Mac's Restaurant

Thursday Night Downbeat
2021-09-23 18:30 - 21:30, 2021-09-09 18:30 - 21:30, 2021-09-02 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Featuring Skip Jones, Steve Arriola, Theo Halpert & Sylvain Duplant
$5 minimum purchase
Please tip the artists!

Skip & his group, The Spirit of New Orleans, play a smattering of the great rhythm and blues hits of the ’50s and ’60s, as well as some great pop & rock organ classics of the ’60s and ’70’s. Add to that a bonifide New Orleans piano boogie-woogie and the party follows!
Over the last 20 years, frontman Skip Jones has enjoyed working with such bands as: The Coasters, The Drifters, The Platters, Joe Houston & Bo Diddley. He toured with the great Canned Heat in 1985-86 holding down Larry Taylor’s bass position. Skip has worked with The Etouffee Band, James Thornbury, James Bradshaw and Henry Vestine extensively. Skip can be seen performing at least 4 times a week in Eugene at the jams and with his own band The Spirit of New Orleans. He’s taken over for the Rooster Man hosting Eugene’s longest running Blues Jam.
For over 30 years, Stephen Arriola has made his music in nightclubs, theaters, hotel circuits, concert halls, festivals, and on recordings, using his musical skills to support songwriters as a Multi-Instrumentalist, Vocalist, Accompanist, and
Composer/Arranger.
He also employs his professional skills as a Consultant and Private Music Teacher.
Stephen studied guitar under GIT graduate Billy Paris, and studied Music Theory, Audio Engineering and Jazz at Lane Community College.
Currently, he performs as leader of The Steve Arriola Band, an Americana-Rock and Roll Band.
He divides the rest of his time as lead guitar for Skip Jones and the Spirit of New Orleans, a Piano driven Blues quartet, and The Concrete Delta Trio, a guitar driven collective of friends playing Old Country Music, Blues and pop. He is often employed in various duos, trios and full bands featuring Joanne Broh, an award winning vocalist in the Pacific Northwest.

Shelley James & Callan Coleman
2021-09-22 18:30 - 21:30, 2021-05-26 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-05-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
All Ages
$5 Minimum Purchase
Please tip the artists!
vocalist/musician band leader, event planner, wife, mother, and friend Shelley James
Shelley grew up in a small family who performed music together throughout her youth. Her father was a music major and semenary graduate who had a gift for arranging 4 part harmonies. So Shelley’s ear developed being the youngest singing Alto, her big brother sang tenor, Mom had Soprano, and Daddy sang the bass. They toured Western Canada for several years before she went off to college. She started a band with a flautist and jazz guitar player who performed jazz and pop much to the delight of the following they grew in the northwest. They recorded a CD, and soon wanted to add bass and drums. This is how Shelley met Callan her bass player husband of 25 years. They went on to collaborate, write and record and perform together. Shelley has been a trusted worship leader in her home church, and in numerous churches around the area. She became known for being able to bless the house when needed as a help if the team is on vacation or transition. She started her band Shelley James m u s i c b o x in 1997 which is still together as a 6 piece smooth 80s pop/rock outfit. She is also a founding member and manager of Satin Love Orchestra for 22 years. Shelley and Cal spend a few years in LA where they collaborated with musicians Sheila E., Terron Brooks, Jonathan Butler and others. They continue to perform, write and record in Lane County, or can be seen on the beaches of O’Ahu where they spend as much time as possible too. They enjoy their daughter Eva, and 4 cats as well as their family and friends to the fullest.

Bill Rhoades & The Party Kings
2021-09-18 18:30 - 21:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
All Ages
No Cover
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The band was originally formed in the mid-70’s in Eugene, Oregon as Bill Rhoades Blues Band then later became the Party Kings. Bill moved to Portland in the mid-80’s and continued the band in a different configuration. The Party Kings played a mixture of Blues music styles from Chicago, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and the West Coast (L.A. & Oakland, CA.) mixed in with their own Northwest influences.
The band had a two year stretch as the house band at Taylors. During this time the “Kings” had the honor to back up Albert Collins, Louisiana Red, Sonny Rhodes, J.J. Malone, Troyce Key, and Michael Bloomfield. A young Robert Cray would also sit in with the band. They also opened shows for Son Seals, James Cotton, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells.

