K k NOVEMBER 2018 K g VOL. 30 #10 H WOWHALL.ORGk carols that still haunted us. We included a few original tunes and called our wintry mix The Darkest Night Of The Year. We played a special “darkest night” release concert on winter solstice in an old theater in Cincinnati. Folks began snatching up copies and seemed to agree that they hadn’t heard anything quite like it. “We began playing concerts around the Midwest every December and found that the rooms were usually packed full of people who had bundled in out of the cold with prized compatriots. Hats and scarves abounded. If you stepped outside during intermission, you could make ghosts with your breath in the crisp night air. And it was dark – oh so dark: a time of year with its own music. “A decade later, in 2006, we released our first full collection of original Christmas/holiday songs called Snow Angels. What is it OVER THE RHINE CHRISTMAS SHOW about Christmas music and the On Sunday, December 2, the originals, which invoke hard times public radio station in Cincinnati. the radio broadcast, because we undeniable gravitational pull it Community Center for the and celebrate the survival of the It was Christmastime and began receiving inquiries as to exerts on some songwriters? So Performing Arts proudly welcome’s least fit.” apparently they thought we were whether we had recorded any of many Christmas songs had already Over The Rhine’s Christmas Show Over the Rhine will return to up to the task. We worked up a our Christmas songs. I don’t think been written. I think we were back to the WOW Hall. the WOW Hall this December few carols and traditional tunes we had considered it at the time, genuinely curious about the ones “There may be no more with their highly acclaimed and Karin even read a poem by but any young, struggling that hadn’t yet been written. soothing voice in music than Christmas Show. They last played Thomas Hardy called, The Oxen. songwriter is open to the “We continued to tour every Karin Bergquist’s,” observed the WOW Hall in December 2016. It actually felt really good and suggestions of the marketplace, December and these special year- Entertainment Weekly. “She Says Linford: conjured up an unusual mix of and people were persistent. winding-down concerts began to could be interpreting jazz standards, “One December, not long after feelings from childhood: innocence, “In December of 1996 – can it feel like an annual tradition – but fortunately she applies that Over the Rhine began recording loss, wonder, joy, sadness. I think really be over 20 years ago? – we gatherings of extended musical balm to her and husband Linford and touring, we were invited to we were surprised. recorded and released our first family, without whom, we’d be Detweiler’s beautifully languid perform some seasonal songs on a “People must have tuned into song cycle of some of the Christmas homeless. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 k INSIDE THIS ISSUE WHY? P2 H THIS WILL DESTROY YOU P3 TYUS P4 H DESERT DWELLERS P4 JON MCLAUGHLIN & MATT WERTZ P5 HISTORY PUB P5 H DAWIN P6 MEMBERSHIP PARTY PREVIEW P6 THE MIDNIGHT HOUR P7

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WHY? PLAYS ALOPECIA On Wednesday, November 14, eyed melodies. Energized by Lil cal percussion, guitar, drum, and the Community Center for the Wayne and MF DOOM, he seeds bass. And “Twenty Eight” spins Performing Arts and University of self-effacing boasts and mesmeric a feedback-drenched rap beat, Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM wordplay within complex rhyme something like the Bomb Squad KWVA proudly welcome WHY? schemes. The result is a swirl of on acid, on a carousel. for the Alopecia 10 Year Anni- humor, desperation, and beauty WHY?’s mind meld is all the versary Show with special guest that both pulls us into his world more impressive considering they Lala Lala. and draws out our own proud, left their jerry-rigged home setup “I’ll go unknown by torpedo wounded inner weirdo. As Yoni for Minneapolis’ Third Ear stu- or Crohn’s / Only those evil live coos on “The Hollows,” “This dio, in the winter, and added to see their own likeness in stone.” goes out to dirty-dancing, curs- Fog members Andrew Broder It’s the kind of couplet you’d ing, backmasking, back-slidden and Mark Erickson to the lineup. carve into a wall whilst savoring pastors’ kids / and all us Earth Over 20 days, the thermometer the irony at hand, but when Yoni growths; some planted, some never cracked zero. There were Wolf spit the line ten years ago he pulled.” hot toddies aplenty, Miles Davis was blissfully, broodily unaware That perspective formed in our records on repeat, and cramped that he and his band WHY? were hero’s native Cincinnati — born quarters. In this heady, unfamil- creating a career-defining -al in the basement of his rabbi dad’s iar space, Yoni worried it was all bum — one