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 the evening. At 8:00 pm, PikSix will take the stage with rousing covers of blues, funk, pop, country and rock. If you’ve never attended a PikSix concert before, you’re in for a treat and a rollicking PAID WORLD AIDS DAY: U.S. Postage U.S. good time. PikSix includes members Permit No. 303 No. Permit Eugene, OR 97401 Eugene, Jeremy Stafford, Brandon Pinell, Erek Nonprofit Organization HIV ALLIANCE EVENT FEATURING PIKSIX On Friday, November 30, the WOW HIV/AIDS, and to prevent new HIV Andrus, Jayson Breeton and Felicia Hall proudly welcomes HIV Alliance for infections. As one of their annual events, Stafford (aka Frog). The band promises their annual World AIDS Day event from HIV Alliance hosts a gathering and fun- a great night with tunes for all, declaring, 7:00-10:00 pm. PikSix, a rocking local draiser for World AIDS Day. They “if you like it, we probably play it.” band, will take the stage at 8:00. invite the public to not only remember Come dance, boogie, and rock and World AIDS Day began in 1988 as the those we have lost to AIDS, but to reflect roll to fantastic tunes, nibble on delicious first ever world health day to bring on the work accomplished since 1988. snacks from Sheild Catering, and show awareness and fight stigma around HIV/ While HIV infections have decreased your support for a long-standing, stellar AIDS. HIV Alliance continues this tradi- over the years, so has funding for vital organization serving our community on tion with their event as a space to honor programs that help folks with HIV live World AIDS Day. With a $10 suggested our combined work in the community to longer, healthier lives; educate the public donation, this is a fun (and cheap!) night end HIV, celebrate collective successes, about HIV/AIDS to help reduce stigma for a good cause. There’s also a pre- and remember those who have been lost and misinformation; and create a collab- event at The Vintage from 5:00-8:00 pm to HIV/AIDS. orative, compassionate space for the where 100% of drink special proceeds Founded in 1994, HIV Alliance serves community. HIV Alliance continues to will go to HIV Alliance. communities across Oregon -- including work to ensure that folks with HIV, their Thanks to Sheild catering, The Lane, Douglas, Linn and Marion coun- friends, families and the community have Vintage, Hirons and West Cascade Peace ties -- through prevention, education, access to these services and invite you to Corps Association. To find more about RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Community Center for the Arts Performing 291 West 8th 97401 OR. Eugene, medical and dental care coordination, support this work. HIV Alliance or other events during the and behavioral health services. Their The event starts at 7:00 pm with a week, check out facebook.com/hival- mission is to support people living with Reception and Remembrance portion of liance. H 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], 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 2018 All rights reserved Notes Staff: Copy Editor & Advertising Representative - Bob Fennessy, Layout & Design - James Bateman CCPA Staff: Membership Coordinator & Publicist - Bob Fennessy, Programming Manager - Lori Hawley, Stage Manager - Justin Showker, Asst Stage Manager - Ed Kashin, Davis Koier, Robert Chappel, Office Manager - Danette Lamson, Bookkeeper - Melissa Swan, Volunteer Coordinator - Kaleah Bishop, House Manager - Jaley Osuna Concessions Managers - Angela Lees, Kambra Morris-Mitzner, Daniel Noall Custodian - Dave Diercks, Eric Herz, Lighting Director - Cody Owen, Volunteer Staff: Charles Peters, Dan Wathen, Poster Distribution - WOW Hall Poster Crew, CCPA Board of Directors: Chair: Aaron Dietrich, Vice Chair: Henry Weber,, Secretary: Janelle Krinsky, Members: Kathleen Blair, Hannah Finley, Marlene Monette, Abe Neilson-Sword 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.