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S ushi Station BY BRETT CAMPBELL Bonnie Rideout performs A Scottish Christmas Tuesday at the Hult. 199 East 5th Avenue ◆ 541-484-1334 Come see our sushi-go-round and open grill Sushi starting at $1.75 We serve: tempura ◆ udon ◆ yakisoba teppanyaki ◆ teriyaki lunch box specials and more... Take out available Holiday Stuffing A glut of tasty music in December. Lunch MON-FRI 11:30-2:30 DUE TO THE UPCOMING HOLIDAYS THE EUGENE WEEKLY WILL HAVE EARLY DEADLINES E AD SPACE RESERVATION Wed., Dec. 17th (for 24th issue) by 5 pm Wed., Dec. 24 (for 31st issue) by 12 noon CONTACT YOUR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE FOR MORE INFO 484-0519 CALENDAR/CLUBS LISTINGS (SUBMISSIONS IN WRITING ONLY) Wed., Dec. 17th (for 24th issue) by 12 noon Wed., Dec. 24 (for 31st issue) by 12 noon CONTACT cal@eugeneweekly.com or 484-0519 FOR MORE INFO MEGA KARAOKE CONTEST LARGEST CONTEST IN THE STATE Every Monday & Saturday Nite in December Winners qualify for Finals held December 22nd $1000 Cash Prizes I-5 Coburg Exit ★ 686-8686 $500 1st Place • $300 2nd Place • $200 3rd Place Plus a 3 Song Recording Package from Audio Bliss Productions LO N E STAR P R E S E N TS T HE MEN OF PLAYGIRL Exclusively Licensed DECEMBER 15 • 8PM Playgirl Production LADIES GET WILD! • www.menofplaygirl.com 38 DECEMBER 4, 2003 ugene doesn’t have that many tradi- tions, but the WOW Hall’s annual holiday celebration of unaccompa- nied human voices seems to be aspiring to be- come one. On Thursday, Dec. 4, the WOW brings the spine-tingling Eastern European vocal harmonies and rhythms of one of America’s finest vocal ensembles, Kitka. The Bay Area-based all-women choir, whose music has appeared in movies such as Braveheart and Jacobs Ladder, has fi- nally released its long-awaited new CD, Wintersongs, comprising seasonal songs from Bulgaria, the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Greece and points east. For a Gaelic flavored holiday concert, go see Bonnie Rideout’s ever-popular Scottish Christmas extravaganza at the Hult on Tuesday, Dec. 9, featuring bagpipes, uilleann pipes, border pipes, Celtic harp, bodhran, guitar and voice along with Highland dancers in traditional Scottish carols, wassail tunes, and dance music. The star of this inter- nationally acclaimed show is Rideout, the third astonishing Scottish fiddler (none of them actually from Scotland, but who cares) to hit town in the past month after Jamie Laval at Café Paradiso and Natalie MacMaster at The Shedd. This should be one of the most enjoy- able shows of the holiday season. This should be one of the most enjoyable shows of the holiday season. This is certainly one of the top recommenda- tions for the holiday season — or any other. For more Eastern European sounds, the next night, you can hear live music by the UO East European Folk Music Ensemble and the Eugene-based band Balladina, and learn traditional South Slavic and Rom (Gypsy) line dances from Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia at a free Balkan Folkdance at the UO’s EMU Fir Room. On Sunday, Dec. 7, you can hear the an- nual UO Gospel Ensemble show at the McDonald Theatre at 4 pm that same after- noon — finally in a venue that can hold everyone who wants to get in! The UO hosts two tasty percussion shows that day. At 4 pm, UO students will perform traditional music of Java on the school’s new Javanese gamelan in Gerlinger Lounge. And that evening, the UO Percussion Ensemble performs music by Telemann, the great 20th-century Mexican composer Carlos Chavez, and one of today’s finest composers, Christopher Rouse, in Beall Hall. Still on Dec. 7 is another attractive concert, this one at the Hult Center, for fans of more traditional holiday sounds: The Eugene Concert Choir and Oregon Mozart Players are joined by Dance Theatre of Oregon (in a mime/dance), three local youth choirs, and the Don Latarski Trio with Marilyn Keller in music by Bach, David Fanshawe, and carols galore. Another classically oriented tradition re- sumes on Friday, Dec. 12 at the Hult when the Eugene Symphony joins dancers and singers from the UO in Giancarlo Menotti’s classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, one of the 20th century’s most popu- lar scores by an American composer. World music choices abound this month. On Dec. 9, First Christian Church hosts Turkish and American Sufi musicians and whirling Dervishes in music, poetry and prayer dance based on the lucent, ecstatic po- etry of Rumi. On Friday, Dec. 5, San Francisco’s Hamsa Lila brings Moroccan-influenced trance/rock acoustic music to the McDonald Theatre lounge. On Sunday, Dec. 7, John Wubbenhorst and Facing East present an original blend of Western and East Indian music at Far Horizon School. And on Friday, Dec. 12, you can really get into the holiday spirit (giving, not shopping) at a benefit for Zimbabwean famine victims at Cozmic Pizza at the Strand, featuring gui- tarist Paul Prince and those ever-scintillat- ing ensembles from Eugene’s Kutsinhira cen- ter: the Vakasara mbira group and Kudana marimba group. They’ll be augmented by two Portland ensembles: Njuzu mbira and Boka marimba. World music fans and jazz fans will want to be at The Shedd on Saturday, Dec. 6, for the daz- zling Cuban-born pianist/composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba and his trio. Capable of explosive virtuosity as well as delicate atmospherics, Rubalcaba plays far more than the Afro-Cuban grooves that form the foundation of his work, and his recent albums on Blue Note, as well as gorgeous work with Joe Lovano and Charlie Haden, show him to be one of the more com- pelling keyboardists in jazz today. Jazzheads can also look for attractive shows on Dec. 6, when guitarist Gary Beck brings his trio to Luna, followed by Eleven Eyes in the late slot, and on Dec. 4 and 5, when the marvelous trumpeter Bobby Shew headlines the Lane Jazz Festival. ew
