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!

Jun
26
Sat
Mike Coykendall: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Jun 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Mike Coykendall: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. 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.

Jul
10
Sat
Three For Silver : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Jul 10 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Three For Silver : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

A full-time trio of gypsy jazz mercenaries and multi-instrumentalists, Three For Silver has won the praise of audiences across the region since they formed in 2012. The trio combines the distinct vocal styles of the sultry/sweet Willo Sertain and the abrupt shards of Lucas Warford.

 

Jul
17
Sat
Joshua Thomas: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Jul 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Joshua Thomas: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Joshua Thomas (born Joshua Thomas Schurr ; January 22, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter based in Portland, OR. He has independently released 2 EPs and a full-length album, Sleep Like The World (2010), Halfway (2012), and The Harboring (2014). The first EP and the full-length (Halfway) were released under his given name, Josh Schurr, before he decided to produce all future projects under Joshua Thomas. His first work under that name is a 6-song EP, The Harboring. Thomas has released five singles over the last two years and is at work on a new EP.
Jul
26
Mon
Robert Meade : Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Jul 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Robert Meade: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Robert Meade’s a singer/songwriter, solo acoustic musician who’s been living and performing throughout the Northwest area for over a decade. His brand of upbeat Rhythm ‘n’ Blues & Americana music is bound to lift the spirit. 

Jul
27
Tue
Workshop: ANIMAL PARADE with Heather McLaughlin (Youth only) @ Sou'wester Arts Center
Jul 27 @ 10:00 am – Jul 29 @ 5:00 pm
Weekly workshops are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Youth (7-14) program is 10 AM – 5 PM.
 
 
In this workshop, students will create paper masks and foam plate prints of animals. Students will work collaboratively to create prints and visual works representing real or imaginary ecosystems. Students will also use the masks they make to perform as their animals.
 
 
 
 
Youth Weekly– $200 + materials fee
Adults Weekly– $150 + materials fee
Sign up for more than 3 sessions for a 10% discount!
or 20% off when you sign for all summer sessions – $1600 + materials fees.
Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
*Scholarships Available
Jul
31
Sat
Anna Tivel: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Jul 31 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Anna Tivel is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. She has released four studio albums on Portland-based Fluff & Gravy Records.[3] Her 2017 album Small Believer received positive reviews[4][5] and was named a “Top 10 underheard album of 2017” by Ann Powers of NPR.[6] In 2019, NPR called her album The Question “one of the most ambitious folk records of 2019”;[7] it was also listed by Paste as one of “10 essential folk albums from 2019”.[8]

Rolling Stone listed her as a standout performer at the 2019 AmericanaFest in Nashville, writing “In a week of countless songsmiths showcasing their attempt at that exact type of singer-songwriter storytelling, Tivel’s winding, largely chorus-less tales shined and shimmered.”[9] The magazine also named the lead single from The Question, “Fenceline”, a “song you need to know”.[10]

Tivel was born in La Conner, Washington and grew up in a musical family, learning violin and fiddle as a child. After moving to Portland at age 18, she developed an interest in songwriting and began to write and perform her own material.[11] Many of her songs are vignettes about the lives and struggles of ordinary people; she said in an interview “I’m drawn over and over to the small stories of people (myself included) just trying to get by, to do a little better, to feel some sort of beauty in an ugly world.”[12] Tivel’s songs are often somber in tone as she has said that she “just [doesn’t] trust happy songs as much”.[13]

On her last album, The Question, she collaborated with engineer Brian Joseph and producer and musician Shane Leonard.[14]

Aug
7
Sat
Papi Fimbres: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Aug 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Papi Fimbres: Presented by Sou’wester Art

David “Papi” Fimbres creates sound out of thin air that feels familiar at first, but at a second thought, is nothing you’ve ever heard before. As a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Fimbres wields an arc of pure infectious energy and a rare and cosmic control over the rhythmic and melodic spectrum. Born & raised in the Pacific West Coast, his Latino culture is immersed in not only his music but his way of life as he sees it. Everything is here for a reason, and within that, everything has a sound that can be curated and understood.
 
