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Tech N9ne Where: The McDonald Theatre When: 7:00 PM Sunday 
With special guests E-40; Tragedy; and Glasses Malone opening.Strange Music's latest release brings together two things synonymous with Kansas City: Tech N9ne and Gates BBQ on "Tech N9ne Collabos - The Gates Mixed Plate". After the release of K.O.D., Tech N9ne made it clear that he was done with the darkness and ready to party in the light - a mission that definitely comes thru loud and clear on "The Gates Mixed Plate". The first single from the album, "O.G.", is a boisterous homage to Gates BBQ and Kansas City that's sure to leave you hungering for more cuts from "The Gates Mixed Plate"! With a list of features that reads like a rap menu - including Devin The Dude, Jay Rock, Glasses Malone, Yukmouth and Stevie Stone, as well as Strange Music labelmates Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun and Big Scoob. Aaron Dontez Yates, better known by his stage name Tech N9ne, is an American rapper. With a career spanning over 25 years, Tech N9ne is widely regarded as one of the most successful independent artists in contemporary rap and hip-hop music. In September 2008, Tech N9ne officially hit a milestone in his career, recording over a million album sales to date, thanks to the release of his double album, Killer. Despite the accomplishment, the rapper remembers the struggles of his career, up until this point. However, he wasn't surprised. "It just reminded me of all the work we done in the past, up until now. It's something. It's dope," the rapper told BallerStatus.com. "I don't think it's sunken in yet. I've been celebrating for the last two days because that's a hell of an accomplishment. I've been planning success all my life. I'm not even a bit surprised, I'm happy about it. That just means I was right." www.therealtechn9ne.com 
Ticket Pricing: $28 in advance | $33 day of show Contact Info: October 7 Blind Boys of Alabama with Ralph Stanley & his Clinch Mountain Boys Where: The Hult Center - Silva Hall When: 
7:30 PM Thursday Presented by The Shedd. You've seen both The Blind Boys of Alabama and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys at The Shedd during the past 2 years. Now see these legendary names in gospel and bluegrass as share the stage for the first time in this unforgettable concert event. Both groups will explore the common connections between gospel and bluegrass, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Deep South, with full performances from each artist plus special combined performances. As their music has for decades, this is a show that will inspire and entertain audiences of all ages. www.blindboys.com Ticket Pricing: $13 - 19.50 Youth | $21 - $39 Adult 
Contact Info: Visit Website of The Hult Center >> October 7 Umphrey's McGee Where: The McDonald Theatre When: 8:00 PM Thursday 
A mantis is an insect with an exceptional range of vision."Mantis" is the Greek word for prophet. And Mantis is the epic new album by Midwestern monsters of improvised rock, Umphrey's McGee. Consisting of Brendan Bayliss (guitar, vocals), Jake Cinninger (guitar, synthesizers, vocals), Joel Cummins (keyboards, vocals), Andy Farag (percussion), Kris Myers (drums, vocals), and Ryan Stasik (bass), Umphrey's McGee enters its second decade together with their most progressive, melodic and artistically cohesive album to date. And that date is Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, when Mantis casts another Windy City family into the limelight. A long-time-coming labor of love as well as an inspiring affirmation of musical brotherhood, Mantis is Umphrey's first fully fleshed-out studio statement since 2006's Safety in Numbers, which was followed by 2007's odds-and-sods collection The Bottom Half and the double live album Live at Murat. So when Brendan Bayliss sings, "We believe there's something here worth dying for," to kick off Mantis's majestic twelve-minute title track, you should take him at his word. Mantis is the first Umphrey's album to consist entirely of material never previously performed on the road, where the band rules the improv-rock circuit and plays more than 100 shows each year. Although the band already plays numerous songs they have yet to record, sometimes you just have to hold back in order to deliver a bigger bang. Mystique, thy name is Mantis. Founded in 1997 in the shadows of the Golden Dome of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, Umphrey's McGee soon made Chicago home base, and set their sights on