Come visit newly re-opened bar/restaurant, The Chinese Cowboy, and hear two inspired Portland songwriters share unique and many-angled interpretations of the song form. Pythias Braswell will appear as a duo, featuring cellist Esmé Schwall.
Free show, All ages until 9pm
Bronwen Roberts is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, specializing in nontraditional rhythms and finger-picking techniques. With influences like Caetano Veloso, Serge Gainsbourg, and Nick Drake, her musical style borrows from bossa nova, French pop, psychedelic rock, and classical music. Her most recent EP, "The Brick and the Vine" is out in January 2025.
https://bronwenroberts.bandcamp.com/
https://bronwenkyleroberts.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvENsTs-_I
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/