Headed to the Hult The Oregon Coast Ballet Company (OCBC) will perform in Eugene Saturday, Feb. 10 for the "Dance For A Reason Benefit." The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Hult Center. In 1968 OCBC Artistic Director Sian Zander had her first studio and theater on the site that is now the Hult Center. "It is a homecoming after 40 years to be back dancing on that exact spot with these beautiful young dancers," Zander says. "Plus, I set the dance to music by The Juice to Make It Happen for which my elder son, Time, is DJ and my younger son, Will, is a singer/songwriter. It has been inspirational." The dancers, from back left, Drew Davey, India Powell, Sarah Davey, Jill Vaughan, Avery Heater, Sarah Shindelman, Janet Etter, Kaitlyn Heater, Ian Williams and seated from left, Alyssa Urquhart, Kinzley Phillips and Jessica French, will perform the new piece titled "Rap Study." (Courtesy photo) .

Grammy winner's sound advice / Daughter of Spike Jones has mixed, mastered and miked everyone from Santana to Kronos ...

While other kids her age were home watching Shirley Temple movies on the tube, 5-year-old Leslie Ann Jones was sipping Shirley Temples in a Las Vegas showroom with her slightly older brother, Spike Jr., digging Sinatra or Sammy Davis while their parents performed at some other hotel on the Strip. Musicians were always coming over to their Beverly Hills home.

"I was exposed to tons of music when I was growing up,'' says Jones, a much-respected recording engineer and mixer whose father was the brilliant musical parodist Spike Jones and whose mother is the big-band singer Helen Grayco.

That early exposure opened Jones' ears to a wide range of sounds and her mind to the ways artists work. Her father was famous for his irreverent renditions of classics, like Rossini's "William Tell Overture'' played on tuned cowbells and brake drums, and a riotous musical palette that included foghorns, gunshots and the stringed toilet seat he called the latrinophone.