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Joules Graves, Dan Bern headline Willamette Valley Folk Fest What Willamette Valley Folk Festival; a weekend of music presented by the UO Cultural Forum Headlining acts: Seattle’s Joules Graves, Boston’s Dan Bern and Boulder, Colo.’s The Floodplain Gang When: All weekend, beginning at 1 p.m. today and ending Sunday at 8:30 p.m. Where: Five different campus The annual festival WILL FILL THE WEEKEND WITH MUSIC AND FOOD By Jack Clifford Oregon Daily Emerald With three weeks left in spring term, University students are probably starting to think about final exams or papers. Tony Kullen’s year-end pro ject will be judged by thousands of people this weekend. Kullen is the heritage music coor dinator for the UO Cultural Forum, and the Willamette Valley Folk Fes tival is his undertaking. Although Kullen admits he got by with more than a lit tle help from his friends, after sifting through more than submissions, he enjoyed final say over the musical line-up. The revelry, known as the oldest folk festival in the Pacific Northwest, kicks off today at 1 p.m. with Kellee Bradley delivering traditional Celtic numbers. By the time The Flood plain Gang closes the show Sunday night at 8:30, more than 60 acts will have entertained the crowds. “I tried to make a program in which the acts complemented each other, with a nice blend of music,” Kullen says. “There’s been some comment that it’s short on more traditional mu sic, like cultural music or African drumming, but part of that is that there are many definitions of folk music.” The headliners for the three-day show, which will be spread out over five campus venues, are Seattle mu sician Joules Graves, well known to Eugene audiences; Boston’s Dan Bern, who is compared to Bob Dylan but with a more modem slant to his social commentary; and The Flood plain Gang from Boulder, Colo., called an experimental bluegrass band with a blend of rock ’n’ roll. Graves has played this area innu merable times, and she wows audi ences with her mix of music, using a djembe drum, a guitar and her voice, which teachers once called “too un usual.” She’ll close the festival tonight. Bern is a wildcard selection, Kullen says, because his style may step on people’s toes with his harsh and wide-ranging critiques. Nonetheless, he’ll bring intensity and passion to the stage for Saturday night’s wind up. “He pushes the edges sometimes, but there’s value in that,” Kullen says. “But he pokes fun at everyone and doesn’t single out any one group.” Closing the event Sunday is a band relatively new to Eugene. The Flood plain Gang has played here just twice, Kullen says, but they arrive with the title of Best New Band at the Boston musician Dan Bern and Seattle-based Joules Graves (left) will play at the festival. 1998Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “There’s this current resurgence of bluegrass, and this band plays a unique kind ofbluegrass,” Kullen of fers. “It sounds as if they have lis tened to psychedelic music and folk music, but kept the bluegrass mood.” The last outdoor concert on cam pus grounds, the Oregon Grind, met an early end due to harsh weather. Kullen accepts the reality that rain is a likelihood for the folk festival, but he doesn’t expect more hail, which did in the Grind. If the wet stuff re mains as rain, Kullen says the show is on. On-site food and craft booths will satisfy anyone’s hunger and spend ing urges. Dogs aren’t allowed, and alcohol is also a no-no. ^jpizza Pipeline Qct the Real Veal I GIANT 16" One Item Pizza I Plus 2 FREE 22 oz. Soft Drinks | for Oulu %J ™dsSEsl # uo campus! WE ACCEPT UO PURCHASE ORDERS ^Medium 12” . « two item pizza ^ ^*^H8as3K|! r B FREE DELIVERY ■ ™ Plus 1 Free /*^,i, B including _ 22 oz. Soft Drink UHll/,W ■ g| tilQ&U!686-5808 SpinglM W6-7666 g Limited delivery area. Not valid with any other offer. Expires 6/21/99 Eugene Hotline 6S6*5S0S • 824 Charnelton Street Springfield Hotline 746-7666 Quick Service and a lair Vricem http://www.efn.org/~sgazette/pizzapipeline.html 006622 with opening bands Juno and Lucky Ha Whan: Wednesday, May 26, doors open at 6:00pm, showtime 6:45pm, Sunny Day on at 8:15 following openers Whara: EMU Ballroom, UO Campus Tickats: $14 UO Students, $18 General Public, on sale now at EMU ticket office, House of Records and CD World University of Oregon Cultural Forum Contact Matt Radocltonski, UO Cultural Forum National Music Coordinator at (541) 346-4376