so fan-adored that it synagogue when lil’ Yoni started for naught. But while recording would go out of print, and so in- making songs on a dusty 4-track, “Good Friday”, a brutal breakup fluential that the art-pop heroine and came of age in a different song, he caught full-body chills. It Lorde herself would lovingly steal basement in his college years wasn’t the blizzard outside. the very lyric quoted above. where, instead of graduating, he The Alopecia sessions were When it dropped in 2008, Alo- teamed with roommate Doseone so successful, in fact, that they pecia not only marked WHY?’s and pal Odd Nosdam to form the spawned two LPs (WHY?’s evolution from a sonically col- revered avant-rap trio cLOUD- fourth, Eskimo Snow, arrived 18 laged mostly solo project to a DEAD. These family and friends months later). This one was fin- live-recorded powerhouse band of haunt Alopecia — Dose raps on ished in Berkeley and when time badass multi-instrumentalists. It “The Hollows”; Nosdam is na- came to name it, Yoni chose a also minted a genre of one: wryly mechecked on “A Sky for Shoeing word that appears nowhere in the written, poignantly posed, simul- Horses Under”; Yoni’s father and lyrics. He’d recently found a hole taneously swaggering and heart- the language of faith appear of- in his beard which his old art- rending song-rap that jangles like ten — creating layers of narrative hop comrade Slug of Atmosphere folk, bursts like psych-rock, and for WHY?’s typically deep-diving identified as alopecia. sways like chamber pop. To this fans to unpack. The concept fit: more than on day, there is no other group in By 2008, Yoni was settled in any other WHY? release, Yoni the known universe that sounds Oakland, adding to the legacy of was uncovering his anger, anxi- or feels like WHY? does on Alo- the Anticon label/collective he co- ety, and ambition — celebrating pecia. The album’s 2018 reissue founded (most notably with his his ugly by wearing his lowest cheekily etches that aural likeness official 2003 LP debut Oaklanda- of lows like badges of honor, into our musical history. zulasylum). Though his brother devising characters to exorcise Revisiting these songs is like Josiah Wolf and fellow Ohioan his inner demons, and arriving catching up with an old, very Doug McDiarmid moved west at begrudging self-affirmation. strange friend — one who obsess- and joined WHY? before 2005’s There’s a line on “Brook & Wax- es over his mortality, wonders if Elephant Eyelash, they had not ing,” reprised on “By Torpedo or his ex is some sort of god, identi- yet recorded as a proper unit, or Crohn’s,” that’s become the loud- fies as a “lifelong local foreigner,” in a proper studio. Hell, Yoni’d est shout-along moment at WHY? and does his emotional unpack- never even tried to make his concerts and the most likely quote ing in public restrooms*. When words rhyme before. to find tattooed in the crowd: Yoni sings that he’s been “faking You already know that they “While I’m alive I’ll feel alive / suicide for applause in the food did all of those things and were And what’s next I guess I’ll know courts of malls” on album opener rewarded with Alopecia, an al- when I’ve gotten there.” Therein “The Vowels Pt. 2,” you aren’t bum as adventurous as it is ac- lies Alopecia’s genius: we’ll never sure if it’s a metaphor about fame cessible, and remarkably fluid. To get “there,” not in 10 years past or a real thing he did. wit, “These Few Presidents” slides or 10 years more, but the beauty Our narrator’s odd charm is between modes, from upbeat and is in pushing on. Alopecia’s most enduring gift. In- forced-smile bubbly to seething Although WHY? has per- spired by Bob Dylan and Joanna and slowly roiling. “Song of the formed at the WOW Hall many Newsom, Yoni packs confessional Sad Assassin” is a tempo-blind times, the Community Center for candor and vivid detail into hon- rollercoaster of piano, vibes, vo- CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

2 NOVEMBER 2018 WOW HALL NOTES FIND US ONLINE: WWW.WOWHALL.ORG duced and mixed by the esteemed Matt Bayles (Caspian, Minus The Bear, Russian Circles) and released via Graphic Nature, an imprint label of Equal Vision Records. These Small Spaces is the follow- up to This Patch of Sky’s self- titled release (LP, 2015), Heroes and Ghosts (LP, 2013), Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine (EP, 2012) and The Immortal, The Invisible (EP, 2011). This Patch of Sky’s music has been prominently featured in numerous movies, documentaries, TV shows and commercials, as well as on some of today’s most popular and highly curated playl- ists. “Our sets tend to be emotion- al, almost like a 45-minute soundtrack that doesn’t stop. THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Once we start playing, we don’t stop in-between songs,” notes NEW OTHERS Day. “Everything flows together and generally