JENNY DON’T AND THE SPURS have been making their own brand of roots country music since early 2012. The core members of the group, Jenny Don’t (DON’T), Sam Henry (WIPERS, NAPALM BEACH, DON’T), and Kelly Halliburton (PIERCED ARROWS, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.) all bring something from their own extensive and long musical backgrounds to the table to create the rich musical tableau that comprises JENNY DON’T AND THE SPURS.

Following in the wake of their two vinyl singles, their debut self-titled album continues in the tradition of the band’s signature sound, evoking the spirit of lonely desert roads, longing hearts, and star-filled skies over sweeping Western landscapes. While the sound of the Spurs is original and draws from deep wells of personal experience, the band pays stylistic homage to the greats of the genre – Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams Sr., Loretta Lynne, and all the rest of the real players from the 1940’s and 50’s…an era where the lines between Rock n’ Roll and Country were blurred, where the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins could tour together and nobody would bat an eye.

On this record the trio is joined by a star-studded cast comprised of some of Portland’s finest musicians: Lewi Longmire (The West Coast Roasters, Michael Hurley Band, Fernando, etc…), David Lipkind (I Can Lick Any SOB in the House, Spigot, Rich Del Grosso, etc.), Jerry A (Poison Idea), Dan Lowinger (Don’t, Barn Door Slammers), and JT Halmfilst (Thee Headliners, Audios Amigos).

We welcome this band to the Sou’wester! They say, “You don’t know who you are. We don’t know who we are. You don’t want to miss this!”

It is an all star lineup, comprised of members of Evolutionary Jass Band, Pendejo, Plants, Sad Horse, and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, will perform the legendary and well beloved Kinks studio LP “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society” in its entirety. Performed once in Portland, this will be their second and quite possibly final performance of this amazing record.

The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society – Full Album

Secret Drum Band is a noise & percussion ensemble that started as a four-piece in Olympia, WA in 2006. Lisa Schonberg is the primary composer, and many of her pieces are place-based and reflect on landscape, ecology, and soundscapes.

Photo by Martin C Evans.

Instrumentation includes up to five drummers and two musicians creating noises, loops and tones. Secret Drum Band features Heather Treadway (explode into colors), Sara Lund (hungry ghost/unwound), Allan Wilson {chk chk chk, HITS), Sam Humans (modernstate/orquestra pacifico tropical), Alison Clarys (tiburones), and Anthony Brisson and Eddie Bond of Psychomagic. Heather Treadway designs costumes for the ensemble. Recently Secret Drum Band merged with HITS (Schonberg’s other band with Wilson and Treadway), and SDB is now also performing selections written by the trio.

“Have you ever heard of Drew Victor? If you haven’t, you are missing out.  His style is so different. At times, Victor’s voice sounds like a cross between Sufjan Steven and Jeff Buckley–two artists that are as epic as they are unique. The mood structures are extremely captivating. From one song to the next, Victor will have you in romantic fantasy, then having you clapping your hands and moving your hips.” (Review – SSC Music)

We welcome Andrew Victor back into the NW after a decade in NYC! Drew has shared bills in the U.S. and Europe with Sharon Van Etten, Alela Diane, and Damien Jurado.

Snowblind Traveler, Long Island born songwriter Matt Dorrien, plays the song of the common man. His music is inspired by the rolling expanse of middle America, the fog and lichen draped cathedral of redwoods of the northwest, the lulling whisper of a New England blizzard, the sorely disappointed, the dearly loved, the true and honest, those who are lost and forgotten, the living, dead, and eternal. For those who have ever slept under a blanket of Big Sur stars and drank whiskey until you forgot your own name: This is for you.

Photo credit Jason Thrasher.

Thayer Sarrano is forging her own path into a southern- psych-dreamland, bottling up ghosts and bringing them to life through her ethereal desert rock hymns. The tones tremble and bend, layered in swirling atmospherics. The angelic voice will pull you in close to share devastatingly beautiful and heart-breaking secrets, while shadowy figures dance in the background.

Natural Dye & Weaving Workshop

at the Sou’wester Lodge

with instructor Brooke Shepherd of Seawater Studio

Winter Solstice: Celebrate the return of the light!

Together in this workshop we will celebrate the cyclical and ever-changing seasonal offerings that nature generously provides in order to produce naturally dyed fabric and yarns.

Sat Dec 19 11am – 3pm

After a nature walk along the beach, where we will be gathering materials for our dye baths, we will prepare our fabrics and yarns using seawater as a mordant. Plants, shells, wood, old fishing hooks, most anything we find along the seashore will be used as a dye, resist, or decoration of your one-of-a-kind fabric.

Sun Dec 20 10am – 12pm instruction and afterwards Open Studio

Weaving workshop! We will first go on a walk to gather items to weave into our mini-tapestries. You will learn the basic techniques of weaving on a small loom and we will incorporate themes of winter, darkness, and light as you learn to create plain weave, rya knots, and shapes with hand dyed yarn.

All supplies provided. Families are encouraged to participate together.

Suggested donation $15 – $20 for adults; $10 for kids.

Sign up for one day or both days of this workshop.

Please RSVP      souwesterlodge@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

We are located at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644

Natural Dye & Weaving Workshop

at the Sou’wester Lodge

with instructor Brooke Shepherd of Seawater Studio

Winter Solstice: Celebrate the return of the light!

Together in this workshop we will celebrate the cyclical and ever-changing seasonal offerings that nature generously provides in order to produce naturally dyed fabric and yarns.

Sat Dec 19 11am – 3pm

After a nature walk along the beach, where we will be gathering materials for our dye baths, we will prepare our fabrics and yarns using seawater as a mordant. Plants, shells, wood, old fishing hooks, most anything we find along the seashore will be used as a dye, resist, or decoration of your one-of-a-kind fabric.

Sun Dec 20 10am – 12pm instruction and afterwards Open Studio

Weaving workshop! We will first go on a walk to gather items to weave into our mini-tapestries. You will learn the basic techniques of weaving on a small loom and we will incorporate themes of winter, darkness, and light as you learn to create plain weave, rya knots, and shapes with hand dyed yarn.

All supplies provided. Families are encouraged to participate together.

Suggested donation $15 – $20 for adults; $10 for kids.

Sign up for one day or both days of this workshop.

Please RSVP      souwesterlodge@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

We are located at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644

Lindsie Feathers

“Born and raised in Chicago, Lindsie Feathers entered the music scene in 2004, but her relationship with music began at age nine in the middle of Illinois cornfields, watching Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline movies on her grandmother’s VCR, being captivated by their voices, their outfits and their stories. Not long after, she encountered her first guitar.”

“Moving to Portland, Oregon in 2006, she recorded her first full length album, Neon Renaissance in 2015. Engineered and Mixed by Adam Selzer at Type Foundary (M. Ward, She & Him) and Produced by Lindsie Feathers and Bob Shoemaker. The album is supported by Decemberists pedal steel player Paul Brainard, Fabulous Thunderbirds drummer Jimi Bott, Jackstraw harmonica player David Lipkind, Fernando pianist Ralph Huntley, and more.

“The album is a confident, accomplished, remarkably complete work.” -WLUW, Chicago
“Sweetheart of the Rodeo” – Willamette Weekly