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Fri Jan 27
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• We note with sadness the death on Jan. 20 of Edwin Coleman, jazz musician,
professor of English and outspoken civil rights advocate in Eugene. He died at age 84
from complications of flu. As a jazz guitarist, Coleman backed up such musicians as Ella
Fitzgerald, Vince Guaraldi and Peter, Paul and Mary. As a civil rights advocate he met the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As a professor at the University of Oregon, he stood for
equality and tolerance, bringing his love of African-American literature, folklore and
drama to generations of Oregon students. As professor emeritus, he argued against the
renaming of the UO’s Deady Hall, saying that to erase Deady’s checkered history would
be to throw out the good with the bad. The memorial begins at 2 pm, Tuesday, Jan. 31, at
Willamette Christian Center, 2500 W. 18th Avenue.
• No matter your politics, or for whom you voted, telling blatant lies is simply
unacceptable. And gaslighting the media, or anyone for that matter, is also unacceptable.
Alternative viewpoints are a thing; alternative facts simply are not. Is the media
sometimes biased? Yes, here at EW we have a progressive slant. Does the media make
mistakes? Sometimes, and we own up to them. But real news sources don’t lie. And real
presidents shouldn’t lie either.
Chico Schwall’s American Roots
The American String Band
From fiddle & banjo to Bluegrass, Swing & beyond
Wednesday February 1
Karen Warren, Sponsor
• Here’s a theory about David Reaves. He was the offensive coordinator brought to
the Ducks from South Florida by new football coach Willie Taggart. Reaves lasted less
than a week in Eugene before being arrested by the Eugene Police Department early on
Sunday morning, Jan. 21, charged with DUII and several other things, and then fired for
cause by the UO. The theory: This guy was out celebrating his great good fortune. A job
with a football program and lush facilities backed by a benevolent billionaire whose
blood runs green and yellow; a salary of $300,000 a year (the Oregon governor makes
$98,600); a lively little city, albeit somewhat sunless, that loves Duck football and
brews great beer. What’s not to celebrate? But the next celebration, if there is one for this
young new football coach, might include a designated driver.
Leslie “River” Kennedy
June 15, 1959-November 19, 2016
A Celebration of Life will be held February 6, 2017 at the WOW
Hall in Eugene. Check River Kennedy’s Facebook Page for more
details.
Leslie River Kennedy, owner and president of Terra Firma Botanicals
and longtime Oregon Country Fair craft er and Saturday Market
vendor passed away peacefully at home at age 57 from complications
of Multiple Sclerosis.
Raised in Th e Town of Rye, New York, she left at 17 in search of
her “people”. She lived on Th e Farm, an intentional community in
Tennessee and studied midwifery. She later moved to Ruch, Oregon,
where she acquired Terra Firma Botanicals in the early 1980’s. She ran
the business out of a small cottage on her land outside of Eugene while
raising her two children with their father Michael Kennedy.
River had an intimate and intuitive relationship to plants, understanding and honoring their essential
healing powers. She was passionate about sharing her knowledge and dedication to our Earth Mother,
as a medicine maker and teacher. Th is drive to help and bring harmony to people’s lives also motivated
her to become a trained mediator at Community Mediation Services.
River was a deep lover of music, a songwriter, a guitarist, and a wild hippy dance freak! Family, blood
and chosen (and canine), were very dear to her heart.
She met her husband John at the OCF over 15 years ago and have been together since through thick and
thin. John gift ed River with his abiding love and support through all.
River fought MS for twenty-two years and refused to let the disease quell her fi ery spirit. She worked at
her business up until a week before she passed. River and Terra Firma Botanicals were avid supporters
and gave generously to many local and environmental causes. Donations may be made in her name to
Water Protectors, NCAP, Oregon Wild, McKenzie River Trust and the Cascades Raptor Center.
She is survived by her husband, John Brian Dowd, her two children, Hopi Aaron Kennedy and Shayana
Dawn Kennedy, her brother Craig Olsheim and her dogs, Satchel B. Mooch and Pongo Mooch.
Fare thee well River, you are missed and deeply loved.
Clarinet
Marmalade
Thu, Feb 9, 7:30 pm - cabaret seating
Sun, Feb 12, 3:00 pm - concert seating
theshedd.org/JazzKings
Coming up next at The Shedd
2.17
2.22
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.9
3.19
3.21
3.22
3.23
3.24
3.30
4.6
The Tony Glausi Sextet
Bill Mays at the Movies
Villalobos Brothers
Tommy Casto & The Painkillers
Jake Shimabukuro
Chuck Redd
MTTA: Puttin’ On The Ritz -
The Songs of Irving Berlin
The Shedd Choral Society
Dervish
Keola Beamer & Jeff Peterson
Davina & The Vagabonds
Ana Popovic
Carl Woideck: Miles Davis
4.14 Honey Whiskey Trio
4.15 A Night of Vocal Arts
4.20 Vasen
4.22 Rumbles Rockin’ Roundup!
4.22 Alasdair Fraser/Natalie Haas
4.26 Helen Sung
4.28-30 Siri Vik: Femme Fatale
5.3 Marc Cohn: 25th Anniv.
5.4-7 Evynne Hollens Contem-
porary Songbook Project
5.5 The Bill Charlap Trio
5.10 Chico Schwall: Song Craft
5.11 The Hanneke Cassel Band
5.12 The Frank Vignola Trio
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