Join us for a night of singer /songwriters at Mother Foucault's books

Saturday January 24th

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Sam Weber

Sam Weber is a Portland-based songwriter whose name you might have seen on marquees beside Dawes and Feist, or in liner notes as a songwriter on the new Madison Cunningham record, Ace. His latest LP, Shape Confused Cowboy Be You pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a songwriter in the 21st century. He is a Scorpio.

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About Berkley

With a voice that straddles delicacy and huskiness, Portland songwriter Berkley (Andy Jones) takes the mantle from the 70s Laurel Canyon scene.

Jones’s signature progressive flourishes and expansive influences keep him out of the heritage revivalism pack as he ventures into new (for him) territory of country-tinged, folk-leaning tunes on his grant-winning second LP, Vaquero.

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Book Launch — Hybred, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena

Set in a future-adjacent, alternative Los Angeles, this is a story of staggering poverty, drugs, and violence and of an artistic child who finds beauty in the ugly and sublime hope in our conflicts.

HYBRED shows us how in our most marginalized communities lies an astonishing amount of genius which goes unnoticed and is so often tragically wasted.

Nine-year-old Johnny James lives in The Casque, the poorest neighborhood in Greater Angeles, where he shares a one-room apartment with his mother, stepfather, two brothers, and an army of cockroaches. He spends his days in the sweltering heat of the neighborhood, at the movie theaters, playing tackleball, or drawing – but there’s no money for him to go to school.

As death, addiction, and violence swirl through the neighborhood, Johnny grows up with friends, adventures, and magic around him. And he discovers how to use art, beauty, and personal strength to transcend the forces destined to hold him back.

Jamie Mustard is an artist, a futurist, and a writer with a focus on perception in the physical world. Growing up in severe poverty and illiteracy in inner city Los Angeles, Jamie overcame obstacles to graduate from the London School of Economics. He currently works as a strategic multi-media consultant, teacher, interdisciplinary art, design, and product futurist. He is the winner of The National Indie Excellence Award as well as the OWL Outstanding Works in Literature Award for his book, The Iconist. And his memoir Child X is being published in July 2025 by BenBella Books.

Translation Tuesday at Mother Foucault's!

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

7:00 p.m.

Translation Tuesday triple feature! 

Jay Boss Rubin will read three poems he translated from Swahili by Tanzanian author Euphrase Kezilahabi. Ági Bori will read her translations from Hungarian of a flash fiction piece by Miklós Vámos and two poems by Anna T. Szabó. Nina Perrotta will read her translation of a short essay by Mexican writer Julieta García González. The reading will be followed by a short Q&A.

Come have a glass of wine and a listen!

Jay Boss Rubin is a writer and literary translator from Swahili into English. His book-length translations include Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale University Press) and The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo (Hanging Loose Press). He is currently at work on the award-winning spy novel New Virus by Halfani Sudy (forthcoming from University of Georgia Press). He is a proud graduate of the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, and he currently serves as Managing Editor of Portland Tennis Courterly.

Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020) was a Tanzanian fiction writer, poet, dramatist, philosopher, and scholar. He wrote six novels, and was among the very first Swahili writers to publish poetry in free verse. Kezilahabi was born and raised in the village of Namagondo, on Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Botswana, and taught there until shortly before his passing away.

Ági Bori originally hails from Hungary, and she has lived in the United States for more than thirty years. A decade ago, she decided to try her hand at translating and discovered she loved it. She mostly translates for Hungarian author Miklós Vámos, but occasionally renders the works of several poets from Hungarian into English, and vice versa. Her translations and writings are available or forthcoming in Asymptote, The Baffler, Hopscotch Translation, Northwest Review, Pool Party, The Rumpus, Trafika Europe, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is a translation editor at the Los Angeles Review.

Miklós Vámos is a Hungarian writer who has had over forty books published, many of them in multiple languages. He is the recipient of numerous literary accolades, including the 2016 Prima Primissima Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Hungary. His most successful book is The Book of Fathers, which has been translated into nearly thirty languages. His ancestors on his father’s side were Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Fortunately, his father—a member of a penitentiary march battalion—survived. His selected writings have appeared in Asymptote, The New York Times, Tablet, and Words Without Borders, among others. 