Aug
14
Sat
AC Sapphire + Left Coast Country: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Aug 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

 

 

AC Sapphire is currently living in the beautiful small village of Joshua Tree, CA. The death place of Graham Parsons and birth place of many artistic visions, just a couple hours away from Los Angeles. Annachristie has been writing and recording her newest EP “Sibling Rivalry” while soaking up the mountain views.

Left Coast Country is a country music collective founded by Drew Tucker in 2010. Based in Portland, Oregon, the group has seen a rotating cast of players through the years and have toured extensively throughout the US.

Aug
18
Wed
Dustin Hamman: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Aug 18 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Dustin Hamman is a composer, musician, hack/wannabe actor/director, and donut enthusiast.

Dustin’s musical tastes span many genres but have always been rooted in folk. He had an early fascination with American Indian singing and early punk rock…later he explored the blues and the origins of country, eventually gaining interest in early jazz, swing, and big band. During a short life in Florida he was introduced to Latin rhythms and became intrigued by Flamenco and classical guitar.  More recently, he’s been dabbling in marriages of a variety of genres including, rap, rock, r&b, and noise/ambient, many of which can be heard on the recently released soundtrack for Beneath The Harvest Sky.  This was his first film scoring effort and he hopes to do many more.

 

Aug
21
Sat
Jolie Holland: A fundraiser for Sou’wester Arts Sponsored Artist Residency. @ The Sou'wester
Aug 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

A fundraiser for Sou’wester Arts Sponsored Artist Residency.

JOLIE HOLLAND & STEVIE WEINSTEIN-FONER

AT THE SOU’WESTER

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21

$30 TIX / ALL AGES

8:00PM SHOW

A fundraiser for: Sou’wester Arts – Sponsored Artist Residency

Dedicated to supporting BIPOC and all underrepresented voices.

Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy. She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that’s where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot center of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail. Note how easily the line “I’ve been taken outside and I’ve been brutalized” trips off her tongue in Joe Tex’s “The Love You Save.”

 

Which brings us to Wine Dark Sea. Astute listeners to Holland’s work can recognize how her writing over the years has deepened, matured, become the songwriting of a wise, worldly adult, not just of a rambler across the American latitudes, but to understand this is still no preparation for the sonic assault, the unprecedented confidence and merciless brilliance of Wine Dark Sea which yokes the New York underground to American song in a way that has rarely been attempted since White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground. Yes, the classic Holland lyrical concerns are evident in songs like “Palm Wine Drunkard,” and “St. Dymphna,” and “Out on the Wine Dark Sea,” all of which mix a density of literature and poetry to brutalities of romantic love, to the fragmentation of self and narrator in a torrent of loss and grief, but this tells us nothing about the band Holland has assembled and leads to express her present vision. Two drummers, sometimes as many as three or four electric guitars, horns of a sort that come out of free jazz and the No Wave scene as much as they come from soul music, and a refreshing need, on Holland’s part, to sing out at the extreme of her range, above the squalling insatiable lullaby of the thing. And, just when you think you know how to listen to multiple incendiary devices as occasionally rise up out of the category five of it all—guitar playing that makes Zuma or On the Beach sound somewhat restrained—there are the ballads: graceful, melancholy, wistful. There has been no album of the recent decade with quite this sonic ambition, with quite this command of what a rock and roll song is and ought to be, but Wine Dark Sea is all of that, with a little bit of Homer and Maya Deren mixed in too.

 

Jolie Holland has a Desperation to tell Now. And she has called on deep, dark forces to get there. It’s always a pleasure to hear a musician come to a new precipice in her output, where great skills and great courage are required to rise to the occasion. Wine Dark Sea is the album of a lifetime, with a lifetime of work in it.