Thursday Night Downbeat
2021-09-16 18:30 - 21:30 | OR

Gus Russell & Paul Biondi
2021-09-15 18:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Jazz & Variety with Gus Russell and Paul Biondi
No cover
All ages

Rolling Women R&B Revue
2021-09-03 18:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Featuring Sonny Hess, Joanne Broh, Kathryn Grimm & Claudia Page
All Ages
No Cover
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Rooster's Blues Jam
2021-08-31 18:30, 2021-05-18 18:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Hosted by Skip Jones
$5 minimum purchase
All ages
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Motown Lives!
2021-08-21 18:30 - 21:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Joanne Broh and Michael Anderson have revived their popular Motown show with the addition of Tom Buckman on bass and Claudia Paige on drums.
Besides their favorite songs from the Motown era, they have added some R&B and soul.

RDBS Annual Membership Drive Featuring Rockin' Johhny Burgin!
2021-08-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
BIOGRAPHY
Johnny Burgin grew up in the South and went to University of Chicago with the intention of becoming a writer. A different path unfolded when a fellow DJ at the college radio station took him out to a West Side ghetto club to hear the blues singer Tail Dragger. It was a conversion moment where the blues came to life for Johnny and he fell headfirst into the vibrant Chicago blues scene. Choosing the blues clubs over the library, Johnny eagerly absorbed the lessons from the blues masters who practiced their craft nightly. Through persistence and practice he gained a spot in Tail Dragger’s band, and started doing gigs in town and on the road with traditional blues veterans like Jimmie Lee Robinson, Sam Lay, and Pinetop Perkins. What at first he’d only dared to dream about coalesced into three concrete goals: to play in Europe, record his own CD, and to book his own gigs every weekend. A Monday night residency at The Smoke Daddy in Wicker Park along with featured vocalist Jimmy Burns turned out to the key: before long, Johnny’s band packed the club every Monday with a younger, hip crowd. The residency’s success led directly to a record deal with Delmark, steady local club work, and his first of many European tours– he’d done it!
The shangri-la of being “King of Division Street” eventually ran its course, and in the early aughts, Johnny dropped off the scene entirely to raise a daughter. But Johnny couldn’t keep away from music for too long; his 2009 comeback was noted by The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Blues Guide, as well as the international blues press. His first show, on a frigid January night in a club that’d been an old stoming ground, was packed with his old fans. An awful silence fell before he hit the first note– did he still have it?– but as noted blues producer Dick Shurman wrote, “Johnny’s skills, passion and committment were undiminished.” Brick by brick, Johnny rebuilt his career first in Chicago, then all over the Midwest and Europe, and gradually out to the West Coast. His move to the Bay Area in 2016 was artistically rejuvenating, leading to new fans, new collaborations, and recordings such as the Cali/Chicago blues mashup Neoprene Fedora, the Howlin’ Wolf tribute Howlin’ at Greaseland (nominated for a BMA for Best Traditional Blues Recording) and the Johnny Burgin Live LP, which featured Charlie Musselwhite and was nominated for a Blues Blast Best Live Recording Award for 2019. The move honed his road warrior skills: since 2016, he’s performed nearly 250 shows a year in Europe, Japan and coast to coast in the US, earning the tag line The Worldwide West Side Guitar Man.
Now with ten CDs as a leader to his credit and dozens more as a sideman, Johnny’s developed from a young guitar slinger and local blues hero into a matured bluesman, fully fledged singer and the a confident and engaging bandleader. In recent years, he has been teaching both in person and online at the Chicago Blues Network and has developed a loyal following on Youtube for his weekly looks at the blues guitar greats. Johnny’s recordings have evolved from being very Chicago-centric, to a fusion of West Coast and Chicago styles, and finally to a more inclusive, international approach: his latest CD, No Border Blues Japan, is the first American compilation of the underground Japanese blues scene. The success of this collaboration led Johnny and his partner, producer Stephanie Tice, to create and host the podcast No Border Blues, which focuses on the international blues scene.

