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!
Outlaw Americana for people that like Waylon, Willie, Nick Drake or ghost towns and old theaters.
Join us in welcoming Bart Budwig and Luke Ydstie (of Blind Pilot). Bart Budwig grew up on the Idaho Palouse, with a pawn shop trumpet and a heart as big as a skyscraper – if skyscrapers knew how to be humble. “I can’t say enough about this man’s songwriting….imagine riding on a wagon, heading off into the sunset with the one you love while you’re whiskey drunk, and a charming old cowboy rides alongside the wagon and croons about lost love and how he once had to shoot a man down. Then inside the wagon is a wise old woman who bakes cookies and lets you eat all the dough you want. It’s like that, but better. Give a listen and slow dance” – Jeffrey Martin
Bryan John Appleby is a jacuzzi pop singer-songwriter living in Seattle, WA. Appleby’s much anticipated forthcoming full-length release The Narrow Valley (November 2015), crafted with Seattle producer Sam Anderson, deals with the sun-bleached landscape of his youth – a dreamy, densely constructed cinematic world more musically tied to the maximalist West Coast pop traditions of outsider California composers like Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson than to the folk roots of Appleby’s early work. The Narrow Valley‘s orchestral character takes dramatic steps away from heartfelt folk balladry, showcasing Appleby’s deftness in composition and arrangement while still managing to deliver the epic line-by-line lyricism he is known for.
All are Invited to Celebrate the Chinese New Year at the Sou’wester!
Acupuncture 12pm – 2pm
Tom Geha, MAOM, Licensed Acupuncturist
of North Beach Acupuncture will provide Community Based Acupuncture in the cozy lodge at The Sou’wester. $30 per person
Please RSVP at souwesterlodge@gmail.com or (360)-642-2542
“Community acupuncture is practiced in a group, rather than one-on-one, setting. Don’t worry! You won’t be baring much skin. The treatments are primarily on the front of the body and mainly on distal points (legs, arms, hands, feet, ears, etc.). You will zone out and relax in a nice comfy chair for an hour or so. This is the way that acupuncture is traditionally done in Asia. The idea is to make acupuncture as accessible as possible.” –www.littlebirddc.com
Come with any questions you have. Wear loose, comfortable clothing for easy access to acupuncture points. Don’t eat large meals just before or after your visit. Refrain from overexertion, working out, drugs or alcohol for up to 6 hours after the visit. Avoid stressful situations. Make time to relax, and be sure to get plenty of rest.
Tea Ceremony 3pm – 4pm
Join Mountain & Sea at the Sou’wester for a Chinese gongfu tea ceremony!
Free and Open to the Public.
Please RSVP at souwesterlodge@gmail.com or (360)-642-2542
Representatives from Mountain and Sea, a Portland based importer of single-source Taiwanese oolong teas, discuses the history of the gongfu tea ceremony before teaching participants the gongfu tea ceremony in celebration of the new year.
Gongfu tea is a traditional art that is reserved for the preparation of the finest quality teas. Gongfu (aka kungfu) tea literally means, “making tea with skill” and refers to the refinement needed to extract the balanced aromatics and flavor notes of the different types of tea. Water quality, vessel selection, proper temperature and steep time are some of the essentials of this art form. We will use pure spring water from the Oregon Coast Range to steep three varietals from famed tea producing regions:
- 2015 Gao Shan Oolong | High Mountain Oolong (Nantou, Taiwan)
- 2015 Zheng Yan Qi Lan | Wuyi Orchid Oolong (Fujian, China)
- 1998 Aged Puer (Yunnan, China)
A uniquely delightful experience that will leave you feeling calmed, refreshed and tea drunk. Yes, you can get tea drunk! Join us this February 6th and ring in the (Chinese) New Year right!
Mountain and Sea was created by Nicholas and Nora Grod with the desire to share in the beauty of traditional tea arts that has pervaded East Asian culture for centuries. Nora’s Taiwanese family has been involved high mountain oolong tea industry for over thirty years and it is through this connection that we are able to have direct access to their tea farm in Central Taiwan. For the past decade, Nicholas and Nora have been students of Master Wu Zhongxian, whose teachings include Daoist internal martial arts, Yijing divination, Four Pillar astrology, brush calligraphy and more. The gongfu tea ceremony is another embodiment of these ancient practices because the nature of steeping tea in this way forces one to slow down and be mindful.
Lantern Launch 5:30pm
Free and Open to the Public.
