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!

Jul
29
Sat
Grasshopper
Jul 29 @ 8:00 pm

Grasshopper.  Seasoned Roadhouse Americana with a dose of dance-inducing psychedelic hop

This event is free and open to the public

Aug
2
Wed
Community Clay & Sauna @ Sou'wester Lodge
Aug 2 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Come experience the therapeutic workings of a Finnish sauna in combination with a full body mask of wild foraged mineral clay. These natural therapies joined together, act as powerful means of detoxification, stress relief, muscle relaxant, skin cleanser, and more. Bring your bathing suit and a friend, be prepared to sweat it out with like minded folks, brave a cold plunge, and paint each other with some Skagit river valley clay.

$20 for Sou’wester guests $25 for general public.

 
Dress to accommodate the maximum amount of clay. Towels, clay, information hand-outs, tea and filtered water provided. There will also be an opportunity to purchase wild harvested mineral clay for future personal use.

Space is limited to 8 folks

 
Please RSVP. Any questions? Email mamookwellness@icloud.com

Aug
4
Fri
Lana Rebel & Kevin Mayfield plus Dramady
Aug 4 @ 8:00 pm

 

Lana and Kevin’s original songs quietly honor the simple beauty of early American folk, blues, and country. Guitars, sweet harmonies, and the occasional harmonica, fiddle, or singing saw blend together to result in a perfect tranquil soundtrack for a long road trip, or a late- night porch gathering on a quiet summer night. 

Dramady, formed in 2006, is a low-key indie-pop duo from Portland, OR. They make blissed out mellow tunes that will replay in your head for days. A multi-instrumentalist band that hits all the frequencies they possibly can with 4 hands. Their music ranges from lazy Sunday morning love songs to synthed-out catchy dance ditties.  

 

This event is free and open to the public

Aug
5
Sat
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
Aug 5 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Stephanie Nilles
Aug 5 @ 8:00 pm

Chicago-born jazz/punk/barrelhouse musician Stephanie Nilles has been doin’ Kesey proud one bar at a time since 2008, hustling around the United States, Europe, and Canada (except from 2009-2010 for legal reasons), averaging 150 gigs a year, and captivating unsuspecting listeners with a voice that would make Jelly Roll Morton look orthodox and Ma Rainey look sober.

Having studied piano and cello since the age of six, she was a finalist at the Young Concert Artists’ International Competition, a gold medalist at the Fischoff Competition, and had performed on NPR on three occasions by the age of seventeen. At twenty-two, she had graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a degree in classical piano performance and temporarily relocated to New York City, where she began writing songs and performed regularly on the east village anti-folk scene while making a living working odd jobs as a dog walker, valet parking attendant, Italian coffee bar barista, ghostwriter, and research assistant to a blind bioethicist at an all boys’ Jewish university.

She has since sung with Bobby McFerrin in Carnegie Hall, directed the musical program of a Brooklyn burlesque series, covered Busta Rhymes’ “Break Ya Neck” in the skeletal remains of a bombed-out cathedral in Nuremberg, been invited to perform official showcases at SXSW and International Folk Alliance, and self-released 5 full-length albums, three of which were picked up for European release by German roots/blues label Tradition und Moderne (Taj Mahal, John Fahey). 

When Stephanie’s not sleeping in her car, she lives in New Orleans, which might not be the best idea.

 This event is free and open to the public
 
Aug
10
Thu
Joseph Hein
Aug 10 @ 8:00 pm

 

Joseph Hein hails from the Palouse in eastern Washington State. With lush arrangements and warm distortion, he creates dreamy harmonious sounds with an energetic up­tempo rhythm influenced by songs of yesteryear’s AM country and R&B gold. He is often accompanied by an array of instruments including a trombone, a violin, keyboards and guitars that add to the band’s distinct style. Joseph Hein sings honestly about good times and the bad and the music bears witness to the road unkempt and a winding trail.

This event is free and open to the public

Aug
12
Sat
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
Aug 12 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Matthew Zeltzer plus Lucy Barna
Aug 12 @ 8:00 pm

Portland songwriter, Matthew Zeltzer (of The American West), emerged from a year of exile- living on an organic farm in Half Moon Bay, Ca raising chickens, writing songs about the apocalypse as a relationship slowly fell apart. He then puttered around Half Moon Bay, finishing the songs, before returning to Portland and forming his new project, The American West. It is these songs that fill his new release, “The Soot Will Bring Us Back Again,” which Frank Gutch Jr. (No Depression), calls, “Words to the wise. A warning. Beautifully done.” The Soot Will Bring Us Back Again is flecked with pedal steel and longing harmonies as the album drifts between finger-picked folk songs and raucous country-rockers, all while the focus remains on Zeltzer’s ragged poetry. 

 
Matthew Zeltzer has had the distinct privilege of sharing the stage with acts including The Milk Carton Kids, Jim Lauderdale, The Brothers Comatose, The T Sisters, Crow and the Canyon, Jaime Wyatt, and he is the former guitarist of Grammy Award winning Fantastic Negrito. photo by Caitlin Webb
 
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Recently relocated to Astoria, OR from Santa Fe, NM, songwriter Lucy Barna finds roots in lyric, storytelling, and tales from the road.  
Best known for her airy vocals and poignant lyrics, Lucy has earned regional and national attention for her solo work as well as performance with award winning Hot Honey, a band she formed in 2012.  Hot Honey was named Best New Band, Best Alt/Country Band, and Best Rock Band in Santa Fe 2013, and will return for a short summer tour in 2017 bringing their well-loved Appalachian-Sass sounds to the Southwest..  Lucy’s solo work features self-taught guitar and banjo paired with subtle lyrical sense in songs about the heart and the emotions less spoken of .  Photo by Madeline Moore
 
this event is free and open to the public
Aug
16
Wed
Community Clay & Sauna @ Sou'wester Lodge
Aug 16 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Come experience the therapeutic workings of a Finnish sauna in combination with a full body mask of wild foraged mineral clay. These natural therapies joined together, act as powerful means of detoxification, stress relief, muscle relaxant, skin cleanser, and more. Bring your bathing suit and a friend, be prepared to sweat it out with like minded folks, brave a cold plunge, and paint each other with some Skagit river valley clay.

$20 for Sou’wester guests $25 for general public.

 
Dress to accommodate the maximum amount of clay. Towels, clay, information hand-outs, tea and filtered water provided. There will also be an opportunity to purchase wild harvested mineral clay for future personal use.

Space is limited to 8 folks

 
Please RSVP. Any questions? Email mamookwellness@icloud.com

Aug
17
Thu
Lindsie Feathers
Aug 17 @ 8:00 pm


“Sweetheart of The Rodeo” – Willamette Week

Lindsie Feathers is a rabble rousing honky-tonk woman that’s spreading her wings and trusting in the flight.  Her latest album, Neon Renaissance, was engineered and mixed by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry (Sallie Ford, Laura Gibson, Scout Niblet).  Her songs are about love, the life journey, our planet and it’s dwindling resources, connecting to our ancestors, and honoring our heroes.  

In the words of the Neon Renaissance creed, written to define the album: “Let us follow our dream, teach the earth, serve humanity.  We seek to love; not hate.  To heal; not hurt.  Let love prevail.”