provides emotions On Saturday, November 10, Mountain was proclaimed the impression that the band is language. of every sort. We’ve had many the Community Center for the “Album of the Year” in Rock moving forward without forget- “As I’ve grown older, I look shows where people come up to Performing Arts and University of Sound. With 2008’s “Self-Titled” ting themselves,” states Spill back on how music drastically us in tears after playing — thank- Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM album, the band truly grew a Magazine. “While the influence changed, shaped, healed, and ing us for putting them through a KWVA proudly welcome This global fanbase, and the record of electronic music on this change encouraged me as I grew up,” sort of cleansing process. Since Will Destroy You back to the remains their top-grossing title to of sound is hard to miss, the reveals guitarist Kit Day. “My we don’t have words in our songs, WOW Hall along with Eugene’s date. band’s dedication to their instru- goal as a musician is to create we let the listener interpret each own This Patch of Sky. Brad Pitt and director Bennett mental expression instead of turn- music that will be that same influ- song to how they need to interpret Post-rock band This Will Miller initially paired TWDY’s ing to production-based composi- ence to others. Music is a power- it and connect.” Destroy You is touring in support “The Mighty Rio Grande” to five tion means that this feels more ful force that we connect with Tickets are $14 in advance, $16 of their new album New Others crucial acts in 2011’s Moneyball, like an expansion of This Will deeply.” day of show. Doors open at 8:00 Part One, released September with “Villa Del Refugio” then Destroy You’s range than a foray These Small Spaces was pro- pm and showtime is 9:00. H 28th via Dark Operative. The going into Pitt’s subsequent World into new territory.” band now consists of members War Z and Miller’s next film Revolver reports, “Fans of pre- Jeremy Galindo and Christopher Foxcatcher. The licensing land- vious work know what to expect, King with the addition of drum- scape exploded from there, as the with the band deviating from the mer Robi Gonzalez. band and the first two albums chosen path slightly from record New Others Part One con- were represented across all major to record: post-rock leaning into tains seven tracks, all produced, sporting events (Super Bowl, the heavier and psychedelic end of engineered, and mixed by John World Series, Stanley Cup, things, all with a strong emotional Congleton, who is also responsi- Wimbledon, ESPY’s, et al), cul- core and a understanding of ble for their sophomore album tural shifts (the UFC’s rollout drama. One minute it’ll tug at released a decade ago. The package for Ronda Rousey), your heart strings and the next album captures the band in a Hollywood’s biggest night (see: you’ll be banging your head.” familiar but evolved ethos where- Tom Cruise introducing the nom- in the memorable, melodic com- inees and awarding “Best Picture” THIS PATCH OF SKY ponent present in their early work over “The Mighty Rio Grande” at This Patch Of Sky is an instru- once again soars atop new sonic the 2012 Oscars), and numerous mental post-rock band from territories for the band and lis- Emmy-award winning dramas on Eugene. Their music is a gentle, tener alike. television. spellbinding tapestry of sounds The first single is “Go Away 2011 saw Tunnel Blanket, and emotions. Closer”. which features the most raw and Last year band members Kit Formed in the early 00’s, This visceral material in the band’s Day, Joel Erickson, Joshua Will Destroy You have spent the catalog. The band issued a triple Carlton, Alex Abrams and Sean last decade and a half touring the live album (2013’s Live in King released These Small Spaces planet relentlessly between record- Reykjavik, Iceland), and formu- – This Patch of Sky’s fourth full- ing studio albums and scoring lated 2014’s Another Language length. The nine-track album various films, television, culinary, — an exemplar of the band and takes listeners on a dynamic jour- and other creative entertainment producer John Congleton’s studio ney that navigates from eerie, projects in their relative down- prowess. They were hand-picked somber soundscapes into gentle time. The band initially broke in by The Cure to perform in front tapestries that build effortlessly the United Kingdom in spite of of tens of thousands at the band’s into grandiose, soaring composi- their home base at the time being 40th anniversary concert in tions – creating a sonic master- almost 5,000 miles away. The London’s historic Hyde Park. piece where instruments alone 2006 debut album Young “New Others Part One gives create a powerful and universal THIS PATCH OF SKY

