The Everyone Orchestra is a revolving cast of musicians who come together to raise funds and awareness for local non-profits through performance of songs and improvisational music. Everyone Orchestra events are unique in that they culminate in interactive segments featuring a conductor who directs both musicians and audience alike in energetic, highly danceable jams. It’s a variety show and superjam all in one!
Since its inception in 2001 as the brainchild of Matt Butler, The Everyone Orchestra has performed its shows nationally featuring such luminary musicians as The Derek Trucks Band, Col. Bruce Hampton, Steve Kimock, members of Phish, Ratdog, String Cheese Incident, and many others. Through the events and work of The Everyone Orchestra, funds have been raised for contributions to non-profit organizations around the nation including The Sierra Club, The Pangaea Project, Cascadia Summer and The Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Chuck “Joe” Kesey and his wife, Sue Jameson Kesey, used their dairy and business degrees at OSU to start a milk-processing business in the old Springfield Creamery in 1960. They were looking for a niche in the dairy market, and, along with the dairy bookkeeper, Nancy Hamren, began experimenting with adding L. acidophilus cultures to yogurt. In 1970, "Nancy's Yogurt" was born. The beneficial bacteria, which had long been found in European yogurts, had not been used in America until the Springfield Creamery began marketing its yogurt.
In 1972, when the creamery was having financial problems, Chuck went down to Marin County, California, and talked his brother Ken's friends, the Grateful Dead, into coming up to Eugene and doing a benefit concert for the creamery. Tickets were printed on Nancy's Yogurt labels and more than 20,000 people attended. The Keseys now distribute their products throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Phil DeGuere, Sam Fields and John Norris filmed this legendary three-set concert performed in sweltering psychedelic heat. Originally shot with a 16mm camera, the film has been brought up to date with sound remixing and digitizing. This concert was the first of two famous Field Trips. The second Field Trip, performed in 1982, helped raise funds for the purchase of the land that is now home to the Oregon Country Fair.
