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Art and the Vineyard, presented by Maude Kerns Art Center

Art & the Vineyard is the Northwest’s top art, wine, and music festival, staged along the banks of the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon’s scenic Alton Baker Park. We are sure that you will truly enjoy the ambiance, quality and diversity of offerings in the Artists' Marketplace, Art for Your Garden, and the new Sculpture Garden. Please join us for the 25th Annual Art and the Vineyard Festival. Tickets available at the festival gate or in advance at Maude Kerns Art Center.

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ongwriter, bassist, and published author, Laura Love has thousands of fans throughout North America and Europe. Billboard Magazine continually includes her CDs on their annual top ten lists and the first time she performed on the East Coast was at Carnegie Hall. Laura released her 10th CD in 2007 on her label, Octoroon Biography. Titled NeGrass, it is an acoustic collection of traditional and original field hollers, Negro spirituals and folk songs, produced by Barbara Lamb and recorded in Nashville with some of the finest bluegrass musicians in North America. NeGrass features Laura singing and playing bass with Tim O’Brien, Tracy Nelson, Barbara Lamb, Jeff Autry, Scott Vestal, Rob Ickes, Mike Bub and Alice Vestal, most of whom are Grammy and IBMA award winners. There is a personal and historic theme to NeGrass. It is something of a family history – Laura takes what she knows of her great grandparents’ lives and imagines how it might have been for them around the end of the Civil War as they were being freed from slavery and embarking into an unfamiliar world. NeGrass is a lovely, heartbreaking and joyful piece of work. Laura is a rare recording artist - authentic and deeply rooted, with an extremely diverse appeal. Her management, publicists, record labels and the media all struggle to define Laura’s style. She is an African-American funk bassist with an astonishing voice, who is equally influenced by blues and bluegrass, jazz, folk, gospel, reggae and country. Laura sometimes refers to her style as “folk-funk”, “Afro-Celtic” or “hip-Alachian”. Regardless of how she is described, Laura has an uncanny ability to get her audience to listen beyond their own musical boundaries. She often performs at festivals to older fans who have come to hear straight ahead bluegrass and by the end of her set, the octogenarians line up shoulder to shoulder with the pierced and tattooed and their middle aged parents to get their CDs autographed. It’s quite a sight. On stage, Laura’s voice soars into the stratosphere, she wisecracks with her side men and women, she might mention a local issue, she dances as she snaps her funky bass and no one who sees this is ever the same. Laura is whip smart, down to earth, funny and warm. It’s a winning combination, as evidenced by the long lines of fans waiting to meet her after every show as she tours throughout North America, Australia and Europe. So, what do you call a style that incorporates folk-ish melodies, a wall of harmonies, funk bass and acoustic instrumentation with leanings toward bluegrass, jazz, country and rhythm and blues? It doesn’t matter what you call it - Laura Love survived many personal difficulties to get where she is today. She is happy and grateful to have a life that allows her to tour the world playing music and her joy is evident every minute that she’s on stage. And that joy, for Laura and her audience, is all that really matters.

A celebration of the heritage, community and people of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Features include live entertainment, food, children's activities, parade, mining exhibits, street dance and much more. This year's theme is "Mining Memories".

Pigs on the Wing brings the experience and energy of veteran members of the Northwest's underground original rock scene together in a refreshing, beautifully psychedelic take on the timeless music of Pink Floyd.

Far from an attempt at Floyd-impersonation, POTW generally does accurate versions of the original music but is unapologetic in its interpretation and improvisation of the music in ways that we believe any Pink Floyd fan will appreciate. Rather than focusing on exact replication of Floyd albums or any sort of look-alike mimicry of band members, POTW seeks to capture the atmosphere and rock energy of Pink Floyd in as unpretentious a style as possible.

Pigs on the Wing evolved from Portland rock band Oxcart's performances of Dark Side of the Moon during Winter 2006. Members include guitarist / vocalist Jason Baker, bassist / vocalist Ben Carey, keyboardist / vocalist Matt Jones, and drummer / vocalist Jason Rieve, all of Oxcart. They are joined by vocalist Courtney Sproule and lighting / production manager Dwight Carlisle, both of Portland act Groundscore.