This is Gary's only Oregon appearance!

Tickets are available now!

You can buy them in Eugene at the UO Ticketing Office, House of Records & Museum of Unfine Arts.
*House of Records is giving out complimentary tickets to anyone who buys a Gary Wilson album!
*You can also call the UO Ticketing office and arrange to recieve a ticket. 541-346-4363 mon-fri 9-5

Tickets for sale in Portland: Jackpot Records (both stores)
*Jackpot is also giving out complimentary tickets to anyone who buys a Gary Wilson album!

Gary Wilson emerged from New York's DIY movement with 1977's proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished.

In the 25-year wake before he was found again, Gary's small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck, who shouts him out in "Where It's At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)", The Roots, Questlove, Simpsons creator Matt Goening, and of course, Stones Throws Peanut Butter Wolf.

The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his "disappearance." His music continues to chronicle his obsessions and angst that his followers would expect from him. His songs have been compared to everything from Prince to Talking Heads bursting with electro-funk, synth rock, lounge, soul, and avant-garde jazz.

"Combining elements of pop, proto new wave, jazz, avant-garde composition and electronic music, Gary Wilson delivers sincere lyrics, alternately sweet and angst ridden, about the women in his life and his fantasies..." - NY Times

"Gary Wilson - eccentric or just ahead of his time?" - N.Y. Post

"And thus we witness a man in his 50s exorcising demons and fantasies three decades old, surrounded by mannequins and hot, pillow-fighting brunettes on hand to beat his head with handfuls of flour." - Dazed & Confused (UK)

"Hipster enthusiasms for lounge music and outsider art converged with the 2002 re-release of Gary Wilson's cracked, 1977 cult oddity, You Think You Really Know Me..." - TV Guide

"But the heart of Wilson's music is his obsessive girl-centric lyrics." - sfweekly.com

" ... successfully jumped between new wave synth spasms, soundtrack jazz and skronk, James Brown pep, noise collage, pre-Prince strut, and the Jonathan Richman School of Painfully Geeky Lyricism ..." - Pitchfork

"...smooth-yet-quirky ditties with vague tinges of Steely Dan jazziness and a hefty dose of obsessive-compulsive emotional damage ..." - The Village Voice

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Gary has invited local Eugene band The Mood to back him up for his performance. Mill Race, an experimental pop band from Salem, will be the opening support.

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Part of a long line of avant-garde weirdoes from the Bay Area, Caroliner -- aka Caroliner Rainbow -- often describes itself as "industrial bluegrass," which is likely the closest anyone ever came to pegging their uncategorizable sound. Their songs are rooted in 19th-century Americana and the sort of primitive folk found on the Harry Smith Anthology, but usually came wrapped in a thick crust of experimental noise and a bone-dry, dadaist sense of humor. Their records are just as likely to recall musique concrète or early industrial as country, folk, and bluegrass; everything in between is fair game as well, from early jazz to Eastern music to electronics. Their arrangements tended toward the minimal -- usually centered around banjo, violin, organ, and bass -- but often veer into noise-rock or elaborate orchestrations as well. Often sung by tape-altered voices, Caroliner lyrics are littered with pioneer and cowboy imagery from the Old West, but from a distinctly twisted perspective, with a flair for the macabre.
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Caroliner: http://www.myspace.com/carolinerrainbowherniami

Tickets are available at the UO Ticket Office!



Formed by Janet Weiss & Sam Coomes, Portland, Oregon, '93. Expiremented with various lineups in early live appearances, while recording as a duo, eventually settling on the duo format in performance as well. Released a cassette in '93, & a self-released CD (containing some of the material from the cassette plus additional material, all recorded in the bands basement rehearsal space with "home recording" equipment). Released 2nd Album, "R&B Transmogrification" (recorded in another basement with slightly nicer "semi-pro" recording equipment) on Up Records in '97. Released 3rd album, "Featuring 'Birds'," (recorded in a "professional" studio {16 tracks!})on Up in '98. Toured U.S., Europe, Australia, & Japan opening for & also serving as backup band for Elliott Smith, '98-'99, as well as touring on their own in U.S. & Europe during the same period. Released 4th album, "Field Studies," on Up in '99, continued touring. Released 5th album, "The Sword of God," on Touch & Go Records in '01, returning to self-produced home recording, albeit with upgraded equipment. Released 6th album, "Hot Shit!," on Touch & Go in '03. Quasi albums continue to be licensed internationally through Domino (U.K.) & P-Vine (Japan), & the band continues to tour actively, & are pleased with whatever successes they have achieved while maintaining a personal, anti-corporate approach.

