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Lake Laconic (Astoria), Ray Wolff & Ellie Baird

  • Mother Foucault's Bookshop 715 Southeast Grand Avenue Portland, Oregon, 97214 United States (map)

Join us for an evening of folk singer songwriters.

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Ray Wolff - Seattle, WA local Ray Wolff is an alternative folk singer-songwriter from Austin, TX. Through open tunings & intricate fingerstyle, theyweave imagery with sharp precision. Wolff scaffolds a playful soundscape that explores what lurks beneath the surface. With Indie Rock influence, their wit & gutsy lyricism makes for sweetly satirical storytelling. Wolff released an intimate LP "Just Words" in Autumn of 2025, recorded solo live on a nylon string guitar. Wolff's band will debut their first studio record "Leaning on Elsewhere" Fall of 2026, produced by Jordan Cunningham at Sage Arts Studio.

https://raywolff.bandcamp.com/ 

Lake Laconic has been chipping away at his music in the town of Astoria, OR finding different directions to go while living in a place where foundation can be built. A strange background, playing jazz for over a decade and then heavily going into songwriting and finding his gold there, Lake continues to create music that takes him somewhere new. He’s been all over the map doing things like opening for Blind Pilot, playing the Allman Brothers’ music with original drummer, Jaimoe, in The Big Band of Brothers, and collaborating with his brother Evan in a band they call Innocent Alex. Lake put his first album out in 2024, Lake Laconic, which Music Millennium called “11 tracks of pop genius” and now releases a new album, Cut the String, that he’s been cooking up out by the Columbia River Gorge with Mark Robertson. Lake calls it “9 tracks of trying to piece something together with intention

https://lakelaconic.bandcamp.com/

Ellie (Not Lenny)

Not Lenny is the musical project of Ellie Baird; raised in Illinois and based in Portland, Oregon. Her songs are written from a need to feel everything full-on; good, bad, and (most often) in-between. Always with tongue in cheek and a fierce desire to see beauty in the world. Not Lenny’s debut EP, Desire, came out June 20th on the new Washington based label, Tarboo Tapes.

Donation - $10 (cash / venmo at doors)

RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors

Doors @ 6:30 pm

Music at 7 ish pm

715 SE Grand

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