadicArt riffs, pummeling beats and punk seeking donations of records, Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM studio. Meanwhile, we hope you rock mayhem. Produced by the CDs and DVDs as well as KWVA proudly welcome Voïvod will enjoy this EP of good old legendary Philip H. Anselmo music books, magazines and along with special guests King thrash-prog-punk-metal or what- (Pantera, Down, Superjoint memorabilia. These items Parrot, Child Bite and Hiding. ever people want to call Voïvod Ritual) at Nodferatu’s Lair studio will be sold on the internet or Canadian progressive sci-fi nowadays.” in Louisiana, Dead Set is a at future events to fund vari- metal innovators Voïvod (who A “band’s band”, Voïvod is a relentless aural assault proving ous projects around the last year toured Europe as part of group of artists now in their third that the band shows no signs of WOW Hall. the “Deathcrusher 2015” tour decade of collaboration and cre- wear and tear following a brutal Your donations are tax deductible and will be greatly appreciat- alongside Carcass, Obituary and ation -- four young men from touring schedule through Asia, ed. Items can be dropped off during office hours, Monday to Friday, Napalm Death) are touring Quebec, addled by art, fueled by North America, Europe and 12:00 to 6:00 pm, or during concert performances. For more informa- North America in support of the Venom and Motörhead, playing Australia since their inception in tion or to arrange for us to pick up your donation, please call 541-687- Post Society-EP Mini-CD. The post-heavy metal, pre-MTV. 2011. 2746 during box office hours. H EP, with artwork by Voïvod The 80s were upon them and the Child Bite is a Detroit-based drummer Michel “Away” Lan- threat of nuclear war seemed punk/metal/noise rock band gevin, contains five studio tracks, almost inevitable. Brian Slagel formed in 2005. They are including the previously vinyl- used his independent label Metal acknowledged by authorities in only new Voïvod songs from the Blade to discover and develop the genre as having a, “horror- split 7” EP’s with label-mates At important underground artists show/slasher-flick” flair,” which The Gates and Napalm Death, like Metallica, Slayer, Celtic descriptors apply to their records, two brand new songs and a Frost, …and Voïvod. The first their album art and their music Hawkwind cover (“Silver Voïvod album War and Pain was videos. Machine”) -- total playing time recorded and released unto the Child Bite has over a dozen of 30 minutes. world in the prophetic year of releases of varying lengths. Michel “Away” Langevin 1984. Tickets are $17 in advance, comments on the release: “More More albums followed – $20 at the door. Doors open at songs from out in the woods! In Roooaaarrr, Killing Technology, 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00. H

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6 JUNE 2016 WOW HALL NOTES FIND US ONLINE: WWW.WOWHALL.ORG SNOW THA PRODUCT HALF WAY THERE