Quasi on My Space: http://www.myspace.com/theequasi
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Experimental Punk & Pop Music by internationally touring act and eugene local band.  Free Pizza for all.

Experimental Dental School have been plucked right out of a nightmare, and they emerge this Saturday with an entirely new brand of their well defined circus noise for all. Their upcoming album "Jane Doe Loves Me" is comprised of a new musical arrangement between the band mates, yet the same delirious punk approach is in tact. Experimental Dental School's supporting act, The Mood, have just realized the release of their new album "Pillow Talk". The Mood plan to mark the show as the official release of their album, and will have it available for purchase. The concert is scheduled to be held at the Ben Linder Room in the EMU starting at 8:30 pm. An entrance fee of $2 is to be welcomed with a free slice of pizza. Rumors of a possible surprise band have not been confirmed. Keep your ears peeled.

           Experimental Dental School

FREE TACO BAR!  (first come, first serve)
FREE CONCERT
featuring Eugene's 
Blast Majesty &
Salem's experimental, minimalist band
The Worrynauts.

Also featuring Sylvester Stallone in his finest!

The Conjugal Visitors

The Conjugal Visitors—they’re the house band at the bar where Bill Monroe drinks dark micro-brews with Blind Willie Johnson. It’s the Conjugal Visitors’ banjo player ripping up another insane solo and their washboard player skittering around the beat when Hank Williams starts freak dancing with Big Mama Thorton. And when Axl Rose and Son House are taking shots with Ralph Stanley, it’s the Conjugal Visitors pouring them rounds of 200 proof Appalachian Twang. The Conjugal Visitors came together in 2003 when Texan Zach Herigodt started reinventing bluegrass banjo with Appalachian-bred guitarist/ Chewbacca look-alike Mozel and Rev. Jesse Lawton on mandolin. Shortly thereafter, blues-harp player extraordinaire Matura Highland jumped into the mix. And when the boys recruited southern California bassist Brien “Bobo” McMullen and washboard/ percussionist/ convicted felon Jobediah Griswald Smith, the Conjugal Visitors were born. With their mix of bluegrass, jazz, country and punk, their shows are always an obscenely good time. The Visitors are hot musicians and great singers, and they aren't shy about putting it on display during marathon sets of tightly woven arrangements and jazzy improvisation. They don’t, however, get too flashy. Watching the Conjugal Visitors perform makes you feel like you've stumbled into a free-wheeling, living room jam session/ party, yet the talent and polish soon shines through the laid back attitude. 2006 was a good year for the Visitors. After establishing a strong following at their weekly parties at Eugene’s the World Café, they began making a name for themselves in the city’s vibrant club scene, playing venues like Sam Bonds Garage and The W.O.W Hall, among many others. They were broadcast on KWVA to the entire Pacific Northwest during the 2006 Willamette Valley Folk Festival. They played clubs and private parties in cites like Portland, Corvallis, and Florence and they also played festivals like Oregon Country Fair, The Faerieworlds Festival, The Blacksheep Family Reunion, and The Mt. Pisgah Mushroom Festival and the Mt. Pisgah Wildflower festival to name a few. The Visitors have 2 live albums available and are currently at work on their first studio album. They are also currently at work putting together a tour of the West Coast. Look for them at a club or festival this summer.


Andrew Heringer

Hailing from the hills of Northern California, Andrew Heringer grew up an obvious student of music. A classically trained guitar and violin player; Heringer found himself pulled toward jazz and folk at a young age. Admiring the honesty of Dylan, while imitating the technical expertise of Pizzarelli, he found himself a unique and engaging sound.

After some youthful stints with the purely rock genre (Eightfold), Heringer returned to his roots with his debut album in 2005.  And We Hope was a beautiful collection   
of vignettes soaked in raw emotion and wrung out, elegantly. His surprisingly poignant lyrics
 and rambunctious vocals resonate with a can't-quite-put-your-finger on it longing, making
 his music as much about what's left in it, as it is about
 what's left out. And We Hope was a stripped down and striking experiment in folk simplicity.

