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

Time to gather friends and family of the Sou’wester and welcome the light on this shortest day of the year, the day with the fewest hours of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere. Let’s have a potluck in the historic lodge at The Sou’wester. We’ll turn the cozy fireplace on….a good time to share stories of the year and laugh with everybody!

The BlueFlags & BlackGrass sound can be summed up as Modern American Skiffle. It combines JugBand and RagTime of the ’20s and ’30s with BlueGrass, Viper Jazz and a hint of Irish/Gypsy twang.

photo by Mary Mack

BFBG was born around the spring of ’11 in Portland, Oregon and continues to be influenced by:

Baby Gramps, Mississippi Sheiks, Memphis JugBand, Tom Waits, CrowQuill NightOwls, Gallus Brothers, Conjugal Visitors, Bessie Smith, Django Reinhardt, Holy Modal Rounders, Pogues, Leon Redbone, and Rollin’ Joe Jordan

On Wednesday December 30th The Sou’wester will host a rare public screening of Sometimes a Great Notion. The movie, adapted from Ken Kesey’s epic novel about a defiant family of loggers, starred Paul Newman and was filmed on the Central Oregon Coast during the summer of 1970. The film was released in 1971 to an indifferent nationwide audience but remains a cult classic in the Pacific Northwest.

Astoria writer Matt Love, author of Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel, will introduce the movie and take questions after the screening. He will also discuss new revelations about the legend of whether Newman cut the legs off a tavern pool table with a chainsaw during the production.

The screening will also feature home movie footage of the production.

Mention Notion trivia for prizes.

Matt Love lives in Astoria on the Oregon Coast and is the publisher of Nestucca Spit Press. He’s the author/editor of 14 books about Oregon. In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. His latest books are A Nice Piece of Astoria: A Narrative Guide and his debut novel, The Great Birthright. His website is www.nestuccaspitpress.com

Washington Release (Jan. 2014)
Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel

Nestucca Spit Press announces the release of Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel, by Oregon author Matt Love.

In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a home grown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was Sometimes a Great Notion and it has a fanatical following in the Pacific Northwest.

What ensued was a wild working vacation between Hollywood and Oregonians involving beer, sex, scotch, loggers, beaches, and perhaps, a spectacularly vandalized pool table. In Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel, author Matt Love documents the legend of that magical summer and presents over a 125 never-before-seen photographs, including many in color.

“I first became interested in the story after Ken Kesey died in 2001, when I heard a remarkable tale from an eyewitness who claimed that during the movie shoot, Paul Newman cut the legs off a pool table with a chain saw in a Toledo bar,” said Love. “I wanted to discover if the story was true. In the course of four years, I interviewed close to a hundred people connected to the filming and collected hundreds of incredibly candid photographs. I think I’ve ended up with a truly fun and poignant narrative about a unprecedented earthy collaboration between Hollywood and a place where they went on location to make a movie.”

In the book, Love blends reportage, memoir, primary documents, oral history, film criticism, and photographs to produce a unique, entertaining, visually rich work of non fiction.