2019 Artist Lineup
Saturday, July 20
Jelly Bread
Jelly Bread has risen from Reno/Lake Tahoe area favorites into a nationally- touring, powerhouse quintet that delivers a high-energy, chameleonic playlist all over the United States. Jelly Bread’s distinct style is identified by a blend of desert twang meeting the urban tones of funk and rock. Exceptional songwriting and storytelling interlaced with four part harmonies, intricate “in-the-pocket” drum and bass grooves, swampy lap steel guitar, dirt under the fingernails guitar licks, tasty talkbox, “take-’em-to-church” organ come together into a sound that is downright appetizing.
Jelly Bread
Jelly Bread has risen from Reno/Lake Tahoe area favorites into a nationally- touring, powerhouse quintet that delivers a high-energy, chameleonic playlist all over the United States. Jelly Bread’s distinct style is identified by a blend of desert twang meeting the urban tones of funk and rock. Exceptional songwriting and storytelling interlaced with four part harmonies, intricate “in-the-pocket” drum and bass grooves, swampy lap steel guitar, dirt under the fingernails guitar licks, tasty talkbox, “take-’em-to-church” organ come together into a sound that is downright appetizing.
Greyhounds
(from an article in the Charleston City Paper:) Sometimes romantic and sometimes demented, Texas-based duo the Greyhounds put a gritty spin on classic soul and blues-rock. Singer/guitarist Andrew Trube and singer/organist Anthony Farrell prefer raw rhythms, rich grooves, and noisy amp tones over the sugared-up arrangements of many contemporary soul/rock acts. But musical classification isn't a big worry for the band.
"I don't care what people call us or how they classify us," says Trube, speaking last week from his home in Austin. "They can say we're a Bavarian polka band, as long as they dig what we're doing. I usually just say, 'It's Hall and Oates meets ZZ Top.' We just hang in our own area where we do our own thing."
Rendezvous encountered the Greyhounds after they toured through Moscow when they played with a past crowd favorite, JJ Grey. We look forward to hosting them again this summer!
Showcase Artist - Saticoy
With a decade of performing and recording behind it, Saticoy is a Moscow-based family folk outfit. Performing original folk tunes written by the Saunders siblings, Saticoy focuses on the heart of folk music: good stories, good music. Band members include sisters Grace, Ruth, Noel and Katie; brothers Ben and Blake; and bass player Sam Taylor.
(from an article in the Charleston City Paper:) Sometimes romantic and sometimes demented, Texas-based duo the Greyhounds put a gritty spin on classic soul and blues-rock. Singer/guitarist Andrew Trube and singer/organist Anthony Farrell prefer raw rhythms, rich grooves, and noisy amp tones over the sugared-up arrangements of many contemporary soul/rock acts. But musical classification isn't a big worry for the band.
"I don't care what people call us or how they classify us," says Trube, speaking last week from his home in Austin. "They can say we're a Bavarian polka band, as long as they dig what we're doing. I usually just say, 'It's Hall and Oates meets ZZ Top.' We just hang in our own area where we do our own thing."
Rendezvous encountered the Greyhounds after they toured through Moscow when they played with a past crowd favorite, JJ Grey. We look forward to hosting them again this summer!
Showcase Artist - Saticoy
With a decade of performing and recording behind it, Saticoy is a Moscow-based family folk outfit. Performing original folk tunes written by the Saunders siblings, Saticoy focuses on the heart of folk music: good stories, good music. Band members include sisters Grace, Ruth, Noel and Katie; brothers Ben and Blake; and bass player Sam Taylor.
Friday, July 19
Orgone
“After two and a half years on the road, we needed to shut away the rest of the world,” recalls Sergio Rios, guitarist and engineer of Los Angeles-based band ORGŌNE. For their tenth* studio album, ORGŌNE retreated to the tranquil solitude of Joshua Tree in southern California. Ensconced in a ranch home with a recording studio for a week in November 2015, the band improvised late into the desert night, carving out tunes that would eventually become the bulk of the material on Reasons (self-released, due out January 18, 2019). The nine-song collection illuminates a band hitting its stride, capturing the raw power and refined sensibilities that defines ORGŌNE.