“His guitar style is raw and rude and real– on the vocal side, a nice original style– he’s damn good!” –Elvin Bishop
An adventurous musician who’s never shy about taking chances.
–Marty Gunther, Blues Blast
This veteran blues musician has been on a roll of late turning out one exceptional album after another.
–David Mac, Blues Junction
The well-traveled and prolific Chicago bluesman.. brings something different each time he issues a solo album.
–Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine
Johnny’s ego-free dedication to the music is refreshing. In a world where everyone wants to be a superstar, Johnny shines brightly. He is truly an old-school bluesman.
–Bill Wilson, Reflections in Blue

Anya Lecuyer & Friends
2021-07-30 18:30 - 21:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
$5 Minimum purchase
Please tip the artists!
Soul/Blues/Variety
Click here to check out the band!

Anya Lecuyer has been singing her whole life. She brings playful, enthusiastic, sultry, personal depth to her performances backed by stunning electric guitar work, bass, and drums.
Anya is a natural born singer, performer, and dancer who loves connecting with people. She’s sung at Nightclubs, Restaurants, parties, outdoor venues, Wineries, Festivals, Graduations, and Weddings.
Anya Lecuyer and Friends was formed when ripe magic happened.
The Band plays Rock, R&B, Soul, Blues, Funk, and Jazz.
Band Members: Anya Lecuyer vocals, Gerry Rempel guitar, Mike Hatgis bass, Rick Cobian drums, congas, percussion, Van Cobian percussion, Hamilton Mays bass, Alex Huber drums, Gus Russell keyboard

Paul Biondi & Friends
2021-07-24 18:30 - 21:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
All ages
No cover
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Jazz & Variety show

Fret Logic
2021-07-16 18:30 - 21:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
All Ages
No Cover
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Blues/Variety
Featuring Jerry Zybach, Stan Welsh, Mike Hatgis & Rick Markstrom

Closed
2021-06-29 - 2021-07-03 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States

Skip Jones & Steve Arriola
2021-06-17 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-06-10 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-06-03 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Featuring Theo Halpert & Sylvain Duplant
$5 minimum purchase
Please tip the artists!

Skip & his group, The Spirit of New Orleans, play a smattering of the great rhythm and blues hits of the ’50s and ’60s, as well as some great pop & rock organ classics of the ’60s and ’70’s. Add to that a bonifide New Orleans piano boogie-woogie and the party follows!
Over the last 20 years, frontman Skip Jones has enjoyed working with such bands as: The Coasters, The Drifters, The Platters, Joe Houston & Bo Diddley. He toured with the great Canned Heat in 1985-86 holding down Larry Taylor’s bass position. Skip has worked with The Etouffee Band, James Thornbury, James Bradshaw and Henry Vestine extensively. Skip can be seen performing at least 4 times a week in Eugene at the jams and with his own band The Spirit of New Orleans. He’s taken over for the Rooster Man hosting Eugene’s longest running Blues Jam.
For over 30 years, Stephen Arriola has made his music in nightclubs, theaters, hotel circuits, concert halls, festivals, and on recordings, using his musical skills to support songwriters as a Multi-Instrumentalist, Vocalist, Accompanist, and
Composer/Arranger.
He also employs his professional skills as a Consultant and Private Music Teacher.
Stephen studied guitar under GIT graduate Billy Paris, and studied Music Theory, Audio Engineering and Jazz at Lane Community College.
Currently, he performs as leader of The Steve Arriola Band, an Americana-Rock and Roll Band.
He divides the rest of his time as lead guitar for Skip Jones and the Spirit of New Orleans, a Piano driven Blues quartet, and The Concrete Delta Trio, a guitar driven collective of friends playing Old Country Music, Blues and pop. He is often employed in various duos, trios and full bands featuring Joanne Broh, an award winning vocalist in the Pacific Northwest.

