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!

Apr
8
Sat
MayMay
Apr 8 @ 8:00 pm

Laurel Simmons is the songwriter behind MayMay and has just released her second LP, Mountains Hills Plateuas and PlainsMayMay debuted their first release, And so I place you in the setting sun, in 2012 after a few years of shows under the moniker and has evolved to be a project, at various times, played with Heather Woods Broderick, Peter Broderick, Birger Olsen and Raul Pastor Medall.

MayMay’s sound is inviting and reflective with lush yet spacious arrangements; weaving ethereal vocalizations, homespun beats, twangy guitars and melodic piano.

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Apr
15
Sat
Dusty Santamaria with Galen Ballinger & Travis Champ
Apr 15 @ 8:00 pm
Touring in support of his newest vinyl release, “Minor Cult Figure,” on Voodoo It Yourself Records, Dusty Santamaria  has been a phantom cornerstone of the West Coast underground music and poetry scene for the past decade. Drawing from mid-century R&B, gospel, and country music as well as Magick theory and poetics. Santamaria’s songs and memorable live shows have scored him opening slots for the likes of Reckless Eric and Lucinda Williams. A self described “minor cult figure,” Dusty Santamaria performs as one possessed by the spirit of that re-emerging zeitgeist of a lost, yet intrinsic era of American sound.
Apr
22
Sat
Stringology plus Meg Baier
Apr 22 @ 8:00 pm
Stringologypresents the best in Vintage American Music, Classic Jazz & Swing in a unique duo format, that, as the name implies, is all-strings! Hot jazz of the 1920’s, ‘The Great American Songbook’ of the 1930’s and ‘40’s, Gypsy Swing — even Contemporary and Latin American styles are showcased by the virtuoso guitarist ERIC BOGART— and the “rock-solid” rhythm back-up of TERIANNE STRATTON on ukulele.
 
The influence of the legendary Gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, who won acclaim for his unique guitar styling in 1930’s Paris, infuses every performance by “Stringology” with spirited excitement, passionate improvisation and pulsating rhythm that leaves every audience cheering– and wanting to come back for more.
 
Stringology” has performed in Seattle, Miami Beach, Victoria BC, Mexico, and can be seen regularly at many festivals and music venues on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State– their home base. 
Meg Baier’s latest release,  Cedar Rose, is an album composed by Meg Baier and Produced by Alan Singley. The songs are a little bit Laurel Canyon and a little bit Lilith Fair. Rich harmonies and sonic playgrounds surround the listener. The songs deal with love and making it in the world. It’s all very modern and classic at the same time. 
 
Apr
29
Sat
5 Year Anniversary Celebration
Apr 29 @ 4:00 pm – Apr 30 @ 12:00 pm
Apr
30
Sun
5 Year Anniversary Celebration
Apr 30 @ 10:00 am
May
5
Fri
She Shreds Showcase
May 5 @ 7:00 pm – May 7 @ 2:00 pm

We’re thrilled to present our first She Shreds Weekend Showcase!!  Come take break from the city life, enjoy some sweet jams from Portland based artists, walk on the beach, relax in the sauna, soak in the sun (or rain, ’cause you know… PNW), bring your dog, your mom, your partner, and chill with the She Shreds crew. It’s gonna be the best.

*** Reserve your trailer/cabin by calling Sou’wester directly at (360) 642-2542 and mention it’s for the She Shreds showcase.

