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The Eocenes - Bluegrass Live Concert

  • 12 Sep 2019
  • 7:00 PM
  • 13 Sep 2019
  • pendleton center for the arts, concert, live music, music, jazz


Music just the way you like it.

Let's face it - sometimes being on your feet, hearing the band blare over the noise of a hundred conversations and clinking glasses is a blast. This is not one of those times. We offer comfy seating in a room with the best acoustics in town. We'll have refreshments available so you can sit back and take in some of the best bluegrass you'll ever hear. Ahhhh, now THAT sounds like fun. 

THURSDAY and FRIDAY, SEPT. 12 AND 13th
7:00 PM - doors open at 6:30 PM

Tickets $12 for adults.
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Questions? Give us a call at 541-278-9201

ABOUT THE BAND: 

Ron Emmons, well known as the front man for the popular Cabbage Hill bluegrass band, will bring his classmates Hugh McClellan, Duane Boyer and Hal Spence back to eastern Oregon for Round Up week. The group will be joined by Alan Feves on bass and National Oldtime Fiddle Champion Dan Emert on fiddle.
                                       
Emmons and Boyer met during freshmen orientation week at Eastern Oregon College and connected with Spence and McClellan through their involvement in the Eastern Oregon College Ambassadors, a musical touring group that performed high school assemblies all over the Northwest. Each man went on to have great success over the past five decades on the national bluegrass scene, performing with a wide range of groups and ensembles.
 
Bluegrass musicians tend to mix and match themselves into different arrangements for different performances. The name EOCenes is a play on the college’s monogram, EOC (which later became EOU) and the Eocene epoch, a period on the geological time scale that occurred 55-34 million years ago.  
 
Emmons lives in Hermiston and has played mandolin and sung lead tenor and baritone with the Blue Mountain Crested Wheatgrass Boys, the Muddy Bottom Boys, Blue Heat and The Thatchmasters, as well as Cabbage Hill.  
 
Boyer now lives in Haines, Oregon and plays banjo and guitar, and sings lead, tenor and baritone. He taught banjo and guitar at EOC and played a major role in bringing national Bluegrass acts to that part of the state.
 
McClellan resides in Oregon City and plays rhythm guitar, harmonica and is known for is low, lonesome bass voice. He’s also fronted a country-swing band and sang in a gospel quartet.
 
Hal Spence of Dallas, Oregon played guitar and sang tenor for 27 years with The Sawtooth Mountain Boys, one of the nation’s best-known bluegrass bands, whose travels included three tours of Europe.
 
Doug Jenkins first played with the other members at festivals and fiddle contest in the late 1960s. He went on to win national titles with his fiddle, earning the nickname “Lightning.”
 
The performance is made possible through the generous support of Dr. Cynthia Holmes and is part of the Blue Heron Live Music Series of the Pendleton Center for the Arts.

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