• Donkey Musicians’ Open Stage, 9-11 p.m. Donkey Coffee and Espresso. • Ladies Night with DJ Ace. 19 South. • Open acoustic jam night. Thursdays at the Nelsonville Eagles Lodge bar. • Karaoke from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Thursday nights. Lakeview Tavern, 3718 Enlow Road, Athens. • Open Stage with Steve Zarate. Full bands and solo acts welcome at the Smiling Skull. 9 p.m. • Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. Andrew Trachsel and Richard Suk, conductors. 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, OU. • The Hairy Hearts, The Sundresses and Spooktober. Free show. Casa Cantina. • JJ Reid, The Wallabeez and Mindfish. Jackie O’s. • Latin Dance Night. Jackie O’s Annex. • All Black Affair, DJ dance party. The Union.
Savoy Family Cajun Band comes to Stuart's Opera House Friday
Written by Athens NEWS Staff
Thursday, 05 November 2009 00:34
Stuart's Opera House is hosting an evening of Cajun music and dancing with the Savoy Family Cajun Band at 8 this Friday. Savoy plays honed-down, hardcore Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality, according to a news release.
Though the old tunes have been revived and returned to new life intensity in their hands, the Savoy Family Cajun band doesn’t play from a studied angle, according to the release. Band members Marc and Ann Savoy and their sons, Joel and Wilson, each hold his and her own as strong individual group members, making up a tight, intense sound.
Play follows girl trying to find sense in a crazy world
Written by Daniella Limoli
Thursday, 05 November 2009 00:32
The Ohio University School of Theater is hosting its second production of the season with an imaginative performance of “The Wonderful World of Dissocia,” which runs tonight through Saturday and Nov. 11-14 in Kantner Hall’s Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater.
Written by Anthony Neilson, “The Wonderful World of Dissocia” shows what can happen when our lives lose control and we go looking for the time we lost among the chaos.
Our submissions are starting to fall off again for Athens Ear Buds. We have a lot of folks on the mailing list who have stopped participating entirely. I guess it’s time to rummage through my closet for those compromising photos of certain AWOL Ear Budsters engaging in, how should I say it, eccentric sexual practices. It’s amazing what a person can do with a good telephoto lens and PhotoShop.
Anyway, reputations are overrated, right?! — AEB provost and executive vice president Terry Smith
Fevers can be fun. Especially when I get to hang out and jam with Jimi Hendrix! In my feverish state this past weekend, I found myself hanging out in a brown and orange 1979 Ford F-150 pick-up truck with Jimi grooving on the bench seat. He had on a denim shirt and blue jeans with a short fro, very understated. He sat there on the passenger side with an unplugged black and white Stratocaster, and I sat behind the wheel with two Ticonderoga #2 pencils. We jammed.
Jimi just strummed sans amplification as I tapped out a rhythm on the steering wheel and dashboard. It was a somewhat subdued and somber tune — lacking flair and plucked from the air — but it had a distinctly Hendrix flavor. We explored the nameless tune for countless moments until Jimi let me know he was hungry. Upon reflection, I realize that he didn’t speak to me with any voice, but inside my head. We left the truck in search of food.
Just in time for Athens’ favorite annual holiday, a local filmmaker has released a twisted cinematic tale of Halloween.
“Halloweenies,” written, produced and directed by Dane McCarthy, tells the story of a “seriously dysfunctional” group of acquaintances, McCarthy said Wednesday.
Ohio University’s Aesthetics Technologies Lab is hosting an innovative group of musicians, The Rubber Tree Quartet, for a week of balloon twisting and musical fun.
The residency will present the talents of international artists Stan Wood, Fran Holland, Addi Somehk and Gabriel Rowland and showcase their creative way of bringing music to audiences. The group plays a wide-range of unique, self-made instruments created from latex balloons, such as a balloon bass, balloon drums and the vibraband.
Ohio University’s School of Music Hallowpalooza is a concert fit for ghouls, witches and zombies alike. The second annual Halloween-themed concert, which benefits student scholarships, will present a wide variety of the school’s instrumental and vocal ensembles at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Auditorium.
It’s been an excessively crazy week around here; it always is during the pre-election/pre-Halloween run-up, but hey, we always find time for Athens Ear Buds, right?.
As usually, you can order or buy most of this music at Haffa’s on West Union Street in Athens. I requested Halloween-themed submissions this time, though it doesn’t look like my contrary, chronically distracted AEB contributors paid much attention. Oh well.
You can find me Halloween night dressed up as the faceless Athens Ear Buds editor, compiler and all-round slave to the rhythm and the beat. Whatever the meaningless hell of abstracted stream of consciousness that means. — Terry Smith
Adagio was a pale, lanky man with waxy skin, slow and steady in his manner, except when he took his hay fever medicine, Allegro, which made him zip right along.