Anna T. Szabó is a poet, writer, and translator. She was born in Transylvania (Romania) in 1972, moved to Hungary in 1987, studied English and Hungarian literature at the University of Budapest, and received her PhD in 2001 (her field of study being the translation of Shakespeare). She has published more than ten volumes of poetry for adults and nine for children, written three books of short stories, twelve plays, and has received several literary prizes. Translations of her poems have appeared in The Baffler, Hungarian Literature Online, and in various anthologies, most recently Under a Pannonian Sky, out from Seagull Books in December 2025.

Nina Perrotta is a literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese into English and an editor at Words Without Borders. Her translations have appeared in the Iowa Review, The Common, and La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today (Charco Press, 2025), among other publications. Her first book-length translation, Clara Alves’s London on My Mind, was published by Scholastic in 2024. She has received grants and fellowships from MacDowell, the Fulbright Commission, the British Centre for Literary Translation, and the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. In 2022, she was a finalist for the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize.

Julieta García González is a novelist, essayist, radio presenter, and podcaster. She is the author of several novels and short story collections, and her work has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, as well as publications in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, France, England, and the United States. She has received grants from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Fonca, and the Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad. She hosts the radio show Acentos and won first prize for the Walter Reuter Prize for Journalism in multimedia in 2022.

An afternoon concert of heartfelt folk singer songwriters - Darci Phenix and Slake at Mother Foucaults

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Darci Phenix is a Portland OR based multidisciplinary artist.

She works with sound and textiles to create worlds inspired by folklore and the landscapes of her heart. She believes traditional crafts like wool-spinning and songwriting hold important responses to the pace and values of the modern world. Belief in community, slowness and real life experiences are at the core of her work.

website: darciphenix.com

Slake

“Like a sword pulled from the sea, Slake’s front person Mary Claire has a voice and song that exists in the realm of ancient lore, forbidden love, and quenched thirst. This bay-area-based artist moves and performs along the water’s edge, creating a melodic sense of belonging in the transient nature of each story crafted.

website: http://www.slake.me/

Portland Book Launch & Reading: Chen, Hasegawa, Macarty & Zdeb

Saturday, January 10, at 7pm

Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 715 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR

Join us in celebrating the release of four exciting new poetry books! This gathering of four dynamic voices promises an evening of expansive poetics, visionary storytelling, and community celebration.

• The End of Welcome by Nicole Alston Zdeb (Airlie Press, 2025)

• The Long Now Conditions Permit by Jami Macarty (University of Nevada Press, 2025)

• NAOMIE ANOMIE: A Biography of Infinite Desire by Jennifer Hasegawa (Omnidawn, 2025).

• Shiny City by Ching-In Chen (Airlie Press, 2025)

This event is free and open to the public!
~ masks & industrial-fragrance-free suggested ~ .

Jennifer Hasegawa is a poet and community archivist. Her latest poetry collection, NAOMIE ANOMIE: A Biography of Infinite Desire is an experimental poetic take on anti-memoir. Her debut collection, La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living, won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and was long-listed for The Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bamboo Ridge, Bennington Review, jubilat, and Vallum. She was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and currently resides in San Francisco.

Jami Macarty is the author of The Minuses, winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona, and four chapbooks, including The Whole Catastrophe and Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Macarty’s 2025 collection, The Long Now Conditions Permit, offers an ecofeminist ethic of care as an antidote to extractive capitalism and patriarchal norms. Macarty supports other writers as an independent mentor, editor, and reviewer, and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the arborescent desert around Tucson, Arizona, and the rain coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Nicole Alston Zdeb is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her debut poetry book, The End of Welcome, holds themes of grief, resilience, and joy as a shell held to the ear holds the sonic image of the sea, as the heart holds the fallout of a suicide, and the body holds defiant against and bends to the machinations of progress. She holds a MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Bedouin Press published her chapbook, The Friction of Distance. Recently, she’s had poems, photographs, and short stories accepted by Driftwood Press, Lana Turner, SWWIM, and other journals. 

Come to Postal Social hour at Mother Foucault’s 💌

Write letters and postcards while drinking tea and also somehow socializing.
We’ll provide pens, typewriters, stationary, envelopes…bring yourself, a friend, your favorite quill pen if that’s your thing…and drop by between 2-4 pm
 

For introverts (well, one introvert at a time), there is the option to grab your cup of tea and head upstairs to the secret solo letter-writing desk, and participate in a quieter fashion.