FIND US ONLINE: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEWOWHALL WOW HALL NOTES NOVEMBER 2018 3 DESERT DWELLERS On Thursday, November 15, InSight welcomes alists and dancers, the live show brings the duo’s THE SOULECIST Desert Dwellers to the WOW Hall along with special catalog to life with thrilling performances, wild re- guest saQi. interpretations, and breathtaking choreography. Desert Dwellers consists of Amani Friend and The Portland-based artist saQi is a classically TOUR FEATURING Treavor Moontribe, who began their careers as inde- trained composer, producer and trumpet player. pendent music producers and DJs in the deserts of Drawing his name from the Sufi title for a mystic New Mexico and California. Coming together in the muse, saQi creates eclectic electronica that main- late ’90s after connecting through the legendary tains a balance between organic and synthesized Moontribe scene, today the duo enjoys a reputation sound. His live sets rock the dance floor while main- TYUS as one of the most pioneering and prolific down- taining a grace and musical depth to engage the lis- On Monday, November 5, the Community Center for the Performing tempo, psy-bass, and tribal trance acts in the United tener. Arts and Rosetribe proudly welcome to the WOW Hall TYuS first head- States. For live performance saQi is often accompanied lining tour, The Soulecist Tour, also featuring Portland’s Eso.Xo. Desert Dwellers have toured extensively across six by the multi-instrumentalist and composer Russ Supreme, 3AM and Rene’. continents, spent a 7-week stretch on the road with Liquid as well as Taylor Aglipay on guitar and saxo- “Overnight success rarely happens overnight. But in the case of renowned psychedelic artist Shpongle, and have per- phones. All three are composers and horn players 20-year-old TYuS Strickland, that’s pretty much exactly how it went formed at dozens of festivals, most notably Shamb- for the infamous March Fourth Marching Band. down,” reports Willamette Week. “Portland might not be the place hala, Lightning in a Bottle, Envision, Coachella, Tickets are $17 in advance. Doors 8:30 pm; you’d expect the future of R&B to take root. But as Strickland is already Rainbow Serpent, and Boom. showtime 9:00. H proving, it doesn’t have to stay that way.” Taking a new approach to digital production, SAQI “I’m trying to build a new Portland,” he says. “I’m never trying to go Amani and Treavor have combined the raw sounds somewhere else or rep somewhere else. I’m bringing it back to the city, of the natural world while skillfully blending deep and we can build from there.” bass, earthy percussion, etheric voices and cross-cul- Stylistically in the realm of PartyNextDoor and Bryson Tiller, TYuS tural instrumentation into sonic incense for the mind is among the stoned, boastful R&B balladeers who surfaced during the and body. Bringing the electronic music vibe to the mid-2010s. The Portland, Oregon-based singer and songwriter caught yoga scene, and the sounds of yoga to the electronic the recording bug while in high school and dropped out at the age of 16 dance scene, Desert Dwellers’ global sounds are the to pursue his musical goals. He was still a teenager in 2015, a year in bridge between the worlds of dance and movement. which he released a short album’s worth of commercially available tracks With the live show, Desert Dwellers join forces such as “XXX”, “Room 723” and “Cash Flow”. After he signed a with the powerful vocalist Meagan Chandler, who is recording contract with Warner Bros., the major-label issued his single the voice featured on tracks like “Seeing Things”, “My Way”. It was the prelude to the nine-track Never Forget, released “Trail of Nomads”, “The Great Mystery” and many that October. others. Along with many additional musicians, aeri- “While his voice is graceful and airy, it’s the moody, headphone- worthy production he’s especially proud of,” notes WW. “He made several of the beats himself, and it’s not hard to imagine them alongside Their early demos and Jeremih and the Weeknd on mainstream radio.” performances quickly struck a TYuS has been releasing singles since April. The Portland vocalist OVER THE RHINE FROM PAGE 1 chord with listeners, and they started with “Other Side/Brand New” and then dropped off “Fantasy/Be “By the time we released our harmonies and making an already had a solid local Mine” and “T Shirt Interlude” later in the summer. third holiday album of original intimate but hopefully holy following by the time they Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 day of show and $55 for Meet & songs, Blood Oranges In The ruckus. It won’t be all Christmas launched their recording career Greet. Doors open at 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00. H Snow, in December of 2014, music: we’ll certainly mix in with a pair of well-received, Karin suggested we had tunes from many of our records independently released albums, discovered