Kinsey Lee Presented by Sou’wester Arts!

Kinsey Lee is a member of the American indie folk band, The Wild Reeds. The Wild Reeds are known for their beautiful harmonies, poignant lyrics, and captivating performances. Kinsey Lee’s vocals are a central part of The Wild Reeds’ sound. She contributes her distinct voice and songwriting abilities to the band’s repertoire. With 10 years of writing, touring, and performing on her resume she has begun to find her voice as a solo artist. Kinsey recently debuted her first solo track “Lover’s song” recorded by Duff Thompson and Steph Green of Mashed Potato Records. She is currently working on a record as a follow up. Kinsey hopes to be like Bonnie Raitt, Carole King, Brandi Carlile,  and Lucinda Williams when she grows up. Musicians with strong lyrics, true grit, and a heartfelt story to tell. 

Live Music: Ezza Rose

8/17/2024 FREE AND OPEN TO ALL at The Sou’wester Lodge

Sunbathe and Strange Pilgrim

live at The Sou’wester Lodge 9/7/24

Free and open to the public

Sunbathe and Strange Pilgrim, two indie rock projects exploring themes of displacement and longing, are joining forces for a stripped-down duo show. Maggie Morris, the driving force behind Sunbathe, is known for her raw, soaring vocals and dynamic songwriting, spanning dreamy pop to garage rock. Josh Barnhart, the multi-instrumentalist behind Strange Pilgrim, creates psychedelic-infused soundscapes and introspective lyrics that evoke both the natural world and the anxieties of modern life. Together, they promise a unique and intimate performance, blending their distinctive styles for a memorable evening.

Olivia Awbrey Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

9/21/2024 

Free & open to the public

Olivia Awbrey is an Oregon-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work blends traditional folk with modern indie-rock and fingerpicking blues. She has released two EPs, one full-length album, and is the recipient of arts grants from RACC, the Grammy Foundation, and Oregon Arts Commission. Her debut album, Dishonorable Harvest (Quick Pickle Records), showcased at festivals and venues across the Pacific Northwest and the UK. She lives in Willamina, Oregon.

E. Ellison Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

10/5/2024

Free & open to the public

Previously under the moniker Cardioid and former Radiation City member, this new project from Lizzy Ellison is wrought with self discovery (not unlike previous works), but prodding deeper into the connection we have between the creation of music and ourselves.  Her new record, Pillars, evokes a semblance of control, when in fact during the creation of it, her life felt contrary to this.  The process was long as she allowed the songs to take shape in their own way, attempting to decode her methods in song-writing and creating new recording practices.  Staying true to the autobiographical form Ellison typically shares, these songs ebb and flow through different terrains of darkness and light, hope and despair, discomfort and peace, while describing the details of her life, and more specifically the struggles. Textural is an understatement;  almost bizarrely architectural in form.  At times predictable, alluring the listener, but often with questions unanswered. The palette of instrumentation is voluptuous and colorfully rich, using a classical acoustic guitar as the main inspiration and augmenting this with synths, layers of choral vocals, piano, fuzzed-out electric guitars, and raw lead vocals using as little effect as possible.  Pillars will be out this fall via Doe Records, Ellison’s Portland based record label.

Amos Heart Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

10/19/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public!

https://amosheart.bandcamp.com/album/the-house-on-the-hill

Amos Heart is a songwriter from Portland, OR now based in the city of Eugene, OR. Collaborating with modular synth artist Ann Annie, Heart and Annie created The House on the Hill, a personal look at the life of Heart.

Forest Veil Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/2/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public!

https://forestveil.bandcamp.com/album/caldera

Caldera (EP) is Forest Veil’s most recent release with Spirit House Records, the label she co-founded with Johanna Warren in 2016. Caldera was born during an Artist-in-Residency at Caldera Arts– an arts and environmental immersion program in the mountains of Sisters, Oregon. 

Forest Veil’s music has been synched in ads, movies, and TV shows such as NBC’s The Black List. An avid guitarist for over 25 years, Metzler also plays piano, synths, flutes, and percussion. She currently plays drums in the all femme band, Pool Boys.

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

11/9/2024 | 8pm

Free and open to the public!

A BEAT HAPPENING: A 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. 

CANDID RAMBLINGS: Candid Ramblings represents a mix of the “dirty south” and the dusty southwest. Hailing from Lake City, Florida and El Paso, Texas, she’s a former college basketball player chasing her music and poetry dreams through deeply personal lyrics, and a blend of fun upbeat songs and insightful, chill vibes.

Helen Gillet Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/16/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public

Helen Gillet is a musician, composer, cellist, singer (Belgian French & English), improviser and
looping artist. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big
Easy Awards, featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three
times, most recently in 2023, as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll. She has
played, recorded with many musicians over the past 20 years, including members of the Sun Ra
Arkestra, AACM (Chicago), ICP (Holland), Members of Morphine, Kidd Jordan, Marianne
Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine (North
America Tour 2018), Zachary Richard, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool at the
Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans in 2003 and Jeff Tweedy at Lincoln Center in 2019. She has
performed at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide including the Copenhagen Jazz
Festival, Dark MOFO Festival in Tasmania, Darwin World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz
Festival, New Direction Cello Society Festival at Berkeley College of Music, Kennedy Center
and at The Big Ears Music Festival in 2024 and many more.

Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds,
texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. For someone with her varied background, New
Orleans, with its mix of cultures and musics, seemed like a natural place to call home.

TWINGLE Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/30/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public

https://twingle.bandcamp.com/album/future-caviar

Twingle is the moniker of songstress and multi instrumentalists Anna Sabatino based out of Portland, OR. Raised in a one room cabin in the small town of Evergreen, Colorado she began writing songs at a young age featuring guitar and banjo. Her roots are in old timey folk and bluegrass, but later went on to realms of Experimental/Psychedelic/French pop which all work to cultivate her sound and melodic patterns. Songs that live somewhere in the realm of familiar but entirely unexpected. Twingle’s debut album ‘Future Caviar’ is out on Little Cloud Records.