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!
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.
In this workshop, you will learn the symbolic ritual of creating an OJO DE DIOS, Spanish for Eye of God. Artist Kate Rutter will demonstrate this ancient weaving technique around wood supports with yarn and colored string.
11:00am – 1:00pm Workshop with class instruction and demonstration
2:30pm – 3:30pm Open Studio with supplies available to continue working
Ages 10 years old and up
Suggested donation $15 – $20 for adults; $10 for kids
All supplies provided
Maximum class size – 20 participants
“As we create, and the beauty of this sacred object starts to take shape, we tap deeper into our subconscious allowing the spiritual eye to see and understand things unknown to the physical eye. Through the repetitive and meditative quality of this ancient practice and with the addition of essential oils, we will deepen our awareness, reveal hidden truths within and connect to our higher purpose.”
Kate Rutter
Stylist and Designer
www.katerutter.com
www.shopheartcave.com
RSVP by contacting
The Sou’wester at 360-642-2542 or souwesterlodge@gmail.com.
Please join us in welcoming Portland musician Ryan Oxford to the Sou’wester for original tunes and summer sounds!
With a voice that can meander from a whispering purr to a hardened howl, Hip Hatchet lusters the poetics of travel. Threading bold and unique guitar picking patterns with the strings of experience Hip Hatchet, the songwriting moniker of Philippe Bronchtein, is the beautiful resolution of a life lived in motion.
Gerle Haggard Band brings the best of Merle Haggard’s timeless music to audiences who’ve been loving songs like Mama Tried, Misery and Gin and Working Man Blues for nearly five decades, as well as introducing these and many more classics to a whole new audience. This eight-piece, all-women band features a terrific line-up of musicians who weave beautiful instrumentation, tight harmonies and a big heap of showmanship into full throttled entertainment event.
Love Gigantic and band members Sarah King, Chet Lyster, Ryan Moore, David Langenes, Arthur Parker, and Lara Michel bring a bit of rock and roll to the Sou’wester! Let’s get spooky on this Halloween night with a dance party and Love Gigantic!
“Collectively, the six members of Love Gigantic have an impressive resume that covers considerable musical ground in the Portland scene and beyond.
Michel is a member of The Stolen Sweets, A Simple Colony and Swan Sovereign; Lyster moonlights with Eels, spent two years touring as a multi-instrumentalist with Lucinda Williams (and also played guitar on her Grammy-nominated Little Honey), and has played with locals Casey Neill, Fernando and Little Sue; Langenes is a member of Karaoke From Hell and The Stolen Sweets when he’s not painting Michel’s bathroom; Mengis, formerly of Climber, currently tours with Priory; and Parker has played with Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights, Moody Little Sister and Trashcan Joe.”
Love Gigantic, their debut full-length album was released in August 2014. “Full of rich harmonies, some wicked guitar solos and perfectly placed percussion, the whole thing feels like the complete package with more than a few earworms you’ll likely find yourself softly humming after you’ve shut off the stereo. It’s obvious that music is a lifestyle for Love Gigantic and something they do for the love of it. ‘What role doesn’t it play?’ they question. ‘Music makes everything else bearable. And it gives us a chance to wear fake leather pants.’”-Vortex Music Magazine
American-Roots-Music will swagger through the Sou’wester as we welcome musician Joe Fletcher coming to us from East Nashville, Tennessee.
“Joe Fletcher proves his versatility on White Lighter. His signature brand of dark and lyrically driven honky tonk is interspersed with a softer side that would make a Hagg or Jones proud.” – No Depression
Joe Fletcher is a midwestern born, New England raised singer-songwriter living in East Nashville, TN. He released his third independent record, You’ve Got the Wrong Man, in October of 2014. This intimate solo album is a departure from his previous efforts with his band The Wrong Reasons (White Lighter and Bury Your Problems).
Made up of his gritty original songs as well as covers by his peers Brown Bird and Toy Soldiers, it was recorded live over a few months on a mobile recording unit in Rhode Island, Georgia, and Tennessee in the spirit of some of Joe’s favorite records by Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, among others.
Now a three year veteran of the Newport Folk Festival, Joe has toured with The Devil Makes Three, Band of Heathens, Deer Tick and has opened for the likes Jason Isbell, Lucero, Robert Ellis, John Doe, The Low Anthem, and many more. Joe spends most of his time touring in what has truly been a grass roots operation thus far.
photo by Josh Wool
SPECIAL! Mention this band for 25% off your total stay at the Sou’wester.
Help us welcome the month of October in lo-mid-fi-pop style with the sounds of The Woolen Men from Portland, Oregon!
