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!
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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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.
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Elisabeth Pixley-Fink is a Portland-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and band leader, born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan by a family of music-makers. Her blend of heartbreaking, heart-making folk songs and bratty garage rock hits you in the chest and mouth, with guts, trust and hunger.
“She has a campfire personality. You see her perform and you can’t turn away…you just stay there observing the fire, hypnotized.” -Luis Alberto González Arenas, rip.mx
Photo by John Hanson, Adam Levy
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The Best Intentions’ are Ani Banani and Pete Irving playing a repertoire that encompasses jazz standards, old blues, contemporary diamonds in the rough, and a surprising amount of classic-sounding original music.
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https://www.facebook.com/The-Best-Intentions-260509951525733/
Come celebrate July 4th with us!!
Western Female is a New York-based performance piece, led by front-woman and songwriter Melanie Beth Curran. Through channels of honky-tonk, rock n’ roll, old-time, early jazz, croon, poetry, and secular sermon, Western Female takes audiences on musical tours of Western spaces. By inhabiting a variety of musical genres, Western Female combines theatrical performance with sound to evoke inquiry into the role of women on stage, in song, and within the mythological framework of The West.
“… her work is new Hollywood cinema, Italian realism, and French new wave on a country record. She’s Vargas, Fellini, Lou Reed, Cindy Sherman, and Hank Williams all at once. In the future, genre, cynicism, strictures of the patriarchy, cannot hold down the Western Female.”
– American Standard Time
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Tal·i·a Keys
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a genre crossing multi-instrumental musical force of performing art, bringing you her brand of Soul-Funk-Rock n’ Roll.
“This Salt Lake City “musical powerhouse” is known for sourcing energies largely compared to the bluesy rawness of Janis Joplin and the fire of Jimi Hendrix. Synergizing that old soul vibe with new school sounds, best described by Katie Bain as “blistering.” Having been “struck by her talent, stage presence and refreshing candor.”
– Insomniac: 2014 Best of Electric Forest
Photo by Stefan Poulos
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Sharing vocal and songwriting duties, Birger Olsen, Mike Elias and Tom Bevitori are the heart of Denver, while the rest of the line-up has long included several of Portland’s finest players. Currently, the band consists of drummer Sean MacNeil, bassist Billy Slater (Grails) and the legendary Lewi Longmire on lead guitar. Past and future editions include Blitzen Trapper’s Eric Earley and Michael Van Pelt, Ben Nugent (Dolorean), Ryan Spellman (Quiet Life), Ray Raposa (Castanets), Tom Menig and many others.
Paste praised their 2012 self-titled debut’s “perfect tunes,” while KEXP hosted a live session and proclaimed, “sweet harmonies and tight arrangements abound.” Statements like these become all the more relevant with their upcoming release, Rowdy Love, as Denver teamed up with Earley and Adam Selzer (M. Ward, Norfolk & Western) for their first trip to a proper studio. Recorded live in just two days at Selzer’s Type Foundry Studio, Rowdy Love certainly showcases all the endless chops at Denver’s disposal.
The record’s true focus, however, lies in the rare way Olsen, Elias and Bevitori’s distinct voices co-exist. There’s a natural melding of styles that’s evolved from afternoons on Olsen’s back porch, late night’s around Elias’ fire pit, and every last time they’ve nailed “The Weight” harmonies at the old Triple Nickel. Denver’s three songwriters may come to the process with varying style and influences, but Denver’s songwriting is universally honest and bare, whiskey-fueled, sweat-soaked, and steeped in working class life. Some might call it country. Some might call it rock. Some might call it a few drunks on a stage. Either way, bullshit and irony have no home here.
Rowdy Love will be released on July 15th, via Mama Bird Recording Co.
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Kele Goodwin has spent his life in three places: in Juneau, Alaska; on the Navajo Nation; and in the misty Pacific Northwest. He makes music that sings from bone marrow, from a life and landscape alternately charted and lost, crushed and rebuilt. It is music made familiar by the experience of pain and its lessons. It is music to live by.
Goodwin’s debut album Hymns was produced by Sean Ogilvie of Musé Méchanique and features guest performances from Laura Gibson, Alela Diane, Ogilvie himself, Douglas Jenkins of The Portland Cello Project, and many others. His lyrics are both observation and prayer, delicate lines built on an architecture of gratitude and disbelief of the world around him.
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