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Lane County Fair Grounds (1960s to Present)

Categories: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Eugene, Venue

Building History

Concert posters list this location as the Lane Auditorium, Lane County Civic Center, Lane Expo Center & Lane County Fair Grounds.

Concert History

Sept 22, 1968 – Country Joe and The Fish, Ian Maddron, & Death Sound Blues Band (Lane County Fairgrounds)

Porter Wagoner Show at Lane County Fair Grounds 1972
1972 – Courtesy of Ron Norwood

Feb 14, 1972 – Porter Wagoner Show with Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Speck Rhodes. Dolly wrote Eugene, Oregon song after that concert!

1974 – Bachman Turner Overdrive and Bob Seger

Aug 13-18 1974 – Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Lynn Anderson, Tom T Hall, Mac Davis, Susan Raye

Sept 13, 1994 – Uriah Heep (Eugene Fairgrounds Hall)

Oct 6, 1974 – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Hoyt Axton

Feb 8, 1975 – John Fahey (Agricultural Bldg)

Mar 13, 1975 – Elvin Bishop Band (Lane County Fairgrounds)

Aug 29, 1975 – Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys

Hank Thompson 1975
1975

Oct 26, 1975 – Uriah Heep

Feb 7, 1976 – Electric Light Orchestra, Little Feat

Mar 3, 1976 – Jerry Garcia Band

Dec 8, 1976 – David Bromberg & Jimmy Buffet, Little River Band

Dec 1977 – Jesse Colin Young & Norton Buffalo

Feb 9, 1978 –  Elvis Costello and The Attractions with The Hotz opening. Talking Heads were scheduled to play but cancelled couple days prior to event. (Lane County Civic Center)

June 12, 1978 – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Feb 28, 1981 – Leon Russell New Grass Revival (Lane County Expo Hall)

Sept 19, 1982 – Rainbow, Cheap Trick

Oct 3, 1984 – Whitesnake

July 17, 1988 – Gregg Allman Band and John Kay with Steppenwolf (Performance Hall)

Oct 4, 1991 – Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler

 

 

 

 

 

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