RDBS Membership Drive Featuring Anni Piper
2021-06-05 18:00 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Never Fear! We’re still here alive and well. It’s been a long hard road, but we are doing what we can to Nip it in the bud!
If your not a current member please sign up at www.raindayblues.org and help us to keep live music live!
Come support your favorite “Home of the Blues” with this fabulous outdoor show brought to you by Macs Nightclub and your one and only local Blues Society, The Rainy Day Blues Society.
We have been anticipating this show for a while now. RDBS and Macs is proud to present Miss Anni Piper! One listen will tell you why in her homeland Anni Piper is known as the First Lady of Blues. Not only is she a sultry vocalist, but an insightful composer, accomplished bass player and show stopping performer. Born and raised in Australia, her passion for blues was ignited by the sound of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Piper has called the United States home since 2014.
If you missed Anni at our First annual Blues Festival last Sept. Now’s your chance to catch her live in Eugene!
For everyone’s safety this is an outdoor event. Safety precautions are in place and we are ready to Blues it up!
We will be announcing more special summer events happening at this annual membership drive. We are super excited to share what we have been up to throughout the year.
So remember.. if your not a current member and wish to receive discounts to upcoming shows, as well as our monthly emails containing local information concerning live Blues music, sign up today!
We can’t do it without the support of our local community, and after all, that is what we’re all about.. community! Bringing live music and music lovers together. Supporting local and touring musicians along the way.
So we ask you today, please “save the date” and plan to have a good time reunited with friends of old, as well as new.
Come shake it off with us June 5th 2021 as Anni Piper and her bandmates are starving to share the love!
Free Show~ Raffles~ Dance~ Food~ Drinks~ Fun!
June 5th 6-9pm outdoors @Macs Restaurant and Nightclub (please tip the band)
Become a member: http://rainydayblues.org/join.htm

Darline Jackson's My Band
2021-05-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
$5 Minimum purchase
All Ages
Outside weather permitting
Please tip the artists!

Skip Jones & Steve Arriola
2021-05-27 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-05-20 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-05-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Featuring Theo Halpert & Sylvain Duplant

Skip & his group, The Spirit of New Orleans, play a smattering of the great rhythm and blues hits of the ’50s and ’60s, as well as some great pop & rock organ classics of the ’60s and ’70’s. Add to that a bonifide New Orleans piano boogie-woogie and the party follows!
Over the last 20 years, frontman Skip Jones has enjoyed working with such bands as: The Coasters, The Drifters, The Platters, Joe Houston & Bo Diddley. He toured with the great Canned Heat in 1985-86 holding down Larry Taylor’s bass position. Skip has worked with The Etouffee Band, James Thornbury, James Bradshaw and Henry Vestine extensively. Skip can be seen performing at least 4 times a week in Eugene at the jams and with his own band The Spirit of New Orleans. He’s taken over for the Rooster Man hosting Eugene’s longest running Blues Jam.
For over 30 years, Stephen Arriola has made his music in nightclubs, theaters, hotel circuits, concert halls, festivals, and on recordings, using his musical skills to support songwriters as a Multi-Instrumentalist, Vocalist, Accompanist, and
Composer/Arranger.
He also employs his professional skills as a Consultant and Private Music Teacher.
Stephen studied guitar under GIT graduate Billy Paris, and studied Music Theory, Audio Engineering and Jazz at Lane Community College.
Currently, he performs as leader of The Steve Arriola Band, an Americana-Rock and Roll Band.
He divides the rest of his time as lead guitar for Skip Jones and the Spirit of New Orleans, a Piano driven Blues quartet, and The Concrete Delta Trio, a guitar driven collective of friends playing Old Country Music, Blues and pop. He is often employed in various duos, trios and full bands featuring Joanne Broh, an award winning vocalist in the Pacific Northwest.

