Confirmed Events at The Cuthbert
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Willamette Valley Music Festival
Festival web site including Line Up
Saturday, May 17 and Sunday May 18, 2008
UO Cultural Forum Presents the Willamette Valley Music Festival featuring 2 Days and 2 Stages of Free Bluegrass, Rock, Blues, Jazz, World Beat, and Indie Music! Admission is FREE.
The music festival will include David Jacobs Strain, Moon Mountain Ramblers, Gypsy Soul, Absynth Quintet, Skyler Stonestreet, Debra Arlyn, Andrew Heringer, Wake Robin, Red Pajamas, Green Mountain Bluegrass Band, Molasses, Deadwood Revival, Midnight Serenaders, Misty River, and more.
This year's festival also includes The Art Expo featuring an exhibit of works by students from the University of Oregon representing various mediums including painting, sculpture, multi-media, textiles, and digital arts. |
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Michael Franti & Spearhead
with The Coup and The Blue Scholars
and Lilla D'Mone Trio with My G opening
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $34 General Admission. Show starts at 5 p.m. Festival Gates open at 4 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $39.
Portion of proceeds goes to Headcount Cents for Sense, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization devoted to voter registration and participation in democracy, created in 2004 by a group of artists, music industry professionals and fans, all determined to make sure the live music community is well-represented at the polls.
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Michael Franti is an American poet, musician, and composer of African, American Indian, Italian, and German descent. Franti is the creator and driving force behind Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock. He is also an outspoken supporter for a wide spectrum of peace and social justice issues.
Michael Franti and Spearhead have taken a highly unconventional route to notoriety for an act with Hip Hop roots. Michael Franti and Spearhead have gained a passionate worldwide audience through extensive touring and appearances in alternative media like Mother Jones Magazine and Democracy Now.
Franti continues to hit the festival circuit worldwide, in addition to producing the annual Power to the Peaceful festival, which has drawn more than 20,000 people to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco over the past seven years. Michael Franti continues to gain influence in both popular music and social movements largely through extensive touring and word of mouth fan support. Lyrics from his song "Bomb The World", written in the dark aftermath of September 11 such as "You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace.", have found their way onto protest signs and T-shirts all over the world from Los Angeles to Berlin, San Francisco to CNN, at demonstrations for peace large and small.
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Bob Weir & RatDog
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Gov't Mule
Friday, June 20, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $35 General Admission. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Festival Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $40.
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RatDog has undergone many changes, both in personnel and musical approach, evolving from a blues revue into a musical fusion of backgrounds and talents; complex, energetic, and adventurous. The members are no longer a supporting cast for front man Bob Weir. Rather, the band is a full time, full force powerhouse, capable of taking music fans to new and mystical places every night. Now composed of original members Bob and Jay, in addition to Jeff Chimenti, Mark Karan, Kenny Brooks, and Robin Sylvester, RatDog has truly come into its own. The RatDog experience delights and exhilarates, and as Bob says, "If you like what you hear, do come again...."
Bob Weir already has a secure place in rock history as the Grateful Dead's co-vocalist and what Andrew Clarke (in one of England's leading newspapers, "The Independent") called the genre's "greatest, if most eccentric rhythm guitarist."
Big riffs, massive grooves, and expansive improvisations are the hallmarks of Gov't Mule's legendary live shows. Likewise, their well-crafted songs feature larger-than-life characters bearing life's heaviest burdens, performed by four musicians – guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes, drummer Matt Abts, keyboard player Danny Louis, and bassist Andy Hess – whose powerful musicianship and chemistry along with their tireless work ethic have earned them the respect of their peers.
Gov't Mule debuted in 1995 with a self-titled album on Capricorn Records, followed by the stellar concert date Live at Roseland Ballroom. The studio follow-up, Dose, appeared in early 1998; another concert set, Live...with a Little Help from Our Friends, followed a year later, with the complete show later appearing as a four-disc limited-edition set. A new studio effort, Life Before Insanity, appeared in early 2000.
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The Roots
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Stephen Marley
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $32 General Admission. Show starts at 7 p.m. Festival Gates open at 6 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $37.
