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!
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