The Future of Maya Literature: Reading & Discussion with Visiting Writer Luis Antonio Canché Briceño

Please join OSTI at Mother Foucault's Bookshop on Monday, December 29 at 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) for an end-of-the year reading and discussion to celebrate Indigenous languages and Yucatec Maya literature and culture.

This event features a reading of short stories and poetry by the internationally renowned, award-winning writer and Maya language activist Luis Antonio Canché Briceño. Luis Antonio is winner of the 2022 “Prize for Indigenous Literatures of America,” the 2024 “Tetseebo Award for Stories Written in Original Languages,” and the 2025 “First Literature Prize in Indigenous Languages” in poetry. 
Luis Antonio Canché Briceño’s presentation and discussion will be held in Yucatec Maya and Spanish, with Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters (OSTI) president Allison deFreese facilitating English language access and interpreting for all. Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there.

About the presenter:

Born in Mérida, Yucatán (México) Luis Antonio Canché Briceño was raised and lives today in Chumayel, Yucatán, a town of 3,000 people where he grew up speaking the Maya language. Today, Luis Antonio is a writer, poet, and Professor of Mathematics at the UADY (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán).
He is author of several bilingual books of fiction; each published as bilingual editions in Yucatec Maya and Spanish. In 2022, he was recipient of the prestigious international “Prize for Indigenous Literatures of America” (PLIA), presented at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), for his book of short stories: K’i’ixib máako’ob / Los hombres espinados (The Thorny Men). In 2024, he received the “Tetseebo Award for Stories Written in Original Languages” ​​from the Tijuana Cultural Center for his book: U k’iinilo’ob tomojchi’ / Días de mal presagio (Days of Bad Omens).
He is also winner of the State of Guerrero’s 2025 “First Literature Prize in Indigenous Languages” ​​in the category of poetry for his book of verse U t’u’ul beejilo’ob kaaj ma’ ich u tu’ubsa’al / Senderos de un pueblo que no se olvida (The Trails Through a Town That Has Not Been Forgotten). Luis Antonio Canché Briceñois an active member of the National System for Artistic Creators under the category of Literary Arts and Letters in Indigenous Languages.

About the host:

Poet and translator Allison deFreese is president of the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters (OSTI). She is currently collaborating on literary translations with writers from the Yucatan Peninsula including Karla Marrufo,  Janil Uc Tun, and Nidia Cuan.

Sunday, December 21

Join us for an evening of meditative strings and poetry for Immigrant Legal Defense Fundraiser.

Eventbrite link to RVSP
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solstice-meditations-pacific-lumber-wire-fundraiser-tickets-1976671101475?aff=oddtdtcreator

Donation - $10-30 (cash / venmo at doors)

RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors

Doors @ 7:30 pm

Music at 8 pm

715 SE Grand

With ~

Pacific Lumber & Wire

Hosted by bassist Andrew Jones, Pacific Lumber & Wire is an ad hoc gathering of string players working with open source structured improvisation & conceptual composition. The intention is to create a zero risk environment to explore sound and community cooperation, with a healthy dose of play and catharsis achieved. Prompts, graphic notation, games, process pieces- any and all ideas are entertained, adapted and integrated as they're offered and molded by the group.

Ft.

Kate Kilbourne, Richie Green, Chibia Ulinwa.
Alexis Mahler, Jacob Mitas, Kyleen King, Harlan Silverman, James Staub, Shao Wei Wu and Andrew Jones for the PL&W group and we'll have poetry shared by Armin Tolentino, Zosia Wiatr and Casey Bush.

Poetry by

Armin Tolentino

Zosia Wiatr

Casey Bush

Phil Merwin: Book Launch | Reading from his debut book of poems, "Songs For Hungry Ghosts" with Sean Croghan

Dec 19
5 pm

Phil Merwin has always lived at the intersection of poetry and punk rock, 
a place where words burn as intensely as amplifiers. 
As the vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the long-running Eugene, Oregon–based post-metal/post-punk trio dirtclodfight, Merwin has spent decades channeling emotional grit into heavy music. 

