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“We love Eugene,” says Ashley Edwards, vocalist and songwriter for
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Durango, Colorado-based Hello Dollface. “The vibrancy, the grit, the
consciousness, the food.”
The band’s bass player, Jesse Ogle, attended the UO, Edwards says,
and this time ’round through Eugene, Hello Dollface’s “heart-quenching
desert vagabond soul” will be backed up onstage by some local players:
Ben Scharf, Matt Calkins and Brad Erichsen of local jazz-funk group
Eleven Eyes.
“Jesse played with all of these local cats while attending the UO,”
Edwards says. “The band is organically designed as an open collective
for collaboration.” Hello Dollface is often on the road, sharing stages
with many musicians. “It becomes a new sound experience,” Edwards
says. “We like to keep it fresh.”
Musicians often struggle when asked to describe their sound, but
not Edwards: “We love this question,” she says. “Our sound has evolved
as we have as musicians. Today, our sound is ambiguous and
simultaneously simple. In one word, we say: soul.” Edwards adds, “We
wander, we travel, we throw down, we lay it down. It’s fiery, authentic,
honest and raw.”
Hello Dollface is playing several times in the Eugene area: twice at
the Oregon Country Fair, and once at “local favorite” Sam Bond’s. “There
are some heavy players in the region,” Edwards says. “I feel honored to
share our music and our passion in a place that caters to such a
wonderful diversity of artists and musicians.”
Hello Dollface plays with The Long Hello 9 pm Thursday, July 17, at
Sam Bond’s; $5. — William Kennedy
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