Oregon Music News

Jack Ruby Presents is about to embark on their first ever tour, a nine show west coast jaunt that will take them from Northern Oregon to Central California and back again, all in a span of less than two weeks.

Many great bands come and go in Oregon, but there may be none more sincere in their intentions than Jack Ruby Presents, a self described “resurgence folk” band out of McMinnville. The band has performed a handful of shows in Oregon and Sitka, Alaska.

Hughey had this to say of the coming tour dates: “We’re really excited! I’m going to bed and getting that kid on Christmas Eve kind of feeling. It’s our first tour. We’ve played a lot of shows over the last couple years, but it’s cool for us to be able to play so many nights in a row.”

The band begins their road show this Friday, November 20^th with a televised performance at Oregon State University. The following night they head south for the California leg of their tour.

“It’s really exciting to take it somewhere else. We’ve never played in California and that brings a hope and excitement that maybe people elsewhere will be interested in what we’re trying to say,” Hughey said. “It’s going to be nice to really work on our sound, just go every day and be able to say, ‘You know that worked really well last night.’ And then just do that. We won’t have to wait two weeks to apply it.”

In addition to the tour, the band is in the beginning stages of recording and plans to have their debut full-length album out in spring of 2010 on Homeskillet Records (Sitka, Alaska), where they signed in the spring of 2007.

Here are the complete tour dates.