Events

Today the Jazz Café presents for your listening enjoyment these fine artists Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kevyn Lettau, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, Bobby Hutcherson, Royal Jelly Jive, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Chuck Leavell and much more. Broadcasting LIVE from Whirled Pies in downtown Eugene and streaming LIVE @ live.kocf.org

Originally created as a side project in 2008, The BeatCrunchers quickly grew in scope to start carving their own niche in the NW music scene. Borrowing members from bands such as Macaco Velho, Samba Ja, Kef, and the Klezmonauts, the group draws from a variety of genres and sensibilities to form a fresh and distinct sound.

The Beat Crunchers are fresh, funky, and live. They get the booty shaking and keep it shaking with their mighty Brazilian percussion and exuberant horns. The Beat Crunchers take you on a breathless tour of the world’s best dance parties, Afropop to Balkan to Cumbia. This is a band that turns everything it touches to a divine rug-cutting boogie-down, be it a childhood cartoon theme song or a funked-up Rachmaninov prelude. The Beat Crunchers resist boxes, and enable you lovely dancers to do the same.

Ken Sokolov – drum kit, vocals
Matt Noble – bass, vocals
Matt Pilcher – Percussion, vinyl, vocals
Markus Johnson – Surdo, cuica, dub effects
Ashley Wright – Tenor saxophone, keyboard, vocals
Ryan Chaney — trombone
Alex Lowe – trumpet
Cody Simpson – trumpet

Garcia Birthday Band (GBB), based in Portland Oregon, is the Pacific Northwest’s premier Grateful Dead experience! Formed in 1999, GBB is a group of veteran musicians celebrating and interpreting the vast repertoire of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, and bringing to life the good ole’ vibes that were contagious ‘on tour’ back in the day. But this isn’t a “tribute band”… Drawing on decades of individual and shared experience, GBB crafts and transforms this great music into something fresh and original. Solid chops, tight arrangements and fine harmonies all contribute to the band’s musical travels and explorations of one of the greatest and most diverse songbooks of all time.

Always sure to raise the roof and keep the dance floor rockin’, hoppin’ and shakin’, the band’s quickly growing fan base finds the community spirit and kind vibes contagious! Music-lovers with a wide variety of tastes enjoy GBB’s extensive playlist which includes classics from Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Cliff, Traffic, Dr. John, Merle Haggard, The Meters, Neville Brothers, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, James Brown, Warren Zevon, Rev. Gary Davis, Marty Robbins, Bruce Cockburn, Phish, and Peter Tosh, to name a few… No two GBB shows are ever alike and the band always strives to bring a true-to-life traditional vibe to each and every performance!

With musicians hailing from the likes of New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS), David Nelson Band, Kingfish, Cubensis, the Buds of May, the Ike Willis Band, Brothers Jam and LOOS3, the band is certain to provide high musical adventure!

Going to The String Cheese Incident show that night? Come over after SCI is done, bring your Saturday night (9/28) SCI ticket stub, and get $5 off admission to see GBB.

Travis Foster, Charles Leal, Quinton Anderson, Jeff Eksedt, Aaron Anderson playing a mixture of psychedelic surf funk rock with vocals.

Robert will be plugging in & turning up last Wednesday of every month to play some original tunes! Come start your Wednesday night with me pushing all the midweek blues away!

Robert Meade’s a singer/songwriter, solo acoustic musician who’s been living and performing throughout the Northwest area for over a decade. His brand of upbeat Rhythm ‘n’ Blues & Americana music channels some of rock’s greatest souls in his raw, vulnerable lyricism and playing. It’s bound to lift the spirit!

Enjoy some original Psychedelic Country Rock that will get you moovin and grooving for Free! While munching on some wonderful pizza from Whirled Pies on 8th and Charnelton in downtown Eugene