And now, after writing songs for the follow-up to that intimate 2005 debut from the confines of living-room couches across California, the twenty-something singer-songwriter decided "Unfold" would be a fitting title. Backed by a cache of Guitars, Dobro, violin, horns, drums, and a Rhodes piano, Unfold delivers a newfangled punch without jumbling the simplicity and gentleness that was the first record's charm. Heringer’s sentiments, emotions, melancholy and refreshing optimism drift more on the folk (Morgan, the Conqueror) or even sometimes pop (Circles) side of songwriting. Yet his pleasant, often powerful vocals and hook-filled melodies, especially on "Being Here," "Hold My Hand," and "Southern California," convey more of a jazz spirit.

Here are a couple of his songs!

Circles
A Thousand Years
Southern California

And more groups to come!

The Dimes

At first taste, The Dimes may remind you of an old piece of peppermint candy you found in the pocket of a sweater that’s been hiding in the back of your closet. Initially you hesitate, but then you take a bite and suddenly your mouth is exploding with a cool, fresh, minty flavor that makes you feel like you just brushed your teeth.

Currently the guys enjoy listening to artists such as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Arcade Fire, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Matt Costa, Ambulance Ltd., TV On The Radio, The Decemberists, Boy Eats Drum Machine, The Shins, Nada Surf, and The Beatles.

When not rehearsing, recording, and playing Guitar Hero on PS2, you may find the guys loitering in the North Mississippi neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, where Pierre has been sighted carrying on long conversations with himself. Please be patient with him.

Colin Spring

"Tears Of Cool" features Mark Pickerel (Screaming Trees), Jim Sangster (Young Fresh Fellows), Carla Torgerson (Walkabouts), Anne Marie Ruljancich (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter), Kevin Suggs (Shins, Brandi Carlile) and Artis The Spoonman (of the Soundgarden song). It was produced

by Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney, Briefs, Smoosh, Posies).

Colin is a fun and charismatic solo performer. He also plays with a band called the Post Modern Conveniences which is a five piece based in Portland Oregon.

Colin gravitates toward classic 60's and 70's folk in musical style and delivery but he also enjoys conversations about early 80's punk rock, counter culture movements and the literature and artsthat defined them. He tries to make music that is intelligent and literary while maintaining the warts of crude and beautiful folk art. You come in here for the narrative and leave with a piece of proletariat wisdom.

He has recently been selected as a finalist in the Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Sisters Folk Fest and the Willamette Valley Folk Fest and was the Judges Top Pick to attend the Yakima Folk Fest.

Colin is an entertainer. He's a ramblin' man with a song catalog that can accomodate a retirement home or the dive bar across the street. And he will love them both.

He wants to keep you up until 2 AM in your living room drinking whiskey and playing music. Nothing pleases him more.

In the past year, he has opened for notable artists Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets' John Doe of X, Pat MacDonald (Timbuk 3) and Fred Eaglesmith, and he was also stiffed out of an opening gig with the Counting Crows and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's alright though, he got over it.

The BGP

THE FIRST TIME you hear the music of The BGP - you stop - head tilted to the side. You wonder, "What is this music?" Struggling to make sense of infectious grooves fused to smart melodies, your subconscious works to categorize what you are hearing into a genre - to no avail. You allow your curiosity to simmer. Then: You see The BGP live; and it all makes sense.

It's no wonder The BGP's unique brand of 'suburban soul' doesn't jive with traditional musical classifications. White kids from quasi-ghetto suburbs (Hilltop, Spanaway, and Detroit), Brandon, Jeremiah, and Josh are adapted - even comfortable - in the margins of normality. "Be an individual - be 'yourself' unabashedly," says BGP frontman B. Ghorley. For The BGP, this message of individuality isn't just a catch phrase: it's been perfected into an art form.

In a rock-steady 3 year period, The BGP has taken their show on the road gaining significant notoriety as a coveted regional and national touring act. Inciting clapping and dancing throughout the Northwest, including some pretty notable venues (EMP SkyChurch, The Paradox, Tractor Tavern, and The Triple Door Mainstage to name a few), colleges, coffeehouses, bars, radio stations, and the like are picking up what The BGP is putting down.

THE FIRST TIME you hear the music of The BGP you will stop and wonder, "What is this music?" The rest of the time you will stop - musical classifications tossed to the margins of normality...and you will dance.