SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
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A wonderful treat to have Josephine Foster coming to the Sou’wester with special guest Michael Hurley!
“There are few of Foster’s contemporaries who are able to voice a song in such a striking and idiosyncratic manner, and it is borne out in the spate of enthralling albums that she has released in recent years. Her last record, Blood Rushing, offered a selection of recordings that showed Foster’s interest in both European and American folk traditions, indicative of her roots in Colorado and her time living in Spain.”
“Foster’s work touches on tradition in a way that seems both retrospective and reverent, without necessarily giving itself over to pure emulation. ‘Pretty Please’ is tinged with a country feel, its taut double bass and strumming guitar offset by a tinkling set of honkey-tonk ivories and the late inclusion of Victor Herrero’s slide guitar. Immediately following is ‘Magenta’, with Foster’s voice beautifully complemented by a cluster of piano chords and bowed bass, the results almost too tender for a listener caught off-guard. It is a precise example of the level of fine detail in the composition and execution of I’m A Dreamer; a demonstration of the gathering together of a musical knowledge and confidence in attempting things that would seem pat or dull in the hands of less confident musicians.” The Quietus Review by Andrew Spragg
“Michael Hurley is an American folk singer who was essential to the Greenwich folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He is able to play a wide variety of instruments. Michael Hurley is also a cartoonist and a painter.” Wikipedia
Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid ’80s.
photo credit: Michael Bordelon
Celebrate Halloween at the Sou’wester BYOP style! Bring your own pumpkin and your favorite carving tools and we will all gather at the Sou’wester for a Pumpkin Carving Party! Don’t forget to bring a candle to light your creation at the end for our jack-o-lantern show!
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.” 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
Join us in welcoming the band Ages and Ages to the Sou’wester! “Anthemic choruses, irresistible pop harmonies, and the kind of exuberant vibes that everyone can use” -NYLON
“Ages and Ages’ debut LP, Alright You Restless, was an ambitious, conceptual piece of sing-along, clap-along, stomp-along pop rock that vaulted the band into elite company. That first record pontificated upon the throes of isolation as a form of revolution, elated choral melodies anchoring shimmery guitars and tight rhythmic interludes throughout. The Portland conglomerate’s second album, Divisionary, is a lot of that, too; there are plenty of goosebump-raising hooks and uplifting crescendos to write home about. Their thematic scope, however, involved the excavation of darker inspirations than they’d previously explored as a band. Ages and Ages have undergone lineup changes and lots of peripheral personal battles and have somehow managed to internalize and later deduce how to navigate the avenues of their own lives in triumphant—and insanely memorable—song. In the process, they’ve come out with one of this year’s best all-around albums.”—Ryan J. Prado (Paste Magazine)
JENNY DON’T AND THE SPURS have been making their own brand of roots country music since early 2012. The core members of the group, Jenny Don’t (DON’T), Sam Henry (WIPERS, NAPALM BEACH, DON’T), and Kelly Halliburton (PIERCED ARROWS, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.) all bring something from their own extensive and long musical backgrounds to the table to create the rich musical tableau that comprises JENNY DON’T AND THE SPURS.
Following in the wake of their two vinyl singles, their debut self-titled album continues in the tradition of the band’s signature sound, evoking the spirit of lonely desert roads, longing hearts, and star-filled skies over sweeping Western landscapes. While the sound of the Spurs is original and draws from deep wells of personal experience, the band pays stylistic homage to the greats of the genre – Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams Sr., Loretta Lynne, and all the rest of the real players from the 1940’s and 50’s…an era where the lines between Rock n’ Roll and Country were blurred, where the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins could tour together and nobody would bat an eye.
On this record the trio is joined by a star-studded cast comprised of some of Portland’s finest musicians: Lewi Longmire (The West Coast Roasters, Michael Hurley Band, Fernando, etc…), David Lipkind (I Can Lick Any SOB in the House, Spigot, Rich Del Grosso, etc.), Jerry A (Poison Idea), Dan Lowinger (Don’t, Barn Door Slammers), and JT Halmfilst (Thee Headliners, Audios Amigos).
Friends and Family are invited to a Thanksgiving Feast Potluck at the Sou’wester!
We welcome this band to the Sou’wester! They say, “You don’t know who you are. We don’t know who we are. You don’t want to miss this!”
It is an all star lineup, comprised of members of Evolutionary Jass Band, Pendejo, Plants, Sad Horse, and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, will perform the legendary and well beloved Kinks studio LP “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society” in its entirety. Performed once in Portland, this will be their second and quite possibly final performance of this amazing record.
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society – Full Album
Secret Drum Band is a noise & percussion ensemble that started as a four-piece in Olympia, WA in 2006. Lisa Schonberg is the primary composer, and many of her pieces are place-based and reflect on landscape, ecology, and soundscapes.
Photo by Martin C Evans.
Instrumentation includes up to five drummers and two musicians creating noises, loops and tones. Secret Drum Band features Heather Treadway (explode into colors), Sara Lund (hungry ghost/unwound), Allan Wilson {chk chk chk, HITS), Sam Humans (modernstate/orquestra pacifico tropical), Alison Clarys (tiburones), and Anthony Brisson and Eddie Bond of Psychomagic. Heather Treadway designs costumes for the ensemble. Recently Secret Drum Band merged with HITS (Schonberg’s other band with Wilson and Treadway), and SDB is now also performing selections written by the trio.