a new genre of music: along the way. But hopefully it’s Till We Have Faces (1991) and Reality Christmas. still true: hopefully you haven’t Patience (1992). “It’s true: if you’ve buried a heard anything quite like it. Over the decades, Over the loved one, or lost a job, or “Maybe a midnight snow will Rhine continued to build a battled a chronic illness, that fall and turn each streetlight into musically and emotionally potent stuff doesn’t go away during the its own private snow globe. catalogue. holidays. It can be a complicated Maybe, regardless of whatever “People have told us that they season for many of us. reality Christmas brings, we’ll fell in love, or walked down the “And then there’s family. hear a faint echo of a song once aisle, or conceived, or went off When Karin and I make the rumored to have been sung by to war, or buried loved ones, or annual holiday pilgrimage home angels, a song of peace on earth, gave birth to our music,” states to visit family and pull into the goodwill toward all… We hope Detweiler. “At the end of the driveway and turn off the car, you’ll join us.” day, what more can a songwriter one of us inevitably looks over at Native Ohioans Detweiler ask for?” the other and says, ‘Tie a rope and Bergquist launched Over the Come prepared for a night of around my waist, I’m goin’ in.’ Rhine as a quartet in the spring both traditional and original “In 2018, more than twenty of 1989, naming the ensemble holiday music. Doors open at years after releasing our first after the historic, bohemian 7:00 pm and showtime is 8:00. holiday CD, we are still at it. Cincinnati neighborhood Over- Seating is first come, first served. This year, we will be performing the-Rhine, where they lived and Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 as a trio, leaning into three-part first wrote and recorded together. day of show.

4 NOVEMBER 2018 WOW HALL NOTES FIND US ONLINE: WWW.WOWHALL.ORG JON MCLAUGHLIN & MATT WERTZ WIN WIN ON ELECTION NIGHT

American politics is winner- the Academy Awards in 2008. fires twin barrels of modern pop music - Ricky Skaggs, Alison has numerous cuts on other art- take-all and it’s no fun to be a Jon’s album, Like Us, dropped and synthesized R&B, finding Krauss, Barry Gibb of the ists’ albums. loser. If watching the returns to in October of 2015 via Razor & new life in old-school influences. BeeGees, Bruce Hornsby, Brad He released his first, self-titled find out who comes out a winner Tie, and he spent the past few Filled with left-field love Paisley, Peter Frampton, Steven album in 2011, and his EP Share and who comes out a loser is not years touring extensively before songs about guarding yourself, Curtis Chapman, Emmylou the Sky in 2012. your idea of a fun time, check heading back into his Nashville opening your heart to new Harris, and many more. He’s a To the winners go the spoils, this out. On Tuesday, November studio to work on new music. possibilities, and wrestling with full time member of Ricky and here there’s a winner every 6, the CCPA welcomes singer- The musician’s latest project is the sacrifice and vulnerability Skaggs’s band Kentucky Thunder. time! songwriters Jon McLaughlin and his Dueling Pianos video series. that love requires of everyone, Scott’s songs have received And for election night, plenty Matt Wertz’ “The Win-Win Every episode features a new Gun Shy finds Wertz urging his honors from the International of chairs to go around. Tour” to the WOW Hall with guest artist and they perform listeners — and, perhaps, himself Songwriting Competition, John Tickets are $18 in advance, special guest Scott Mulvahill. mashups of never been heard — to continue taking leaps. It’s Lennon Songwriting Contest, and $20 day of show. Doors open at Everything in Jon arrangements. an album about stepping into American Songwriter Magazine’s 7:00 pm and the polls close and McLaughlin’s life makes its way As with everything he does, unfamiliar situations, armed 30th Anniversary Contest, and he show begins at 8:00. H into his music, whether he’s con- Jon’s goal is to create connec- with the courage to fail and scious of it or not. The artist, tions. He wants to translate his the drive to succeed. But don’t SCOTT MULVAHILL raised in Indiana and based in experiences and ideas into music mistake Gun Shy for the sort Nashville, brings all of his experi- that reaches fans everywhere. His of intimate album you’d hear at ences and beliefs into each song passion for music and playing is your local coffee shop. These are he creates, something that is evident in each note he plays. not acoustic guitar songs. They’re especially true now that he’s the songs built on laptops and driven father of two young girls. MATT WERTZ forward by dance beats. Songs Jon released his debut album, Singer/songwriter Matt Wertz that move you physically and Indiana, in 2007 on Island Def spent years