Daddy Rabbit
2021-05-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
$5 Minimum purchase
All Ages
Outside weather permitting
Please tip the artists!
Audiences may mistake the band is playing songs from the 1950s or ’60s. But they soon realize it’s original music that honors that early rock ‘n’ roll tradition, and they get up and dance along. Rob Jacobs wouldn’t have it any other way. The guitarist and vocalist has experience in several different genres, especially in rock’s later history. He played with indie rock outfit Long, Tall and Ugly and punk band The Perverts previously. But he found his calling in the genre’s early roots. “I wanted to not play loud and fast constantly, all the time,” Jacobs said. “I started writing rockabilly stuff when I was with my other band, and the drummer was like, ‘I don’t want to play that kind of music.’ And I said, ‘OK, but I have to.’ ” That instinct has led to two albums, energetic live performances and a growing reputation in Eugene-Springfield.

The Jeanne Gregg Band
2021-05-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
$5 Minimum purchase
All Ages
Outside weather permitting
Please tip the artists!
The Jeanne Gregg Band has gone through a few ideations since forming in 2016. They have played clubs around Corvallis, Albany and the Eugene area and also several of the wineries, parks and civic music spots such as parks. Their music reflects the variety of tastes in the band and at the same time reflects a musical core that they all agree upon. Jeanne writes some of the songs and they released a CD “Jeanne Gregg Band Live! on the rooftop at Sky High Brewery” in 2019. The Cascade Blues Society named the CD “music to listen and pay attention to” in the October 2019 issue of their newsletter.

Jeanne Gregg-Vocalist/composer hailed originally from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Her first paying gigs were in the 70’s and she played around the Hollywood area at the Crescendo Club, The Troubadour and an under- 21 age nightclub called the Hullabaloo. Later Jeanne moved to San Diego where she played with a band named Half Moon. Jeanne took a while off to have children but not time off from music. She took her music into church. Jeanne met the guys when she came began coming to the local jams and that’s how the story goes.

Dennis Monroe: guitar & vocals, is a versatile musician who has played styles from blues, jazz, funk and rock to western swing and country music. He’s been a gigging musician since the age of 14. He spent 13 years touring with “Micky Shannon and Runaway” playing top 40 music and co-writing and recording with his wife Micky. In the mid 90’s he co-founded an eight-piece funk band with son JD Monroe called “Huzzah” that regularly played Eugene, Corvallis and Portland areas performing an all original repertoire. Dennis produced, engineered and recorded Huzzah’s album entitled “Paint It Funky” at his Studio 52 recording studio which he owned and operated in Corvallis Other bands Dennis has played with are the “Porch Dawgs” with Steve Magnolia and the Vicki Stevens Band who represented the Rainy Day Blues Society at the IBC in Memphis in 2011.. He has been the co-host along with William (Froggy) Hyland, of the blues jam at the Calapooia Brewing Company in Albany Oregon since 2005 and has hosted his own jam “Dennis Monroe’s Funked Up Blues Jam” in Philomath Oregon at the Meet n Place Tavern since 2014.

John Collison on keyboards grew up in Kansas and cut his teeth playing with jazz, funk, country, soul and blues bands throughout the Midwest. A stint in Los Angeles was followed by several years in Nashville touring with country artists before landing in Las Vegas where playing became more of a sideline to work as Production Manager and Director of Entertainment for a multi-venue casino operator. The bright lights of Vegas gave way to a simpler lifestyle in Pennsylvania and a chance to rekindle playing music as opposed to working in the support business. In 2014 John moved to Oregon and has been very busy playing with a handful of bands in the Willamette, including the Donny Thorp Band, All Rights Reserved and the Jeanne Gregg Band.

Mark Nerby started early in the music business and by 1969 he was playing professionally. He toured and traveled the western part of the United States for approximately 8 years with different bands. More recently he has reduced the amount of time he plays professionally. In 2013 Mark joined Billy D and the Hoodoos out of Portland and spent about 3 years performing both locally and traveling to the blues clubs in Chicago and the House of Blues. In addition, they played several venues in Santa Fe, NM, Fort Worth Texas, Las Vegas and some venues in Idaho. Currently, Mark plays with the Dennis Monroe Funked-up Blues Band and the Jeanne Gregg Band among others.

Hank Shreve & Skip Jones
2021-04-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Mac’s Nightclub, 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Featuring Rick & Van Cobian
$5 Minimum purchase
All Ages
Please tip the artists!
