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Mon. PACIFIC RIM GAMELAN
5/3 UO Balinese Percussion Orchestra 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
Tue. OREGON STRING QUARTET
5/4 UO Faculty Artist Series 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$7 General Admission, $4 students & senior citizens
Wed. OREGON COMPOSERS FORUM
5/5 New music by composition students. 8 p.m., Beall Hall
FREE Admission
Fri. THE JAZZ CAFE with BLEMA Bll, African Jazz
5/7 UO Jazz Combos <£ Guest Ensemble 8 p.m., Gerlinger
Alumni Lounge $5 Gen. Admission, $3 students & seniors
Sat. FESTIVAL OF TRUMPETS
5/8 UO Trumpet Class Recital 8 p.m., Beall Hall
FREE Admission
Sun. UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY: Concerto Concert
5/9 UO Ensemble & Student Soloists 2:30 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
Wed. ELLEN CAMPBELL, Horn
5/12 FRITZ GEARHART, Violin
UO Faculty Artist Series 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$7 General Admission, $4 students & senior citizens
Thu. UNIVERSITY GOSPEL CHOIR
5/13 UO Ensemble 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
5/13 - SPRING STUDENT DANCE CONCERT
5/15 Annual production by UO dance majors. 8 p.m.
Dougherty Dance Theater $3 General Admission
Fri. OREGON JAZZ ENSEMBLE & JAZZ LAB BANDS
5/14 UO Ensembles 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
Sat. CAMPUS ARTS FAIRE
5/15 A showcase of UO music, theatre, dance, and visual arts.
11 a.m.- 4 p.m., Central Campus area FREE Admission
Sun. OREGON WIND ENSEMBLE
5/16 UO Ensemble 3 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
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Get down-home with Stacey Earle
The self-produced
COUNTRY MUSICIAN
COMES TO WOW HALL
By Bryan Petersen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Somewhere along the way,
country music took a wrong
turn. What used to be the
pure, simple music of out
laws, pioneers and rugged women
and men has now largely become
watered-down, polished, prefabri
cated pop music that owes more of
its feel to adult contemporary radio
than to true old-school artists such
as Willie Nelson or Patsy Cline.
Just look at Shania Twain: Her
husband and producer is Mutt
Lange, who used to produce Def
Leppard. How down-home is that?
Enter Stacey Earle. This San An
tonio, Texas, native and sister of
country star Steve Earle has made a
return trip to yesteryear by offering
traditional, stripped-down country
music. Her half-gritty, half-twangy
voice, which is sometimes reminis
cent of Nancy Griffith’s, is like a
breath of fresh tumbleweed.
You can check this out when Ear
le and her band The Jewels come to
WOW Hall on Wednesday.
Earle got her first taste of the mu
sic business on a grand scale when
her brother asked her to sing back
up on “Promise You Anything,” off
of his album “The Hard Way.” Two
weeks later, she took the plunge
What Stacey Earle
When: May 5 at9:30 p.m.
Where: WOW Hall
Tickets: $16.50 at the door
when Steve asked her to play guitar
and sing on his world tour, which
included most of the major cities in
America as well as in Australia,
New Zealand, The United King
dom, Ireland and Canada.
Before this, Stacey had toyed
with the idea of a career in music,
but she had not devoted herself to
having her own band or CD.
“I was a staff writer, bashing out
stuff for other folks,” she said in a
recent press release. “At home, in
the morning, I was writing the
songs that would end up on my
CD. The songs were growing with
me, I think, as I was wearing down
mentally and physically.”
By the end of the tour with her
brother, Stacey was in love with the
professional music world. She be
gan to write her own material and
seek out showcases for playing it.
She found a full-time gig hosting
the weekly writer’s showcase at
Jack’s Guitar Bar in Nashville. It
was there that she met Mark Stuart,
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a fellow songwriter and musician
who would eventually become her
husband and bandmate. Stuart
plays lead guitar and sings back
ground vocals in The Jewels, which
takes its name from Earle’s grand
mother, who is her biggest fan.
Earle’s release “Simple Gearle” is
the result of years of touring, open
ing for other artists such as Malcolm
Holcombe. After a number of re
quests, she and Stuart scraped to
gether enough money to produce a
CD, which they sold at concerts.
“We decided to make this
record and capture what we know
for a fact is what fans like about
her music,” Stuart said.
It sold much better than they
had hoped for — usually 30 or 40
copies after every show.
These sales, combined with
sales from Earle’s Internet site,
prompted major labels to begin
courting her. But “if a major label
or somebody else takes control of
it, then when they says it’s done,
it’s done, and we couldn’t take it
on the road any more,” Earle said.
So she did what more artists
should do: She kept the CD and start
ed her own label, Gearle Records.
You can feel the bitter sweet
ness throughout the release. Songs
like “Cried My Heart Out” and
“Loser’s Weep,” with her brother
singing harmony, are true gems
and offer what 95 percent of most
modern country doesn’t: tradi
tional purity and simple elegance.
But y’all can find out for yourself.
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