Now, with the release of his first poetry collection, Songs for Hungry Ghosts (Cavity Search Records), 
he turns that same raw honesty inward. 
The book is both an origin story and a homecoming - proof that before the tours, before the records, before the band became a cult name in underground heavy music, it all began with a poem.

The title itself comes from the book's opening piece, "Portland," in which Merwin explores the Buddhist idea of
"hungry ghosts," beings driven endlessly by craving.

For Merwin, the metaphor is personal. 
He and his close friend and drummer Eric Johnson - whose presence haunts the entire collection - 
once lived together while both were weathering turbulent periods of life. 
"We were hungry ghosts together," Merwin says.  "Trapped there, like we could never leave. 
And the whole point is: I'm not the Lone Ranger. We're all hungry ghosts.”

That understanding is the emotional nucleus of the book.
Songs for Hungry Ghosts is a work of grief, humor, memory, and survival - poetry built from the parts of a life that don't fit neatly into verse/chorus/verse. 
"This beautiful itch that can't quite be scratched, this emptiness that spills over everything,
" Merwin writes in "The Uninvited," a line he says might be the book's beating heart. 
It's the condition of living with what arrives unasked for: loss, madness, love, and the way poetry gives a shape to all of it.

Alt / Art Rock / Shoegaze
7PM Doors
7:30PM Show 

Baby Grendel was formed in 2022 by Jonathan Suarez and Joe Mengis. The band now consists of Jonathan on Rhythm Guitar and Vocals, Colleen Johnson on Keys/ Backing Vocals, Tomás Sakatani on Lead Guitar, Faith Loomis on Bass and Zach Cardenas on Drums. Their new EP Hatch(l)ing is out now.
https://babygrendel.bandcamp.com/album/hatch-l-ing

Bug Seance
A young trophy band in the parlance of our times
https://bugseance.bandcamp.com/album/im-right-here

Kevin Sampsell reading from his new zine of Christmas stories, The 24 Days of Xmas. 🎄✨

with special guests

Courtenay Hamiester

Daniel Elder

Brianna Wheeler 

Kirk Read

7PM

Concert:
Alexandra Burress & Remnants Window

Eventbrite link to RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alexandra-burress-remnants-window-at-mother-foucaults-tickets-1968865326191?aff=oddtdtcreator

Donation - $10 (cash / Venmo at doors)
RSVP Online - Cash or Venmo tickets collected at doors

Doors @ 7 pm

Music at 7:30 pm

Alexandra Burress - Alexandra Burress is a composer, music producer, sound designer, video artist, and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, OR. Alexandra’s 18-year musical journey began with piano, guitar, and vocal lessons, which led her to perform original songs at various venues and tour internationally. In 2018, she fell in love with electronic music, particularly improvising on synthesizers, sound designing, and creating immersive soundscapes. Since then, she has produced several records, created a collaborative multimedia composition featuring live and post-production sound design, scored a documentary, composed for podcasts, and joined a three-piece band, Rosy Boa, as the drummer.

Remnants Window - Ben Latimer, plays under the moniker of Remnants Window and is a singer-songwriter in Portland, Oregon. Blending ethereal alt-folk and jazz influences, Remnants Window's music is a pathway to understand the self and synthesize with the beautifully complex world we live in. Externally, Ben finds inspiration from personal stories, the natural beauty of nature, works of poetry, and fantasy, with topics of human isolation, self-estrangement, death, and the tragedy of self-harm, but with a gentle reminder of hope, hand in hand.

Come to Postal Social hour at Mother Foucault’s 💌

Write letters and postcards while drinking tea and also somehow socializing.
We’ll provide pens, typewriters, stationary, envelopes…bring yourself, a friend, your favorite quill pen if that’s your thing…and drop by between 2-4 pm

For introverts (well, one introvert at a time), there is the option to grab your cup of tea and head upstairs to the secret solo letter-writing desk, and participate in a quieter fashion.

Literary translation reading + book launch for The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin.

In conversation with Words Without Borders Senior Editor (and fellow PDX literary translator) Nina Perrotta. 
Friday, December 5, 2025
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Doors 7PM 
7:30 PM Show

Alex Crowson is a singer-songwriter and podcaster based in Portland, OR.
Alex crafts lovingly gorgeous songs that breathe tenderness and thoughtfulness. 
https://alexcrowson.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-i-missed-you 

Grandkid Music is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Danny Austin-Manning.