Join us as we launch a singe paper lantern up into the night sky to celebrate this Chinese New Year! All are invited to write a New Year intention, thought, poem or phrase on the lantern before lighting and launching it into the sky after sunset.
Sou’wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA
Please RSVP at souwesterlodge@gmail.com or (360)-642-2542
Spaceness is curated and organized by Portland artists Julia Barbee, Matt Suplee, and Alison Jean Cole, and takes place at The Sou’wester.
Stay at the Sou’wester to fully immerse yourself in this experience! Accommodations are available at the Sou’wester!
“SPACENESS is an annual event that brings artists and thinkers together on the Long Beach Penninsula on the Washington Coast to explore our shared experiences of time and space and the gaps in our understanding of the universe. This 3-day event takes place at The Sou’wester and features visual art as well as music, performance, experiments, and lectures.
The event is FREE to the public for people of all ages. We recommend attendees secure lodging at one of the many comfortable establishments in Seaview and Long Beach, WA to enjoy the entire weekend of programming.”
EVENT SCHEDULE
A detailed schedule of events will be posted one week before the event.
Programming begins at 5pm on Friday Feb 19th and ends at 3pm on Sunday Feb 21st.
Please note the schedule is subject to change based on weather conditions and inevitable life forces.
Up-to-date changes regarding the weekend schedule will be displayed in the main entrance at the Sou’Wester Lodge during the event.
We are pleased to announce the 2016 Spaceness Artist Roster!
Disbeliever Theater / Rob Loucks & Josh Reid
Monolith / Lisa Ward
Surface to Air / Bob Dornberger
Magnetetractys / Bill Baird
New Dream Room /
LL LL (Phull Collums & Woo Lee Allen)
Datascapes / Collin Richard
Episode II / Jin Camou and Julia Calabrese
A.I.R. / Allison Riegel & Marley Taylor
Star Cycles / Vivian Hua
Daniel J Glendening presents An Untitled Play Posthumously Written by Philip K Dick
I Hear A New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy performed by Austin Leonard Jones
Transmissions / Pamela Davis & Jesse Lortz
Go with it, Libra, tears and all by Megan Schvaneveldt Frank
We Could Be Transcendent Apes / a film by Karl Erickson
Head Space / Shana Palmer, Nick Bindeman & Michelle Kline
A Performance for Labor / Nikki Cormaci
Spaceness 2016 will also feature music by Matthew Emmons, , food sculpture by Melissa Shea, paintings by Jolyn Fry, printed matter from Publication Studio, and solar system dioramas by Ilwaco, WA Middle School students.
(all info from www.spaceness.com)
News from Martha:
“Hey Folks!
The last week of February, I will be doing a writing residency at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, WA. It’s an amazing place and they gave me the opportunity to organize an event my last night there.
Kela Parker will be playing and Lizzy Acker, Hajara Quinn and Martha Grover will be reading.
Also performing: The Morals!
(Casey Jarman and Ben Hubbird)
If you haven’t been to the Sou’wester, you should really come! It’s a one of a kind experience. If you mention the show when you call to make a reservation, you get a twenty percent discount!”
“Adam Boehmer croons with heart-swollen vigor…”
–Jonathan Zwickel, CityArts Magazine
photo by Rachael Conley
Tenderfoot is the art folk project of singer-songwriter Adam Boehmer. With an unabashedly romantic, lyrics-driven approach to songwriting, Adam excavates past relationships, growing up queer in the South, and living in the constant tension between city life and a natural spiritualism. Surrounding these themes with the lush dynamics of a full band, Tenderfoot becomes a potent emotional landscape.
Shelley Short, a frequent and always visiting artist, returns to the Sou’wester.
Paste Magazine describes her “pairing minimal instrumentation with Short’s soft, sweet voice, and hinting at an atmosphere both delicate and haunting. She ‘sounds more at home wafting through barn rafters than through iPod earbuds. An appreciation for the old-fashioned, according to Short, was simply the way of life for her family. -Paste Magazine – Gary Chapman 11/09
A native of Portland, Oregon, songwriter and singer Shelley Short grew up among characters and artists in a wood-heated home full of books, records, and well-cooked meals. As Short recounts: “It was like growing up in a time machine; in some ways we lived like in 1876, chopping wood, growing our own food, wearing old clothes in a Victorian home and singing our own songs. Other times it seemed like we were living in 1955, driving around Cadillacs and Studebakers and listening to Jonny Ray and The Flamingos. And yet it all felt like growing up in a blurring movie made in 1963, full of these big personalities. As a kid I grew up so accustomed to falling asleep to the sound of talk and laughter that when I moved out, the silence got to me.”
