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!
Waltz about love and life with country band Fronjentress, and then Old Unconscious brings danceable jazz with Africa beats!
Weezy Ford is a musician from Asheville, North Carolina residing in Portland, Oregon. She integrates tap dancing breaks into her fuzzy Rock’n Roll songs written on slide guitar.
Earlier this year she began collaborating with Dustin Dybvig (drums) and Mark Robertson (bass), and Sallie Ford (backup vocals) to record her first EP, titled “Bobby Pin Graveyard” alongside producer Mathew Morgan of Sleepy Volcano.
Handmade Bazaar & Thrifty Grand Re-Opening
We have turned our entire lodge into a handmade bazaar, full of artists selling art, and handcrafted items from 10am-5pm:
***Artist Tables by:
***JULIA BARBEE STUDIOS:Her perfumes are uniquely composed, and the rest of her work is equally divinely conceived.
***NICKY KRIARA and NIKO FAR WEST makes functional ceramic ware inspired by the history, landscape, and textures of The Pacific Northwest.
***BROOKE SHEPHERD of SEAWATER STUDIO: will bring her hand dyed wares such as linen dish towels and kimonos
***HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN a stellar printmaker, will bring her work: limited graphic editions, drawings, and hand printed concert posters
***Artist JOE CHASSE, famous for his canned ham mini vintage travel trailers, will be selling his new works, tabletop recycled metal sculptures.
***VETIVER THERAPY selling Wildcrafted therapeutics.
***TERA STENZEL will bring her artwork, hand sculpted “taxidermy” mushroom people
***A COUPLE OF ARTISTS: Annie Eskelin and Bill Atwood will bring metal sculpture, original seascape paintings, mini prints and jewelry.
***DAWN STETZEL and NATURE NELL’S SISTER bringing 100% reclaimed materials cards and journals.
***and more……
We will have a “print your own card station” too! Print your own Mermaid Holiday Card with hand carved images by Heather McLaughlin, sliding scale $1-$5.
*free crafting supplies box in the lodge: feel free to take and/or add to
Visit our newly remodeled “Thrifty”, our popular Vintage Travel Trailer Thrift Shop, and it’s Grand Re-Opening. New and unusual thrifty items for sale. Please come and peruse!
Stay, or come back, for the live music of Lindsie Feathers at 8pm in the lodge.
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“The songs are about love, the life journey, slowing down, the planet and it’s dwindling resources, liberating cultural belief systems and programming, being true to the self, connecting to our ancestors and family, releasing fear, making choices, and honoring our heroes,” Lindsie Feathers says. “Spreading your wings and trusting in the flight.”
“More to Love” opens the album harkening immediately back to Feathers’ VHS roots, evoking classic Loretta Lynn with a decidedly modern twist. “Be Good To Me” is a rabble-rousing anti-fracking protest song, while “Swine” is a self-empowerment anthem–very different songs, yet equally effective. The lovely “On Our Way” is a gentle reassurance buoyed by Feathers’ tasteful lead playing, while “Honey Bee” is a honky-tonk rave-up with Feathers’ gentle vocal taking on a sly, winking quality, putting her choir of backing vocalists through their paces.
New Year’s Eve Dance Party All Night Long! Live band with artists from Sahelsounds and collective African Beats, bring in the New Year with dance grooves and moves!
Stripped down Americana Soul
A son of the flint hills of eastern Kansas, Nathan Earle brings a soulful depth to the singer-songwriter genre. His impassioned vocal delivery and introspective storytelling are unforgettable. Joining Nathan as the perfect compliment, the sweet and sultry vocals of Juliet Howard. The pair create a beautiful vocal landscape full of joy, love, and longing. This is a show not to be missed.
The Pining Hearts are a psych-surf-rock band out of Portland, OR and Austin, TX. Kivett Bednar from Land of the Living and Eddie Steele from Entendre Entendre started jamming in late 2015. The Pining Hearts officially became a band in January of 2016, playing their first show to a sold-out crowd at the Alberta Street Pub late March . The originals coming out of the group are dance-y and upbeat, but in the same breath have a dark and surf-y vibe.
Ghost to Falco is the musical project of Eric Crespo. Membership is fluid, but he is the constant. The first Ghost to Falco live concert took place in 2001 as part of a cross country tour/moving trip between North Carolina and Portland, OR, where Crespo resides.
The fourth full length album, Soft Shield, was released on vinyl by the Italian record label, Fooltribe, in the fall of 2013 and it was released later in the U.S. by Curly Cassettes and Infinite Front.
Ghost to Falco has toured all over the United States and Europe numerous times and continues to do so.
Photo by Anthony SU
Traveling, creating, and sharing original live music are a few essential ingredients for the enrichment of humanity. Norman Baker plays homage to this fact by introducing new and old songs to as many communities as possible. His new album utilizes undertones of pedal steel,mandolin, banjo, upright bass, clarinet, and of course an onslaught of acoustic and electric guitars telling stories of loss, loss prevention, camping, driving without cell phones, childlike innocence, home towns, and walking till your shoes wear through. When not traveling and playing with his full band, Norman Baker & The Backroads, he’s traveling and playing solo acoustic in far off amazing places such as The Sou’Wester, where he’s been visiting with his family since he was a child.
Lisa Prank (one woman punk pop queen Robin Edwards) is currently touring her 2016 LP “Adult Teen” on Father/Daughter Records .
The Young Pioneers is a punk rock, pop band formed in Olympia Washington in the fall of 1982 by 
Chris Pugh, Scott Vanderpool,Chris Gloekler and Bradley Sweek, with Brian Learned replacing Mr. Gloekler in January 1983. They played extensively in the Northwest from 1982 until 1987 writing and arranging all their own material. They have remained fast friends for all these years as they pursued music projects with other bands. Scott, Chris, & Bry continued to play extensively while Brad dropped out of music entirely in the early nineties. In 2012 they start playing again with Colm Meek on synth and Nathan Paul on bass.
Plus Panduhs.