Concert - Free Water Shrew Ensemble, Anthony J. Stillabower, Michiko Ogawa

Tuesday, December 2⋅

RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors

Doors @ 7 pm

Music at 7:30 pm

$10 - Cash / Venmo at doors
 
Eventbrite link - 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1966434692099?aff=oddtdtcreator

Free Water Shrew Ensemble

https://watershrews.bandcamp.com/

Water Shrews are like an amoeba, ever dividing and recombining not in any kind of pursuit but in the original act, that of being - a cell with a variable number of nuclei and no walls, a permeable membrane through which the experience of sound -sometimes, more often than not, music - passes back and forth. The electronic yelps of a moist amphibious organism rising from an opaque and viscous firmament of hissing static. The probing, intermittent signals of long lost satellites launched by people from a future that already came to pass. The sound of nutria sirens wailing on the banks of the Columbia River, Wimahl, who have no sailors left to lure and the clanking of the radiator just off-screen in an apartment in a slow-paced Russian film. The foghorn of a cargo ship harmonizing with the klaxon of an ice-cream truck. Everything travels to where it is destined to go at the pace it is destined to take, the time signature of swarming insects and slowly rotating galaxies. Unending untouched expanses tucked into a pinhole in a rotting, slumping fence separating neighbors - Borges' Aleph in a Southeast Portland alley-way. A graceful drawing of a bow across strings. 

Anthony J. Stillabower

www.ajstillabower.com

Anthony J. Stillabower’s improvisations are shaped by voice, feedback percussion, and machine learning algorithms. Situated at the threshold of audibility, his approach to sound inhabits a terrain of friction and flow, where presence flickers between memory and material flux. 

What is the source of a sound? Is something sounding now?

MICHIKO O (Michiko Ogawa)

performer-composer-researcher

https://linktr.ee/michiko_o

Michiko is performer-composer and researcher born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.

She is working with several musical groups and is one of the core members of Berlin's Harmonic Space Orchestra.

She has been working with Lucy Railton, Manuel Pessoa de Lima, Klaus Lang, James Rushford, Sam Dunscombe, Ellen Arkbro, Tashi Wada, Carolyn Chen, Werner Duran, Taku Sugimoto, Crys Cole, Oren Ambarchi and others.

She also frequently collaborates with visual artists and dancers such Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom, Brianna Rigg, Laurence Favre, Karol Tyminski and Sabina Maselli etc.

She was awarded Bachelor's degree (BA) from Toho-Gakuen School of Music, Master's degree(MA)for clarinet performance from Die Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Prof. Jörg Widmann, and her Doctoral degree (DMA) from the University of California San Diego in 2019 with research on the film music of Teiji Ito, and is currently writing a biography of him.

Book launch for Edith Mirante's latest book, "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts."

Her essays reveal remote Chinland, pandemic Yellowstone, Manzanar, Cahokia, Heizer’s City.
Interwoven are themes of Indigenous resistance, land rights, wildness, art in times of conflict, the guns and tanks of Burma. Bison, elk (including a certain inanimate one in Portland), muskox and mithuns roam.
There could be heroes: World War II artists Anthony Gross and Clive Branson, labor firebrand Karl Yoneda. There will be revolution, and enchantment.

Edith Mirante is the founder of ProjectMaje.org which distributes information on Burma (Myanmar) human rights and environmental issues.
She is an artist and author of two Burma books, Burmese Looking Glass and Down the Rat Hole, as well as The Wind in the Bamboo about Black Indigenous Asians.

Portland Tennis Courterly - Wet Issue Release Party
https://tenniscourterly.com/

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Friday, November 21, 2025

7:00 PM–9:00 PM

JOIN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART MFA COMMUNITY FOR A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES AND READINGS FROM WORKS IN PROCESS.

