A night of music - the second night of our 'Finish Your Damn Album!' concert series

with

For the Living Earth - Galen Hefferman & Jahnavi Veronica (new bardic folk • songs, stories & dreams)

Chase Garber (bardic dream pop)

& Jon Luc Hefferman (hyperfolk + bug songs)

February 28th 2025

6 pm doors • 7 pm music

Leaven Community

5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211

$15-$25 sliding scale

All ages

The first evening of music is February 15th at Lajja Yoga: https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-of-music-with-for-the-living-earth-chase-garber-and-jon-luc-hefferman-finish-your-damn-album-concert-series-part-1

For The Living Earth is the musical collaboration of Galen Hefferman and Jahnavi Veronica. They weave their songs together with haunting vocal harmonies, plucked and bowed strings, percussion, and the willing voices of those who show up – creating soundscapes rooted in dreams and communications with nature. For The Living Earth seeks to create songs that can be a balm for challenging times, to transform and revive, and to open to a full hearted life, twisting the fibers of the dream world and the waking world into one, speaking from the underground rivers that feed the springs that jump forth from wild, willed places. They make music as a way to give gifts to all who hear them, to the land they stand on, and to the clear stars above.

www.forthelivingearth.com • www.galenhefferman.com • www.jahnaviveronica.com • galenhefferman.bandcamp.com • jahnaviveronicamusic.bandcamp.com

Chase Garber writes in the language of the dreaming heart, where meaning is refractive and emotions have flesh. Whether he’s using the piano, harp, synths, or electronics, the sensual primacy of nature provides the reference points for songs about love, violence, despair, and the quest for wholeness. He offers this music in good humor and in reverence to all creation.

chasegarber.bandcamp.com • soundcloud.com/chasegarber

Jon Luc "JL" Hefferman is a multi-instrumentalist composer, producer, and music educator from Portland Oregon releasing music under the monikers Eugene Hatman (folk, grunge, pop-punk) and Bill Quadrillion (self-sampling hyperpop, hyperfolk...hyper anything really). While the musical stylings of these artists seem to occupy contradictory sonic spaces at first glance, the two are deeply interwoven into a rich and deeply self-reflective story that is meant to unfold and evolve over the course of his life. With these two projects, Jon Luc explores the existential questions that overwhelm the minds of modern musicians who seek to create a sense of organic authenticity among a constantly shifting landscape of maximalist technological acceleration.

www.jonluchefferman.com • listen to 'The Next One'

Finish Your Damn Album! Concert Series...

We are putting together two concerts in Portland, Oregon this February to help raise the money needed for all four of our album projects! (And possibly a small tour to come this Spring.) The first concert will be Saturday February 15th at Lajja Yoga, the second will be Friday February 28th at Leaven Community.

Thank you for joining us for these nights of music, while also supporting us in getting our music out into the wider world!

Leaven Community

"Leaven Community is disrupting the impact of gentrification and power imbalance in our neighborhood and organization by designating our building as a place for bringing people and organizations together to work on interconnected issues; thereby living into the relational culture and vision of a Leaven Community Common House.

Our building is ADA accessible, with ramps at the main floor and basement entrances as well as an ADA-accessible restroom on the main level."

www.leaven.org

Further Accessibility & Health Notes

The space is ADA accessible. There will be chair seating as well as some space for floor seating if that is preferred, and space for wheelchairs.

Please let us know if there are any accessibility needs such as an ASL interpreter, etc.

As we are still in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and we have many other contagious viruses going around, there will be HEPA air purifiers placed throughout the space to help increase our safety.

This is a mask-encouraged event. We will be providing some masks at the doors for those who would like a mask but forgot one.

Air purifiers provided by Portland Clean Air Committee! https://pcac.carrd.co/

Sickness & Refunds

Please stay home if you are sick or have had a known exposure to Covid or other contagious sickness. There is a lot going around right now, please help us all stay as well as possible.

There will be refunds available if you happen to be sick on the night of the concert and you can't find someone else to take your ticket.