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Blues band caters to rock V rollers who want to dance ■The North Mississippi Allstars shake, rattle and roll their way to Taylor’s for a burst of bluegrass music By Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald Recently featured on the Co nan O’Brien Show, the North Mississippi Allstars are a combo of gritty country blues, aggressive rock and some great musical genes all mixed together. And they’re playing at Taylor’s Bar Space Available * Register Today !!! 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Focusing their sound to the region of Fred Mc Dowell, the Allstars have multi ple appeal. “The energy is just right for our room. It’s not so bluesy that it’s too bluesy,” Estlund said. “There (( We’ve never been out west, but people rave about it They say it’s beautiful country and bands love it [And] we love college towns. We grew up in a college town. Luther Dickinson vocalist/guitarist North Mississippi Allstars are so many influences and it ap peals to so many people. The opportunity to play at Tay lor’s is just one of many perform ances the Allstars booked on their tour. “This is our first coast-to-coast headline tour since our record courtesy of Chapman North Mississippi Allstars recently appeared on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brian.’ came out,” Luther Dickinson said, calling from a pay phone in Victor , Idaho, population 250. Luther Dickinson sings and plays the snaky slide guitar for the trio. “We’ve never been out west, but people rave about it. They say it’s beautiful country and bands love it. [And] we love col lege towns. We grew up in a col lege town.” “Our music is constantly changing and we’re playing new material all the time,” Cody Dick inson said, labeled a “monstrous ly talented drummer” by Time magazine. “We’re a blues band, but we’re really a rock ‘n’ roll band. It all boils down to people wanting to dance,” Luther Dickinson said. The performance begins at 10 p.m. Wednesday night at Taylor’s Bar and Grill, located at 894 East 13th Ave. The charge is $6.00 at the door and there are no advanced tickets available. Visit the Allstars site at http ://•www. nmallstars .com/ ‘Madness’ takes over at Leebrick ■ 99 Minutes of Midnight Madness’ examines the multiplicities of live acting in 17 distinctive skits By Tonya Alanez Oregon Daily Emerald Madness is in the midnight air and spectators can experience a 99-minute dose on Friday and Sat urday nights for only $5 a pop. “99 Minutes of Midnight Mad ness @ 11:11 p.m.,” a series of short theatrical pieces, each aver aging 10 minutes in length, de buted Friday at the Lord Leebrick Theatre Company. The simplistic and intimate at mosphere, with minimal props and distractions, puts the pressure on the actors to engage and hold the audience's attention. But the LLTC pulls it off with a combina tion of compelling performances, precise direction and skits ranging frdm light-hearted to intense. “Outscool” opens the show and reinforces the mood throughout the evening with original, live, jazzy music by Richard Leebrick on tenor sax, harmonica and vo cals, Eric Colbin on bass guitar and Javier Gonzalez on percussion. The opening piece, “Tango at the Santiago Hotel” by Lia Denae and directed by Carol Horne fea tures Nancy West as a solitary per former portraying several kooky characters in a San Francisco boarding house. The quick, and sometimes indistinct, shifts from character to character made this number confusing and hard to fol low. Luckily, it was no indication of what was to follow. “Robot” by Daniel Durrant and directed by Dale Brabb finds Gary Lamoin as a disgruntled business man building a robot to replace himself. As he engages in a late night conversation with a hobo, ef fectively portrayed by James Flagg, I was left wondering who had a better grip on reality. In the next performance, “Vaca tions,” a youngster sitting at a bus stop finds herself positively influ enced by the eccentricities of a woman living on the mental edge. This is a whimsical offering by Robert Wilson, directed by Tim Guetterman, featuring Sparky Roberts, Autumn Leebrick and Va lerie McMahon. Horne directs “Maggie” by Gretchen McMartin, with West ominously cast as Maggie, a woman haunted by her neighbor’s menacing voice — or is it the voice within her own head? In the end, this number left me unsettled by Maggie’s depression, questioning her sanity and stability. A comedic number then makes an appearance, with Steven Man dell’s “The Cassowary Bird in the Afternoon.” Roberts directs here and the vignette features David Beck and McMahon in a dynamic performance as a mismatched couple brought together by a per sonal ad. Larry Dobberstein’s “Coyote,” directed by Brabb, couples Lam oin and Brandon Burkeen as a pair of traveling musicians on the road to a footloose and fancy-free exis 99 Minutes of Midnight Madness @11:11 pm What: Seven short theater pieces When: 11:11 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: Lord Leebrick Theatre, 540 Chamelton St, Tickets: $5 Contact: Call 484*7670 for info and to order advance tickets. tence. Or so it appears, until Roberts makes a brief and telling appearance. Under the direction of Michael Fisher, William Mastrosimone’s “Jujitsu” provides a chilling finish to the evening — it’s a piece you carry with you. This excerpt, from a work entitled “Blinding Light,” features McMahon in a gripping performance as a woman embit tered by an endless succession of one-night stands, detailing her fool-proof strategies for foiling the ploys of the alpha males of the world. All in all, the LLTC has crafted an engaging theater experience well worth the time and the mon ey. The series, running through Sept. 2, consists of 17 individual skits divided into three separate sets. Each set will play for two weekends of the total six-week run. Tickets are available in ad vance or at the door. LLTC is locat ed at 540 Charnelton St. Call 484 7670 for more information.