7 PM

CONCERT EVENTBRITE LINK TO RSVP : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1849327922599?aff=oddtdtcreator

Amber Russell is an acoustic experimental fingerstyle guitarist based in Portland, Oregon.
She has an unorthodox, theatrical approach to her style of playing. Her music has been described as imaginative and captivating.
She utilizes various techniques such as alternate tunings, unique approach to harmonics, percussive strikes mixed with catchy melodies.
Amber gained recognition through social media and now has partnerships with Ibanez guitars, Halland Guitars, G7th Capos, Elite Acoustics, DiMarzio Inc and many more. She has performed with artists such as Kaki King, Muriel Andersen, Yasmin Williams and many more for the International Women of fingerstyle concert in January of 2020 in Anaheim, California at the House of Blues. Her song “Portland Dance'' premiered for Candyrat Records in December of 2019 with over 26k views, Amber put together a 30 lesson guitar course for JamPlay.com in 2019, A top rated guitarist educational resource with hundreds of famous guitarist instructors available. She has been seen on KGW8 interview with Mtv’s Brian Mcfaden and has been a guest to many radio shows throughout the country, including Portland's own local radio Shady Pines Radio.
Amber Currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she and her wife currently own and operate their guitar school and retail store, Rose City Guitar Company and Is still an active player in the musical performance industry.

IG : https://www.instagram.com/amberrussellmuzic/ 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Amberrussellacoustic
Youtube video : https://youtu.be/X3t7MoM3Lxo

Gregory Allison creates with a single violin a sound that travels across great landscapes.  He brings the sensibility of a film composer into a live and intimate setting.  His training in South Indian Classical music brings a melodic fluency and emotional fire to his compositions while his Western Classical training is apparent in the wide sonic palette that he creates.  He is a sound shaper.  His violin goes from intimate weeping to orchestral soundscapes, carrying the listener on a journey all the way.  

A composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who performs in a wide variety of styles and genres, Gregory is originally from Madison, WI where he began studying piano at age 5 and violin at 9.  In high school he used his classical violin training as a springboard for learning about improvising, jazz, world music traditions.  He started playing the mandolin and his studies on the instrument landed him a four-year scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he completed a degree in Composition.

https://www.gregoryallison.net/about
Gregory Allison - 

Doors 7 PM

Concert 7:30 PM

Join us for an evening of free-form Jazz with NOTES & MOTES

Tuesday November 18th

7 - 9 PM

Live show

Avery Lynch
Direct Support: Tristan

Ticket Link (live): https://posh.vip/e/avery-lynch-at-mother-foucaults-bookshop-1

7:00 doors
8:00 music

Folk / Songwriter / Americana  

CONCERT EVENTBRITE LINK TO RSVP : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1787963610289?aff=oddtdtcreator
 
Doors 7 PM
7:30 PM Show 

A.C. Sapphire - 
https://www.acsapphiremusic.com/music 

Portland artist Ac Sapphire returns with the decadent new album Dec. 32nd, songs from a cycle that honors Sapphire at her best: guitar, and vocals front and center; celebrations of the songwriter, the shredder, that she is. Sapphire sits serenely among the songwriting class that is our generation's Laurel Canyon sound. Ac's music has a grasp on the cosmic side of Americana. She resides in Portland, but was once a desert denizen, and her southwestern exposure shows in the wide open, dusty, romantic sound of each song. She's the winner of Relix Sonic Showdown, a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She's shared the stage with artists like Son Little, long time friend Sunny War, and even been featured on a Shirley Manson (Garbage) song. Ac has played the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Treefort Music Fest. Even as this album is being released, she's finishing recording another with NewSong Music as the winner of their 2022 contest.

Shelby Natasha - (Of Seattle) 

https://boldjourney.com/meet-shelby-christ/

Shelby Natasha is a Seattle based alt-folk musician and producer. Growing up living between the Pacific Northwest and China, her music is a blend of the folk music of both cultures. Her ghostlike vocals are accompanied by the Guzheng and lofi-beats, woven together with sounds collected from the natural world. Her music focuses on themes of grief, belongingness, coexisting with anxiety, and finding home in nature. She has been performing in festivals and showcases locally and around the country participating in Oregon Country Fair, Any Patch of Grass, Northwest Folklife, Portland Folk Festival, Imagine Festival, Belltown Bloom, Duwamish River Festival, Song Suffragettes (Nashville), and Open Folk (LA). 

Collaborative talk on Abject Expressionism

Ash Yang Thompson 
Jaydra Johnson 

with readings from Low: Notes on Art and Trash (Johnson) and Still Worm (Yang Thompson)

Doors 6:30

Event 7