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The Grateful Web Presents an Evening with the Garcia Birthday Band and The Alligators at Whirled Pies in downtown Eugene Oregon!

Sat, February 24th, 2024

Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
Whirled Pies Eugene, OR
This event is 21 and over
$20 adv / $25 dos

Garcia Birthday Band, based in Portland Oregon, isn’t your mother’s Grateful Dead cover band. Playing for over 20 years, GBB has evolved into something far deeper than the sum of its parts. The beating heart of the Pacific Northwest’s GD community, the band’s ever-expanding fanbase is an experience unto themselves. Using the Dead’s repertoire as a springboard for limitless potential and improvisation, Garcia Birthday Band are a cornerstone of the modern Grateful Dead universe, and their fans have come to expect the unexpected as the norm.

Placing no boundaries on eras of the Dead’s career or catalog, and drawing on decades of individual and shared experience, GBB play the music through an auditory kaleidoscope. Composed of some of the most ace players of the Oregon live music community, the band makes every show an act of exploration, both musically and spiritually. United hearts and minds blur the line between the stage and crowd – a carnival of human potential. If you’re new to Garcia Birthday Band, their doors are always open, and you’ll recognize it as something familiar when you first walk in: home.

You may recognize the fellas in GBB from acts such as Nine Days Wonder, Cubensis, Shafty, Turkey Bouillon Mafia, The Campfire Boys, Deadhenge, Shadow of Sound, The Buds of May, The Ike Willis Band, Dead Sessions, and Dark Matter Transfer.

Emerging out of the swamps of Southern California, The Alligators were formed to celebrate the music of Grateful Dead, “Pigpen” and Beyond!

Simply put, The Alligators are here to party hard and Rock you!

The bands repertoire consists of high-octane, whiskey-soaked versions of the often-neglected Pigpen songs that are the bedrock foundation of the Grateful Dead. They don’t stop there, however, and one is never sure what may materialize in their barn-burning performances.

The Alligators energetic stage show is anchored by lead singer, Pete Carona, who’s unique style is Pigpen-esque, but in No way presented as an impersonation. The dual guitar assault consists of “Stevie Ravioli” on Rhythm guitar and Steven Kim—AKA “The Kimchee Warrior” on Lead Guitar. Chompin’ the keyboards and piano is “Berkey Gator” and on bass guitar is “J.J. Gator” Rounding out the rhythm section on drums is Richard La Chomp.

The bands first show in 2017 was just supposed to be a One-Off gig to fill a 6am time slot of another band who had cancelled a last-minute festival spot. Our Manager and Founder of Southern Californias skull n Roses festival, Chris Mitrovich, had a last-minute epiphany to fill the void with a fresh band to kickstart the day. He rallied each band member who all came from completely different musical backgrounds, and genres, but all shared a common Love for big time jams and Grateful Dead Music.

That day… The Alligators were born. We got such a wonderful response as we came off the stage that first show, all the people in attendance were saying to us “Where do we see you next?” So, we rolled with it, and every show we play, the crowds get bigger and bigger, and the Jams keep getting sweeter and sweeter! The gas pedal has been pinned to the floor ever since. The Alligators play year-round spreading the gospel of fun-loving, ass shakin’, Boogie Woogie, Swamp-rockin’ Jam Music.

Come and join the party and… Come Chomp with us!

Join us on Saturday February 3rd at 7:30pm at Whirled Pies for our 2nd annual Community Show.

We’re excited for this super fun event! Grab some pizza, grab some drinks, sit back and enjoy some dancing! Get there early to get your seats, last year we had a packed house!

We’ll be joined by our friends from @flexstudiosllc@unityschoolofdance@rebellemovement @rebelleburlesque @kendralady.dance Eugene Bhangra @satpavan and @duckstreetdanceclub

And the night will be poppin’ with our incredible emcee Nate @n8boozer

Tickets are $12 general admission and will be sold at the door only.

We are collecting new and gently used, clean BLANKETS, SOCKS and GLOVES for the warming centers. Add your donation to the barrel during the event.

MAYA LOVE birthday tribute to George Harrison at WHIRLED PIES Friday, February 23 starting DOORS @ 6pm, MUSIC @ 6:30pm, $10-$20 suggested donation. * no one turned away
Benefit for Egan Warming Center (a St. Vincent DePaul program)
Donations of blankets, socks and gloves are welcome.

