A spring night of beautiful and varied approaches to predominantly acoustic music, except for sometimes a keyboard who creeps in beneath poems. Pythias Braswell will be in trio form with cellist Esmé Schwall, and violinist/singer-songwriter Megan Cronin Tucker. Atmospherically enhanced by the wood and warm light of Haymaker.
Cover: $10
21+
Bryan Rahija
Fingerstyle guitarist born in North Carolina, dwelling in Portland, OR. Wrote and recorded more than 50 songs with the band Bombadil. Interests include basketball, old world wine, and the crackpot in the back of the room.
https://www.instagram.com/bryanrahija
https://bryanrahija.bandcamp.com/album/timber
Storm Queen (Live at Ear Trumpet Labs)
https://youtu.be/nw6nRcibV74?si=nlPe24v_r1N4f7Qj
Pythias Braswell
Pythias Braswell is the musical offering of Michael C. Hays, a poet and composer whose songs are direct, impassioned, austere, haunting and hopeful. His vocals combine the trance-induced, improvised expansions often found in devotional hymns of the world, with the structure and lyrical clarity of a Jazz-era ballad. His guitar work draws from American folk traditions until it reaches the edge and falls off into unknown regions. Hays grew up in Iowa and lives in Portland, OR.
https://pythiasbraswell.com/songs-from-thy-merciful-teeth
https://www.pythiasbraswell.com/
https://pythiasbraswell.bandcamp.com/
Why We Sing