creating soulful, feel- emotionally. Songs that splash Jam, attracting fans with his good pop music in Nashville — a Wertz’s super-sized hooks across heartfelt, hook-laden songwriting city that doubled as his muse and the backdrop of the Los Angeles and impassioned delivery. He’s adopted hometown. Looking skyline, creating their own brand released four full-lengths in the to write an album that tackled of scenery along the way. ten years since and revealed a contemporary pop music from a true evolution in both his piano different angle — literally — he SCOTT MULVAHILL playing and singing. He’s played headed to Los Angeles, where he A Houston, TX, singer/song- shows with Billy Joel, Kelly spent several months writing songs writer and upright bass player, Clarkson and Adele, collaborated for his ninth album, Gun Shy. Scott Mulvahill is touring in sup- with longtime friend Sara Fueled by infectious, 90’s-inspired port of his new album Himalayas. Bareilles, co-written with Demi beats, lush textures, and soaring He’s shared the stage with some Lovato and even performed at air-tight pop melodies, Gun Shy of the greatest artists of modern

HISTORY PUB: 5 MILLION SECRETS Lane County History Museum’s History Pub Series presents “Five Million Secrets: Native American Slaves and the Making of America” on Monday, November 12 at the WOW Hall. This hard-hitting topic comes from Dr. Brett Rushforth, a scholar of the early modern Atlantic world whose research focuses on com- parative slavery, Native North America, and French colonial- ism and empire. He has writ- ten Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A His- tory in Documents and Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. The talk starts at 7:00 pm with doors opening at 6:00. Admission is free. H

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DAWIN On Saturday, December 1, Vitbrand Entertainment presents Dawin with special guest Myles Parrish. Dawin (born Dawin Polanco and raised in Brooklyn, New York) is a singer/writer/producer who was intro- WHY? FROM PAGE 2 duced into the art of music at a very early age. Over the years Dawin acquired much expertise in different the Performing Arts actually produced the CD Release Party for Alope- instruments and styles of music. Learning how to play the guitar at the age of four was the launch pad for cia at The Indigo District on April 19, 2008. Dawin’s artistic career. He also plays piano and uses his knowledge of music to produce songs. Opening the show is Myles Parrish: “Hey, my name is Myles. I love Jesus. I’m from the Bay Area, cur- LALA LALA rently living in Los Angeles. And I love making music.” Lillie West initially started Lala Lala as a way to communicate things Tickets are $20 in advance, $23 day of show. Doors open at 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00. H that she felt she could never say out loud. But on The Lamb, her sophomore LP and debut for Hardly Art, she has found strength in vulnerability. Through bracing hooks and sharp lyrics, the 24-year-old songwriter and guitarist illustrates a nuanced look on her own adult- hood – her fraught insecurity, struggles with addiction, and the loss of MEMBERSHIP PARTY PREVIEW several people close to her. The Community Center for cally operated, volunteer-based, excellent way to support the Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 day of show. Doors open at 7:00 pm the Performing Arts is celebrating all-ages venue that has the sup- WOW Hall, earn the recognition and showtime is 8:00. H its 43rd Anniversary at the annual port of over 800 dues-paying, and gratitude of community WOW Hall Membership Party to business and volunteer members. members and get potential new be held on Saturday, December 8, Each year the Membership customers to sample your prod- beginning at 7:00 pm. Party serves to thank the financial ucts. Gift certificates are also Entertainment will include supporters of the CCPA, a non- used by the WOW Hall through- Strange Desserts, Cable Quintet, profit (501c3) arts organization. out the year as door prizes at big The Almond Butters Band and Last year 87 area restaurants and shows. Jar. other businesses donated pre- If you would like to become a In 1975 a group of concerned pared food, beverages and other supporting member of the WOW users of the Woodmen of the items for a buffet-style dinner. Hall or check your membership World Hall formed the Supporting businesses are thanked status, please call the office at Community Center for the from the stage during the event 541-687-2746. Memberships are Performing Arts to save the build- and in the January issue of the on a sliding scale, $15 to $35 a ing and keep it available to the WOW Hall Notes. year (or more). In addition to community. Now officially desig- If you are interested in donat- free admission to the party, mem- nated a historic landmark by the ing a prepared food dish or bever- bers elect and may serve on the National Register of Historic age, or a gift certificate, please Board of Directors and receive Places, the WOW Hall is a popu- contact Bob at 541-687-2746 or the WOW Hall Notes by mail or lar community-owned, democrati- [email protected]. It’s an email. H

