music
THURSDAY
MARCH 21
5TH STREET PUBLIC
MARKET Olem Alves—
5pm; n/c
BARNLIGHT Karaoke w/
Bre—9pm; n/c
BEERGARDEN Robert
Meade—7:30pm; n/c
DEXTER LAKE CLUB
Karaoke w/ Jared—7pm;
n/c
HULT CENTER Eugene
Symphony: Dr. Atomic &
Brahms—7:30pm; $12.50-
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LUCKEY'S The Grateful
Dead Family Jam—10pm;
$5
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Dueling
Pianos—7pm; n/c
MCDONALD THEATRE
Space Jesus, Buku, Sayer,
Huxley Anne—7pm; $22-27
OLD NICK'S PUB Sunny
Ledfurd w/ Flipside Funk—
9pm; $10-15
TERRITORIAL
VINEYARDS The Porch
Band—7pm; n/c
THE JAZZ STATION
Polynomial Trio—7:30pm;
$12
WILDISH COMMUNITY
THEATER Hawai Live: Nā
Hoa & Kamakakehau
Fernandez—7pm; $17-30
LISTINGS
WHIRLED PIES Rick Zar—
6pm; n/c
FRIDAY
MARCH 22
AXE & FIDDLE Curtis
Salgago—8:30pm; $20
DUCK BAR & GRILL
Karaoke w/ Bre—9pm; n/c
GRIDIRON GRILL & TAP
HOUSE Karaoke w/ Zach—
9pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Has/Will, The
Living Skins, Alex Pedrick—
10pm; $5
JERSEY'S Karaoke w/
Sassy Patty—8pm; n/c
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Soulicious—
8pm; $6
MCDONALD THEATRE
Citizen Cope, G. Love &
Special Sauce—7pm; $36-
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MOE'S Julia Timphony w/
Barbara Dzuro & Jack
Niederman—7:30pm; n/c
MOE'S Barbara Dzuro &
Jack Niederman—6pm; n/c
MULLIGAN'S PUB Jason
Hittle & Gringo Mariachi—
8pm; n/c
O'DONNELL'S Karaoke w/
Tim—9pm; n/c
OREGON WINE LAB Live
Music w/ Rob Tobias—7pm;
n/c
SAGINAW VINEYARD
Hipbillys—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S BREWING
Corwin Bolt & The
Wingnuts—7pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Intuitive Compass—
9:30pm; $6
SWEET CHEEKS WINERY
Gumbo Groove—6pm; n/c
TERRITORIAL
VINEYARDS The Eric
Richardson Trio—7pm; n/c
THE DUCK BAR Karaoke
w/ Freezy B—8pm; n/c
THE JAZZ STATION Amy
Jones—7:30pm; $12
THE O BAR & GRILL
Karaoke w/ KJ Fluffs—9pm;
n/c
THE SHEDD Antonio
Sanchéz & Migration—
7:30pm; $34-38
WHIRLED PIES Uncle
Stumbles—6pm; n/c;
Diggin’ Dirt & Far Out
West—9:30pm; $10
WILDCRAFT CIDER
WORKS Blue Lotus w/
Spyn Reset—7pm; $8-10
WOW HALL The Garcia
Project (Recreating Jerry
Garcia Band shows from
1976-1995)—8pm; $20-25
SATURDAY
MARCH 23
BEERGARDEN Jessy Bird
& the Desert Sage—
7:30pm; n/c
EUGENE DOWNTOWN
LIBRARY Copacetic—3pm;
n/c
LUCKEY'S Sam & The
Courtesy Clerks—10pm; $5
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Steve
Benavides & Haywire—
8pm; $6
POURHOUSE TAVERN
Karaoke w/ Dom—9pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S BREWING
Jim Carr—7pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Flipside, A Hot Mess, Sweet
N Juicy—9:30pm; $5
TERRITORIAL
VINEYARDS Jesse Boden
Band—7pm; n/c
THE BREWSTATION
Charming Disaster—
4:30pm; n/c
THE DUCK BAR & GRILL
Ozone Baby—9pm; n/c
THE JAZZ STATION Ken
Peplowski—7:30pm;
TWISTED DUCK Karaoke
w/ Sean—8pm; n/c
WHIRLED PIES One More
Saturday Night—n/c before
9pm; $10 at 9pm
WILDCRAFT CIDER
WORKS Scoob (Michael
Kay) w/ Special Guests—
7pm; $5
SUNDAY
MARCH 24
HAPPY HOURS Karaoke
w/ Crystal—7pm; n/c
MCDONALD THEATRE
Dave Mason & Steve
Cropper—7pm; $39-175
RIVER STOP
RESTAURANT Open Jam
Session w/ Brian Chevalier
& Tim Donahue—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Penny Opry, Rainy Eyes—
8pm; $5
THE JAZZ STATION
Sunday Learners Jam host-
ed by Jon Corona—7:30pm;
don.
