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!
Sonny & The Sunsets play a benefit show for Sou’wester Arts!!
Tickets Here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4076609
A note from Sonny about his new album, Hairdressers from Heaven, and his new record label, Rocks in Your Head Records:
Nitro. Astro. Boogeyman from space. My name is Sonny Smith. This is a Sonny & the Sunsets recording. We started a label. Rocks in Your Head Records, named after a record shop I used to spend time in, in Soho New York two decades ago that uplifted me in a way only old record stores can.
The first release is this record, Hairdressers from Heaven. We are going to put out some records that would end up in that old store. Some weird bands, some fictional bands, some real bands. San Francisco has taken hits. Clubs have closed. Artists have left. People have made eulogies – This is something up which we cannot put! There are good bands in this city. There are great artists making bizarre shit. There are underground HAPPENINGS. There are SECRET shows. There are artists in the streets duking it out with Nazis. Shit is going down. The corporate bulldozers ran through the city and they are still driving around demolishing the place. These tanks are called Death and they bring a foul stench. i don’t man maybe the city will drift into a long sleep with a hollow snore. Humbly, this label is our version of throwing nails at the tank tires.
Hairdressers from Heaven. Can I tell you it’s the only record this label has put out I stand behind? It’s a mixtape. Different sounds, different musicians on here, recorded different places. Things got loose. Piano driven at times, drum machines, strange harmonies, it was made by instinct, very unconsciously, loose. I don’t know how Kelley came up with a circular Kraut-like bass line for Ghost Days but he did, or how on Someday I’d like to Be an Artist, we slowed the tape down and made a strange arpeggiated piano solo and then Dylan Edrich turned it into a Moondog like orchestral solo. Or for Man Without a Past we made a bongo bass instrumental song then perennial collab Rusty Miller put a synth bass on it later, then what- Bruce Ackley brought his saxophone to my apartment. Now it’s almost Sun Ra in vibe. Or longtime sunset Tahlia Harbour started singing about worms in the subways and cafes with cloves and berets, or James Mercer stepped in to produce and brought us into his back yard barn studio and harmonized on a country song about death and it became transcendent and kind of life affirming, or when co-producer Yuuki Matthews put a minimal dance bass over Shayde Sartin’s already punk bass on Drug Lake. The record is full of weird shit, like a complicated accident, I saw it happen, but I can’t say how.
And also, this new label will include a Zine with every release, like the days of SST and Raymond Pettibon. So with Hairdressers comes Zine #1, about watching the apocalypse on the phone, and how Nazis should always be tossed out of town and things of that nature.
http://www.sonnysmith.com/
Photo by Sarah Moore
Come support Sonny and the Sou’wester on April 6th!
Tickets available here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4076609
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Embodied Creativity Workshop with Liz Asch Greenhill
In this Saturday workshop we will play with creative imagery as a source for generative writing. This workshop will include guided visualization, breathing techniques, brainstorming, sharing, writing, and ideaphoria focused on creative process. You will learn to integrate energetics and embodiment techniques into the ways you source ideas. This is a place to be experimental, curious, creative, and open to new discoveries. If you’ve been feeling stuck on a novel chapter or a design project or need to recalibrate your art-making, this workshop will help you shift your perspective to uncover new solutions.
Liz Asch Greenhill is a visual artist, writer, acupuncturist, and creativity consultant. She holds an undergrad degree from Vassar College, an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from EOU and a Masters in Oriental Medicine. Liz has worked as a printmaker, bookbinder, artist’s assistant, studio hand, healthcare practitioner, herbalist, and educator. Her publications include The Rumpus, The Collagist, Entropy, Gertrude Press, Sinister Wisdom, Phoebe, and Bust, among others. You can find her online at www.lizasch.com and www.nightskyacupuncture.com.
COST: $30
BRING: journal and pen/pencil, wear comfortable clothes, and if you’d like to, bring a pillow or blanket. Please do not wear scents or fragrances. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack depending on your lunch schedule. Hot tea and coffee provided.
This workshop is for students age 13 and up. 15 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Alexi Erenkov’s duo, The Saxophones, create beautiful and personal music. Accompanied by his wife, Alison Alderdice, on percussion and samplers, they blend the darkness and melancholy of 1950s balladry with minimalistic woodwind arrangements, creating a hypnotic sound that hearkens to the past while affirming its place in the present.
Photo by Avery bibeau
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Lynette is an electronic music artist based in Portland, Oregon.
