2010 Concerts at The Cuthbert
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Ringo Starr
& His All Starr Band
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $70 for reserved seating close to the stage and $40 general admission, both of which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $70 for reserved seating close to the stage and $40 general admission.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Concert starts at 7 p.m.
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
Ultimately what's most impressive about Ringo Starr isn't what he's been, but rather who he is," wrote Rolling Stone rock critic David Wild. "The man's great heart and soul, his wit and wisdom." Ironically, the story of Ringo's evolution from former Beatle to successful solo artist is still best told from the beginning.
Ringo Starr's music, as a solo artist and as a Beatle, is permeated with his personality. His warmth and humor, and his exceptional musicianship have given us songs we all know and love, including "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Don't Pass Me By," "Octopus' Garden," "Photograph," "It Don't Come Easy," "Back Off Boogaloo," "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're mine)," "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go," "The No No Song," and "Never Without You."
Since beginning his career with The Beatles in the 1960s, Ringo Starr has been one of the world's brightest musical luminaries. He has enjoyed a successful and dynamic solo career as a singer, songwriter and drummer, an active musical collaborator, and as an actor. Drawing inspiration from classic blues, soul, country, honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll, Ringo continues to play an important role in modern music with his solo recording and touring.
"When I was thirteen, I only wanted to be a drummer," remembers Starr. Four years later at age seventeen, he joined the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Band. In 1959, Starr hooked up with the Raving Texans, which later became Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. In 1962, while playing a summer gig with Storm, Starr was asked to join The Beatles. Worried that he might cost his bandmates the summer gig if he left, Starr delayed his departure until after they found themselves a replacement. On August 18, 1962, Ringo Starr officially became a Beatle.
In 1970, Starr released his first solo record with EMI, entitled Sentimental Journey, which was exactly that - a sentimental record capturing the music he grew up with (he later said "I did it for my Mum"). The following year, Starr released Beaucoups Of Blues, a country and western album that he recorded with Pete Drake in Nashville in just two days. That same year, The Beatles broke up.
Starr's passion for creating music continued to propel him forward, and in 1971 he began his unprecedented run as the first solo Beatle to score seven consecutive Top 10 singles, starting with the release of "It Don't Come Easy," with a B-side of "Early 1970." His second hit single, "Back Off Boogaloo"/"Blindman" followed in 1972, and was written with and inspired by T Rex frontman Marc Bolan. In 1973, Starr released his self-titled smash hit Ringo, which yielded three Top 10 singles, including the #1 hits "Photograph"/"Down and Out," and "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine)"/"Devil Woman." Ringo also marked the first time since the breakup that all of The Beatles participated in the same project, though not at the same time.
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Pat Benatar
with Neil Giraldo
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $50 for reserved seating close to the stage and $30 general admission, both of which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $50 for reserved seating close to the stage and $30 general admission.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Concert starts at 7 p.m.
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
Pat Benatar is a certified rock'n'roll superstar, a four-time Grammy winner with six platinum and four gold albums to her credit as well as such hit singles as "I Need A Lover," "Heartbreaker," "Fire and Ice," "Treat Me Right," "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," "Hell Is For Children," "Shadows of the Night," and "Love Is A Battlefield." Long acknowledged as one of the leading female rock vocalists in the industry, Benatar will be embarking on her first live concert dates in over two years before going into the studio to record her first album since '93's Gravity's Rainbow.
After capturing industry ears with her showcases at New York's Catch A Rising Star, Benatar signed to Chrysalis Records and released the million selling "In The Heat of the Night" in 1979, followed by the multi-platinum "Crimes of Passion" a year later. From 1980-83, she captured an unprecedented four straight Grammys in the category "Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female" for the Top Five album "Crimes of Passion" ('80) and the hit singles "Fire and Ice" ('81), "Shadows of the Night" ('82) and "Love Is A Battlefield" ('83). With the latter, she emerged as one of the leading stars of the emerging music video scene with a Bob Giraidi-directed clip which proved to be an MTV mainstay.
She followed with the most successful album of her career in "Precious Time" ('81), which topped the U.S. charts. Platinum records "Get Nervous" ('82), "Live From Earth" ('83) and "Tropico" ('84)-came next, succeeded by gold records "Seven The Hard Way" ('84) -- which featured "Invincible," the theme from the hit movie Legend of Billie Jean, starringHelen Slater -- "Wide Awake In Dreamland" ('88), "Best Shots" ('89) and "True Love" ('91), her critically-acclaimed blues album which had her covering B.B. King's "Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss." The record was a labor of love for Benatar and husband/producer/long-time collaborator Neil Giraldo and proved the rock vocalist was equally adept at belting out the blues. In addition, Pat has been an active participant in numerous charity and fund-raising events, including Artists United Against Apartheid in 1985, and recorded a version of "Please Come Home For Christmas" in 1990 especially for the Desert Storm coalition troops who served in the Mideast during the Gulf War.