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The Roots, a.k.a. The Legendary Roots Crew, are an influential, Grammy Award-winning American band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. They made their debut in 1993 and have gone on to collaborate with artists from a range of genres, such as Roy Ayers and Cody Chesnutt. Inspired by Stetsasonic, The Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced later beat and R&B acts.
The band tours extensively, and their live sets are frequently hailed as the best in the genre. Recently, the band played a concert in NYC's Radio City Music Hall with Common, Nas, Talib Kweli and Big Daddy Kane. They also backed Jay-Z a third time, for his Reasonable Doubt Concert, a celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the release of his first album. The Roots have been featured in three movies: Dave Chappelle's Block Party; both performing album songs and playing as a backing band for other artists, Spike Lee's Bamboozled, and Marc Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, in which Black Thought plays the protagonist, Solomon, and former band member Rahzel narrates. Black Thought and ?uestlove were both featured in the movie "Brown Sugar," and Black Thought also made an appearance in the film "Love Rome" as Tariq Trotter.
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The son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Rita Marley, Stephen Marley was part of the reggae group Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers with his siblings Ziggy, Cedella, and Sharon. If you think you don't know the music of Stephen Marley, you do-you just don't realize it.
The Grammy winning producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist has been the driving creative force behind the music of his brothers. Stephen's production, performance and writing credits recently earned him two Grammys-giving him a total of five: more than any other Marley family member or reggae artist in history.
Born in 1972, the second son of Bob Marley, Stephen was dancing and singing onstage during his father and The Wailers' live shows (alongside older siblings Ziggy and Cedella) by the time he was old enough to walk. As a young boy, he stayed at home-as Ziggy and Cedella entered school-where he would shadow his father, mimic his speech and quickly fall in love with such future reggae anthems as "Lively Up Yourself." At seven, he began learning guitar on a nylon-stringed acoustic.
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Taj Mahal
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Keb' Mo'
with Susan Tedeschi opening
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $50 for premium Reserved Seating and $30 for General Admission. Show starts at 7 p.m. Festival Gates open at 6 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $50 for premium Reserved Seating and $30 for General Admission.
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Taj Mahal - You could call him a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, ethnomusicologist, two-time Grammy-winner, world-class musical collaborator, musicians' advocate, world traveler, fisherman, or cigar aficionado. These titles are all accurate, yet none convey the warmth, humor, and soulfulness of Taj and his music.
Taj has been playing his own distinctive brand of music -- variously described as Afro-Caribbean blues, folk-world-blues, hula blues, folk-funk, and a host of other hyphenations -- for more than 40 years. Caribbean, Hawaiian, African, Latin, and Cuban sounds and rhythms mix with folk, jazz, zydeco, gospel, rock, pop, soul, and R&B, all layered on top of a solid country blues foundation.
What ties it all together is Taj's abiding interest in musical discovery, particularly in tracing many American musical forms back to their roots in Africa and Europe. Following his passion, Taj has spent time in the Caribbean, West Africa, Hawaii, Europe, the South Pacific, Australia, South America, and all over the continental U.S. His music reflects his global perspective, incorporating sounds from everywhere he's lived and traveled.
A self-taught musician, Taj plays more than 20 instruments, including the National Steel and Dobro guitars. His remarkable voice ranges from gruff and gravelly to smooth and sultry.
"The blues is a tone that puts me in contact with a lot of things, culturally, spiritually, cosmically. I really enjoy it, and I'm not going to let it go, because it's that good." - Taj Mahal
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Singer-songwriter and guitarist Keb' Mo's music is a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America--informing all of its musical roots-before evolving into a universally celebrated art form. Born Kevin Moore in South Los Angeles to parents originally from the deep South, he adopted his better known stage name when he was a young player who became inspired by the force of this essential African-American legacy. In the storied tradition of bluesmen before him including Muddy Waters-formerly McKinley Morganfield-and Taj Mahal, who began his days as Henry St. Clair Fredericks, Moore became known as Keb' Mo'. His acclaimed self-titled 1994 debut album introduced that now famous appellation to the world, and his latest album, 2006's Suitcase, brings it to new heights.
