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!

Aug
21
Sun
Festival of Friends with Tara Jane O’Neil, Katy Davidson, Cynthia Nelson and Geoff Soule
Aug 21 @ 8:00 pm

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Tara Jane ONeil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist.  She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with her brilliant friends. Her recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures.

Katy Davidson (formerly Dear Nora, Key Losers) writes and performs lyrically-driven experimental pop music that explores the liminal zones between reality and alt-realities.

Cynthia Nelson writes songs and sings them and plays them on instruments. in order of appearance: ruby falls, retsin, the naysayer, the sophie drinker music project, cynthia nelson, cynthia nelson band. new album forthcoming in 2016.

Geoff Soule lives in Portland, Oregon.

Aug
24
Wed
DIY Care For Stress, Anxiety, and General Mood Health @ Wellness Camper
Aug 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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In this special event we will come together in a cooperative effort to educate ourselves and make healthy plans for minimizing stress, living fuller and healthier, with endurance and spacious awareness. As a group we will come together and learn how to create personal refuges based in stress prevention and relaxation techniques. A general overview of stress and anxiety in human health will be met with yoga techniques, breathing methods, recommendations for natural therapeutics, creative outlets, mindfulness meditation, a discussion on diet, grounding techniques, and more. Participants will walk away with a toolbox of resources of personal empowerment, allowing them to improve mood health with understanding and confidence.

$30 per person. Handouts included. Space limited to 10 people.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Aug
26
Fri
Ponyghost
Aug 26 @ 8:00 pm

 

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Ponyghost is a duo consisting of songwriter Jason Paglia and upright bassist, Perry Pfister. The songs, stemming from Jason’s original compositions and lyrics, are constructed from elements of acoustic and electric guitar, upright bass, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer, and sampled sounds. These elements portray a map of each song which follow Jason’s lyrics over the song’s unique topography, sculpted from the duo’s involved sense of dynamics and textural changes. The music bears the intensity of certain modern classical music as well as the bold strength of a solo presentation of poetry.
Ponyghost was formed in 2008 in Portland, OR, performing in intimate spaces like Valentines, The Dunes, and house shows. This performance will be the duo’s first presentation of their current songs after a long break from live performance as Ponyghost. The Sou’Wester has graciously provided a week-long residency that Ponyghost has utilized to create this performance.

 

Aug
27
Sat
Bart Budwig & Mike Midlo
Aug 27 @ 8:00 pm

Bart Budwig doesn’t write the big songs. He writes the songs about the places between the hills, in the draws and hidden canyons where truth is a little more in focus, stories can take their time gettin’ told, heartbreak is a place of deep reflection, and melodies don’t have to wear rhinestone suits or drive new, shiny, cars to be beautiful. Bart’s also not afraid of working out of the spotlight- he engineered not only his own full-length Whiskey Girl (2012), but also albums and tours with Radiation City, Holiday Friends, Girlfriends, Misé, John Craigie, Edmund Wayne, and Mama Doll.

“Mike Midlo is a storyteller disguised as a musician. His latest project, MidLo, received a grant from Portland’s Regional Arts & Culture Council and was released on March 5, 2013.” www.getyourpitchforkon.wordpress.com

Aug
31
Wed
Hydrotherapy Folk Remedies @ Wellness Camper
Aug 31 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Come learn the art of healing with water and temperature applications! The uses of water in its various forms have been utilized as medicine in various cultures across the world, from the Chinese to the Greeks and Indigenous North Americans. This workshop includes a scientific overview of how water (as liquid, ice, and vapor) acts as a medicinal carrier of temperature, a group sauna and cold plunge, and discussion/practice of traditional folk remedies for home use. We will cover methods of reducing muscle pain, treating stress and insomnia, headaches, immune system enhancement and more.

$30 per person. Handouts included. Bring a bathing suit!

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 8 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Sep
3
Sat
Jenny Don’t And The Spurs
Sep 3 @ 8:00 pm

If you have a love for old classic country artists such as Hank Williams and Patsy Cline then you might have a soft spot for this Portland band. Jenny Don’t sings from the heart and Sam, Kelly, and JT play like there is no tomorrow. Sit back and enjoy!

 

Sep
10
Sat
GERLE HAGGARD
Sep 10 @ 8:00 pm
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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 of Haggard’s classics to a whole new audience. This eight-piece ensemble features a terrific line-up of musicians who weave beautiful instrumentation, tight harmonies and a big heap of showmanship into a full-throttled entertainment event.
The band has recently been featured at Portland’s Rose Festival, Oregon Country Fair and The Bite of Oregon as well as performing for the women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Along with their live shows this summer, the band has recently released at full-length recording chock full of their own spin on Merle Haggard classics and lesser known gems. This marks their fourth appearance at the Historic Sou’wester Lodge and the band is always excited to return to their “home on the Coast.”
Sep
14
Wed
MYCO-MEDICINALS @ Wellness Camper
Sep 14 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Join us for an exploration into the worlds of two renowned medicinal mushrooms coexisting in the forests of Cascadia. This workshop includes: an introduction to the classification of fungi, identification techniques for Reishi and Turkey Tail (including distinctions from common look-a likes), an overview of the medicinal constituents of each species and their histories in healing, conscious and sustainable wild harvesting skills, as well as medicine making techniques for tinctures, balms, and teas.

$30. Includes handouts and a balm sample.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Sep
28
Wed
DIY Care For Stress, Anxiety, and General Mood Health @ Wellness Camper
Sep 28 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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In this special event we will come together in a cooperative effort to educate ourselves and make healthy plans for minimizing stress, living fuller and healthier, with endurance and spacious awareness. As a group we will come together and learn how to create personal refuges based in stress prevention and relaxation techniques. A general overview of stress and anxiety in human health will be met with yoga techniques, breathing methods, recommendations for natural therapeutics, creative outlets, mindfulness meditation, a discussion on diet, grounding techniques, and more. Participants will walk away with a toolbox of resources of personal empowerment, allowing them to improve mood health with understanding and confidence.

$30 per person. Handouts included. Space limited to 10 people.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Nov
5
Sat
Music: Ora Cogan
Nov 5 @ 8:00 pm

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Ora Cogan’s music is deliberate medicine for fresh sorrows. Her voice is hypnotizing as a candle flame. This music demands our full attention, in a tender way. Cogan’s versatile, haunted voice opens up a mystical reality; hallowed, forlorn and full of promise. She has let her curiosity lead her into many genres over the years, combining the intricate guitar picking of Americana with grunge and psychedelic dreamscapes. She has been compared to 70’s folk legend Karen Dalton and Angel Olsen, while still setting herself apart in her own unique way.

Ora became a part of Vancouver’s eclectic music community at the age of 19, co-producing her 2010 album The Quarry with Jesse Taylor at Nite Prison and collaborating with a multitude of artists participating in Fake Jazz Wednesdays & Her Jazz Noise Collective. Cogan has released six full-length recordings to date and has shared the stage with the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, Hope Sandoval and Grouper while touring extensively across Europe and North America for the past 10 years. She has appeared on radio shows, such as WNYC’s Spinning on Air, and played numerous festivals including Vancouver Folk Festival, The Festival of Endless Gratitude in Denmark, and Tanned Tin in Spain.