SOU’WESTER EVENTS!

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.

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.

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. 

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]