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new year’s eve
Ring in the new year with Salgado, Shreve
N ATIONALLY
ACCLAIMED BLUES MAN
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ew Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, will will
be a mix of ringing in the new
year as well as turning back the
clock when blues man Curtis Salgado
teams up with fellow Northwesterner
Hank Shreve.
For Salgado, it’s a trip to the past on a
stage that he was the first performer on
at the FEC some 20 years ago.
The Hank Shreve Band will open the
evening concert at 9 p.m., followed by
Salgado in an evening that will bring
Salgado full-circle as the FEC celebrates
its 20th anniversary.
Salgado began his career leading The
Nighthawks, a Eugene-based band
before joining forces with Robert Cray,
singing and playing harmonica with the
band for six years — including singing
on Cray’s debut album, released in 1980.
C URTIS S ALGADO ( LEFT )
WILL JOIN
Over his renowned blues career,
Salgado has performed with Steve
Miller, Carlos Santana and was the
inspiration behind John Belushi’s cre-
ation of the Blues Brothers characters in
the late 1970s.
Salgado was nominated for four of the
Blues Foundation’s 2009 Blues Music
Awards, including Soul Blues Male
Artist of the Year and Soul Blues Album
of the year for his album, “Clean
Getaway.”
In 2010, Salgado won the Soul Blues
Male Artist of the Year award, which he
won again in 2012.
In 2013, he won the Blues Music
Award for the B.B. King Entertainer Of
The Year, Soul Blues Male Artist and
Soul Shot won Soul Blues Album Of
The Year.
N ORTHWEST
BLUES GROUP THE HANK
S HREVE B AND D EC . 31
Hank Shreve began playing harmoni-
ca at the age of 8 and has established
himself as a major harmonica talent on
the blues scene in the Pacific
Northwest.
He won the Northwest Harmonica
Championship in 2006 and the Muddy
Award for Best Harmonica player in
2009.
Shreve was a featured artist in the
Harmonica Blow-off at the 2009
Waterfront Blues Festival along with
Rick Estrin and Randy Chortkoff.
While playing with the Ty Curtis
Band in 2009, the band took second
place in Memphis at the International
Blues Challenge.
In addition to many music luminaries,
he has shared the stage with Honeyboy
Edwards, Merle Haggard, Norton
AT THE
FEC.
Buffalo, Gregg Rolie, Sista Monica
Parker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds,
Curtis Salgado, Paul DeLay and many
others.
The Hank Shreve Blues Showcase,
now in its second year at Whiskey River
Ranch in Springfield, is where Hank
fronts an all-star line up with Skip Jones
on keyboards, Tim Donahue on drums,
Bill Shreve on bass and Stan Welsh on
guitar; sharing the stage with guest per-
formers such as Karen Lovely, Bob
Ruggerio, Lisa Mann, Henry Cooper and
Salgado.
Tickets for this one-of-a-kind concert
and New Year’s Eve experience are
available by calling the FEC box office
at 541-997-1994 or visit www.eventcen-
ter.org.
Music
Danny O’Keefe to headline Winter Music Festival
This year’s Winter Music Festival will
bring nine bands and headliner Danny
O’Keefe, best known for his hit single
“Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues.”
Among the bands performing at the
two-day music festival, Jan. 14 and 15,
will be Cabin Fever Northwest, RJ
Ballard, Ian McFeron, Halie and the
Moon, Pretty Gritty, Midnight Darlins,
Castletown, The Colin Trio, as well as
Haley Johnsen, who will open for
O’Keefe.
The festival will take place Saturday,
Jan. 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
COURTESY PHOTO
In 1968, O’Keefe was a member of a
Danny O’Keefe
four-man heavy psychedelic rock band
named Calliope. The group recorded one album, “Steamed,” for Buddah
Records before disbanding.
O’Keefe received national aclaim for
“Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” in
September 1972, and reached number 9
on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It stayed on the Billboard chart for 14
weeks and sold a million copies.
The gramophone record’s sales culmi-
nated in a gold disc issued by the RIAA
in June 1973.
O’Keefe’s unique lyrical melodies
earned him a reputation as an important
songwriter of his genre.
With Bob Dylan, O’Keefe co-wrote
the environmental movement anthem
“Well Well Well.”
In concert with his music and through
his organization, The Songbird
Foundation, O’Keefe has been active in
the environmental field, helping to
develop public awareness of the effect
that indiscriminate coffee-growing tech-
niques have on the songbird population.
O’Keefe’s songs have been covered by
numerous musicians, including Jackson
Browne, Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell,
John Denver, Donny Hathaway, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Judy Collins, Leon Russell,
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jimmy
Buffett and Alison Krauss.
O’Keefe will perform Saturday, Jan.
14, from 8:20 to 9:20 p.m.
Tickets to this years Winter Music
Festival are now available by visiting the
FEC box office, calling 541-997-1994 or
visit www.eventcenter.org.
helping the hungry
Tickets to be available for annual Florence Crab Crack on Dec. 1
Join 399 other crab lovers at
the sixth-annual Florence Crab
Crack on Saturday, Feb. 4, from
4 to 7 p.m. Enjoy great food and
company while aiding the less
fortunate in the area, with all
proceeds benefitting Florence
Food Share.
Oregon coast Dungeness
crab, along with pasta, coleslaw,
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Tickets to this event are $35
each, with only 400 tickets to
be available. The deadline for
ticket purchases is Jan. 25 and
will not be available at the FEC
doors.
Get tickets by calling Bob
MacDuffee at 541-997-9599 or
email him at dunesguy97439@
yahoo.com.
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A no-host bar will also be
available.
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