  • 3 days of bands (7 bands total)
  • 1 day of workshops 
  • beach hang
  • Fireworks
  • Chill hang around a fire 
  • Demo station available for shreddage
 
BANDS
 

Sallie Ford

Black Belt Eagle Scout

Claire Puckett

Marisa Anderson music

Haley Heynderickx

Savila

Daniela Karina (Women’s Beat League DJ)

DJ Suavecito (She Shreds Magazine)


 

OTHER IMPORTANT INFO:
Reservations must be made via phone NOT online.
$10 at the door day of OR $25 weekend pass available at ticket link.
ALL AGES

May
13
Sat
Louis Ledford
May 13 @ 8:00 pm

Photo by Francesco Lucarelli
 
Born in the American South, Louis Ledford has carved out a career composing and performing literate Americana roots music. He has produced three solo recordings in association with Waterbug Records, a relationship which began in 2005 when Ledford met label owner Andrew Calhoun at the legendary Texas Kerrvile Folk Festival. Louis has collaborated with folk diva Anais Mitchell on several projects including his singing the role of Hades for a touring production of her rock opera Hadestown. Mitchell recorded his song “When You Fall” for her collaborative album Country EP with Rachel Ries released by Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records.

Ledford’s attention to lyrical detail is simply stunning. He makes the most of everyday circumstance, while never making the mundane feel normal. – 9X Music Magazine.

Louis Ledford is a great songwriter; witty, insightful and observant regarding the oddities of human behavior. – J. Kelly, Creative Loafing, Atlanta.

Louis Ledford achieves what Woody Guthrie was so good at–making an instant connection with the listener – Americana UK.

May
20
Sat
Lorain and Robin Bacior
May 20 @ 8:00 pm
 
Portland’s  Lorain plays wandering, lyrical music combining woozy AM folk-rock, with the ghosts of Nashville Skyline era Dylan. 
Photo by Kim Smith-Miller
This event is free and open to the public
May
27
Sat
Lili St Anne plus Indira Valey
May 27 @ 8:00 pm

Lili St Anne is an experimental trip-folk-hop band based in Portland Oregon. With lyric melodies and unexpected syncopation, the intimate songwriting and soulfully enticing vocals envelope you in an ethereal world permeated by strains of neo-soul, 1940s jazz, appalachian folk, and human howls. The songs live in a curious juxtaposition of whimsy and thoughtfulness, creating an intimate life soundtrack that ponders themes of love and loss from a distinctly female perspective. These songs, in collaboration with funk and hip-hop drummer Jason Miller, make Lili St Anne an uncommon genre-bending experience. They are in the midst of releasing their first single together, “Wolves”, and will be touring the West Coast in August 2017.

Photo by Hunter Faacks

Indira Valey (Portland, OR) is an avant garde multidisciplinary performer and a second generation Latinx Spanish speaker. Her ancient-sounding, resonant voice is a force of nature, and she utilizes looping technology, effects pedals, and a unique palette of instruments (including flugelhorn, timpani, kalimba, electric guitar) to create mesmerizing and memorable live performances that are ever-changing due to her spontaneous improvisational magic. Her debut album Recordar is a bilingual collection of oceanically soothing, powerfully healing songs about memory and finding your own inner power. In Spanish, “recordar” means both “to remember” and “to pass back through the heart”.

Jun
10
Sat
Kendra McKinley
Jun 10 @ 8:00 pm

Kendra McKinley perceives a song like a painter views a blank canvas: an opportunity to expand an audience’s mind, to wash their thoughts in brilliant hues of blue and violet, scarlet reds and effusive orange. Inspired by the past but not chained to it, McKinley’s music spans the diverse spectrum of pop music. She echoes the intricate vocal arrangements crafted by Brian Wilson, fractures the narrow definitions of a genre like St. Vincent, and recognizes storytelling as the key aspect of a great tune the way the best singer-songwriters have for generations.

 

“Kendra McKinley is a rising star in San Francisco.” – Annie Bacon, SF Critic

“Her 1960s chamber-pop sound and strong, undulating vocals — which slightly resembles St. Vincent (Annie Clark) — will make you feel like ditching work to skip through a field of sunflowers with your new lover.” – Melissa Hellmann, The Bold Italic

“…McKinley is no throwback act – her sound may echo the past but she belongs firmly in the present.” – Nick Schneider, The Bay Bridged

 

This event is free and open to the public!