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Music Scene Eeny, meeny, miney, moe, pick a band and see the show Just when you think it’s safe to go back into Sam Bond’s Garage, 407 Blair Blvd., look who shows up: Split Lip Rayfield (right). The Wichita, Kan., band sings about all the important aspects of the heartland, such as guns, drinking, the WIC pro gram and bad love. As it was so aptly worded on SLR’s press release, “It’s a sound that can only come from plowing one too many rows, digging one two many holes and blowing one too many gaskets.” See it, believe it. Split Lip and the Rich mond Fontaine Band play Sam Bond’s tonight at 9 p.m. Cover charge is $4. Worlds away from “boys on beer,” the award-winning women’s vocal ensemble Kitka (below) performs Saturday at the WOW Hall, 291W. Eighth Ave. This group’s repertoire ranges from strident chants sung in traditional village styles to com plex modem choral arrangements inspired by ancient vocal techniques used in Eastern Europe. Sitka’s recent CD “Nectar” received high marks from rock leg end David Crosby, who called the recording “a true masterpiece.” Sitka performs Saturday at 8: JO p.m. Tickets are $14. Somewhere in between those two groups lies the sound of the John Shipe Trio (bottom right). The local band has been hard at work making a name for itself around the state. The trio hits you with acoustic rock from the heart and versatil ity is the group’s middle name. See the John Shipe Trio Saturday at The Buzz in the EMU. The music begins at 9:30 p.m. and best of all, it’s free. 669/00 Planned Parenthood • 1670 High, Eugene • 344-9411 1 [068216 John Henry’s Dance Nights no cover for women!!1 136 E.11th, Eugene pm That Tuesday Tuesdays 342-3358 funky dance Thinf grooves with d.j.s Lii Gene and l Ray Mondays: 9 pm Mixoloyy ioi - energetic house, techno, junyle, hip-hop... brin? yo’ dancin’ shoes O o o o °o H nupr I CD Thursdays: io pm 80s Dance Niyht-a time capsule of 80 s vinyl 21 and over —A. I All photos courtesy of the bands Musician woos a new audience ■ A Colorado-based band stops in Eugene on its first multi-state tour By Jack Clifford Oregon Daily Emerald Wendy Woo laughs as she re calls the story of her adolescent “crime wave,” those early days when she was sneaking into a fa vorite performance venue — Fid dler’s Green Amphitheater in the suburbs of Denver, Colo.—to hear her share of free music. After years of slinking around undetected, she was finally arrest ed at age 21, but Woo managed to get the last laugh. Woo and her eponymously named band won a Denver-area “battle of the bands” competition to select the opening act for this past summer’s high-profile Lilith Fair. They then paraded through the amphitheater’s backstage en trance as performers, not tres passers. “This time as I walked in to Fid dler’s, I thought ‘Hah!’” Woo says good-humoredly, in a phone inter view from her home in Boulder. “This time I got their royal treat ment.” The Wendy Woo Band is gain ing special access to a lot of places these days, as the group embarks on its first multi-state tour to tout the group’s second CD “Wide Awake and Dreaming.” The Woo quartet chugs into Sam Bond’s Garage, 407 Blair Blvd., Wednes day night to give the Eugene area a Courtesy photos The Wendy Woo Band plays Sam Bond’s Garage on Wednesday night. Woo (below) calls herself a “do-it-yourself” musician. chance to soak in its Latin-mixed, funk-folk sound. The band won its slot at Lilith after first gaining one of 30 audi tion spots, out of 300 hopefuls. The group then had a chance to perform one song in front of a live audience, mostly Woo’s friends and colleagues from the Denver area music scene. “I was really amped,” she re members. Woo brings an extensive musi cal background to her role as front woman for the band. She practiced piano and cello as a child, then studied classical gui tar and music theory at the Uni versity of New Mexico for two years, beginning in 1989. Woo fol lowed up that stint with more mu sical schooling at the University of Colorado and also enjoyed some personal tutoring from well-trav eled musicians Robben Ford and Turn to Wendy Woo, page 7B
