Friday:: Brian Belknap Album Release w/ Sallie Ford & Mike Coykendall:: Brick & Mortar SF + CoV in NYC Next Weekend
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jessie woletz | seaweed sway
May 9, 2018, 3:29:05 AM5/9/18
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Hi everyone,
Brian Belknap (Album Release, opening)
Brian Belknap is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter in the mold of Lucinda Williams and Townes Van Zandt. His music— a rough blend of broke-down folk, junk-country blues, and gut-bucket gospel, rendered on accordion, slide guitar, and mandolin—is a product of the rich cultures of San Francisco and New Orleans, the two cities he calls home. Belknap’s latest offering, In Lieu of Flowers, once again finds him in the capable hands of producer Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, She & Him, Bright Eyes, Blitzen Trapper). The record is about coping with loss (both personal and collective), and finding redemption in a world in its own time of reckoning. Never one to shy away from darkness, his own or other people’s, Belknap’s songs not only tell stories, but are able to convey a level of subtlety, nuance, and compassion that is the province of someone who has been down a long and difficult road and has lived to tell the tale.
A celebration of the music of women x feminism x magic via the music of Stevie Nicks
Featuring Performances By:
Vandella
Josiah Johnson (The Head and the Heart)
Everyone Is Dirty
Lapel
Katie Day
Jeremi Rebecca Hush (of The Come Ups)
Marston
8PM doors -- music 8:30PM
PS - If you got this email twice, please reply to let me know.
As some of you have heard, Friday is a very special night because it's the great Brian Belknap's official album release, for "In Lieu of Flowers".
You may recognize Brian from one of his many community roles. He plays music out on SF's streets on the regular (& believes in it! ask him about it!!!) & hosts shows at The Lost Church. Besides being an active member in the SF music community (he shows up & cares), he is committed to social justice. Read more about him & the album in this eloquent interview with PopMatters. It's been a joy to work together on this show, and we are excited for an excellent night of music & friends. Brian - who often plays as a one-man-band - will have a full band for the occasion, featuring just about everyone who played on his album (one guy from New Orleans couldn't make it).
Two special touring Portland artists are rounding on the bill - Sallie Ford & Mike Coykendall.
Sallie Ford has a unique voice & style, mixing some old-timey and rockabilly and whimsy. A couple nights ago I started wandering through her videos to try and find my favorite, and I ended up just finding more and more. I'll post a few of my faves (so hard to pick) here. People have been telling me how compelling her live performance is as well, so we have that to look forward to.
Mike & Brian became friends back around 1994, I just learned from that same PopMatters interview. Mike is well-known for playing with M.Ward, Blitzen Trapper, Bright Eyes, She & Him, & the Tin Hat Trio, & the Old Joe Clarks, to name a few. We get the treat of hearing his own songs Friday, and he will be backing up Sallie & Brian too! He produced Brian's new album as well.
Here's more info on this featured show, and you can scroll down to see more shows & events (CoV in NYC next weekend! pls forward to NY friends + Stevie Nicks tribute & benefit show 5/25). XOXOXO
FRIDAY MAY 11TH
Seaweed Sway Presents:
Brian Belknap (Album Release, opening)
with Sallie Ford
& Mike Coykendall
at Brick & Mortar Music Hall
Doors 8, Brian at 9
Poster by Misisipi Mike
Brian Belknap (Album Release, opening)
Brian Belknap is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter in the mold of Lucinda Williams and Townes Van Zandt. His music— a rough blend of broke-down folk, junk-country blues, and gut-bucket gospel, rendered on accordion, slide guitar, and mandolin—is a product of the rich cultures of San Francisco and New Orleans, the two cities he calls home. Belknap’s latest offering, In Lieu of Flowers, once again finds him in the capable hands of producer Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, She & Him, Bright Eyes, Blitzen Trapper). The record is about coping with loss (both personal and collective), and finding redemption in a world in its own time of reckoning. Never one to shy away from darkness, his own or other people’s, Belknap’s songs not only tell stories, but are able to convey a level of subtlety, nuance, and compassion that is the province of someone who has been down a long and difficult road and has lived to tell the tale.
Website: https://www.brianbelknap.net
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/brianc-belknap
New Video! https://youtu.be/fm64nBcJoss
Old Video! https://vimeo.com/11312394
PopMatters Interview: https://www.popmatters.com/brian-belknap-in-lieu-flowers-2566581973.html
Bay Bridged Video Premiere (by Annie Bacon!): http://thebaybridged.com/2018/04/03/premiere-brian-belknap-is-bearing-witness
Sallie Ford (Headlining)
There are artists who can command attention. They lean into their songs with an irresistible edge and total emotional connection and stay there. Sallie Ford is one of those artists. On her fourth album, Soul Sick, Ford gathered her strengths, took them into Portland’s Type Foundry studio along with producer Mike Coykendall at the helm and created music that draws on all of her influences but still comes out her own. Looking at her life, there isn’t much way it could have come out differently. And this is the album which proves it.
Sallie Ford grew up in Asheville, North Carolina in a musical family. At nineteen she moved to Portland, OR to explore her creative side which led to her career in music. Like all aspiring artists, there were enough twists and turns along with several serious dead ends, but Sallie persevered by creating songs that took those life challenges and turned them upside down into inspired music. Much of it is inspired by ‘60s music, whether it’s the music of the British Invasion like the Kinks and the Troggs, or American groups Canned Heat and & the Mysterians. Add on other influences like girl groups the Shirelles, the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes, and the sound of Soul Sick comes into focus.
