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Many have claimed that Bollywood — India’s
film industry — is bigger than Hollywood, yet
Bollywood rarely enters our orbit here in the
states. It’s too bad; Bollywood has cultivated a
fabulous, colorful and often over-the-top silly
world of music, dance and community. Here’s
your chance to try the thumka or chaali arebi
(dance steps) when the city of Eugene pARTy
on the Plaza event series hosts Prashant
Kakad, a Portland-based Bollywood singer, DJ
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and dancer, and the Jai Ho! dance troupe 5:30
DOWN IN THE
pm
Thursday, July 28, at the Hult Plaza; FREE.
WILLAMETTE
There will be a Bollywood dance lesson and
VALLEY
performance. If you want to brush up on your
Bollywood beforehand, check out Kakad’s
insightful TedX talk “Bollywood — The Timing is Right.”
Watch it at bit.ly/2a9nI8k.
BEAT
If the unprecedented wealth disparity between the rich and the poor
is getting you down, you may try listening to the wryly named Rich
Corporation, a really, really fun power-pop band — although the band
prefers “money rock” as a genre — from Sacramento touring through
Eugene with its EP Stay Wealthy, 8 pm Thursday, July 21, at Wandering
Goat Coffee Co.; $5. Hard-rock band American Arson joins the party.
Sam Bond’s Garage is finally old enough to drink at its own
establishment. The beloved Whiteaker bar and venue is celebrating its
21st anniversary with a party 8:30 pm Friday, July 22, featuring local
bands Snow White (experimental dream pop) and Reeble Jar (funk,
blues, jam) along with Portland’s Water Tower (high-energy bluegrass,
old time); $10.
Another treat at ye olde garage is the fruition of a long-distance
musical partnership between Takashi O’Hashi of Japan and Portland’s
Casey Neill when they perform together as Big Bridges off their 2015
album Will to Ascend. O’Hashi is a renowned thrasher, spending time
playing with the legendary Japanese art-metal band Seikima-II, and
Neill is a frequent visitor to Eugene with his band Casey Neill and The
Norway Rats; the two met through a mutual friend (Joe Trump, no
relation, we hope). Catch the duo 9 pm Sunday, July 24; $7.
Don’t miss: The Jazz Station welcomes Grammy-winning pianist
Andy Armer with his trio playing standards and the “obscure” 7:30 pm
Friday, July 22; perennial dance-rock favorite The B-52s shake up the
Lane County Fair 7:30 pm Friday, July 22, followed by “Fight Song”
rising star and singer-songwriter Rachel Platten 7:30 pm Saturday,
July 23.
PRASHANT KAKAD
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