SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
See what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
We welcome artists Sara Lund and Thollem as they roll through the Sou’wester on tour as the band Conformity Contortion where convention submission distorts compliance.
Sara Lund has been providing beats and exploring rhythm since age 11. She is best known for her work as the drummer for Unwound (1992-2002). Thollem is known internationally as a wildly diverse keyboardist and has been on tour perpetually for years, releasing more than 40 albums of his own and in collaboration with others on 19 different vanguard labels.
Ray Prestegard loves playing music, singing and entertaining. He has all his life, from Texas through the Northwest. Playing original songs and concentrating on the classics, he plays music Americana. Bringing to the stage vintage amps and instruments made in the 30’s & 40’s through the 70’s in the USA, Ray plays blues, rock, folk and country with original tones from the time. Banjos, dobros, guitars, ukelleles, harmonicas and more.
Zeb Dewar is a Folk/Rock/Americana band based in Portland, Oregon and has released 6 records over the last 10 years, most recently a Greatest Hits compilation now out on Curly Cassettes! Zeb has toured the USA, played the Nelsonville Music Festival, opened for Samantha Crain, and shared bills with Michael Hurley, Run On Sentence, Clarke & The Himselfs.
Come celebrate the heat of summer at the Sou’wester with this hot music event: Au Dunes and Michael Hurley!
Vintage Travel Trailer Rally / 2015 at The Sou’wester
All are invited to come to the Sou’wester for this wonderful event! 2015 brings our 4th year of hosting this incredible showcase and community of vintage travel trailers. Bring your own vintage travel trailer or reserve one of ours.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday August 7th
2pm – 4pm
Open House for Rally Guests to tour Select Sou’wester Vintage Travel Trailers
6pm – 8pm
Meet-&-Greet-&-Socialize Activity in the Lodge
Saturday August 8th
11am – 1pm
Art Activity in the Pavilion
1pm – 4pm
Open House for the Public to tour Select Visiting Vintage Travel Trailers
1pm – 4pm
Brides of Jake the Alligator Man Walk the Grounds
Brides will Pose for Photo Portraits in front of Your Trailer
11am ongoing
Art Workshop in the Pavilion
6pm
Potluck in the Pavilion
8pm
Live Band in the Pavilion: Clambake Gypsy Jazz
Sunday August 9th
9am
Crepe and Coffee Breakfast in the Lodge
artwork by Nicole J Georges
Special thanks to the Rollin’ Oldies Vintage Trailer group for broadcasting love for vintage travel trailers and for helping promote this event at The Sou’wester.
Join us for the wonderful sounds of Clambake Combo! Better than food, it’s gypsy jazz! Musical entertainment at the Sou’wester not to be missed!
The Clambake Combo is a jazz ensemble specializing in Gypsy Swing repertoire from 1930s France in the style of Django Reinhardt. Their style also extends from French musettes and bebop to Brazil. Formed by Joseph Appel and Owen Hofmann-Smith in 2005, Clambake Combo’s size and makeup varies depending on the event and has played extensively in Portland, OR and the Pacific Northwest at private and public events and as a local swing dance band.
Longriver and Travis Champ are joined by another great Austin songwriter, Justin Fallen for this stellar music event at the Sou’wester.
David Longoria (Longriver) of The Black is a singer, songwriter and poet living in Austin, Texas. He has performed or toured with the Trail of Dead, Yo La Tengo, James Hand, Deertick, Fiery Furnaces, Joe Ely, Shiva’s Headband, The Sword, and Voxtrot.
Publisher of Abandon Press and songwriter of the Nehalem country band The Cedar Shakes, Travis Champ is too impatient to be a decent gambler, and too honest to talk with cops.
Justin Fallen grew up in Virginia and learned to write songs in Texas. His album, The Country Hero, features performances from some of the finest central Texas has to offer.
In this workshop, you will learn the symbolic ritual of creating an OJO DE DIOS, Spanish for Eye of God. Artist Kate Rutter will demonstrate this ancient weaving technique around wood supports with yarn and colored string.
11:00am – 1:00pm Workshop with class instruction and demonstration
2:30pm – 3:30pm Open Studio with supplies available to continue working
Ages 10 years old and up
Suggested donation $15 – $20 for adults; $10 for kids
All supplies provided
Maximum class size – 20 participants
“As we create, and the beauty of this sacred object starts to take shape, we tap deeper into our subconscious allowing the spiritual eye to see and understand things unknown to the physical eye. Through the repetitive and meditative quality of this ancient practice and with the addition of essential oils, we will deepen our awareness, reveal hidden truths within and connect to our higher purpose.”
Kate Rutter
Stylist and Designer
www.katerutter.com
www.shopheartcave.com
RSVP by contacting
The Sou’wester at 360-642-2542 or souwesterlodge@gmail.com.
Please join us in welcoming Portland musician Ryan Oxford to the Sou’wester for original tunes and summer sounds!
With a voice that can meander from a whispering purr to a hardened howl, Hip Hatchet lusters the poetics of travel. Threading bold and unique guitar picking patterns with the strings of experience Hip Hatchet, the songwriting moniker of Philippe Bronchtein, is the beautiful resolution of a life lived in motion.
