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!
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.
New updates posted here too: https://www.facebook.com/events/328554510844818/
“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.
Winter Solstice Potluck, Bonfire & Sauna
Come celebrate this shortest day of the year, the change of seasons, and the return of the light that the Winter Solstice brings. Join us for a potluck in the lodge at 6pm, harvest vegetables and winter delights, with a bonfire celebration in our sauna garden after dinner.
As part of the sauna bonfire we will serve locally harvested wild herb hot tea as a special treat. Mention SOLSTICE for 20% off your stay at the Sou’wester. Includes entrance to all of the Solstice events and a warm-up sauna any time of the day.
Community members or those already in the area, please join us for the potluck and if you want to use the sauna it is only $6 per person or $10 per couple.
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.
Winter Workshop Series
Prose Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina
DATE: Saturday January 21st
TIME: 10am-2pm
TITLE: Prose Writing with Nick Jaina
COST: $30
Nick Jaina is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. His new album Brutal Lives is out on Fluff & Gravy Records. It is available on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, and wherever digital albums are sold. There will be an album release performance at the Liquor Store in Portland on October 6th.
He is a co-founder and musical director of the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City. He has composed the music for three ballets and three contemporary dances with that group, featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet, Ten Hairy Legs, and Juilliard, performing at the Baryshnikov Center and the Joyce Theater. Their most recent performance was two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music in May 2014. Of that show, the New York Times wrote, “[The] pure, pungent, earthy music for strings, piano, and percussion… was the most physically bracing part of the night.”
He released his first book, Get It While You Can, a work of non-fiction, through Perfect Day Publishing in January 2015. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Awards.
To RSVP please call the Sou’wester front desk at 360-642-2542 or email souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com.
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.
Winter Workshop Series
Herbal Plant Walk and DIY Elderberry syrup and Herbal Vinegar with Lara Pacheco
DATE: Saturday February 4th
TIME: 10am-2pm
This workshop will involve a plant walk, elderberry syrup and fire cider demo as well as tasting the fruits of our labor. I’ll discuss the medicinal virtues of plants and medicine that help support our immune system during the cold and flu season. We can also break for lunch in between.
Lara Pacheco is a mamita, musician and clinical herbalist in Portland, OR and she runs her own business called Seed and Thistle Apothecary, which offers seed to medicine herbal preparations and educational programs for all ages with a bent on social justice. She is also co founding the Seasonal Wellness Clinic which is a popup clinic to serve the low income community in her neighborhood.
COST: $10-$20 sliding scale
BRING: sack lunch/snacks, pen and paper for notes, suitable gear for the outdoors this time of year
To RSVP please call the Sou’wester front desk at 360-642-2542 or email souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com.
To see a list of all of our Winter Workshop Series please visit:
www.souwesterlodge.com/