Show Bar Presents
Canary Room / Half Shadow (Co-Release Show)
November 30, 2023
8:00 PM
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
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TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
GENERAL ADMISSION 21+: $12.00
TICKET SALE DATES
GENERAL ADMISSION 21+ Public Onsale: November 1, 2023 10:00 AM to November 30, 2023 12:00 AM
GENERAL ADMISSION 21+: $12.00
TICKET SALE DATES
GENERAL ADMISSION 21+ Public Onsale: November 1, 2023 10:00 AM to November 30, 2023 12:00 AM
w/ Red Meadow
Canary Room
~ Joan Kelsey
For the better part of a decade Half Shadow, the midnight-blue songwriting moniker of Portland’s Jesse Carsten, has been unfurling an enigmatic, windswept music: equal parts earthen folk and cosmic rock and roll, with a primal pop experimentalism seeping from the edges. Wedding an expansive, transcendent poetics to a fiercely home-spun aesthetic, Carsten creates joyful, eclectic song-collages that embrace the experimental singer-songwriter tradition of the Pacific Northwest while enfolding an array of canonical art-voicings; songs range from abstract finger-picked poems to heart-tugged acapella treaties and cosmic-rock incantations. Half Shadow’s performances are recognized as strange, dazzling, immersive events, inspiring a passionate following in the Northwest. The Portland Mercury has praised Carsten’s shows as “invariably powerful, full of wonder, and unlike anything else."
Carsten's non-linear and environmental dream-lyrics place him in the company of like-minded contemporaries such as Phil Elverum (Microphones/Mount Eerie), Mega Bog's Erin Birgy, and Ruth Garbus, for whom songwriting is an attempt at surreal levels of poetic feeling. Having been called “one of Portland’s best kept secrets,” it is paradoxically Half Shadow’s mystery-inspired, DIY ethos that spirits Carsten’s ever-evolving project out of the home-recordist’s cave and onto more illuminated stages. When it does, Half Shadow is ready to wrap listeners in the dark, sparkling hues and mossy undergrowth that have become the poetic trademark of this singular undertaking.
5 New Songs of Half Shadow, Carsten’s newest EP, a brief but evocative set of songs centering the poetry of personal growth, is set to release on December 8, 2023 via Portland’s beloved Bud Tapes.
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Canary Room
"I’d ask you to remember it if I saw you." The opening line of folk rock group Canary Room’s eponymous debut is a microcosm of songwriter Maddy Heide’s favorite themes. Precious memories are held between loved ones, straining to maintain connection despite vast distances of land and time. While influenced by the forward thinking work of Joni Mitchell and Adrianne Lenker, these songs create worlds entirely their own. A group of friends before they were a band, Heide’s ensemble intuitively colors outside the careful lines she has crafted. On “Lake Effect”, amid the flawlessly sensitive arrangement, Heide lets us know her goal: “I wanted to take it all and give it all away.” Canary Room has generously done exactly that, and we are all better off for it.
Half Shadow
For the better part of a decade Half Shadow, the midnight-blue songwriting moniker of Portland’s Jesse Carsten, has been unfurling an enigmatic, windswept music: equal parts earthen folk and cosmic rock and roll, with a primal pop experimentalism seeping from the edges. Wedding an expansive, transcendent poetics to a fiercely home-spun aesthetic, Carsten creates joyful, eclectic song-collages that embrace the experimental singer-songwriter tradition of the Pacific Northwest while enfolding an array of canonical art-voicings; songs range from abstract finger-picked poems to heart-tugged acapella treaties and cosmic-rock incantations. Half Shadow’s performances are recognized as strange, dazzling, immersive events, inspiring a passionate following in the Northwest. The Portland Mercury has praised Carsten’s shows as “invariably powerful, full of wonder, and unlike anything else."
Carsten's non-linear and environmental dream-lyrics place him in the company of like-minded contemporaries such as Phil Elverum (Microphones/Mount Eerie), Mega Bog's Erin Birgy, and Ruth Garbus, for whom songwriting is an attempt at surreal levels of poetic feeling. Having been called “one of Portland’s best kept secrets,” it is paradoxically Half Shadow’s mystery-inspired, DIY ethos that spirits Carsten’s ever-evolving project out of the home-recordist’s cave and onto more illuminated stages. When it does, Half Shadow is ready to wrap listeners in the dark, sparkling hues and mossy undergrowth that have become the poetic trademark of this singular undertaking.
5 New Songs of Half Shadow, Carsten’s newest EP, a brief but evocative set of songs centering the poetry of personal growth, is set to release on December 8, 2023 via Portland’s beloved Bud Tapes.
Red Meadow
Red Meadow is the solo project of Portland based multi-instrumentalist Addison Clark. You may know him as resident guitar shredder in Celebrity Telethon or Layperson but here on his new solo project, Clark's evocative and image heavy lyricism take the lead. Over his finger-picked guitar, virtuosic cello lines and atmospheric piano, Clark weaves intricate landscapes and zoomed in portraits of flora and fauna along with deeply personal portraits of the relationships, memories and characters who populate them.
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