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!
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.
“Have you ever heard of Drew Victor? If you haven’t, you are missing out. His style is so different. At times, Victor’s voice sounds like a cross between Sufjan Steven and Jeff Buckley–two artists that are as epic as they are unique. The mood structures are extremely captivating. From one song to the next, Victor will have you in romantic fantasy, then having you clapping your hands and moving your hips.” (Review – SSC Music)
We welcome Andrew Victor back into the NW after a decade in NYC! Drew has shared bills in the U.S. and Europe with Sharon Van Etten, Alela Diane, and Damien Jurado.
Snowblind Traveler, Long Island born songwriter Matt Dorrien, plays the song of the common man. His music is inspired by the rolling expanse of middle America, the fog and lichen draped cathedral of redwoods of the northwest, the lulling whisper of a New England blizzard, the sorely disappointed, the dearly loved, the true and honest, those who are lost and forgotten, the living, dead, and eternal. For those who have ever slept under a blanket of Big Sur stars and drank whiskey until you forgot your own name: This is for you.
Photo credit Jason Thrasher.
Thayer Sarrano is forging her own path into a southern- psych-dreamland, bottling up ghosts and bringing them to life through her ethereal desert rock hymns. The tones tremble and bend, layered in swirling atmospherics. The angelic voice will pull you in close to share devastatingly beautiful and heart-breaking secrets, while shadowy figures dance in the background.
Natural Dye & Weaving Workshop
at the Sou’wester Lodge
with instructor Brooke Shepherd of Seawater Studio
Winter Solstice: Celebrate the return of the light!
Together in this workshop we will celebrate the cyclical and ever-changing seasonal offerings that nature generously provides in order to produce naturally dyed fabric and yarns.
Sat Dec 19 11am – 3pm
After a nature walk along the beach, where we will be gathering materials for our dye baths, we will prepare our fabrics and yarns using seawater as a mordant. Plants, shells, wood, old fishing hooks, most anything we find along the seashore will be used as a dye, resist, or decoration of your one-of-a-kind fabric.
Sun Dec 20 10am – 12pm instruction and afterwards Open Studio
Weaving workshop! We will first go on a walk to gather items to weave into our mini-tapestries. You will learn the basic techniques of weaving on a small loom and we will incorporate themes of winter, darkness, and light as you learn to create plain weave, rya knots, and shapes with hand dyed yarn.
All supplies provided. Families are encouraged to participate together.
Suggested donation $15 – $20 for adults; $10 for kids.
Sign up for one day or both days of this workshop.
Please RSVP souwesterlodge@gmail.com or 360 – 642 – 2542
We are located at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644