Editing Eugene, Oregon (section)

===Performing arts===
[[File:HultCenterPerformingArts.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|The [[Hult Center for the Performing Arts]]]]
Eugene is home to numerous cultural organizations, including the [[Eugene Symphony]] (whose previous music directors include [[Marin Alsop]], [[Giancarlo Guerrero]], and [[Miguel Harth-Bedoya]]); the [[Eugene Ballet]], a professional full-time touring company; the Eugene Opera, the [[Eugene Concert Choir]], the Bushnell University Community Choir, the [[Oregon Mozart Players]], the [[Oregon Bach Festival]], the Oregon Children's Choir, the [[Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras]], [[Ballet Fantastique]] and [[Oregon Festival of American Music]]. Principal performing arts venues include the [[Hult Center for the Performing Arts]], [[The Shedd Institute|The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts]] ("The Shedd"), the [[McDonald Theatre]], and [[W.O.W. Hall]].

The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance also attracts world class performers and teaching artists throughout the year, many of whom perform at [[Beall Concert Hall]]. The university campus also frequently hosts performances at [[Matthew Knight Arena]] and the [[Erb Memorial Union]] ballroom.

A number of live theater groups are based in Eugene, including [[Free Shakespeare in the Park]], Oregon Contemporary Theatre, The Very Little Theatre, Actors Cabaret, LCC Theatre, Rose Children's Theatre, and University Theatre.<ref>[http://pages.uoregon.edu/theatre/ University Theatre] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818190549/http://pages.uoregon.edu/theatre/ |date=August 18, 2011 }}. University of Oregon.</ref> Each has its own performance venue.

====Music====
{{Main|Music of Oregon#Eugene}}
Because of its status as a [[college town]], Eugene has been home to many music genres, musicians and bands, ranging from [[electronic dance music]] such as [[dubstep]] and [[drum and bass]] to [[garage rock]], [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[Folk music|folk]] and [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]. Eugene also has growing [[reggae]] and street-performing [[bluegrass music|bluegrass]] and [[jug band]] scenes. Multi-genre act the [[Cherry Poppin' Daddies]] became a prominent figure in Eugene's music scene and became the [[house band]] at Eugene's W.O.W. Hall. In the late 1990s, their contributions to the [[swing revival]] movement propelled them to national stardom. Rock band [[Floater (band)|Floater]] originated in Eugene as did the Robert Cray blues band. Doom metal band [[Yob (band)|YOB]] is among the leaders of the Eugene heavy music scene.

Eugene is home to "[[Classical Gas]]" Composer and two-time Grammy award winner [[Mason Williams]] who spent his years as a youth living between his parents in [[Oakridge, Oregon]] and Oklahoma. Mason Williams puts on a yearly Christmas show at the Hult center for performing arts with a full orchestra produced by author, audio engineer and University of Oregon professor Don Latarski.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 2005 |title=Mason Williams biography |url=http://www.masonwilliams-online.com/mwguitarbio05.pdf |access-date=March 11, 2013 |publisher=MasonWilliams-online.com |pages=2, 11 |archive-date=November 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115041904/http://www.masonwilliams-online.com/mwguitarbio05.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Dick Hyman]], noted jazz pianist and musical director for many of Woody Allen's films, designs and hosts the annual Now Hear This! jazz festival at the Oregon Festival of American Music (OFAM). OFAM and the [[Hult Center]] routinely draw major jazz talent for concerts.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Shedd Institute: Now Hear This 2010–11 Series |url=http://www.theshedd.org/divP/series.aspx?event=1748 |access-date=August 11, 2011 |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928055725/http://www.theshedd.org/divP/series.aspx?event=1748 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Markstrom |first=Serena |date=August 3, 2007 |title=Pursuit of 'magic' keeps Krall going as an artist |page=E11 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1315846381.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+3%2C+2007&author=Serena+Markstrom+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=E.11&desc=Pursuit+of+%27magic%27+keeps+Krall+going+as+an+artist |access-date=November 25, 2007 |archive-date=March 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315144131/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1315846381.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+3%2C+2007&author=Serena+Markstrom+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=E.11&desc=Pursuit+of+%27magic%27+keeps+Krall+going+as+an+artist |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Eugene is also home to a large [[Zimbabwean music]] community, home to the Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center "dedicated to the music and people of [[Zimbabwe]]". It was founded in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kutsinhira.org/about-us/|website=Kutsinhira.org|title=About us page}}</ref> 

The city of Eugene is mentioned in the Johnny Cash song "Lumberjack".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.johnnycash.com/track/lumberjack-mono-2/ | title=Lumberjack }}</ref>