becoming one of the premier live acts in today's touring circuit. Over the course of the last ten years, the band has performed at festivals such as Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, and continues to sell out shows in the nation's premier venues coast to coast. They have toured Europe multiple times and performed at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival in 2006. As their sound evolves with every passing show, the live concerts sold on their expansive music archive site UMLive.net continue to be in high demand by their hungry fan base. The second decade of Umphrey's McGee is fueled with Mantis in the tank, and the band shows no signs of letting up. www.umphreys.com
Ticket Pricing: $17.50 in advance | $20 day of show Contact Info: October 8 O.A.R. Where: The McDonald Theatre When: 8:00 PM Friday 
Sometimes the road already traveled can provide vistas never before seen. One would think after more than a decade of crossing this country's highways, the last thing O.A.R. co-founder and lyricist Marc Roberge would want is more time on the blacktop.But as he prepared to record the band's sixth studio CD, "All Sides," Roberge, his wife, and their dogs drove cross country. "I decided it would be interesting to make the drive from New York to L.A. to start my journey into this album," Roberge says. "I knew once I got there, time would be spent focused completely on music, so I wanted to gather some experience first. It was a completely different view of America than from a tour bus. You see so much more when you are in the driver's seat." Of course, some would say Roberge and his O.A.R. band mates have been in the driver's seat since he, guitarist Richard On and drummer Chris Culos formed their first group in 8th grade in Maryland in the early '90s, bonding over their love of Pearl Jam. Three years later, in 11th grade, bassist Benj Gershman came on board and O.A.R. - of a revolution - was born. Saxophonist Jerry DePizzo, after meeting Roberge and Culos at Ohio State University, joined the band full time in 2000. Eleven years after the group's first release, O.A.R. has come to stand for authentic rock music that reflects the collective triumphs and tragedies we all experience in this world: Real people making real music that resounds deeply with their fans. www.ofarevolution.com
Ticket Pricing: $25 in advance | $28 day of show Contact Info: October 9 Oregon Mozart Players: All Amadeus Where: The Hult Center - Soreng Theater When: 7:30 PM Saturday 
Presented by Oregon Mozart Players. Oregon Mozart Players at the Hult CenterOur annual all-Mozart concert features the graceful and lyrical Concerto for Two Pianos, a brilliant masterpiece rarely heard in concert, with Eugene's dynamic husband-and-wife piano duo, Dean Kramer and Claire Wachter. The Adagio and Fugue in C minor is a darkly dramatic work that showcases Mozart's mastery of Baroque counterpoint. The concert concludes with Mozart's Symphony No. 36, a confidently melodic work that features the stylistic novelty of using both trumpets and timpani in its second movement. Glen Cortese, conductor Dean Kramer and Claire Wachter, Piano Soloists Mozart: Adagio and Fugue, K. 546 Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in Eb Major, K. 365 Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 (Linz) www.oregonmozartplayers.org Ticket Pricing: Season Tickets on sale now
Contact Info: Visit Website of The Hult Center >> October 14 Carl Woideck: Jazz Meets Cole Porter Where: Jaqua Concert Hall - The Shedd When: 7:30 PM Thursday 
Composer-lyricist Cole Porter (1891-1964) has long been a favorite of jazz musicians. This despite the fact that, unlike George Gershwin and Harold Arlen, Porter did not move in jazz circles. In fact, the wealthy Porter tended to socialize with the rich and famous in Paris, New York and Hollywood. Success came comparatively late to Porter; it wasn't until the late 1920s that he connected with Broadway audiences and critics. Out of his late-1920s/early-1930s shows came such classics as "What Is this Thing Called Love?", "Love for Sale", and "Night and Day". Soon, jazz artists such as Billie Holiday and Art Tatum saw the jazz potential in Porter's songs. In 1956, singer Ella Fitzgerald recorded her Cole Porter Songbook and helped frame Porter's songs as classics for all times. Carl Woideck and friends will be performing many of the Porter songs that jazz musicians most admire, including "In the Still of the Night", "Night and Day" (in a Coltrane-style arrangement) and "From this Moment On".