For nearly twenty years ORGŌNE (a universal life force, pronounced or-gōne) has churned out gritty funk and soul recordings and toured relentlessly across the United States and Europe. Traditionally both the studio and live iterations of the band drew on a tight-knit collective of the West Coast’s finest funk and soul musicians—although founding members Sergio Rios (guitar/engineer) and Dan Hastie (keyboards) have been constant anchors. However, since late 2013, Rios and Hastie have been joined by Dale Jennings (bass), Sam Halterman (drums), and singer/lyricist Adryon de León to form a permanent nucleus.
“After two and a half years on the road, we needed to shut away the rest of the world,” recalls Sergio Rios, guitarist and engineer of Los Angeles-based band ORGŌNE. For their tenth* studio album, ORGŌNE retreated to the tranquil solitude of Joshua Tree in southern California. Ensconced in a ranch home with a recording studio for a week in November 2015, the band improvised late into the desert night, carving out tunes that would eventually become the bulk of the material on Reasons (self-released, due out January 18, 2019). The nine-song collection illuminates a band hitting its stride, capturing the raw power and refined sensibilities that defines ORGŌNE.
For nearly twenty years ORGŌNE (a universal life force, pronounced or-gōne) has churned out gritty funk and soul recordings and toured relentlessly across the United States and Europe. Traditionally both the studio and live iterations of the band drew on a tight-knit collective of the West Coast’s finest funk and soul musicians—although founding members Sergio Rios (guitar/engineer) and Dan Hastie (keyboards) have been constant anchors. However, since late 2013, Rios and Hastie have been joined by Dale Jennings (bass), Sam Halterman (drums), and singer/lyricist Adryon de León to form a permanent nucleus.
Polly O'Keary and the Rhythm Method
A century ago, blues was born in the fields of the South, played on porches and in little backwoods bars by kerosene lamp. The times have changed, and it’s a rare blues musician who grew up picking cotton and going home to learn to play by the light of a kerosene lamp.
Polly O’Keary certainly didn’t. Well, that is, she didn’t pick cotton. She picked apples. But she learned to read music by kerosene lamp, in a log cabin in a remote part of Washington State. She started playing in ex-pat bars in Mexico at 16, and Eastern Washington watering holes for rural farm workers at the age of 17. She dropped out of school with an 8th grade education, married a prison-bound man at the age of 18 and by the time she was 21 had logged more stage hours than most musicians twice her age. She’d drunk as much as a fair number of them as well.
At 28, upon seeing Jeff Healey at a friend’s bar in Canada, she became obsessed with blues, studying and practicing the genre until carpel tunnel syndrome temporarily rendered her hands nearly immobile, and she quickly came to the attention of the Pacific Northwest blues scene with her powerful and emotional voice and her frenetic stage presence.
Showcase Artist - Pick Axe Bluegrass
This energetic and original bluegrass band puts a contemporary twist on historical favorites. Pickaxe Bluegrass includes Brian Zabriskie on bass, John Brunsfield on guitar, Paul Anders on mandolin and Sam Schumacher on banjo.
A century ago, blues was born in the fields of the South, played on porches and in little backwoods bars by kerosene lamp. The times have changed, and it’s a rare blues musician who grew up picking cotton and going home to learn to play by the light of a kerosene lamp.
Polly O’Keary certainly didn’t. Well, that is, she didn’t pick cotton. She picked apples. But she learned to read music by kerosene lamp, in a log cabin in a remote part of Washington State. She started playing in ex-pat bars in Mexico at 16, and Eastern Washington watering holes for rural farm workers at the age of 17. She dropped out of school with an 8th grade education, married a prison-bound man at the age of 18 and by the time she was 21 had logged more stage hours than most musicians twice her age. She’d drunk as much as a fair number of them as well.
At 28, upon seeing Jeff Healey at a friend’s bar in Canada, she became obsessed with blues, studying and practicing the genre until carpel tunnel syndrome temporarily rendered her hands nearly immobile, and she quickly came to the attention of the Pacific Northwest blues scene with her powerful and emotional voice and her frenetic stage presence.
Showcase Artist - Pick Axe Bluegrass
This energetic and original bluegrass band puts a contemporary twist on historical favorites. Pickaxe Bluegrass includes Brian Zabriskie on bass, John Brunsfield on guitar, Paul Anders on mandolin and Sam Schumacher on banjo.