He never saw the sun; it bored the daylights out of him. That led him to become a musician, a singer/songwriter with a wide range of interests, from Count Basie to Count Dracula. It wasn’t his fluttery battiness that put people off; it was that he was a vampire. That’s right, he sucked.
Skeletonwitch is raw. So raw that they uprooted Uncle Kraker from his spot in the Billboard Top 200 last week with the success of their new album, “Breathing The Fire,” which dropped on Oct. 21.
In just a week, Athens’ biggest metal band sold 3,500 albums in the United States, enough to seat them at #151 on the Billboard 200 chart, which includes the highest-selling albums from music of all genres. And if that’s not enough, Skeletonwitch snagged the top of the Heatseekers chart at #2, which rates the best-selling albums from those bands who have never broken the 200 before.
Trace Hacquard is an English teacher at Logan High School. He’s also a graduate student in journalism at Ohio University. And he loves that old-time rock and roll.
He combined those last two aspects of his life in authoring a book, “Deadlines and Commitments,” available from www.lulu.com. The title is courtesy of a Bob Seger tune, and gives a hint of the book’s central fixation – the current state, and possible future, of what Hacquard considers mainstream rock music.
Collections Collected Friday 12-5pm, Saturday 1-5pm, Sunday 1-5pm The Kennedy Museum, The Ridges A collaborative project between The Kennedy Museum of Art and the School of Art, displaying collections of objects from selected Ohio University departmental collections and collections of miniatures and small objects from the Athens community.
Stories of Athens: A Walking Tour Start times: Friday at 4pm, Saturday at 1pm & 4pm, Sunday at 1pm Tours last for 1.5 to 2 hours Athens County Courthouse, 1 South Court Street
Friday & Saturday
Mark Dion: Collected Editions: 1992-2009 Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-4pm Trisolini Gallery Free and open to the public Unique display of limited editions of prints and multiples created between the years 1992 - 2009. DeWitt Godfrey Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-4pm Ohio University Art Gallery, 536 Seigfred Hall Best known for his architectural scale constructions in weathered steel, Godfrey explores the space between seriality and singularity, and between chance and artistic necessity. First American West, Interact with Local History, and Material Memories Friday 12-4pm, Saturday 12-4pm Athens County Historical Society and Museum, 65 North Court Street ART/Oberfest 132 West State Street, Athens A community celebration of the visual, performing and culinary arts. The Hostage 8:00pm The Forum Theater, RTV Building This is a bawdy, poignant, life-affirming tale of love, loss, and a good dose of Irish whiskey. The mainstage shows are suitable for general audience, although probably not for children under 13.
Friday
Halloween Costume Fundraiser 11:00am - 1:00pm Howard Park (between RTV and Hudson)
Faculty Research Forum presenter Craig Howley Noon - 1pm McCracken Hall 234
Pumpkin Carving 7:00 - 9:00pm Baker Center Multipurpose Room Sponsored by The Association for Cultural Exchange and the International Student Union. Coffee with the Folks 8:00pm The Donkey Coffee Cafe A fundraiser sponsored by Up ‘til Dawn
Planet Ping 9:00pm - 12:00am Ping Center Come enjoy hayrides, a bonfire, a hypnotist, pumpkin carving/painting, free food, and games and prizes.
Saturday
TailGreat Park Tailgates 7:00am TailGreat Park
Family Weekend 5K Walk/Run 8:00am (registration) 8:30am (race) Ping Center front lawn
Corn Hole Tournament 11:00am (registration) Noon (tournament) TailGreat Park Sponsored by Alpha Delta Pi
Zienzele Handmade Basket Sale 11:00am - 3:00pm Baker Center 4th Floor Old Man’s Cave Day Hike Trip 11:00am - 5:00pm Old Man’s Cave, Meet at the Rental Center at 11:00am ready to go! Join Outdoor Pursuits on a 7-mile day hike through the Old Mans Cave region of Hocking Hills State Park. Attire for Hire Noon - 4:00pm Baker Center 1st Floor Professional Clothing Drive
Skate for the Cure 1:00pm Bird Arena Sponsored by OU Synchronized Skating Ohio Football v. Kent State 2:00pm Peden Stadium
Ben Bailey of Cash Cab 8:00pm Memorial Auditorium Presented by the Ohio University Program Council (UPC) Bailey is the host of the highly successful shows “Cash Cab” and “Cash Cab: After Dark” on the Discovery Channel. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 9:00pm Baker Center Theatre, 2nd Floor Baker Center
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