Ticket Pricing: $7.00 - $11.00 Youth | $11.20 - $22.00 Adult
Contact Info: Visit Website of The Shedd >> October 17 Gogol Bordello Where: The McDonald Theatre When: 8:00 PM Sunday 
There are many of us for whom music is an irreplaceable part of life. We rely on it to take us out of sadness, pressures of poverty, youth, age, etc. Mixed with alcohol it seems to be a remedy for just about anything, be it a rapid fire of notes exploding in catharsis all over the major key, or an obsessive marathon of soul-searching sounds crawling around minor key... it all appears somehow more solid and present in our lives than materials, something we can always address and hold on to. At its best, music connects us to a feeling as large as the whole goddamn universe itself...With our music, and music that we popularize, we try to reach out and remind people that, when taken out of the hands of a parasite, music is still a great lead into a democratic atmosphere of chaos, where moments of great freedom and where great friends could be found. And that in the world of rapidly dissolving authentic cultures, soul-searching through the music is something that connects you with the most authentic thing there - your savage heart. www.gogolbordello.com
Ticket Pricing: $22.50 in advance | $25 day of show Contact Info: October 19 The Weepies Where: Jaqua Concert Hall - The Shedd When: 7:30 PM Tuesday 
Since they met in a Cambridge folk club 9 years ago, The Weepies have progressed from an indie duo playing house concerts, to ranks on the Billboard charts. Though they now have sales in the hundreds of thousands, the Weepies have kept a surprisingly low profile: they haven’t toured at all since 2006. “Our son was born right as we finished Hideaway (2008),” says Steve Tannen. “Touring was out. It was a huge change from the 180 shows of the Say I Am You release (2006).”
Ticket Pricing: $12.50 - $16.50 Youth | $20.00 - $33.00 AdultContact Info: Visit Website of The Shedd >> October 21 Eugene Symphony: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Where: The Hult Center - Silva Hall When: 8:00 PM Thursday  Presented by Eugene Symphony. Pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins the Eugene Symphony in a performance of Tchaikovsky's dazzling Piano Concerto- the perfect marriage of dramatic bravura and tender romanticism. This concert concludes with the telling of a musical story-a magical puppet who comes to life- in Stravinsky's imaginative Petrushka. Danail Rachev, conductor Jon Kimura Parker, piano Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 Stravinsky: Petrushka Ticket Pricing: Season Tickets on sale now; Single ticket sales on August 10; $59, $44, $36, $15; student & youth discounts available
To learn more about this event... Visit Website of Eugene Symphony >> October 21 Now Hear This: Raiatea Helm Where: Jaqua Concert Hall - The Shedd When: 7:30 PM Thursday 
“Raiatea Helm sings in the high-voiced throwback leo ki‘eki‘e style without a hint of kitsch. Her second album, Sweet and Lovely is poised and utterly elegant.” -- The New York Times
Ticket Pricing: $10.00 - $12.00 Youth | $16.00 - $28.00 Adult
Contact Info: Visit Website of The Shedd >> October 29 Celtic Thunder: It's Entertainment Where: The Hult Center - Silva Hall When: 7:30 PM Friday  Presented by Pacific Arts. Since the airing of their first public television special in 2008, Celtic Thunder consistently remains one of the most popular musical acts for stations throughout the country. Hailed as Billboard's Top world music artist and Top World Imprint of 2009, the phenomenon that is Celtic Thunder has achieved sales of over 600,000 copies to date. Their mass appeal and devoted fan base continues to grow with impressive statistics to prove it. Celtic Thunder's official YouTube channel, "Thunder Tube" has seen over 6 million upload views and 368,000 channel views since the channel's inception in summer 2008. The New York Times described the group as "a Fab Five peddling Celtic stylings...steadfast George, sensitive Keith, bruising Paul, caddish Ryan and angelic Damian." Most recently Celtic Thunder performed on The CBS Saturday Show's Second Cup Café, and wowed thousands of fans with an all day stint on QVC in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Following the tradition of their previous releases (Celtic Thunder: The Show, Act Two and, Take Me Home) Irishmen Damian McGinty, Keith Harkin, Paul Byrom, Ryan Kelly and Scotsman George Donaldson deliver an amazing and thrilling live performance throughout the concert while showcasing a broader range of diverse musical styles. Filmed in front of a live audience in Toronto, It's Entertainment spans six musical decades including unique interpretations of classic songs such as "Standing on the Corner" along with pop hits including U2's "Still Haven't Found (What I'm Looking For)," The Proclaimers' "My Life Without You" and the timeless "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen. Ticket Pricing: $55, $45, $35
To learn more about this event... Visit Website of Eugene Symphony >> October 29 Nellie McKay Where: Jaqua Concert Hall - The Shedd When: 7:30 PM Thursday 
Even with birthdays separated by 60 years and 10 days, entertainers Nellie McKay and Doris Day are cut from the same cloth. The two share a passion for animal rights, a sunny gosh-gee-swell positivity and a love for the Great American Songbook—as well as a depth, complexity and progressivism that belies the toothy grins for which both are known.
Ticket Pricing: $12.00 - $17.00 Youth | $19.25 - $34.00 AdultContact Info: Visit Website of The Shedd >> New events are always being added...so check back soon!
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