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U O C U LT U R A L F O R U M P R E S E N T S BY BRETT CAMPBELL Azuquita A all night latin dance party! Live performances with guitarist Jessie Marquez, The Eugene Flamenco Ensemble, and Jose Cruz & the Salseros Dance Co. Late night with Hanif. Sat., Nov. 8th • 8:30pm • vet's club ballroom 1626 W ILLAMETTE • ALL AGES • FULL BAR $10-12 SS • $7 UO S TUDENTS FOR 21+ AMATEUR WET & WILD WET T-SHIRT CONTEST Door Prizes, $200 1st $100 2nd $50 3rd $25 4th Hourly Hot Body Giveaways, DVDs, Shirts, & OIL WRESTLING Hats & Hot Body THURSDAY Merchandise NOVEMBER 13TH 2165 W. 11TH AVENUE ❤ EUGENE ❤ 683-6021 Monday - Friday 12-2 Saturday & Sunday 2-2 www.hot body.com 28 NOVEMBER 6, 2003 Fine folk and world music spectacular. BENEFIT FOR THE Willamette Valley Folk Festival CASH PRIZES Songwriting Legend & Fiddle Fireball W hen the great folk songwriters point to their idols, many of them are likely to be from Texas: Willie Nelson, Doug Sahm and Kris Kristofferson to Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, James McMurtry, Steve Earle and more. Texans have a knack for writing songs that tell great stories. I lived there for many years and heard most of those songwriters perform live, and when you’d ask them who they idol- ized, two lesser-known Texas names always popped up: the late, great Townes Van Zandt — and his friend Guy Clark, who comes to the Shedd on Saturday, Nov. 15. Clark came to national attention in the 1970s after his buddy Jerry Jeff Walker first covered his “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train” and “L.A. Freeway.” Clark has lived in Nashville for years now, and is so es- teemed among the musicians there it’s no sur- prise to see names like Tim O’Brien and Gillian Welch on his new album. A consummate craftsman of songwriting, Clark can spin a tale about subjects as mun- dane as mud, Indian-head pennies, or home- grown tomatoes, or as consequential as homelessness and true love. With precise im- agery, word economy, memorable tunes and a warm, low-key delivery, Clark’s songs repre- sent the best of the American folk songwrit- ing tradition. The Shedd also hosts the great Cape Breton fiddle master Natalie MacMaster on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Drawing on some of the oldest surviving Scots music in the old tradition of her remote Canadian home, MacMaster brings in more contemporary and diverse influences. Anyone who saw the charismatic fiddler’s previous visit here a couple years ago will also remember her electrifying, foot-stomping playing style. But the audience-friendly antics shouldn’t overshadow her undeniable skill: as with Clark, you can tell how good the 30-year-old virtuoso is by seeing who she’s played with: Her new bluegrass-oriented album boasts fel- low fiddler Darol Anger, boss bassist Edgar Meyer, bodacious banjoist Bela Fleck and mandolin master Sam Bush, and she’s per- formed with everyone from Pavarotti to Paul Simon, Alison Kraus to Carlos Santana. This show will be a lot of fun. Another great world music tradition comes from the Roma people, and on Monday, Nov. 10, one of the world’s finest Gypsy music groups, the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble, plays music from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey at the Hult Center’s Soreng Theatre. Musicologists marvel at their easy han- dling of fiendishly complex rhythms, jazzers go slack jawed at their impressive improvisatory skills and often blistering tempos, and everyone responds to the haunting melodies of this “wedding music,” so called because it’s used in various traditional ceremonies in the Balkans. But this superb group also amalgamates jazz and rock influences into a danceable, irresistible brew. Should be one of the best world music shows of the year. Natalie MacMaster plays The Shedd, Wednesday, Nov. 12. A flood of fine music hits the UO’s Beall Hall this month, starting Thursday, Nov. 6 when UO harp professor Laura Zaerr brings a delicious program of music for flute, harp, and Baroque bassoon, along with con- temporary music for Celtic harp, including originals and traditional Irish pieces. I’m looking forward to the finale: the world premiere of “Golden Apples of the Sun” by the much-esteemed retired UO pro- fessor Hal Owen. Scored for pedal harp, so- prano, and tenor, it is based on poetry by Yeats and medieval Irish texts. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the fine UO faculty trumpeter Steve Dunn is joined by pianist Mary Elizabeth Parker, soprano Ann Tedards, and the UO’s Renaissance music group Collegium Musicum playing music by Jolivet, California composer Halsey Stevens and more. On Thursday, Nov. 13, the school’s Chamber Music Series brings the acclaimed Amelia Piano Trio to Beall. Along with works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, they’ll play an attractive trio by a great American composer now finally getting his due at 80th birthday concerts in New York: Ned Rorem. For something even more avant garde, check out Future Music Oregon on Saturday, Nov. 15, featuring electro acoustic music by Brandeis University composer Eric Chasalow and the UO’s Jeff Stolet. On Sunday, Nov. 16 the Oregon String Quartet plays music by Beethoven, Haydn and American composer Livingston Gearhart. And the biggest classical name of the season arrives at Beall on Monday, Nov. 17, when 1981 Van Cliburn Competition winner André-Michel Schub gives a solo piano recital of music by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schumann and Grieg. Schub has won too many awards to name, and played with most of the world’s finest classical ensembles and players, so piano fans won’t want to miss this one. ew
