AUGUST 12-18, 2011 CURRENTSURRENTS CThe News-Review’s guide to arts, entertainment and television TURBULENT TROUBADOUR Roseburg musician brings Texas-style blues to show Saturday MICHAEL SULLIVAN/The News-Review INSIDE: What’s Happening/3 Calendar/4 Galleries/6 Book Review/10 TV/15 Page 2, The News-Review Roseburg, Oregon, Currents—Thursday, August 11, 2011 * &YJUt$BOZPOWJMMF 03t*OGPt3FTtTFWFOGFBUIFSTDPN Roseburg, Oregon, Currents—Thursday, August 11, 2011 The News-Review, Page 3 what’s HAPPENING ROSEBURG tonight, blues artists Buddy Guy and Jimmie Vaughan Fri- Optimist hosts FOUR-SQUEAL DRIVE day and tribute band Beatle- Mania Live! Saturday. Con- band fundraiser certs on the Umpqua Park The Roseburg Optimist Club stage start at 8 p.m. each night. hosts its Battle of the Bands Daily, 4-H and FFA events fundraiser from 6 to 10 p.m. begin at 9 a.m., carnival gates Saturday at Pyrenees Vineyard open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Cellars, north location, daily, exhibit buildings open 707 Hess Lane, Roseburg. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Local musi- Music entertainment cal acts happen throughout the includes Not Penny’s Boat, day on the Charter Communi- The Dixonville Chicks and cations Stage. Dylan James. Reserved seating for con- Advance tickets are $20 certs is extra and tickets are each or $35 for a couple. Price available at the fair office or at the door is $25 per person. ticketsoregon.com. General Tickets include wine tasting seating is free with admission and sandwiches. to the fairgrounds. Information: 541-672-8060 Admission is $9 for adults or 13 years and older, $7 for sen- www.pyreneesvineyard.com. iors, $4 for children 6 to 12 years old. Parking is $5. CANYONVILLE Free bus rides are available on the hour and half hour 10 Taking the High a.m. to 5 p.m. and every 15 Street for charity minutes from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Music lovers can take the News-Review file photo from Roseburg High School, high road at a benefit concert The Douglas County Fair continues this week with rides, exhibits, strolling entertain- Dixon Steel Mill, Starlight for Doernbecher Children’s ers, cotton candy, farm animals and nightly concerts on the Umpqua Park Stage. See Theater, Kmart and the Dou- Hospital in Portland. this page for details. glas County Courthouse. The High Street Band per- Information: 541-957-7010 forms at 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at or Seven Feathers Hotel Casino www.co.douglas.or.us/dcfair/fa Resort, 146 Chief Miwaleta tonight in Oakland City Park. the festival. Northwest Aviators and RC ir.html. Lane. Preliminaries continue at the Applications available at Club have come to Douglas The Band’s repertoire same time and place on Aug. High Five Music in Roseburg County to present this large- OAKLAND includes covers and originals 18, 25 and Sept. 1. Semifinals or online at www.historicoak- scale model airplane show. from a mix of swing, blues, follow at noon Sept. 11 at the landoregon.com. This year’s show includes Eugene Opera R&B, Latin, oldies and rock. Swanson Amphitheatre in con- Information: 541-580-2058. new twists, twirls and World junction with the 42nd annual War I airplanes, organizers lands at winery Tickets are $55 per person The Eugene Opera’s Artist and include appetizers and Umpqua Valley Wine, Art and OAKLAND said. Music Festival. Cash prizes The event is free and food is Mentor program will perform wine. again for the next two week- Information: 541-673-5506. total $700; each category will High flying wake available for purchase. have a first, second and third Information: 541-863-1920. ends in Oakland. place. up call in Oakland An Evening of Arias will OAKLAND begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday Contest categories are 10 The Dawn Patrol 2011 takes ROSEBURG Umpqua’s Got years and younger, 11 to 16 to the skies for a three-day and again Aug. 20 at Mar- years old, 17 to 30 years old remote controlled air show this Fair has ‘Hard shAnne Landing Winery, 175 Talent starts today and 31 years and older. weekend. Hogan Road, Oakland. The City of Oakland and A sound system is provided, The event is from 9 a.m. to 5 Days Night,’blues Each performance will be Oakland Economic Develop- but instruments must be p.m. Friday through Sunday at The Douglas County Fair different. This week, 12 ment Committee are hosting brought and all presentations the Umpqua RV Park, 16844 continues through Saturday. singers will perform arias, the “Umpqua’s Got Talent” are limited to four minutes. Highway 138 West in Oak- Headlining performers for ensembles and choruses from contest, which begins with Semifinals are Sept. 8 and land. the rest of the week are coun- opera blockbusters including preliminary tryouts at 6:30 