Mo's music is also a purely post-modern expression of the artistic and cultural journey that has transformed the blues, and his own point of view, over time. His distinctive sound embraces multiple eras and genres, including pop, rock folk and jazz, in which he is well-versed. In total, it owes as much to contemporary music's singer-songwriter movement, encompassing his longtime friends and collaborators Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, as to the spirit of blues godfather Robert Johnson that dwells in his work. For Keb' Mo', the common bond between these influences is the underlying storytelling ethic, the power of song to convey human experience and emotional weight.
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Guitarist, singer and songwriter Susan Tedeschi is part of the new generation of blues musicians looking for ways to keep the form exciting, vital and evolving. Tedeschi's live shows are by no means straight-ahead urban blues. Instead, she freely mixes classic R&B, blues and her own gospel and blues-flavored original songs into her sets. She's a young, sexy, sassy blues belter with musical sensibilities that belie her years.
Tedeschi began singing when she was four and was active in local choir and theater in Norwell, a southern suburb of Boston. She began singing at 13 with local bands and continued her music studies at Berklee, honing her guitar skills and also joining the Reverence Gospel Ensemble. She started the first incarnation of her blues band upon graduating in 1991, with vocalist/guitarist Adrienne Hayes, a fellow blues enthusiast whom she met at the House of Blues in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Kenny Loggins
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $60 for premium Reserved Seating and $35 for General Admission. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Festival Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $60 for premium Reserved Seating and $35 for General Admission.
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There are certain welcoming voices in popular music that can be identified as soon as a song starts – they’re immediately familiar musical touchstones, inextricably part of our collective pop culture soundtrack.
Singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins possesses such a voice, and for over three decades it’s been inviting listeners in to experience music that reaches the heart and the senses with disarming candor, authentic emotion and rich lyrical and melodic resonance.
From Loggins & Messina classics like “Danny’s Song” to signature solo tracks including “Celebrate Me Home” and the GRAMMY®-winning “This Is It,” Kenny Loggins’ expansive body of work speaks volumes with its warmth and directness.
On his latest album, 2007’s How About Now, the 2-time GRAMMY®-winning superstar whose long career has traversed diverse styles on record and in film music – comes home to the soulful, roots-centric singer-songwriter tradition that first made him a household name. In speaking about his 2005 tour with Jim Messina, beautifully captured on the concert album Live: Sittin' in Again at Santa Barbara Bowl, Loggins commented, “I went on the road with Jimmy, we finally did a reunion tour, about 40 shows. During that time I rediscovered a kind of music I was making as a kid that had acoustic guitar at the center. There was a certain level of joy and simplicity to my writing. Working with Jimmy reminded me of that, and I got to thinking, if I was making my half of a Loggins & Messina record today, what would it sound like? That’s what I aimed for.” Finding Loggins in peak vocal form, the new album was recorded in 2006.
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Los Lonely Boys
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Los Lobos
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $40 for premium Reserved Seating and $29 for General Admission. Show starts at 7 p.m. Festival Gates open at 6 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $40 for premium Reserved Seating and $29 for General Admission.
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In the three years since Or Music introduced Los Lonely Boys to fans around the world, everything has changed for the unique and gutsy musical hermanos from West Texas. And yet, nothing has. Sacred, Los Lonely Boys' eagerly awaited second album, both continues and expands upon the trio's self-titled debut, with its deeply personal and stunning fusion of electric blues and Texas roots, of soulful grooves and good old-fashioned rock'n'roll, of searing six-string licks and Latin beats. "New times, new songs, new rhythms," says frontman Henry Garza. "But it's still basically, Los Lonely Boys."
