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!
Formal Dinner & White Elephant Game & Gift Exchange
This always brings lotsa-laughs! Come celebrate togetherness at the Sou’wester with a White Elephant Gift Exhange! (Gift Price Range: $10)
Sunday December 25
9am – 9pm
PJ Party and All Day Movies
Bring your favorite slippers to the Sou’wester and join us for a PJ Party and All Day Movies! Help us select a handful of wonderful movies from our massive VHS collection!
New Year’s Eve Dance Party All Night Long! Live band with artists from Sahelsounds and collective African Beats, bring in the New Year with dance grooves and moves!
Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens
Toast the New Year with Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens at the Sou’wester!
Stripped down Americana Soul
A son of the flint hills of eastern Kansas, Nathan Earle brings a soulful depth to the singer-songwriter genre. His impassioned vocal delivery and introspective storytelling are unforgettable. Joining Nathan as the perfect compliment, the sweet and sultry vocals of Juliet Howard. The pair create a beautiful vocal landscape full of joy, love, and longing. This is a show not to be missed.
Winter Workshop Series
Prose Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina
DATE: Saturday January 21st
TIME: 10am-2pm
TITLE: Prose Writing with Nick Jaina
COST: $30
Nick Jaina is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. His new album Brutal Lives is out on Fluff & Gravy Records. It is available on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, and wherever digital albums are sold. There will be an album release performance at the Liquor Store in Portland on October 6th.
He is a co-founder and musical director of the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City. He has composed the music for three ballets and three contemporary dances with that group, featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet, Ten Hairy Legs, and Juilliard, performing at the Baryshnikov Center and the Joyce Theater. Their most recent performance was two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music in May 2014. Of that show, the New York Times wrote, “[The] pure, pungent, earthy music for strings, piano, and percussion… was the most physically bracing part of the night.”
He released his first book, Get It While You Can, a work of non-fiction, through Perfect Day Publishing in January 2015. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Awards.
To RSVP please call the Sou’wester front desk at 360-642-2542 or email souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com.
The Pining Hearts are a psych-surf-rock band out of Portland, OR and Austin, TX. Kivett Bednar from Land of the Living and Eddie Steele from Entendre Entendre started jamming in late 2015. The Pining Hearts officially became a band in January of 2016, playing their first show to a sold-out crowd at the Alberta Street Pub late March . The originals coming out of the group are dance-y and upbeat, but in the same breath have a dark and surf-y vibe.
Ghost to Falco is the musical project of Eric Crespo. Membership is fluid, but he is the constant. The first Ghost to Falco live concert took place in 2001 as part of a cross country tour/moving trip between North Carolina and Portland, OR, where Crespo resides.
The fourth full length album, Soft Shield, was released on vinyl by the Italian record label, Fooltribe, in the fall of 2013 and it was released later in the U.S. by Curly Cassettes and Infinite Front.
Ghost to Falco has toured all over the United States and Europe numerous times and continues to do so.
Winter Workshop Series
Herbal Plant Walk and DIY Elderberry syrup and Herbal Vinegar with Lara Pacheco
DATE: Saturday February 4th
TIME: 10am-2pm
This workshop will involve a plant walk, elderberry syrup and fire cider demo as well as tasting the fruits of our labor. I’ll discuss the medicinal virtues of plants and medicine that help support our immune system during the cold and flu season. We can also break for lunch in between.
Lara Pacheco is a mamita, musician and clinical herbalist in Portland, OR and she runs her own business called Seed and Thistle Apothecary, which offers seed to medicine herbal preparations and educational programs for all ages with a bent on social justice. She is also co founding the Seasonal Wellness Clinic which is a popup clinic to serve the low income community in her neighborhood.
COST: $10-$20 sliding scale
BRING: sack lunch/snacks, pen and paper for notes, suitable gear for the outdoors this time of year
To RSVP please call the Sou’wester front desk at 360-642-2542 or email souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com.
To see a list of all of our Winter Workshop Series please visit:
www.souwesterlodge.com/
Photo by Anthony SU
Traveling, creating, and sharing original live music are a few essential ingredients for the enrichment of humanity. Norman Baker plays homage to this fact by introducing new and old songs to as many communities as possible. His new album utilizes undertones of pedal steel,mandolin, banjo, upright bass, clarinet, and of course an onslaught of acoustic and electric guitars telling stories of loss, loss prevention, camping, driving without cell phones, childlike innocence, home towns, and walking till your shoes wear through. When not traveling and playing with his full band, Norman Baker & The Backroads, he’s traveling and playing solo acoustic in far off amazing places such as The Sou’Wester, where he’s been visiting with his family since he was a child.