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.
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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