Upcoming Shows
	Slaid Cleaves Saturday, Sept 20th, 8pm Alberta Street Public House Portland OR Tickets $16 adv/$18 door Purchase Tickets Online
Slaid Cleaves | slaid.com
Slaid Cleaves' music is marked by both the quirky blend of isolated eccentricity and steely resilience of his Yankee upbringing and the weathered soul of Texas, the state he has called home for over a decade now. "One of the finest singer-songwriters in Texas." - The New York Times "Cleaves tells gorgeously compact stories in a voice packed with Texas trail dust." - Entertainment Weekly "He has fashioned a timeless yet fresh sound rooted in the best storytelling tradition of the great singer-songwriters." - Chicago Sun-Times
	Laura Love & Harper's Ferry /Meg Hutchinson Thursday, Sept 25th, 8pm Alberta Street Public House Portland OR Tickets $16 advance/ $18 at the door Purchase Tickets Online
Laura Love| lauralove.net
Singer, songwriter, bassist, and published author, Laura Love has thousands of fans throughout North America and Europe. Billboard Magazine continually includes her CDs on their annual top ten lists and the first time she performed on the East Coast was at Carnegie Hall. Laura released her 10th CD in 2007 on her label, Octoroon Biography. Titled NeGrass, it is an acoustic collection of traditional and original field hollers, Negro spirituals and folk songs, produced by Barbara Lamb and recorded in Nashville with some of the finest bluegrass musicians in North America. NeGrass features Laura singing and playing bass with Tim O’Brien, Tracy Nelson, Barbara Lamb, Jeff Autry, Scott Vestal, Rob Ickes, Mike Bub and Alice Vestal, many of whom are Grammy and IBMA award winners. Laura is a rare recording artist - authentic and deeply rooted, with an extremely diverse appeal. Her management, publicists, record labels and the media all struggle to define Laura’s style. She is an African-American funk bassist with an astonishing voice, who is equally influenced by blues and bluegrass, jazz, folk, gospel, reggae and country. Laura sometimes refers to her style as “folk-funk”, “Afro-Celtic” or “hip-Alachian”. “Her music is exuberant...she conveyed the fervor of someone reaching out with an almost frenzied joy to seize the strands of a confusing life and weave them into a coherent, life-affirming vision.” - New York Times “(One of) 40 artists who will shake the world. The clincher is her live show...She’s that rare artist who can slip from sensitive folk to hip-hop without skipping a beat.” - Utne Reader “Startlingly original. Her music is spare, yet striking. Her voice is ripe, supple, strong, and impossible to ignore.” - Billboard Magazine
Meg Hutchinson| meghutchinson.com
Although only 29 years old, Hutchinson has garnered much critical attention for her unique alto vocals and resonating, razor-sharp lyrics, and her sophisticated folk/pop songwriting has endeared her to such acclaimed songwriters as Susan Werner, John Gorka and Catie Curtis, folk greats with whom she will be touring in support of her new album on Red House Records, Come Up Full. “A master of introspective ballads.” - Performing Songwriter “Elegant and free-floating melodies that feel both modern and rooted.” - The Boston Globe
	Richard Shindell Saturday, Sept 27th, 7pm Alberta Street Public House Portland OR Tickets $19.50 adv/ $22 door Purchase Tickets Online
Richard Shindell | richardshindell.com
"Shindell is a master builder of songs, yet always leading listeners toward the emotional essence of the moment or character he is evoking. As with all master craftsmen, knowing what to leave out is as important to him as what he puts in. Shindell has uncanny sense of the theater of a song, building his ballads sparely and subtly, set to sweeping graceful melodies." - The Boston Globe "Mr. Shindell has been building a following on the solo-folkie circuit through the 1990's... At times, his voice recalls James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot or Michael Stipe; he stretches words as if he's thinking hard about what they represent. The tone is reflective, but the dilemmas and disappointments couldn't be more vivid." - The New York Times "Shindell tells great stories with an eye for critical detail while never losing sight of the big picture. He works a well-worn stretch of singer-songwriter pavement, but his wonderfully spiritual lyrical sense and intimate compositions ultimately distinguish him." - No Depression
	Eliza Gilkyson Thursday, Oct 16th Portland, OR Venue/tickets TBA
Eliza Gilkyson | elizagilkyson.com
Grammy-nominated songwriter Eliza Gilkyson returns to Portland in support of her new album Beautiful World, a fresh new masterpiece that is upbeat, sensual, dark and deep. Topping radio charts, this radio-friendly album mixes Americana, rock, jazz and folk styles and celebrates the beauty that shines amidst these dark days. “Beautiful World is Gilkyson’s masterpiece.” - All Music Guide “stylisticall adventurous...political in all the right ways” - Austin Chronicle “lush and passionate...edgy lyrics with piercing imagery” - New York Times
	Annabelle Chvostek / Anais Mitchell Friday, Nov 14th Portland, OR Venue/tickets TBA
Annabelle Chvostek| annabelle.org
Annabelle is a former member of the Wailin' Jennys, a band that won several Juno Awards for their album Firecracker, which featured four of Annabelle's songs, and built quite a buzz during her tenure, touring internationally, playing festivals, and appearing frequently on Prairie Home Companion. Annabelle has released a stunning solo album, Resilience, which features Bruce Cockburn, Mary Gauthier, Michael Jerome Browne, Julie Wolf (Ani DiFranco's keyboard player), and a slew of other great players. It's getting rave reviews. "Fiercely talented... Chvostek has a sultry voice you can't and won't forget." - Xtra, Toronto "Annabelle doesnt fake the folk. She freaks it." - The Montreal Gazette "The Wailin' Jennys' loss is the world's gain. Annabelle Chvostek has created a sensational solo album. Chvostek is a ridiculously talented musician from Montreal by way of Toronto who plays guitar, mandolin, violin, organ, accordion and who knows what else. Vocally, she's up to any task, from pop highs to gritty blues lows. On Resilience, Chvostek's original compositions are full of aching desire dressed in poetry and rendered with a musical imagination that seems to know no bounds." - The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon
Anais Mitchell| anaismitchell.com
Armed with an acoustic guitar and her songbook filled with pure poetry, Anaïs Mitchell is instilling youthful passion into spirited folk songs for a new generation. After seeing a few of Anaïs’ captivating concerts, Ani DiFranco signed the artist to her label, Righteous Babe Records. Spilling over with worldly metaphors, intense emotions and unshakeable reverence to the art of song, Anais's label debut, The Brightness, shimmers with creative spark. “A songwriter of startling clarity and depth, equally skilled at turning a melody or lyrical phrase into what you didn't know you needed until you heard it... fearlessly emotive...like Dylan, Cohen, and Welch, Mitchell weaves her stories into an effortlessly beautiful and cohesive tapestry with the skill of an artisan's carpenter, showing no seams.” - ACOUSTIC GUITAR “Girlishly sprite and brimming with innocence... brings to mind the hippie-throwback charm of Victoria Williams, though... people more commonly note a resemblance to '80s pop star Cyndi Lauper.” - NO DEPRESSION
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