The pieces deal mostly with the idea and content of dreams, both conscious and not. This is music to be heard in imaginary spaces. Metallic fluid drips slowly off of fresh cool lettuce. An unseen bird mimics the song of a long lost cellphone. You awake in time to forget a vague unsettled feeling.
https://lynette.bandcamp.com/releases
This event is free and open to the public!
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Natural Dyeing Bag of Tricks with Iris Sullivan Daire
Paint on cloth using color from plants. Students in this class will get to play with a variety of natural dye paints to draw and print on cotton. Paints will be made from local plants as well as dyes known since ancient times. Materials provided include sample squares, and a cotton tote bag that has been prepared to paint. Colorful and practical plant magic you can carry with you on all your adventures.
Iris Sullivan Daire has been working with Natural dyes for over 25 years. She is currently particularly fascinated by the exploration of botanical colors applied to surface design on cloth. She lives with her family in Astoria Oregon where she is slowly mapping the color potential of the plants that grow in and around the Columbia River. Her Website is DreamBirdStudio.com
COST: $30 plus a $15 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided.
Children under 12 welcome with an adult. 16 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the SPRING/SUMMER 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Join us for our 7th Anniversary Party!
Saturday, April 27th from 5-10pm
Music, festivities and cheer to celebrate 7 years of Sou’wester Wonder!!
<<<THE MUSIC>>>
Just added *** Fronjentress and Dustin Hamman (of run on sentence)!!!!!
Party Witch!
A dark and dreamy power duo featuring Alicia J. Rose (Miss Murgatroid) on accordion, synth and vocals and Shawna Gore (Captain Vs. Crew) on drums. Rose’s rich, commanding vocals soar over Gore’s fast and furious beats, the accordion and synth forging new wave song spells about power dynamics, witchy mysticism, and all manner of twisted souls. Reminiscent of early Siouxsie, Patti Smith and Kate Bush, these PDX dark-pop heroines are bringing much needed light to a quickly darkening world.
www.facebook.com/partywitchpdx
Rachel Blumberg!
Rachel is a drummer and multi-instrumentalist who composes her own music and performs and records both under her name, and under her moniker Arch Cape. She has toured all over the world and recorded with many widely acclaimed artists including The Decemberists, M.Ward, Bright Eyes, Califone, Mirah, Tara Jane O’Neil, Michael Hurley, Sam Beam/Jesca Hoop, Laura Gibson and Death Vessel.
https://www.rachelblumberg.com/music
VooVol!
VooVol is bassist and vocalist Kadi Rae Smith (Oro Azoro) and drummer Shana Lindbeck (Orquestra Pacifico Tropical). The duo, sonically only utilizing two instruments, engages low-fi, soulful rhythms with operatic, haunting vocals & stripped down percussion. This new project by these long time friends and occasional collaborators is an opportunity for them to create and contribute their voice to the collective, musical universe.
www.facebook.com/VooVolBand/
www.instagram.com/voovolmusic/
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Expanding Macramé: Taking Your Macramé Practice To The Next Level with instructor Emily Katz
Expand on your knowledge of macramé and take your process to the next level. We will explore macra-weave techniques, working with color, macramé as sculpture, and utilizing different sizes and weights of rope, yarn and other non conventional materials. Get inspired by the scenery of the Washington Coast and design a piece that takes you out of your comfort zone. The workshop will begin with a circle and intention setting, followed by drawing out our ideas for our projects. If participants want to make a project from our book, Emily will guide you to get started. We will pause for a healthy lunch, and continue working on our pieces into the afternoon.
Emily Katz is an artist, world traveler, teacher, interior designer, creative consultant, public speaker, and the owner of Modern Macramé. Emily has taught macramé to thousands worldwide through private lessons and team building workshops, from LA to Tokyo to Copenhagen. Her creativity doesn’t stop there, as she has designed restaurant interiors and residences inspired by her travels, as well as large-scale custom macramé installations for clients like Ralph Lauren, Microsoft, and Nordstrom. Named as the “Queen of Macramé” by The Guardian UK, her work has also been featured in LA Times, Elle Japan, Buzzfeed, and more. As a self-made entrepreneur of 15 years, Emily employs an all-women team of creatives at her studio, which serves as a production center, showroom, office, and event space. The author of the best selling book, Modern Macramé, Emily loves to explore design and macramé together. Emily calls Portland, Oregon her home with her partner Adam and their dog Donut and cat Cowbear.
