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!

Dec
7
Sat
Live Music: John Lensing @ The Sou'wester
Dec 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

John Lensing LIVE at The Sou’wester Lodge

12/7/2024 | 7pm

Free & open to the public!

https://johnlensing.bandcamp.com/album/america-needs-therapy
 
John Lensing started out as a street performer, writing songs and driving around the US to play them for people. Slowly, this led to playing shows and festivals, but the goal has always been the same. To make people care — about others, themselves, and things that sometimes hurt to care about.
 
His genre-blurring songwriting has brought him on tours all across North America and Europe. Most notably playing a Sofar Sounds showcase at the Sommer in Altona festival (Hamburg), and being named “an artist to watch” by No Depression.
Dec
14
Sat
Live Music: A Beat Happening presents Luvjonez and SuckerForLights @ The Sou'wester
Dec 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

A BEAT HAPPENING Presents LUVJONEZ x SUCKERFORLIGHTS Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

12/14/2024 | 7pm

Free and open to the public!

A BEAT HAPPENINGA Beat Happening is a free, monthly, all ages, all genres, all identity inclusive music producer and DJ showcase based in Portland, Oregon. 

LUVJONEZ: Luvjonez is a Puerto Rican instrumental hip hop music producer based in Portland, Oregon. He weaves a nostalgic and downtempo blend of musical influences from his cultural roots, extensive travels, and multimedia visual art practices. His instrumental tracks combine Down South, East Coast, Pacific Northwest elements and ancestral Caribbean vibes, creating a genre-defying mix of lofi, jazzy, downtempo, and boom bap styles. 

SUCKERFORLIGHTS: Husband and wife dream pop duo from Portland, OR. Their last full length album, “Hearts Fade”, is a lush and expansive pop record covering themes on the many facets of love.SOU’WESTER PRESS

Dec
28
Sat
Live Music: Twin Bridges and Nate Norton @ The Sou'wester
Dec 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Live Music: Twin Bridges and Nate Norton

Twin Bridges’s melancholic aesthetic is the result of fusing classical and chamber music’s instrumentation and musicality with folk and indie-rock. Hailing from New Mexico, Twin Bridges currently resides in Portland, Oregon. “Born out of personal turmoil and heartbreak, Twin Bridges’ music is a testament to the healing power of art. “ – Voicemag UK 

Nate Norton emits folk for the dark night of the soul – a ritual of pulsing nylon-stringed fingerstyle guitar and brassy, bellowing vocal incantations. Fans of Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, and Jose Gonzalez often find themselves in familiar territory with Nate’s composition and style, while also finding parallels with the ominously gravelly timbre of Tom Waits. Heavily inspired by a harrowing escape from the world of religious fundamentalism, much of his catalog carries the undertones of the grim and traumatic circumstances from which it was born, while also embodying a prodigious sense of uplift, triumph, and hope.
Jan
18
Sat
Live Music: Leo Moon @ The Sou'wester
Jan 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

 

Live Music: Leo Moon

Leo Moon is the solo incarnation of singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Brian Adrian Koch. California born and Oregon raised, Brian has been active in the Portland music scene since arriving in 2000. He is a current and founding member of indie rock band Blitzen Trapper (2000-present) and psychedelic folk duo Dead Lee (2018-2023)  Appearing now as a solo acoustic performer, his minimal and haunting tunes are stripped down paeans to the glorious absurdities of life; harmonica spattered psalms to the void. He is preparing to release his first full length album, The Fool. 

 

 
Feb
8
Sat
Live Music: Weezy Ford @ The Sou'wester
Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

 

Live Music: Weezy Ford

Weezy Ford is a musician and songwriter who lives in the Columbia River Gorge. Her first musical endeavors incorporated slide guitar, vintage feels, garage-rock fuzz, and tap dancing on her EP Bobbypin Graveyard. She got tired of carrying around a box to dance on, and began writing songs on a tiny synthesizer that would eventually become her first full-length record titled Sugarcane in 2019. She collaborates with her partner, Mark Robertson (multi-instrumentalist, engineer) in their homestead studio where they mostly grow vegetables. None of the knobs are labeled. During the pandemic they recorded a handful of acoustic songs onto tape released as all at once. She started a twangy side project with her sister, Sallie Ford, called The Barbaras and recorded Oh My God Barbara in 2020 on Orcas Island, WA. Her latest album “In the Movement” was released in March, 2024.