’Tis the Season to Listen
FROM NEW AGE SYNTH ROCK TO SERIOUS COMIC OPERA, THERE’S HOLIDAY MUSIC
AROUND TOWN FOR EVERY TASTE By Bob Keefer
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS
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othing ignites the holiday spirit like
music — and you can find plenty
of festive music happening around
town between now and the start of
the New Year.
Music is a big part of Light Up
Downtown, the city’s third-annual public lighting ceremo-
ny, which runs from 5:15 to 6:30 pm Friday, Nov. 17, at the
West Park Blocks. Check out everyone from Mayor Lucy
Vinis to the UO Duck and Eugene’s Slug Queen Santa Fri-
da Elisa Refugio Babosita at a festive event that includes
music by Eugene Concert Choir, Ridgeline Ukulele Ex-
travaganza and the Sheldon High School Dublinaires.
The fun continues downtown on Friday evenings in De-
cember. FREE.
You’ll hear a progressive New Age holiday sound at
the celebration of the 32nd anniversary of the Mannheim
Steamroller Christmas album at the Hult Center, 7:30 pm
Sunday, Nov. 26, when Chip Davis and the ’rollers bring
that sound alive, complete with multimedia effects. Tickets
$35 and up at hultcenter.org.
For a traditional performance from a long-time Eugene
choral group, check out The Eugene Gleemen’s Christ-
mas Holiday Concert at 7:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 2, at Cen-
tral Presbyterian Church, 555 E. 15th Avenue; and at 2:30
pm Sunday, Dec. 3, at Wildish Theater, 630 Main Street,
Springfield. Tickets are $15, $12 student and seniors, at
the door or at eugenegleemen.org for the Saturday show or
wildishtheater.com for Sunday.
For an oompahing good time, check out the Oregon
Tuba Association’s Tuba Carol Christmas at noon Sun-
day, Dec. 3, at Two Rivers/Dos Rios Elementary School at
10th and G streets in Springfield. FREE.
Jazz it up at The Shedd in December when the Jazz
Kings offer An Old-Fashioned Christmas in two perfor-
mances 7:30 pm Wednesday, Dec. 6, and 3 pm Sunday,
Dec. 10. The program, with vocals by Shirley Andress,
Bill Hulings and others, includes American Songbook
standards such as “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” “White
Christmas” and “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.”
Tickets are $24-$34 at theshedd.org.
The concert will be repeated 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec.
12, at the LaSells Stewart Center in Corvallis and 7:30 pm
Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the Florence Events Center in Flor-
ence. See theshedd.org for tickets.
Finally, no holiday season would be complete in Eu-
gene without the annual New Year’s Eve Eugene Opera
performance at the Hult Center. This year the opera is, yet
again, back from the dead, having survived its latest oper-
atic brush with insolvency.
To open its new season of two shows it’s putting on
Gioachino Rossini’s crowd-pleasing comedy The Barber
of Seville with baritone Jake Gardner, bass-baritone Mal-
colm MacKenzie, soprano Heather Johnson and tenor
Javier Abreu. Performances are 2:30 pm Saturday, Dec.
30, and 7:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 31. Tickets are $20 to $79
($15 for students) at eugeneopera.com. ■
HOLIDAY FARMERS MARKET
NOV. 18-DEC. 17 At the Lane Events Center (Fairgrounds)
LaneCountyFarmersMarket.org
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