Working once again with producer John Porter (Keb' Mo, Ryan Adams, B.B. King) at good friend Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studios, the band recorded Sacred with the euphoria of their debut's success—over two million copies sold, a Grammy for the monster single "Heaven—still fresh. But if the brothers' heads were sometimes spinning, their feet stayed on the ground. From the plainspoken humility and achey-sweet guitar of album-opener "Diamonds" to the funky, chunky "Oye Mamacita" to the cinematic credo "Outlaws," Los Lonely Boys have delivered not just 13 extraordinary songs, but 13 affirmations of what they feel is truly Sacred: being yourself, being true to God and family, and being true to music… "Texican Style."
At this stage in their illustrious career, a new album by the East Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos is a highly anticipated event. Since they began as Los Lobos Del Este Los Angeles in 1973, they have evolved into a respected artistic entity searching for themes and topics that are an interpretive pulse of our times.
Using musical molds built on the blues, rockabilly, jazz, Latin and their own Mexican-American heritage, Los Lobos have never beat their fans over the head with politics or agendas. Instead, they subtly challenge them with conscience-raising songs and thought-provoking lyrics. Their latest Hollywood Records release - "The Town and The City" - certainly does that.
The epic "The Town and The City" is told in the first-person, with each song serving as an episodic step in a rough journey that is in your face at times, comforting and nostalgic at others.
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Queensryche
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Advance tickets on sale Friday, May 16 at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $33 for General Admission. Show starts at 7 p.m. Festival Gates open at 6 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $38 for General Admission.
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If you listened to rock radio in the mid-to-late 80's, chances are a week didn't go by that you weren't smacked between the ears by a wall of sound generated by a musical quintet called Queensryche.
Combining distinctive vocals, crunching guitars and a heart-pounding rhythm section, you were tempted to turn it up to a level just below the point of blowing out your speakers and perhaps your eardrums.
It was powerful, dramatic, progressive, diverse and electrifying.
It was definitive Queensryche.
The musical journey began in 1981 when a few friends hailing from the suburbs of Bellevue, Washington -- Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Scott Rockenfield, Eddie Jackson and Chris DeGarmo -- got together and formed a pivotal rock band.
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Tailgate 2008
Slightly Stoopid
with special guests Pepper
and Legendary Dub Masters
Sly and Robbie
Friday, August 8, 2008
Advance tickets on sale Friday, May 16 at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $29.50 for General Admission. Show starts at 6 p.m. Festival Gates open at 5 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $35 for General Admission.
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Southern California’s Slightly Stoopid cemented a signature sound by fusing acoustic rock and blues with reggae, hip-hop, and punk, creating a legion of die-hard fans in the process.
Coasting into their second decade of rock ‘n’ roll, the band has exceeded 250,000 in CD sales via their own record label, Stoopid Records, and they regularly sellout top concert venues across the United States and overseas.
Boasting dual front-men, Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald on guitar, bass and vocals, Slightly Stoopid possesses a unique dynamic and kinship. They, along with drummer Ryan Moran and percussionist Oguer Ocon, share a multitude of influences, from the acoustic leanings of Cat Stevens, Tom Petty, Django Reinhardt, and the Grateful Dead, to old-school reggae and dub artists Augustus Pablo, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Yellowman, and UB40.
In addition, their more contemporary influences, such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, NOFX, Sublime and Wyclef Jean shine through, and hint towards the band becoming the natural heir to the close-knit musical lineage which spawned them.
Slightly Stoopid was recently ranked in Pollstar’s top 50 touring bands for the first quarter of 2006, packing venues of 1,500-3,000 capacity across the country. Spring 2006 also took Slightly Stoopid to Australia, Japan, and Guam as part of their Pacific Rim tour.
Slightly Stoopid remains a group devoted to the pursuit of the perfect mix of lifestyle and sound. Slightly Stoopid proves that hard work, perseverance and staying true to their roots comprise the path to creating genre-bending music with integrity.
Pepper, a rock band originally from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii relocated to southern California, play a mix of reggae, dub, and rock.
The spirit of aloha is alive and well and currently residing in sunny Southern California . Meet Pepper; Bret Bollinger, Kaleo Wassman, and Yesod Williams, three young innovative minds mixed with divine inspiration from the Hawaiian Islands.