As Sallie describes, “This is a ‘confessional’ album. It’s about struggling with my issues – some that I’ve overcome and some that I still carry around.” The album opens with the line, “Woke up feeling sour on the sweetest summer day,” which just about sums up Sallie Ford’s state of mind a few years ago. A band breakup with the Sound Outside in 2013 led to new realizations about the things in her life that needed to change. As she jumped headfirst into those efforts, she signed with Vanguard Records, handpicked a new all-female backing band and released the debut album under her own name, 2014’s Slap Back. It marked a big transition in Ford’s sound, allowing her voice to take center stage amid a band sound of chugging distorted grit. It also gave her a new chance to take a stronger grip on her career and her personal life. With those deep shifts gave new questions, though, ones that weren’t always easy to answer. “I felt confused, down about life and unsure of myself,” explains Ford.
There are artists who can command attention. They lean into their songs with an irresistible edge and total emotional connection and stay there. Sallie Ford is one of those artists. On her fourth album, Soul Sick, Ford gathered her strengths, took them into Portland’s Type Foundry studio along with producer Mike Coykendall at the helm and created music that draws on all of her influences but still comes out her own. Looking at her life, there isn’t much way it could have come out differently. And this is the album which proves it.
Sallie Ford grew up in Asheville, North Carolina in a musical family. At nineteen she moved to Portland, OR to explore her creative side which led to her career in music. Like all aspiring artists, there were enough twists and turns along with several serious dead ends, but Sallie persevered by creating songs that took those life challenges and turned them upside down into inspired music. Much of it is inspired by ‘60s music, whether it’s the music of the British Invasion like the Kinks and the Troggs, or American groups Canned Heat and & the Mysterians. Add on other influences like girl groups the Shirelles, the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes, and the sound of Soul Sick comes into focus.
As Sallie describes, “This is a ‘confessional’ album. It’s about struggling with my issues – some that I’ve overcome and some that I still carry around.” The album opens with the line, “Woke up feeling sour on the sweetest summer day,” which just about sums up Sallie Ford’s state of mind a few years ago. A band breakup with the Sound Outside in 2013 led to new realizations about the things in her life that needed to change. As she jumped headfirst into those efforts, she signed with Vanguard Records, handpicked a new all-female backing band and released the debut album under her own name, 2014’s Slap Back. It marked a big transition in Ford’s sound, allowing her voice to take center stage amid a band sound of chugging distorted grit. It also gave her a new chance to take a stronger grip on her career and her personal life. With those deep shifts gave new questions, though, ones that weren’t always easy to answer. “I felt confused, down about life and unsure of myself,” explains Ford.
VIDEOS (so many good ones, don't stop here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtfWHRZcH_A
Mike Coykendall
Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M. Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Sallie Ford, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid '80s.
Mike Coykendall
Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M. Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Sallie Ford, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid '80s.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
FRIDAY May 11th:
Brian Belknap Album Release with Sallie Ford & Mike Coykendall
at Brick & Mortar Music Hall
EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/147138655959430
doors 8, show 9 (brian's on first, so get there!)
read all about it above!!
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MAY 18th-20th
CONSPIRACY OF VENUS GO TO NY:
Thank you to all who donated to our fundraiser!
We are still at it: https://www.gofundme.com/covnyctour2018
If you know people there (or if you are there and stuck it out on this list), here's our shows:
FRIDAY May 18th:
Conspiracy of Venus at Rockwood Music Hall
Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm
SATURDAY May 19th:
We're singing our two David Bowie songs outside of the David Bowie exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, around 3pm.
SUNDAY May 20TH:
Conspiracy of Venus with Peter Apfelbaum at the Cutting Room
Doors 1pm, Show 2pm
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Then upon returning:
FRIDAY May 25th:
Seaweed Sway & Vandella Present:
Night of 1000 Stevies (SF Edition)
A celebration of the music of women x feminism x magic via the music of Stevie Nicks
Featuring Performances By:
Vandella
Josiah Johnson (The Head and the Heart)
Everyone Is Dirty
Lapel
Katie Day
Jeremi Rebecca Hush (of The Come Ups)
Marston
8PM doors -- music 8:30PM
$12 in advance / $15 at the door
Tarot by LouReads
Tarot by LouReads
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also, for those into dance, movement, yoga, somatics, feldenkrais, & anatomy...
Movement Explorers Study Group:
We are meeting at Alonzo King Lines Ballet (on 7th near Market/Mission & Civic Center BART) - possibly happening June 8th, from 7:30-9pm, to explore movement inspired by the Axis Syllabus, with ideas from Feldenkrais, Body Mind Centering, & yoga. Our focus for this next meet-up will be knees!
We are meeting at Alonzo King Lines Ballet (on 7th near Market/Mission & Civic Center BART) - possibly happening June 8th, from 7:30-9pm, to explore movement inspired by the Axis Syllabus, with ideas from Feldenkrais, Body Mind Centering, & yoga. Our focus for this next meet-up will be knees!
No experience necessary. Curious movers welcome. Get in touch if you'd like to be notified of future meet-ups. The general format: 1) free time for warming up, 2) gather to discuss focus of the day, examining anatomy books for relevant info 3) partner work re-sensitizing the zone where we are focusing 4) practice dancing/walking/moving with the awareness gained 5) potentially practice choreography using principles & awareness from prior work. Suggested donation $10-15.
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Thanks for reading. Hope you all are well. Please let me know what's going on in your world, if you are so inclined.
Jessie
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