Benatar and Giraldo have been a working couple since Neil penned the song, 'We Live For Love" from her debut album "In The Heat of the Night," and has continued to wear many different hats, including producer, guitarist, and songwriter as well as soulmate. "Musically, we're still in touch with each other. We like to play together," says Pat. "It's who's cooking dinner tonight that's the problem."
Neil Thomas Giraldo was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1955. Born of Sicilian parents, he got into music at an early age, and was heavily influenced by Elvis Presley when he was very young. Later, musician Scotty Moore made a big impression on him, as well as the British guitarists Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. Neil began playing the guitar at 6-years-old at his father's urging. "My father always wanted to play guitar and sing, so consequently he encouraged his off-spring. My sister played accordion and so my father said to me, 'You're gonna play guitar,' and that was it!" At age 12 he expanded his musical repertoire by learning to play the piano.
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Michael Franti
& Spearhead
with special guests Lilla D’Mone and The Flobots opening
Friday, August 6, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $35, which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $40.
Gates open at 5 p.m. Concert starts at 6:30 p.m.
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
Michael Franti is a very big man who has always dared to say very big things through his joyous and passionate music during an unusually diverse and highly impressive career. Yet for all the wide-ranging, yet consistent excellence of his body of work, what’s most impressive about Michael Franti as a recording artist and live performer is his ability to inspire. Ultimately, the heartfelt music that Franti makes and his dedication to greater understanding on a global level, are not two aspects of his life, but very much one and the same.
The Bay Area born Franti has been bringing our world exceptionally powerful, deeply felt music under a variety of names and in a wide range of genres for twenty years. From the intense punk rock of the Beatnigs, to the deeply political rap he made with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy to his joyful and meaningful modern soul music with Spearhead, and now as Michael Franti & Spearhead, this still young man has released an impressive series of recordings that have vividly reflected his status as a musical citizen of this world.
Through his entire musical career to date, Franti has continued to slowly, but surely build an extremely dedicated global grass roots following. He’s done it with a new spin on an old fashioned way. He’s earned his fans, one winning concert at a time. Ultimately what unites Franti’s remarkable and impressive career is, ironically, the man’s ongoing search for harmony.
“As a musician and a man, I more than anything else want to be a unifier,” Franti explains. “I want to bring people together through music and its unique power. And I hope that somehow that sense of unity extends beyond the music.”
In every way, Franti has become a modern day troubadour spreading the word with equal passion, whether he’s playing to a packed theater somewhere in America, Australia or Europe, or simply giving an impromptu performance in some war-torn corner of the world.
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Celtic Woman
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $60 for reserved seating close to the stage and $35 general admission, both of which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $60 for reserved seating close to the stage and $35 general admission.
Gates open at 6 p.m. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
Celtic Woman is an all-female musical ensemble conceived and assembled by David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show Riverdance. His concept was to tap into the American marketplace's taste for Celtic music and culture by creating a group that blended the Irish elements of music and dance.
As a unique all-female ensemble, Celtic Woman continues to have mainstream success without the aid of traditional sales drivers such as radio or video airplay. No other all-female ensemble of this particular adult contemporary genre can claim 5 million albums sold, two top 10 album debuts on the Billboard Top 200, 3 gold and platinum albums, 4 Top 5 Releases on the Billboard Top Video chart and a million concert tickets sold. They have succeeded by connecting directly to fans via their Public Television specials, their frequent touring and then having those fans share the experience with friends and loved ones.
Celtic Woman recently performed at the National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington D.C. joining entertainers like Sheryl Crow, Common, Jordin Sparks and Ray LaMontagne. As a testament to the group’s ability to cross musical and cultural boundaries, the group was invited to perform on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars singing for 23 million viewers while their PBS TV specials have dominated the broadcast airwaves during the past five years.
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A Prairie Home Companion
with Garrison Keillor
Friday, August 27, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $50 for reserved seating close to the stage and $35 general admission, both of which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $50 for reserved seating close to the stage and $35 general admission.
