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BY VANESSA SALVIA Deadwood Revival TONIGHT! AND EVERY THURSDAY DJ TEKNEEK PRESENTS NOCHE LATINA REGGAE TONE, SALSA, HIP HOP, R&B & MORE $1 TABOO TEAS, $1 COORS LIGHTS $2 WELLS ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT 5 NO COVER 3355 E. AMAZON • EUGENE • 686-5022 FRIDAYS DJ TEKNEEK EUGENE’S #1 DJ VS. DJ ROLLO THE CONTENDER OLD SCHOOL VS. NEW SCHOOL 2 DJS, 4 TURNTABLES (R&B, DANCEHALL, REGGAE, OLD & NEW SCHOOL HIP HOP) $2 COVER B4 11PM $1 TABOO TEAS, $1 COORS LIGHTS $2 WELLS ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT SATURDAYS HIP HOP/DANCE/R&B HOSTED BY DJ TEKNEEK $2 COVER B4 11PM TUESDAYS NO COVER! CYPHER ROOM HOSTED BY K. WIL OF ANIMAL FARM OPEN MIC HIP HOP WITH EUGENE’S BEST MCS AND B BOYS WEDNESDAYS SOMETHING SPECIAL HOSTED BY DJ LAYLA & DJ MOONVOID WITH SPECIAL PERFORMER TRIBE OF EVE 23 W. 6th (across from the Hult Center) 338-8787 • www.tabooeugene.com 36 APRIL 5, 2007 New Wave of Northwestern Bluegrass Americana Is there a bluegrass convention this week? A round the Weekly office, where many, many CDs are delivered in the mail each week, we’re used to a plethora of bluegrass/Americana/new- grass/alt country/whatever bands. It’s quite common to have several BANACW bands touring the Northwest at once; they just don’t always all happen to land shows in Eugene during the same week. This week they do; plus, locals The Sugar Beets are celebrating their 17th anniversary. Fans of BANACW may have to pick and chose where to spend their music dollars. Here’s a rundown, looking to the locals first … Eugene’s perennial favorites The Sugar Beets are celebrating their long and healthy life together: 17 years with very few line-up changes. Founding mem- ber Tanya Voxman (violin, ‘90-’98) will rejoin the Beets for this show, and band- leader Marty Chilla says the group hopes to debut some new songs. Though the group doesn’t play as much as it used to, last year the Beets released Secret to Happiness, the band’s first new album in five years. Joining them for this special event is Grace Keller , a seventh genera- tion American born in 1911, during Taft’s presidency. She grew up a Quaker in a North Carolina cabin with ten siblings. At nearly 96 years old, Keller sings harmony, plays keyboards and plays a 36-string autoharp. As usual, seats for The Beets’ first set give way to an open dance floor for the second set (WOW Hall, 8 pm 4/7, $10). This event doesn’t exactly fit in with the BANACW theme, but it’s local and a CD release party to boot, so you should know about it. SpiritFarm , a “jazzy pop folk-rock jam band” (JPFRJB?), is cele- brating the release of its second CD, Perils of Love, featuring such outstanding local guest musicians as guitarist Don Latarski and saxophonist Paul Biondi. As a quartet, the band flexes its muscles on all types of genres and performs mostly original music with the occasional cover (Luna, 8:30 pm 4/6, $10). Mollybloom (all one word) plays con- temporary bluegrass at Cozmic Pizza (7 pm 4/6, $5). This five-piece Salem band features banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass, with a distinctively folksy feel. Lastly, Port Angeles, Wash., band Deadwood Revival brings its folksy/root- sy/bluegrass sound to Sam Bond’s 4/11 (9 pm, $3-$5) and Cottage Grove’s Axe & Fiddle 4/14 (8 pm, $5). Though a duo, the pair manages to project the complexity of a full band. Kim Trenerry plays rhythm guitar and bass while Jason Mogi makes magic with slide banjo and guitar — though admittedly not all at once. The cou- ple harmonizes magnificently and crafts music that’s fun and uplifting. ew