finals are Sept. 11 as part of This is the third year the try singer Dierks Bentley “Carmen,” “Die Fledermaus” and “The Pirates of Penzance.” Tickets are $30 and reserva- ■ Mail: Currents, The News-Review, P.O. Box 1248, Roseburg, 97470. Currents reporter: DD Bixby tions are required. Admission Phone: 541-957-4218 ■ Drop-off: The News-Review office at 345 N.E. Winchester St., Roseburg. Currents editor: Tricia Jones includes appetizers. CURRENTS Phone: 541-957-4216 Some proceeds support the ■ Email: [email protected] TV Guide questions: ■ opera company’s community To submit local arts and Fax: (541) 957-4270 Vicki Menard outreach programs and per- Phone: 541-957-4203 entertainment information, formances. send printed or Information must be received by noon Friday to be Published every Thursday by Information: 541-459-7998. typewritten information to: published in the following Thursday’s Currents. Page 4, The News-Review Roseburg, Oregon, Currents—Thursday, August 11, 2011 weekly CALENDAR Hogan Road, Oakland. Eugene Opera’s plane show through Aug. 14. Free. Thursday,THURSDAY, Aug. 11 AUG. 11 Artist Mentor Program return for the Food available for purchase. 541-863- fifth time. Singers, new and returning, 1920. will perform songs from Eugene Opera MUSIC productions. The show is also per- INOKE — 5 to 8 p.m., Charley’s formed Aug. 20. Part of the proceeds Monday,MONDAY, Aug. 15 AUG. 15 BBQ, 812 W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg. support the opera company’s commu- No cover. 541-957-1786. nity outreach programs and perform- MUSIC IN THE PARK — 6 to 8:30 ances. $30. Seating limited. Reserva- THEATER p.m., Millsite Park, Myrtle Creek. tions required. Admission includes PRIME TIME PLAYERS — 1:30 Eugene band The Conjugal Visitors per- appetizers. 541-459-7998. p.m., Betty Long Unruh Theatre, 1614 forms tonight. Regular summer concert W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg. Seniors series is most Thursday nights. All con- DANCE with an interest in theater are welcome RETIRED RHYTHM ROUNDERS — 1 to participate in this affiliate of the certs, parking is free. Bring seats, blan- to 4 p.m., Sutherlin Comstock Grange, Umpqua Actors Community Theatre, kets. Pets are welcome. 541-860-5846. 851 S. Comstock Road. Old-time fiddle, which meets each Monday. No acting piano and harmonica music. Refresh- experience is necessary. Memorizing EVENTS ments served. Public and donations lines is not required. 541-677-9070. DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR — 6 a.m. welcome. to midnight, 2110 Frear St., Roseburg. OREGON OLD TIME FIDDLERS DIS- 4-H and FFA events begin at 9 a.m. TRICT #10 — Second Saturdays, 1 to 4 Tuesday, Aug. 16 daily. Carnival gates open from 10 a.m. p.m. VFW Hall Post 2468, 1127 Walnut TUESDAY, AUG. 16 to 11 p.m. daily, exhibit buildings open News-Review file photo St., Roseburg. Jam, dancing and vari- 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Events throughout ety show. Public invited, no charge. MUSIC day on the Charter Communications Umqua’s Got Talent gets started this weekend with the pre- Donations accepted. 541-672-6929. MUSIC ON THE HALF SHELL — 7 to Stage. Dierks Bentley performs at 8 liminaries in Oakland. See this page for details. EVERY SECOND SATURDAY OF 9 p.m., Nichols Band Shell, Stewart p.m. on Umpqua Park Stage. Admis- MONTH COUNTRY MUSIC EXPRESS Park, Roseburg. Shemekia Copeland, sion is $9 for adults 13 years and older, — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sutherlin Senior considered by some the Blues Queen $7 for seniors, $4 for children 6 to 12 Center, 202 E. Central Ave., Sutherlin. heir apparent, performs tonight. Free years old. Parking is $5. Free bus rides RIVERFRONT RHYTHMS — 6:30 to from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. www.co.dou- Senior dance. Coffee is free. Donations shuttle available from the Rose Street from Roseburg High School, Dixon 8 p.m., Umpqua Discovery Center, 409 glas.or.us/dcfair/fair.html. 541-957- accepted. 541-672-3160. parking structure from 5:15 to 7 p.m. Steel Mill, Starlight Theater, Kmart and Riverfront Way, Reedsport. Irish Creme 7010. Return trips made as necessary. 541- the Douglas County Courthouse on the plays Celtic and folk music at today’s DAWN PATROL 2011 — 9 a.m. to 5 EVENTS 677-1708 or www.halfshell.org. hour and half hour 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. free concert, which is the last of the p.m., Umpqua RV Park, 16844 High- DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR — 6 a.m. and every 15 minutes from 5 p.m. to season. Outdoor lawn seating for way 138 W., Oakland. For the third to midnight, 2110 Frear St., Roseburg. 11 p.m. chairs and blankets. Picnics welcome, year, the Northwest Aviators and RC 4-H and FFA events begin at 9 a.m.