Danielle Hunt will be opening for Shelley. He currently plays with Ages and Ages and has played with Neko Case
The songs immerse the singers as their voices entwine with one another and then expand. Sparse arrangements create an open bed for two, three, and four part vocal harmony, while instrumentation that ranges from a guitar to an upright piano to a Theremin and a marching drum, allow Alialujah Choir to sing their stories in ethereal allure.
Alialujah Choir came about when three well-known members of Portland, Oregon’s notable music scene took time away from the comforts and constraints of their primary bands (Weinland, Norfolk & Western, M.Ward) to focus on the natural beauty they found when singing songs from their more personal artistic quivers.
Photo © Tarina Westlund Photography
With the enlistment of a few local luminaries from Blind Pilot, Hook & Anchor and Neko Case’s band, Alialujah Choir now boasts an extended lineup that reflects the majestic sounds of the new album while preserving the intimate sensibilities the band was founded upon.
Special Hot Off The Press Note: Alialujah Choir members Adam and Alia joined M. Ward on stage and screen of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Feb 2nd 2016!
Briana Marela, is from Seattle and Olympia, and her music is kind of dreamy and ambient pop. Lilac is from Seattle and her music is a bit more beat driven but still ethereal and beautiful.
Briana’s lyrics are forceful, and throughout her second album, ‘All Around Us’, traditional song structure gives way to plainspoken declarations that pull back the record’s shroud. Her first single,”Surrender” is musically delicate at first, with flickering blips and chords that float into earshot like fireflies. “Take Care of Me” is the album’s brightest and most immediate song, a buoyant celebration of friendship with a skittering beat and a warm, sweet melody. And title track “All Around Us” is a stark but inspiring beauty, built on the memory of a family member of Briana’s who passed away, and the sadness of not being able to say “goodbye” or “I love you” one last time. It is the balance of the abstract and the intimate that makes Briana Marela and ‘All Around Us’ so special.
Lilac aka Madeline Franks is a dreamy electronic solo musician who currently resides in Seattle, WA. Born in the Midwest, she grew up playing piano and singing before adding electronic instruments as a young adult. Her first solo EP Dream Journal was released in early 2015 and she is currently working on a second album.
Three For Silver represents a curious hybrid of acoustic music. The twin melodies of Willo Sertain’s vocals and Greg Allison’s violin glide atop of chugging polyrhythms of Lucas Warford’s homemade bass instruments and the idiosyncratic style in which they are played.
Described by Baby Gramps as “The acid baby of Tom Waits ad Vicgtor Wooten”. Three For Silver combines a gritty aesthetic, world folk traditions, and virtuosic technique with a modern songwriting sense.
Flash Update! Flash Update! Ask Matt Love about a “free slot in the class (meaning they don’t pay me) for a visitor who stays at the Sou’wester. A little carrot.”
Fri April 1 7pm – 8:30pm
and continues on
Sat April 2 9:30am – 3:30pm
Have you wanted to start writing but seem unsure how to begin? Do you want to write the story of your life or your family’s for possible publication or private documentation? Do you have a great idea for a novel, script, blog, column or an area of expertise that you want to share with others?
Many people aspire to write for themselves, publication and multiple other reasons, but can’t seem to get started. This frustration often results in the aspiration disappearing. Don’t let that happen. Get the writing going! All you have to do is start.
Writer, Nestucca Spit Press publisher and educator Matt Love, the author/editor of 14 books about Oregon is offering a “Getting the Writing Going” workshop on Friday evening and Saturday, April 1-2, at the Sou’ Wester resort in Seaview, Washington. In this workshop, participants will experiment with innovative techniques to define an editorial voice for fiction or nonfiction writing and address the barriers that prevented the writer from starting. “I believe it is essential for all aspiring writers to meet other aspiring writers in a relaxed workshop setting with real writing outcomes, and I can’t think of a better place than the Sou’ Wester,” said Love. “It will be a great place to think and write.”
The workshop will be begin Friday evening from 7:00pm – 8:30pm and continue Saturday, April 2 from 9:30am -3:30pm The class costs $75 and will cap at 14 participants. Workshop participants who stay Friday and Saturday night at the Sou’ Wester will receive a 15 percent discount.
To register for the workshop, email Matt Love at nestuccaspitpress@gmail.com or call 503-812-1524. To book your stay at the Sou’ Wester, visit www.souwesterlodge.com or call 360-642-2542. The Sou’wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644