On Sunday, June 12, the CCPA and University of Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM KWVA proudly welcome Snow tha Product’s Half Way There Tour with special guests Wynne, Daydreamer and RxN. Snow tha Product made her WOW Hall debut on March 30, 2014 on the F#*K YOUR PLANS (COME KICK IT) tour. Her mixtape record- ings include 2011’s Unorthodox, 2012’s Good Nights & Bad Mornings and 2013’s Good Nights & Bad Mornings 2: The Hangover. She released her latest mixtape, The Rest Comes Later, in 2015. Hip-hop has never seen anyone like Snow tha Product. Every rapper says they’re different, but Claudia Feliciano boasts a certifiably rare design. She may look like a model, but she raps like a marauder. Consider her the fast-rap progeny of Lauryn Hill, Eminem and the Big Punisher — a versatile star ready to shatter the glass ceiling faced by Latina rappers. Snow is the rare total package: she sings and writes catchy hooks like a Top 40 radio killer but raps in both English and Spanish with the feroc- ity of a microphone fiend. That’s why she accrued a massive cult before signing a deal with Atlantic Records. All it took was her viral video for “Holy Sh*!” to make jaws drop. The lyrics that kick started the song in the service of a gripping story said it best: “could it be that a femcee goes this hard…[but looks] like told uncompromisingly and me?” It could. compassionately, each of its linked “There are two sides to me. I want to go hard with tracks like “Holy songs coming across with the ring Sh*!” but there are female subjects that I want to talk about too,” Snow BULLISH ON THE of truth. says. “The only thing I’m not rapping about is sex. There are plenty of “I definitely commit to other rappers to do that.” whatever ideas and emotions are This is merely one of the impressive things about Snow. She’s refused in any given song,” he to exploit her sexuality — instead relying strictly on rap skill and song- acknowledges, “and try to make writing ability. Her intricate flow and complex wordplay wow fans of WHITEOn Saturday, June 11, theBUFFALO Smith didn’t set out to write a every word count — I want to lyricism. Her relatable narratives and integrity inspire girls and women CCPA and Dead Nation Presents concept album as he laid the take the listener somewhere. without coming off as condescending or preachy. Her YouTube smash, proudly welcome The White groundwork for what would What makes this album significant “Drunk Love” is self-deprecating and slightly sad, as Snow acknowledges Buffalo along with special guest become Shadows, Greys and Evil for me is that it works as a whole, relationship failings in the face of intense affection. She’s the heiress to Root Jack. This is a seated Ways. It’s just that the songs that but the individual songs stand up a throne that had been abdicated since the heyday of Lauryn Hill. concert. were coming out of him — or as well. I’m very proud of it.” “I want to show little girls that if you’re talented, focus on that,” Working under the apt through him, as the case may be Born in Oregon and raised in Snow says. “I want people to respect me as a songwriter, artist and rap- nameplate The White Buffalo, — led him to that revelation. As Huntington Beach, California, per. I want people to know the difference between someone who singer/songwriter Jake Smith has the narrative arc began to coalesce, Smith spent his childhood years merely wants to get ahead and someone who respects themselves.” resolutely charted his own single- Smith went with it, shaping the listening to the country music his Snow bucked the odds and built her base of “Product Pushas” away minded course for more than a universal story in modern dress of parents loved. As a teenager, he from the usual industry hubs of LA, New York, or Atlanta. Raised by decade. An imposing figure with Joe and Jolene, a pair of naturally gravitated to the two Mexican-born parents, she grew up in San Jose and San Diego and a voice to match, a resonant, youngsters thrust together by aggressive sounds emanating from currently calls Texas home. roughhewn baritone, Smith writes chance, forging a deep, emotionally that punk-rock mecca before These surroundings led Snow to grind the old-fashioned way. She’s about rebels, outsiders and hotwired relationship that would getting turned on to Bob Dylan gained fans with every one of her half-dozen mixtapes and independent troubled souls battling their way at once haunt and sustain them and John Prine and picking up a records. She’s sold mixtapes one by one on the streets of San Jose and through the obstacles life throws throughout their lives. guitar for the first time at age 19, San Diego. She’s paid for her own videos and promotional flyers, but in their paths, telling timeless tales The narrative in turn led Smith whereupon he immediately began has also worked with legends like Tech N9ne, Three Six Mafia’s DJ Paul, generally set against recognizably to tackle the big themes of human to write his own songs. All of Lupe Fiasco, and Too Short. XXL hailed her as being, “part of the new contemporary backdrops. existence — sin and redemption, these elements helped shape, and wave of female MCs who are turning heads.” “I skirt the line between good faith and doubt, mortality and the continue to coexist, in his music Ultimately, Snow defies categorization. She’s more than a “femcee” and evil in a lot of my songs,” possibility of an afterlife — that — the storytelling impulse of or a “Latina rapper.” She’s politically minded and passionate, but resists Smith points out. The hard-bitten have obsessed artists and classic country, the aggressiveness being pigeonholed as a “conscious rapper.” She contains all the multi- themes and performances that philosophers alike from time of punk, the visionary singularity tudes and contradictions that make any artist interesting. In a world have defined his career led the immemorial. But here, these of the definitive singer/ where we’re surrounded by options, she’s the rare product that we’ve producers of Sons of Anarchy to universal themes have led Smith songwriters. As The White never seen. grab six of Smith’s songs for use to take on charged modern-day Buffalo, he stands as a true “I’ve grown and matured as an artist. I’m Snow, not the Mexican under scenes in the similarly edgy issues including post-war trauma, original. rapper girl among the rest of the girls,” Snow says. “You don’t think of series, while The White Buffalo’s the economic plight of American Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 Adele as a female singer. You think of her as Adele. I have a message “American Dream”, written families and the gun-control at the door, with seating on a first and a people to represent. I’m doing this for so much more than just specifically for the 2013 feature debate with evenhandedness and a come, first served basis. Doors me.” film The Lone Ranger: Wanted, refreshing absence of judgment. open at 8:00 pm and showtime is Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Doors open at 8:00 pm appears on the soundtrack album. All of these thematic vectors exist 9:00 H and showtime is 9:00. H

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