6 NOVEMBER 2018 WOW HALL NOTES FIND US ONLINE: WWW.WOWHALL.ORG but put the project aside as they would score the hit Netflix series Marvel’s Luke Cage. The Mid- night Hour is a soul/jazz/hip-hop album that continues the conver- sations started by yesterday’s jazz and funk pioneers; those that cre- ated the bedrock of samples for hip-hop producers in the 80s/90s. The Midnight Hour is sophisti- cated hip-hop that fans will enjoy, capturing their jazz rhythm sec- tion, and a full orchestra, to ana- log tape. One of the seminal composi- tions, “Questions”, originally be- gan as an unfinished Midnight Hour demo with CeeLo Green. However, Kendrick Lamar heard the track and wanted to sample portions of it for his Grammy- winning album To Pimp a Butter- fly (the song ultimately made it to Kendrick’s 2016 compilation unti- tled unmastered. as “untitled 06 | 06.30.2014.”). The full, completed version of “Questions” is now the lead single on The Midnight Hour and perfectly captures the album’s underlying roots in hip-hop’s ori- gins. “So Amazing” is a reimagining ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD & ADRIAN YOUNGE’S of Luther Vandross’ 1986 single. Ali and Adrian took Luther’s origi- nal vocal stems and composed new music, as if Luther was in the room with them. This transcendental THE MIDNIGHT HOUR recording is something that really makes The Midnight Hour special. On Saturday, November 17, the on the critically acclaimed Souls of and distributed digitally by IN- prised of Ali Shaheed Muhammad The June 8 drop for the al- Community Center for the Per- Mischief album There Is Only Now grooves (vinyl will be distributed and Adrian Younge, alongside a bum couldn’t have come at a bet- forming Arts proudly welcomes and their partnership cemented on by Traffic Entertainment), was re- tight rhythm section and a full or- ter time. Luke Cage’s Season 2 The Midnight Hour to the WOW their score work for Marvel’s Luke leased world wide on June 8. chestra. The album has features began on June 22 on Netflix and Hall. Cage. They are touring in support Lead track and first single from some of the most celebrated The Midnight Hour have a lot of When two of hip-hop’s most ac- of their carefully constructed and “Questions” features vocals by names in contemporary hip-hop special surprises in store for both complished composers get together masterful The Midnight Hour. It CeeLo Green. and R&B including CeeLo Green, the original score and the original to make an album you know the is the duo’s long awaited debut al- The Midnight Hour is black Raphael Saadiq, Marsha Ambro- music that they have created for results are going to be special. Ali bum and it showcases their song- excellence: an ode to the cultural sius, Bilal, Eryn Allen Kane, Karo- the show. Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe writing ability like never before. sophistication that the Harlem Re- lina, Questlove and more. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 Called Quest) and Adrian Younge The 20 track, full length double naissance established for its peo- Adrian and Ali began work- day of show. Doors open at 8:00 began their work together in 2013 album, released on Linear Labs ple. The Midnight Hour is com- ing on this album back in 2013, pm and showtime is 9:00. H

.((3,1*5($/ 9$5,(7<,1 086,& IN THE GALLERY The WOW Hall’s November show is a group show highlighting work from a selection of participants in the Oregon Supported Living Program Arts & Culture Program. The OSLP Exhibition showcases the work of artists who participate in our open art studio and other classes and workshops. Oregon Supported Living Program is a long-standing, nonprofit organization that supports adults with developmental disabilities. Our Arts and Culture Program is an all-inclusive program that not only supports the people we serve, but offers a safe accessible space to artists from the local community. The OSLP Arts & Culture Program breaks down barriers to participation in the arts for people of all /LYHORFDOSXEOLFUDGLR abilities and builds bridges to a more diverse and inclusive community. We provide classes, workshops, and mentorships with professional instructors in visual and performing arts as well as cultural activities in Eugene. Our classes are inclusive for individuals of all abilities who are aged 18 years and over. VLQFH The Lobby Arts Gallery is open for viewing during box office hours, noon – 6:00 pm Monday through Friday. H 3URJUDPJXLGHDWNUYPRUJ

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