Dan Buckwalter

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Editor and Staff Writer at Eugene Weekly

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Hacksaw in the House

1 week ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

It’s back to work for fiddler and banjoist Miriam Hacksaw, and that means the Eugene native who now lives in New Orleans is hitting the road for five months. “New Orleans feels like a vacation to me,” she says from Olympia, Washington, before a performance. “Touring is the work.” That work brings her to Sam Bond’s June 21 and a chance to catch up with family and friends.
A Painstaking Process for Beautiful Art

2 weeks ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

It’s a painstaking multi-step approach to art, but the results are beautiful, and lifetime Eugene resident Connie Mueller is ready to show her art again at White Lotus Gallery. Journeys in Oregon: Reduction Linocut Prints by Connie Mueller begins its seven-week run June 13 with prints that reach for the vast blue-gray sky over Peoria Road right before a storm to the crystal clear waters of the Willamette River reflecting the clouds on a bright day.
Honoring Sharon Schuman

3 weeks ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

This was not the way the season was supposed to end for Chamber Music Amici. The ensemble’s June 8 and 9 concerts were originally planned as celebratory affairs to honor Sharon Schuman, the deeply respected violinist and a force in the community who worked extensively as a treasurer for SquareOne Villages and to raise money for the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund. She also was a retired educator who taught English at the University of Oregon.
From Russia With Love

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

It’s been three-plus years of brutal warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine with more than 100,000 troops killed combined, according to the Biden administration in 2024, and more than 13,000 Ukrainian civilians killed, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights this year.
An Intimacy Like No Other

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

There is no orchestra for support, nothing to divert attention from the performer and the music. It’s just the pianist and the Steinway on stage at Beall Concert Hall at the University of Oregon, and that’s how Alexandre Dossin wants it. Dossin — a UO professor at the School of Music and Dance — and wife Maria Dossin co-founded the Oregon Piano Institute in 2024, and the first season of the Murdock International Piano Series ends May 28 with a varied recital from Russian pianist Valery Kuleshov.
Music with Pride for Oregonians

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Fresh off the release of their newest album, The Rockdown, it is time for the Gabriel Cox Band to hit the road again with a first stop May 23 at The Hybrid Gallery in Eugene. This Salem-based rock and blues group plays in venues throughout the Northwest wherever they’re appreciated — from honky tonk bars to festivals — and it’s a growing and loving fan base for Cox and his band that, among other performances, opened for the Robert Cray Band at a sold-out Elsinore Theatre in Salem in 2024.
The Return of Cuckoo’s Nest

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Randle Patrick McMurphy is as charismatic and rebellious as ever, and Nurse Ratched is every bit the iron-fisted manipulative control freak with zero empathy that you remember. They and the 14-member cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are back at it with three final performances May 16 through 18 at Zero Clearance Theater in Oakridge.
It’s A Cappella - On The Rocks

2 months ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

They have come a long way in 25 years, and they have brought song, joy and a brotherhood that endures. All of it is on display Saturday at The Shedd when the University of Oregon-based On The Rocks a cappella group brings in the noise with the On The Rocks 25th Anniversary Alumni Show.
No Letting Up Now

2 months ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Buckle up, Eugene. The high-flying and beat-dropping big band rocket ship born in 2015 in the Whiteaker neighborhood returns to Eugene to transcend the troubles of the world with an old-time jazz party fused with electronic dance music. High Step Society celebrates 10 years April 19 at WOW Hall, the venue where the original group had its very first show. Bassist Ethan Rainwater, who also is a founding member, says this show is a “full-circle moment” for High Step Society.
A Night for ‘The Toni’s’

2 months ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Her final year has been a whirlwind already. There have been well-wishers and tributes at every turn for the woman who has led Eugene Ballet Company for more than 40 years, and now the esteemed EBC Artistic Director Toni Pimble is ready for more. The Toni’s, featuring Orchestra Next, comes to Hult Center April 12, and will honor Pimble by presenting three of the more than a dozen full-length ballets she has choreographed through the years as well as a brand-new ballet, The Lark Ascending.