MAYA LOVE is: Rob Tobias: Keyboard, Vocals, Harmonica
Jeremy Wegner: Acoustic Gtr., Vocals Tim Miller: Bass, Voc., Uke Sean Brennan: Drums Brook Adams: Electric Gtr., Vocals

Maya Love was formed in 2005 to pay tribute to the music of George Harrison and his music with The Beatles, his solo career, and through his collaborations with the Traveling Wilbury’s and others. The band has continued to play Harrison tributes and has also played tributes to John Lennon, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Maya Love features some seasoned musicians who all bring great playing and spirit to the music. The band has performed for Private parties and at venues such as Whirled Pies,
Eugene Saturday Market, the Friendly Area Neighborhood picnic,
The Friendly Garden, Eugene Holiday Market and The WOW Hall.

Maya Love has a facebook page and videos of the band can be found on youbtube. Many of the tribute concerts that Maya Love has played have been benefits. They have raised money for many good causes including for St. Vincent de Paul’s Egan Warming Center, Mercy Corps, KEPW FM, The Bethel Student Health Center, and Food For Lane County.

Maya Love links can be found at
www.robtobias.com * www.youtube.com/robtobiasvideos

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maya-Love/269629116415098?fref=ts

For more information and booking contact:
Rob Tobias at 541-517-7906 or rob@robtobias.com

Let’s Come Together to raise money for the Egan Warming Centers. Join us for a fun night of music with Maya Love.

An all ages benefit for the Egan Warming Centers, a program of St. Vincent DePaul

Tiny Whoop Whirled Championships 2024
Pilot capacity will be12(3 heats of 4)
Pilot Fees will be $20 In cash day of event.

Invite your friends and families, we had a good spectator turn out so far this season. Watch live pilot feed of your favorite pilot zooming through the track as well as live timing results on the Big Screen.

A big thank you to our sponsor ViFly, TinyWhoop, Black Cat design Co. and Aerial Outlaws for their support this year.
Also we are going to offer the option to fly the UWL spec an exciting spec class that puts all quads on a very equal footing with lots of LEDs for tight close fun to watch racing.
https://www.undergroundwhoopleague.com/home
Schedule(Tentative):
5:30pm track set up starts
6:30pm Flying starts
9:30pm flying ends tear down begins
9:55pm the venue is returned to how we found it and all gear is out.
We will have a portion of the seating area and the stage as flying space and there will be a portion of the venue reserved for dining patrons. So PLEASE only sign up if you know you can make it and if for some reason you can not make it please give me as much lead time as possible to fill the vacancy.
By participating in the event you recognize and agree to the following rules.
Rules:
1. All quads must be 65mm motor to motor 1s ducted and capable of 25mw vtx out put(we also highly encourage adding additional LEDs to increase visablity for spectators and race announcers) or meet the UWL spec standards https://www.undergroundwhoopleague.com/spec
2. All pilots are solely responsible for any injury or damage that their whoop may cause.
3. Agree to only fly in the designated flight area
4. NO Soldering in the venue
5. Will follow any and all requests made by venue staff
Please understand we may have to make some compromises to fly as guest in other peoples spaces but i don’t believe this will effect our ability to have an enjoyable fly session and a lot of fun with more events in the future.
I would like to continue using this opportunity to grow our local whoop culture and provide our FPV community with some warm fun indoor flying during winter months as well as an opportunity for community out reach. Being invited back and having a good recommendation for future events will be our primary goal as pilots attending this event.
I’m Feeling the momentum and this is gonna be a fun event, cant wait to Whoop it up with everyone for another year.

It’s YA MON’s Birthday! Come raise some money for White Bird and celebrate with his all-star Dragon Rose Band

~ Clear Productions Presents ~

“Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa” is the moniker for a new trio whose members are widely known through their association with the jazz-funk group Snarky Puppy. Zach Brock (4 and 6 string violins), Bob Lanzetti (acoustic and electric guitars), and Keita Ogawa (percussion) formed their new trio during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their music is an eclectic mix of styles that includes elements of jazz, folk, experimental, ambient, groove, and world music, and there is an emphasis on compositions that feature improvisation. The debut album by “Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa,” entitled Drawing Songs, released November 2023 on GroundUp Music with a tour to follow.

Supporting Brock, Lanzetti and Ogawa will be local favorites Spunj playing as their alter-ego side project “Spun-plugged” focusing on groove oriented rhythms vs. their usual jamband roots.

This show is not to be missed and features world-class musicianship!

Join us monthly for U of O History Pub

21+ Doors 8pm. Tickets available at Whirled Pies in advance for $15 and day of show for $20

A trio featuring Mike Dillon (Ricki Lee Jones, Ani DiFranco, Les Claypool) on vibraphone, marimba, Prophet 6, congas, and bongos,

Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) on Fender Rhodes, piano, bass Moog, and melodic a and Nikki Glaspie (Beyonce) on drums, cymbals and vocals, Punkadelick is the unified vision of six hands creating a world that often sounds like the work of an ensemble three times the size.