July.11.02

Fair Fare: Musical offerings at the mother fest.

By Vanessa Salvia
Summertime and fairs and fests go together like, well, winter and rain. In this land of ours where time stopped in the '60s, the mother of all fests is the Oregon Country Fair. Held near Veneta for the past 33 years, the Fair is an enchanted journey through space and time, a reveler's dream of music, food, art, peace and love. This year Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' legendary mode of transportation, the Further bus, will lead the Fair's opening procession at 11 am Friday. Music begins then, too and continues 'til 6 pm Sunday during Fair hours. In addition to the myriad performers, spoken word artists and other events scheduled for the 10 stages, there's untold numbers of pathway performers you'll pass as you stroll. There's way too much entertainment going on to cover it all, but read on for three suggestions.

Friday at 3:15 pm, the Trichromes take to the Mainstage. Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzman.....

Three Leg Torso will be performing twice, at 3:05 pm Saturday at the Mainstage and at the Horse Corral Saturday at 12:15 pm. Since 1996, the Portland threesome has been creating "devilishly clever and damn beautiful" Middle Eastern music.....

The Eugene music community will have many representatives this year at the Fair, one of which is Theurgic Seed. Since 1999 the group of artists, musicians, videographers, photographers and animators has been crafting music for a total sensory experience.

UO music school graduate Jair began performing with friend and tabla player Abhiman Kaushal seven years ago. Kaushal has previously performed with Pandit Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass and Tito Puente, among others. Kaushal contributed tabla to Theurgic Seed's Hult Center performance in 2000, along with 15 of Eugene Symphony's string players. This fully cooperative vision results in a magical sensory escape of psychedelic aural and visual stimulation. Seed's Fair appearance will be an acoustic adaptation.

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