Calendar of Events

A celebration of lavender grown in the Pacific Northwest. During this glorious summer weekend, area lavender farms open their fields for tours, photography and painting, shopping and lectures. The McKenzie River Lavender farm, just outside Springfield offers a Lavender Labyrinth, specialty lavender products from oils to pillows, u-cut lavender and lavender refreshments.

Premier art and wine festival in the Southern Willamette Valley. Enjoy entertainment and view over 130 artists in the Artists' Marketplace and the Art For Your Garden display. Awarded "Best of Eugene Art Event 2009-2010" by Eugene Weekly.

Come to Three Rivers Casino this summer and enjoy concerts every weekend in July.

This intermediate level tour offers a sample of the area's best trails and features rides through almost everything the Willamette National Forest has to offer. You'll ride along cool, clear rivers, through beautiful alpine meadows and ancient old growth forest. Cost includes guides, camping and meals.

Come out to the baseball diamond and watch the Emeralds take on the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Exciting evenings jam packed with rodeo entertainment.

Oregon Parks and Recreation District hosts fun filled camping weekends for novice campers and families at various Oregon State Park throughout the summer. With extra gear for you, there's plenty of fun for adults and children. S'more included!

Enjoy the Northwest premiere of this hilarious and award-winning theater show.

Enjoy a movie under the stars! Bring your blankets and lawn chairs for this outdoor film.

Come out and enjoy a concert outside surrounded by the beautiful Cascades setting in Oakridge. Enjoy a variety of music along with food & craft vendors and a beer garden.

This intermediate level tour offers a sample of the area's best trails and features rides through almost everything the Willamette National Forest has to offer. You'll ride along cool, clear rivers, through beautiful alpine meadows and ancient old growth forest. Cost includes guides, camping and meals.

Join bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson and trumpeter Guy Few and their musical alter egos Buzz and Crow for a fantasy romp through delightful music old and new, inspired by commedia delarte.

Compelled by the needless suffering he witnessed in World War II, British composer Michael Tippett created this modern choral masterwork. Conductor Matthew Halls opens this concert with Bach's Lutheran Mass in G Major.

Artistic Director Helmuth Rilling leads international musicians in orchestral, vocal and contemporary concerts and educational programs at this Grammy-winning festival.

Volunteers work to remove competing exotic vegetation to release threatened habitat. Wildflowers will be in bloom! Gloves, tools and refreshments are provided.

Thorpe, considered one of the greatest athletes of all time, is still the only athlete to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon. Come learn about this amazing athlete and see his Olympic medals!

A country musical about prodigals, old flames, and hilarious new characters who meet, brawl, and find love in the true tradition of song and dance! Matinee July 21 at 2 p.m.

Come out to the baseball diamond and watch the Emeralds take on the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Saxophone & guitar & tasty jazz standards and originals.

Drawn from across the country, the academy's 85 singers display their energy and considerable talent in a program that celebrates the innovative academy's 15th anniversary under the leadership of inspiring conductor Anton Armstrong.

The event will be a 2-person 16k relay (each running 8k total). Participators can chose the length of their legs as long as each runner does the same amount.

Come out to the baseball diamond and watch the Emeralds take on the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Come out to this fun all-ages, non-competitive track meet. Events include 100, 400 meters, predict-a-mile, selected distance event, high and long jumps, javelin and steeplechase. All the proceeds benefit the track.

Before establishing himself as one of today's leading young conductors, Halls had a sterling reputation as as keyboard player, working extensively with many of Europe's foremost early music groups and founding the U.K.'s esteemed Retrospect Ensemble.

Preservationist and DIY hero Ron Tanner will be performing his one-man show.

Enjoy the fruits of their labor - the crop is alpaca fiber. The Alpaca Mercantile is your connection to the fiber of royalty. Yarn and fiber for crafting and more fantastic finished goods available.

Join the Coast Fork Watershed Council for a birding walk of Garden Lake Park.

Imagine yourself in a Paris salon at the turn of the century for a night of impressionist music penned by Claude Debussy, whose unmistakable sonorities and harmonies influenced a generation of composers.

With its meld of music and meaning, the Discovery Series is the heartbeat of the Oregon Bach Festival. Artistic Director, Helmuth Rilling delves deep to explore the structure and symbolism that give Bach's telling of the last days of Christ its unrelenting power.

Finish the day with the tantalizing taste of local wines. Swing by for sips and enjoy 20% off your wine and beer purchase.

Woody Guthrie 100th birthday anniversary block party and fundraiser for Anne Feeney, labor/union troubador struggling w/cancer. Special guest: Larry Penn (also July 12 @ Reality Kitchen) see website!

Wetland Wanders are casual walks through various West Eugene Wetlands sites each 2nd Tuesday of every month.

A birding tour led by WREN staff and volunteers that provides observation, education and inspiration on the surrounding natural spaces.

Abbey Road LIVE will help celebrate Eugene’s 150th birthday! Beatles fans of all ages will enjoy this concert and discover Beatlemania again! In addition, Radio REDUX—Eugene’s acclaimed new theater company that performs historic radio shows live on stage— brings us an exciting original look at the city’s rich history in an amusing special intermission show.

For the Festival's first decade, Beall Concert Hall was its principal venue, hosting small group concerts as well as large-scale choral works. This concert salutes that tradition with Helmuth Rilling conducting classic Bach choral works and concerti for chamber orchestra.

These meets are low-key and offer a variety of events. Place ribbons will be awarded to 1st-5th place finishers; all others will receive participation ribbons. Wednesdays (ages 1-12) and Thursdays (ages 13 & older). On-site registration.

Frisbee, football and more in this sports-themed gathering of friends and neighbors.

Bring your instrument and fall in love with playing again. Take this opportunity to participate in this collective music-making experience. ‘Get Your Chops Back’ is for artists who have not made music in a while, or as often as they would like, to engage, re-connect, and make music once again.

With its meld of music and meaning, the Discovery Series is the heartbeat of the Oregon Bach Festival. Artistic Director, Helmuth Rilling delves deep to explore the structure and symbolism that give Bach's telling of the last days of Christ its unrelenting power.

The first family of five siblings ever to simultaneously attend the Juilliard School, the 5 Browns radiate youthful exuberance yet perform on their matching Steinway pianos with a mature musical sensibility. The OBF welcomes back the fabulous five for a concert that includes classical favorites and Hollywood hits from such films as Star Wars, Atonement, and The Wizard of Oz.

Come watch the big powerful horses as they go around the ring competing in a variety of classes.

The Porch Band. Still putting the can in Americana.

Union Pacific will celebrate with a community-wide event. Visitors will view historic locomotives, board a traveling museum car and operate a locomotive simulator.

Steer riding, Bull Riding, Mutton Bustin', Calf Riding, Barrel Racing, Professional Roping competition, Queen's Court and lots more. Come see the other animals including the pigs, goats, chickens at the Animal Scramble.

Dreamdog is "Americana Heartbeat". Two songwriters and a drummer have come together to create a sound with space to breath, a beat to hold you, and lyrics that engage. www.reverbnation.com/dreamdog

GEO4 ~ bluesy rock

Bring your dinner basket and join us for old fashioned fun, wine and music.

Sarver Winery is firing up the grill and tunes Friday evenings throughout the summer. Enjoy gourmet pizzas, delicious wine and music. No reservation necessary and you are welcome to pack your own picnic or order off the bar menu.

House of Worship CD release party. Headlined by Caleb and Sol.

Enjoy a movie under the stars! Bring your blankets and lawn chairs for this outdoor film.