Chance, Pint & Dale, Jackero @ WOODLAWN HALL

Chance (Leah Wollenberg, Alex Sturbaum, Ida Hoequist): leahalexida.bandcamp.com/album/chance

Alex, Leah, and Ida are three old friends who occasionally get together to play some new old music.

Pint & Dale: pintndale.com

William Pint & Felicia Dale have won an ardent following across the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands with their recordings and appearances at festivals and concerts.

William and Felicia have recorded ten albums, the independently released CD  Port of Dreams and Waterbug label releases, Hearts of Gold, Round the Corner, When I See Winter Return, Hartwell Horn , White Horses, Seven Seas, Set of the Sail, Blue Divide and Midnight on the Seas

They gather together material from many locales and cultures including the West Indies, Wales and Brittany. No dead tradition, seafaring music is very much alive in the hands of William Pint & Felicia Dale, and in the daily lives of people still dedicated to sailing tall ships in the 21st Century.

Felicia Dale grew up in an environment steeped in the traditional lore of the sea. Born on New Year's Day 1958 and raised on Vashon Island in Washington State's Puget Sound, she spent her childhood sailing Northwest coastal waters and cruising Canada's “inside passage.” Her father was a sea captain who brought back tales and treasures from exotic ports of call. Her mother is a transplanted Parisian; Dale learned French as her first language and acquired a lifelong love for the songs of the French seafaring tradition.

Felicia's first musical venture was a duet act with Waterbug recording artist Kat Eggleston when they were both sixteen.

Her exposure to the vielle-à-roue or hurdy-gurdy was first through several Seattle area players and then from a performance by the French group Cabistan while on tour at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Upon her return to Seattle she immediately commissioned an instrument from California luthier Michael Hubbert.

Felicia’s striking vocal harmonies are matched by her creative use of the hurdy-gurdy and Irish pennywhistles, taking these traditional instruments far beyond their usual roles as she blends them into the texture of a song or departs on improvisational romps with equal ease.

William Pint, born December 20th, 1953, was led astray into the folk world in 1970. He was wooed away from his early rock and roll influences (The Who, The Kinks, and The Beatles) by the folk/rock sounds of Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. This led to a growing interest in the more traditional, less electric music of such artists as Martin Carthy, John Renbourn, The Chieftains and the eclectic songs of the Incredible String Band.

In 1977 he headed west to escape the cold Wisconsin winters of his native Milwaukee and to pursue music. The salt air of Puget Sound and the rich, seafaring history of the Pacific Northwest soon led him to explore the song and lore of the deepwater sailors. With his band Morrigan he recorded an album of Irish tunes and nautical songs By Land or By Sea, for Folkways Records in 1979. Along with composer Paul Ely Smith and Robert Kotta in the group Ellipsis, he investigated the unusual combination of minimalist, folk and classical music. Flying Fish Records released their 1984 eponymous recording produced by the late Irish music genius Mícheál Ó Dhomhnàill. The same trio also performed and recorded as Copperfield, a popular Northwest band specializing in British Isles and Celtic music. The trio opened concerts for Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Silly Wizard, John Renbourn, David Bromberg and others.

In performance, William Pint’s emotionally expressive singing is complemented by his powerful guitar and mandola work with which he can supply settings of great delicacy or wild, driving rhythms.

William Pint & Felicia Dale have won an ardent following across the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands with their recordings and appearances at festivals and concerts.

William and Felicia have recorded ten albums, the independently released CD  Port of Dreams and Waterbug label releases, Hearts of Gold, Round the Corner, When I See Winter Return, Hartwell Horn , White Horses, Seven Seas, Set of the Sail, Blue Divide and Midnight on the Seas

They gather together material from many locales and cultures including the West Indies, Wales and Brittany. No dead tradition, seafaring music is very much alive in the hands of William Pint & Felicia Dale, and in the daily lives of people still dedicated to sailing tall ships in the 21st Century.

Jackero: jackeromusic.com

Jackero is an old-time and folk project composed of sisters Ellie and Annie Davis. While rooted in Appalachian old-time music tradition, the duo explores the intersection of traditional music and original songwriting, blending a reverence for the past with a contemporary, song-driven approach through a combination of fiddle, banjo, guitar, and close vocal harmonies. Annie and Ellie grew up in a thriving old-time music community in Olympia, Washington. They began fiddle lessons at the age of four and have been playing, singing, and performing together ever since. The Davis’ first project was a trio called The Sassafras Sisters, which performed throughout the Pacific Northwest and helped shape their shared musicianship at a young age. Now based in Upper East Tennessee, both sisters have studied old-time music academically at East Tennessee State University. The sisters have shared the stage with artists such as Molly Tuttle, Amythyst Kiah, Bruce Molsky, and Foghorn Stringband, and can also be found touring with the indie project Elias Hix. 

6p doors, 7p show

All ages, some seating available

Simple bar w drinks, snacks including various non-alcohol options

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