WILDCRAFT CIDER
WORKS Cosmic Strings—
4pm; n/c
MONDAY
MARCH 25
OLD NICK'S PUB Irish Jam
& Service Industry Night!—
6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Richard Crandall &
Friends—8pm; n/c
THE DUCK BAR Karaoke
w/ Jim Jim—9pm; n/c
TUESDAY
MARCH 26
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Rooster's
Blues Jam—7pm; n/c
MULLIGAN'S PUB Steve
Ibach—8:30pm; n/c
RATTLESNAKE BBQ AT
THE DEXTER LAKE CLUB
Acoustic Night on Taco
Tuesdays—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Bluegrass Jam—9pm; n/c
THE COTTAGE EVENTS
VENUE Jazz Jam—6:30pm;
n/c
WHIRLED PIES Acoustic
Jams—7pm; n/c
WEDNESDAY
MARCH 27
CHOW David Mitchell —
Jerry Gleason Jazz Guitar
Duo —6:30pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Groove
Sessions w/ the Groove
Crew—10pm; $3
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Inner
Limits—6pm; $6
THE JAZZ STATION
Jammin' w/ the Pros—
7:30pm; $3-5
THE PUBLIC HOUSE Still
Thinking Trio—7pm; n/c
Two of a
Kind
L.A. DUO KOLARS
RETURNS TO EUGENE
By Will Kennedy
W
hen she was a little girl, Lauren
Brown, percussionist with
Los Angeles duo Kolars, was
about to go on stage for a
dance recital, but her young
dance partner, with whom
she’d rehearsed the routine,
panicked at the last minute and couldn’t go on.
“She started crying,” Brown remembers of the
fateful performance. “I was thinking, at 8, ‘What am I
supposed to do?’ I still had to go out there.”
Brown did the whole routine solo, learning one of
the most fundamental rules of show business: The
show must go on. It’s a principle she remembers as a
professional musician to this day, whether performing
for 10 people or a thousand, she says.
I’m talking on the phone with Brown and Rob Kolar,
singer and guitarist in Kolars, from SXSW in Austin,
where the musicians are set to perform.
On March 28, Kolars returns to Eugene in support
of their 2017 self-titled release. Last year, the band
shared a stage with Shakey Graves in a sold-out show
at McDonald Theatre.
Kolar and Brown have been friends for a while,
playing in a variety of music projects. They even dated
briefly. Kolar remembers the minute he met Brown.
“Lauren rolled in in a leather jacket and started
E U G E N E W E E K LY . C O M
Kolars
with Alex Lilly
Thursday, March 28, 8pm
Wildcraft Cider Works
$10 advance, $12 door, 21-plus
whipping everyone’s ass at pool,” Kolar says. “Who is
this girl?” he thought. “That was the beginning of the
friendship.”
The pair played together previously in the indie-folk
band He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, and it was in this
earlier project that Brown developed her unique “tap
dancing” style of playing drums.
“The way Lauren plays drums lends itself to being a
front person,” Kolar says, describing Brown’s approach
to her instrument as a mix of Mo Tucker from the Velvet
Underground and Fred Astaire.
As guitarist and singer, “it isn’t like I’m the front
person” in the band, Kolar says. “We share that duty.”
While Brown got into music via dance, Kolar at
a young age fell in love with the music of Bob Marley,
Elvis, Eddie Cochran and punk. “I wanted to sing,” he
says, “but didn’t have this pure singing voice. Punk
gave me this ability to express myself.”
After a protracted break from performing, Brown
and Kolar decided they wanted to get back at it, this
time as a duo. “It was a little daunting at first,” Kolar
says. “Only the two of us — will we be enough?”
“In other bands, we were looking to the past,” he says,
and while Kolars does incorporate modern technology
and production value in what they do, they also keep
“that live rock ’n’ roll flare that we love,” he says — a
kinetic, sometimes instrumental stew of swinging
rockabilly, classic country, surf rock and ’60s kitsch. It’s
an arithmetic that, a little like The Black Keys, manages
to be both retro and thoroughly modern.
“Our goal was really to have fun,” Brown says.
“Musically, we don’t want to be locked into any one
genre. Let’s not put any kind of label on it — let’s
combine everything we love about music. What can we
do to create something new?” ■
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