SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
Discover what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
The Micro Blues Tour swings through the Sou’wester bringing artist Will Morgan. Will hails from Seattle where he recorded his debut EP “Built Some” in 2013. Lately he has been playing his guitar and singing, inspired by the Mississippi Hill Country Blues style. Country blues classics and originals.
Lisa Wells is a poet and essayist from Portland, Oregon. She’s the author of Yeah. No. Totally., a book of essays, and a chapbook, BEAST. With Bobby Abrahamson she made The West Behind Us, photos and essays on struggling small towns in the west. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is about to move to Singapore where she’ll teach poetry at Yale-NUS.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of Swamp Isthmus, The Courier’s Archive & Hymnal, and Meadow Slasher, among others. With Solan Jensen he made a tour documentary about Califone called Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape. He grew up in Seattle and now lives in Tucson, where he teaches at the University of Arizona and runs a poetry journal called The Volta and a small press called Letter Machine Editions.
Please join us in welcoming Crop Circle featuring the talent of band members Tim Root and Christopher Grant playing original acoustic blues/folk numbers. 
We welcome artists Sara Lund and Thollem as they roll through the Sou’wester on tour as the band Conformity Contortion where convention submission distorts compliance.
Sara Lund has been providing beats and exploring rhythm since age 11. She is best known for her work as the drummer for Unwound (1992-2002). Thollem is known internationally as a wildly diverse keyboardist and has been on tour perpetually for years, releasing more than 40 albums of his own and in collaboration with others on 19 different vanguard labels.
Ray Prestegard loves playing music, singing and entertaining. He has all his life, from Texas through the Northwest. Playing original songs and concentrating on the classics, he plays music Americana. Bringing to the stage vintage amps and instruments made in the 30’s & 40’s through the 70’s in the USA, Ray plays blues, rock, folk and country with original tones from the time. Banjos, dobros, guitars, ukelleles, harmonicas and more.
Zeb Dewar is a Folk/Rock/Americana band based in Portland, Oregon and has released 6 records over the last 10 years, most recently a Greatest Hits compilation now out on Curly Cassettes! Zeb has toured the USA, played the Nelsonville Music Festival, opened for Samantha Crain, and shared bills with Michael Hurley, Run On Sentence, Clarke & The Himselfs.
Come celebrate the heat of summer at the Sou’wester with this hot music event: Au Dunes and Michael Hurley!
Vintage Travel Trailer Rally / 2015 at The Sou’wester
All are invited to come to the Sou’wester for this wonderful event! 2015 brings our 4th year of hosting this incredible showcase and community of vintage travel trailers. Bring your own vintage travel trailer or reserve one of ours.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday August 7th
2pm – 4pm
Open House for Rally Guests to tour Select Sou’wester Vintage Travel Trailers
6pm – 8pm
Meet-&-Greet-&-Socialize Activity in the Lodge
Saturday August 8th
11am – 1pm
Art Activity in the Pavilion
1pm – 4pm
Open House for the Public to tour Select Visiting Vintage Travel Trailers
1pm – 4pm
Brides of Jake the Alligator Man Walk the Grounds
Brides will Pose for Photo Portraits in front of Your Trailer
11am ongoing
Art Workshop in the Pavilion
6pm
Potluck in the Pavilion
8pm
Live Band in the Pavilion: Clambake Gypsy Jazz
Sunday August 9th
9am
Crepe and Coffee Breakfast in the Lodge
artwork by Nicole J Georges
Special thanks to the Rollin’ Oldies Vintage Trailer group for broadcasting love for vintage travel trailers and for helping promote this event at The Sou’wester.
Join us for the wonderful sounds of Clambake Combo! Better than food, it’s gypsy jazz! Musical entertainment at the Sou’wester not to be missed!
The Clambake Combo is a jazz ensemble specializing in Gypsy Swing repertoire from 1930s France in the style of Django Reinhardt. Their style also extends from French musettes and bebop to Brazil. Formed by Joseph Appel and Owen Hofmann-Smith in 2005, Clambake Combo’s size and makeup varies depending on the event and has played extensively in Portland, OR and the Pacific Northwest at private and public events and as a local swing dance band.
Longriver and Travis Champ are joined by another great Austin songwriter, Justin Fallen for this stellar music event at the Sou’wester.
David Longoria (Longriver) of The Black is a singer, songwriter and poet living in Austin, Texas. He has performed or toured with the Trail of Dead, Yo La Tengo, James Hand, Deertick, Fiery Furnaces, Joe Ely, Shiva’s Headband, The Sword, and Voxtrot.
Publisher of Abandon Press and songwriter of the Nehalem country band The Cedar Shakes, Travis Champ is too impatient to be a decent gambler, and too honest to talk with cops.
Justin Fallen grew up in Virginia and learned to write songs in Texas. His album, The Country Hero, features performances from some of the finest central Texas has to offer.