Gates open at 6 p.m. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
If you showed up on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul and plunked down your $1 admission (50 cents for kids) to attend the very first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, you were in select company. There were about 12 people in the audience. But those in attendance thought there were worse ways to spend a Saturday afternoon, so Garrison Keillor and the APHC team went on to produce close to 500 live shows in the first 10 years alone. There were broadcasts from this venue and that, until March 4, 1978, when the show moved to The World Theater, a lovely, crumbling building that was one plaster crack away from the wrecking ball. (Now fully renovated and renamed The Fitzgerald, it is the show's home base.)
In June of 1987, APHC ended for a while. Garrison thought it was a good idea at the time, but only two years later, the show was back, based in New York and called American Radio Company of the Air. But there's no place like home. So in 1992, it was back to Minnesota and, soon after, back to the old name: A Prairie Home Companion.
There has been plenty of adventure in the past 30-plus years — broadcasts from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Iceland and almost every one of the 50 states; wonderful performers, little-known and world-renowned; standing ovations and stares of bewilderment. We've missed planes, coped with lost luggage, dodged swooping bats and hungry mosquitoes, plodded through blizzards, and flown by the seat of our pants.
Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by more than 4 million listeners each week on some 590 public radio stations, and abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East. Garrison recalls, "When the show started, it was something funny to do with my friends, and then it became an achievement that I hoped would be successful, and now it's a good way of life."
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Furthur
featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $53.50 general admission, which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $58.50 general admission.
Gates for both show dates open at 5:30 p.m. Concert starts at 7 p.m
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
Founded in 2009 by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Furthur’s lineup also includes John Kadlecik of the Dark Star Orchestra on guitar, Jeff Chimenti of RatDog on keyboards, and Joe Russo of the Benevento/Russo Duo on drums.
In 2008, for the first time in four years, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh began performing together, with a reunion of The Dead. A few months after The Dead's 2009 tour the musicians announced that they had formed a new band with Kadlecik, Chimenti, Lane, and Russo.
The band debuted with performances on September 2009, at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California. They followed those shows up with a handful of more dates during 2009 including five shows in the northeast, as well as live rehearsal sessions and two New Years shows in California. During the New Years eve performances the band was joined by backing vocalists Zoe Ellis and Sunshine Garcia Becker. Ellis and Becker remained in the line up for the remainder of the tour.
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Willie Nelson
with special guest Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses opening
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Advance tickets on sale now at all Safeway Ticketswest outlets, online at ticketswest.com, and the Hult Center Box Office for $65 for reserved seating close to the stage and $40 general admission, both of which includes a City of Eugene facility fee / parking.
Tickets day of show of show will cost $65 for reserved seating close to the stage and $40 general admission.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Concert starts at 7 p.m
All tickets subject to service charges and/or user fees.
If ever the words "living legend" were more than just public relations bluster, the application would be to Willie Hugh Nelson.
The iconic Texan is the creative genius behind historic recordings like "Crazy," "Hello Walls," “Red Headed Stranger” and “Stardust.” His career has spanned six decades. His catalog boasts more than 200 albums. He's earned every conceivable award and honor to be bestowed a person in his profession. He has also amassed reputable credentials as an author, actor and activist.
Born April 29, 1933 in Abbott, Texas, Nelson and his sister were raised by their paternal
grandparents who encouraged both children to play music. He began writing songs in elementary school and played in bands as a teenager. After high school, Nelson served a short stint in the Air Force, but music was a constant pull.
By the mid Fifties, he was working as a country deejay in Ft. Worth while continuing to pursue a musical career, recording independently and playing nightclubs. He sold some of his original compositions, including "Family Bible" which became a hit for Claude Gray in 1960.
That success and others convinced Nelson to move to Nashville, where record labels were initially resistant. His songwriting talents were quickly embraced, however, and 1961 proved to be his breakthrough year. His "Hello Walls" became a nine-week No. 1 for Faron Young, and Patsy Cline's version of "Crazy" became an instant classic.
In 1962, Nelson scored his first two Top 10 hits as a recording artist for Liberty Records, but struggled for a breakthrough the remainder of the decade. Disillusioned with Nashville and with his label, RCA Records’ insistence on lush, string-laden arrangements, he moved back to Texas in 1972.
Now in his 70s, he continues to tour and has performed in concerts and fundraisers with other major musicians, including Bob Dylan, and Dave Matthews. He also continues to record albums prolifically in new genres that embrace reggae, blues, jazz, folk, and popular music.
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