Thursday, July 18
DASH
Dash is a light-a-fire-under-you rockin' soul band with a desire for honest and entertaining lyrics. Founded in February 2018, DASH began writing songs together with a passion for getting people out on the dance floor. The Bozeman, Montana band brings their dance party vibe to any stage with a wild blend of funk, soul, rock, and pop.
In their first year as a band, DASH wrote and recorded their debut full length album, 'SUPER', and began touring throughout the Northwest. In 2018, DASH was voted Best New Local Band, #2 Best Local Album Released, and was the only band less than a year old to place in the Best Local Rock Band category. DASH hits the road in 2019 to bring their brand of party soul rock to a city near you
Dash is a light-a-fire-under-you rockin' soul band with a desire for honest and entertaining lyrics. Founded in February 2018, DASH began writing songs together with a passion for getting people out on the dance floor. The Bozeman, Montana band brings their dance party vibe to any stage with a wild blend of funk, soul, rock, and pop.
In their first year as a band, DASH wrote and recorded their debut full length album, 'SUPER', and began touring throughout the Northwest. In 2018, DASH was voted Best New Local Band, #2 Best Local Album Released, and was the only band less than a year old to place in the Best Local Rock Band category. DASH hits the road in 2019 to bring their brand of party soul rock to a city near you
Sama Dams
The music of Sama Dams steals from you most virtuously — it will rob your sense of time and leave you wondering how long you’ve been awash in sound, rhythm, and ether. Almost in answer to the muted ambivalence that marks movements from the band’s previous “Comfort in Doubt,” “Say It” features the trio striking boldly throughout, both musically and thematically. According to Sam, “It’s about being more honest about what we’re thinking and feeling.”
Inspiration came from a year of watching silence make a mess of love in friendships close to the band. “Something seems off — you sniff something,” says Sam. “You don’t acknowledge it exists, and so by letting a small problem go, you allow it to grow.” “What’s the use for pockets if they’re empty?/Fill them up with things you use against me,” sings Lisa on the album’s first track, succinctly summing up the war of attrition underlying a failing relationship.
The band’s hallmark of grooving angularity packs even more punch when partnered with direct pathos, as in tracks like “Driving By.” Melding the wailing riffiness of fellow Midwest native Billy Corgan at his best with the cool synthesizer of a hundred beloved 80s soundtracks gone by, Sama Dams takes their distinctly left-field sound into anthem territory, and does it with audacious and tender authenticity.
Showcase Artist - Solid Ghost
Guitarist and songwriter Jaymz Dence (the Fabulous Kingpins, formerly of Cosmic Meltdown) joined drummer James Harwood (formerly of Blood for Master), and bassist Steve Farr (formerly of Over the Rail) in 2016 to form Solid Ghost.
The music of Sama Dams steals from you most virtuously — it will rob your sense of time and leave you wondering how long you’ve been awash in sound, rhythm, and ether. Almost in answer to the muted ambivalence that marks movements from the band’s previous “Comfort in Doubt,” “Say It” features the trio striking boldly throughout, both musically and thematically. According to Sam, “It’s about being more honest about what we’re thinking and feeling.”
Inspiration came from a year of watching silence make a mess of love in friendships close to the band. “Something seems off — you sniff something,” says Sam. “You don’t acknowledge it exists, and so by letting a small problem go, you allow it to grow.” “What’s the use for pockets if they’re empty?/Fill them up with things you use against me,” sings Lisa on the album’s first track, succinctly summing up the war of attrition underlying a failing relationship.
The band’s hallmark of grooving angularity packs even more punch when partnered with direct pathos, as in tracks like “Driving By.” Melding the wailing riffiness of fellow Midwest native Billy Corgan at his best with the cool synthesizer of a hundred beloved 80s soundtracks gone by, Sama Dams takes their distinctly left-field sound into anthem territory, and does it with audacious and tender authenticity.
Showcase Artist - Solid Ghost
Guitarist and songwriter Jaymz Dence (the Fabulous Kingpins, formerly of Cosmic Meltdown) joined drummer James Harwood (formerly of Blood for Master), and bassist Steve Farr (formerly of Over the Rail) in 2016 to form Solid Ghost.