Pepper was created when two of the three members started working together in 1996; that was when singer/guitarist Kaleo Wassman first joined forces with bassist/singer Bret Bollinger. After going through quite a few drummers in the '90s, Pepper decided that Yesod Williams was the best man for the job.
With the Wassman/Bollinger/Williams lineup in place, Pepper left Hawaii for Los Angeles and went on to be an opening act for shows by Burning Spear, Shaggy, and other major reggae artists.
Sly and Robbie is one of reggae's most prolific and long lasting production teams.
The rhythm section of drummer Lowell Dunbar (nicknamed Sly after Sly Stone, one of his favorite musicians) and bass guitarist Robert Shakespeare started working together in the mid 1970s, after having established themselves separately on the Jamaican music scene.
They are humorously also sometimes referred to as Sly Drumbar and Robbie Basspeare. For example, the sleeve notes of Black Uhuru's Red album credit drums and syndrums to Sly Drumbar and bass guitar to Robert "Robbie" Basspeare.
Sly and Robbie may well be the most prolific recording artists ever. One estimate is that they have played on or produced some 200,000 songs, considering that some of their riddims such as "Revolution" have been used on over 100 songs.
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The Floydian Slips
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $17 for General Admission. Show starts at 8 p.m. Festival Gates open at 7 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $19 for General Admission.
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2008 marks eleven years of the Pacific Northwest musical collective known as The Floydian Slips.
Born from an idea to play through Pink Floyd's classic 'Dark Side Of The Moon', this 8-piece juggernaut has grown into one of the most spot-on Floyd Tribute bands. Without touring (ever), The Floydian Slips have expanded from playing the 450-seat Wild Duck Music Hall to packing the 4500-seat Cuthbert Ampitheater.
With spot-on vocals, perfect guitar solos, epic keyboard layers and true-to-life drum and bass grooves, the real Pink Floyd experience is achieved through a gigantic light show, including lasers, video, and props .
The band approaches this classic music with all the swagger and attitude of the men who wrote it, and never fail to impress the naysayers while delivering the goods for the fanatics. Having performed both "Dark Side" and "The Wall" in their entirety several times, setlists also include most of the "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" albums. The band has also branched out to include older material as well as songs from the newer Pink Floyd incarnation, all played with great care to reproduce the original sounds and feelings as closely as possible.
The Floydian Slips b and members: Nicole Campbell (vocals) Ehren Ebbage (vocals, guitar) Ned Failing (drums, percussion) Asher Fulero (keyboards, vocals) Paul Lesinski (vocals, guitar) Brendan Relaford (bass) Rich Sellars (vocals, drums, percussion) Al Toribio (lead guitar, vocals).
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Melissa Etheridge
Friday, August 22, 2008
Advance tickets on sale NOW at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets and the Hult Center Box Office for $65 for premium Reserved Seating and $35 for General Admission. Show starts at 8 p.m. Festival Gates open at 7 p.m. Tickets day of show will cost $65 for premium Reserved Seating and $35 for General Admission.
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Melissa Etheridge was born on May 29, in Leavenworth, Kansas. She was still only a teenager when she began playing piano and guitar in various covers bands around Kansas. After this grounding she had a more formal training at the Berklee College Of Music before playing the club circuit around Boston.
Etheridge won a Grammy in the best female rock vocal performance in 1992 and 1994, and scored several mainstream hits, such as "Come to My Window," "I'm the Only One" and "I Wanna Come Over." She also announced herself as a lesbian by jumping onstage to kiss Elvira at the gay and lesbian Triangle Ball during the inaugural celebrations of President Clinton's victory. She won the 1996 ASCAP songwriter of the year award, but took a lengthy break from the music business to concentrate on her domestic arrangements.
On 7 July 2007 Etheridge performed at Giants Stadium at the American leg of Live Earth. Etheridge performed the songs "Imagine That" and "What Happens Tomorrow" from The Awakening, Etheridge's tenth album, released on September 25, 2007, as well as the song "I Need To Wake Up" before introducing Al Gore. On December 11 2007, she performed on the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway together with a variety of artists, which was broadcast live to over 100 countries.
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