COST: $250 (plus materials that may be purchased on site)
BRING: This workshop expands on what you know, so feel free to bring a project in process that needs some inspiration, or get started on a big piece. Bring any special materials you want to work with including driftwood or any other support to build onto. (There will also be rope and yarn for sale on site.) Consider choosing a project from our book to explore! We will also have time to draw a design of what you have in mind to create.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
Thomas Mudrick has been entertaining the Portland and Willamette Valley music scene with his Psychedelic sounds for over 10 years. This multi-talented musician brings together the diversity of world music with American Psych Rock roots. “Shoegaze”-influenced psychedelic guitar and you have a musical eclecticism that keep his faithful followers always coming back for more.
https://thomasmudrick.bandcamp.com
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Find Your Golden Thread: A Writing Workshop with Madeleine Eno
There’s a lot of talk these days about writing your story. And some think that means starting with your great-great grandmother and ending with what you had for breakfast this morning. So, writing becomes something daunting, dusty and overwhelming—and ripe for comparison with other more funny, interesting, adventurous people.
What would happen, though, if you started to think of your “stories,” instead of your “story”? When you know your Golden Thread, you can scan back through your life and pull from your own storytelling archives, so you have a bottomless well of material.
In this workshop, you’ll learn to polish your storytelling lens—what I call your “golden thread”—that unique and quirky point of view that’s evolved with your life, experiences and the message you’re here to share. You’ll have time to work your writing muscles with prompts, get some live feedback and hone your writing voice, and choose some stories to develop further.
Madeleine Eno, MA, helps creative entrepreneurs remember what they are here to say, and discover the most compelling container in which to say it.
She weaves lessons from her previous life as a magazine editor and yoga teacher into her work. In her Find Your Golden Thread and Book Mapping sessions and classes, clients and students discover the soul and meaning of their stories, so they can then confidently write their books, connect with their tribe, and change the world in their own magical way. Her students and clients describe Madeleine as a mix of wordsmith, alchemist, cheerleader, hand-holder, editor and intuitive guide. Find more at www.inthewriteplace.com
COST: $30
BRING: notebook and pen, please bring a sack lunch and/or snack, (Hot tea and coffee provided.)
14 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Their shows involve original music consisting of blues, folk, swing, and 1930s style songs, along with a handful of carefully selected covers often played on unusual and whimsical instruments. The fun times also include storytelling, games, and the occasional guest performer!
When not off having adventures or performing together, Tave and Nikki are involved in several solo projects in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Additionally, Tave is the lead singer and Nikki is the drummer of Gerle Haggard Band, the “All Merle, All Girl” tribute. They will be on tour later this month to Muskogee, OK, to play the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and the Women’s Prison nearby, among other venues.”
https://www.theadventuresofchickenanddumpling.com/
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!
Kim Field and John Cep are – in studio – The Stargazer Lilies. A unit in marriage, long time – blissing as a song writing team with a rich and romantic, cutting edge presence in the musical ocean of the indie dream pop, shoegaze, ambient and psychedelic scene. They released three albums, aiding in the resurrection of shoegaze, as their former band, Soundpool. They then stripped down from the larger ensemble to create a more intimate, pulsating – primal project and released 3 full length albums as The Stargazer Lilies on Graveface Records. They have also collaborated with Part Time Punks LA for a full length live recorded album which was released exclusively on Casa del Puente Discos/South America. They toured South America, The U.S. and Europe extensively around these releases. They are currently working on their next album which is being produced by Tobacco and will be released on his label, Rad Cult. They are currently supporting indie psychedelic legends, Black Moth Super Rainbow. Live, the duo morph into a trio with the addition of a live drummer. Expect an intensely dynamic, ethereal – yet explosive, mind – altering, face – melting concert experience.
Discography –
We Are The Dreamers Graveface Records 2013
Door To The Sun Graveface Records 2016
Part Time Punks Live Sessions Casa del Puente Discos 2017
Lost Graveface Records & Anima Recordings 2017
FUTURE RELEASE COMING SOON ON RAD CULT
Photo by Crystal Joy Tuliszewki
https://www.thestargazerlilies.com/
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L O R K A S C H E R is a Russian-American, dream-folk songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and harpist based in Portland, Oregon. Her music weaves syncopated melodies, emotive imagery, ethereal vocals and delicate loops. The haunting and intimate melodies work with themes of ancestral longing, inherited memory, and the collective process of coming back to life. These are lullabies to wake us.
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!