Doors at 7:00 | Show at 8:00
All ages welcome.
Free parking is available in the lot across the street until full.
POOL BOYS
A reductionist view of Pool Boys’ music could claim four words: Loud guitars; pretty harmonies. Songwriters Emma Browne and Caroline Jackson weave their varied pedigrees together to form a unique sound in Portland music. Pool Boys thrive in dualities - they live in the space where soft and sensitive gives way to grit and ire. Browne’s melodic guitar hooks and oft-spacey, oft-grungy textures are thoroughly supported by Jackson’s weaving bass lines and all four member’s strong voices. The four piece feels equally at home with intricate art-pop outfits or with DIY punk bands. With additional harmonies, guitar, and drums from Annie Dillon and Monica Metzler, their live performances - always decked in all shades of blue - are a sight to behold.
In the past year, Pool Boys has been named one of Willamette Week's Best New Bands, was featured as the opening track of PDX Pop Now's local compilation, shared stages with Jerry Paper, Tonstartssbandht, and Vinyl Williams, and has been featured on KOIN 6 AM Extra News Show. Pool Boys is currently in production for their first full length album with producer Cam Spies of Night Heron and Radiation City. They will soon perform with Camas High School's choir program as the featured performers as well as release a music video for the song Feathers off of their debut EP, Obviously, Doctor at a headlining show at the Doug Fir.
Obviously, Doctor showcases an excellent cross-section of the diversity among songs that makes this band shine. The meandering guitar lines and unexpected chord structures of Jackson’s “Nothing But Trouble” are reminiscent of The Cure, while the raw emotion, rich harmonies, and atypical time signatures in Browne’s “Cellophane” and “44 Stone Lions,” call to mind The Zombies and The Cranberries. The EP, which was recorded at Flora Recording and Playback, takes the listener on a journey. Producer Justin Chase’s (Pure Bathing Culture) clean touch especially shines on “Feathers,” which takes its place as the emotive ballad on the album, evocative of Portishead, while simultaneously showing off each of the members’ unparalleled voices. Browne’s syrupy whisper softly yearns for deliverance while Dillon, Jackson, and Radakovich play her winged guardians.
HANNAH GLAVOR
Hannah’s music is a mature meld of indie rock revelry and raw folk spirit, clutched together by catching pop elements. Her evocative lyricism, intimate vocal delivery, and enthralling arrangements conjure a compelling and eclectic blend of comparisons from Faye Webster to Fleet Foxes to Torres to Metric. With her co-produced album “So Far, So Long” (2020), crafted with the analog masters at Mason Jar Music in Brooklyn, New York, (Feist, Fleet Foxes, Andrew Bird, Chris Thile) Hannah’s new solo work beckons a new chapter of sound distinct from her former indie-folk family band days (2011-16).
Her songs and mantra have not ceased to strive to give language to hope; having weathered losses, difficult transitions, and surviving brain surgery in 2017. Her cry for peace and hope, even in the worst of life's storms, is an invitation for all to fight to see and love others around them.
Hannah is a seasoned Portland artist and has been on the West Coast scene for the past decade sharing the stage and touring and performing with a broad range of sound (Liz Vice, Joseph, Y La Bamba, Catherine Feeney, Evan Way (Parson Redheads), Josh Garrels, Alela Diane). With a voice able to adapt from singing gospel and soul at the Waterfront Blues festival with Liz Vice to choruses in Spanish with Luz Elena Mendoza; from Country/Americana in Portland pubs to Alt-rock in punk venues in Seattle; the wooded stages at Pickathon, to intimate acoustic folk shows, Hannah’s diverse but seasoned voice stands out with a sound all her own.
Hannah started as a touring singer-songwriter in 2010, originally as a folk duo with her brother Tim Glavor on banjo. The two of them joined forces with Portland’s Andrew Stonestreet (Greylag, Joseph, Haley Hendrickx) and Daniel Dixon (Yeses) in 2011 to create her debut album “O My Wandering Heart” (2012) offering a delightful sample of songs; giving tune to light in spite of our darkest days. Harkening to the tender harmonies of bands like the Beachboys and Fleetfoxes, Hannah weaves her strong melodies, honest lyrics and addicting rhythms into our very core.
For her second release “Halcyon” (2013), she partnered with Seattle producer Kevin Matley (Head and the Heart, Bryan John Appleby, Little Hurricane). With the official iteration of her family band in full swing, Hannah emerged from being a solo artist into leading a mature musical collective weaving indie-rock into her folk sound. With their powers combined, they demonstrated their impressive musical range coupled with raw authenticity likening to River Whyless, The Wild Reeds and Feist. In this season, it was common to find Hannah and her family band touring and sharing the stage with many like indie-folk crossovers bands such as Joseph, the Wild Reeds, Alela Diane and Evan Way of the Parson Redheads.
In 2015, Hannah began to share the stage and tour with Portland greats like Liz Vice, Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza and Novosti, Her plans to record and release new solo work at the beginning of 2017 came to a crashing halt with the discovery and removal of a large mass at the center of her brain. After several years of recovery, Hannah began to play out and tour again with an even greater sense of passion and purpose joining again with friends like Joseph, Luz Mendoza and touring part time with Liz Vice which has led to sharing the stage with greats like Gaby Moreno, Matt Andersen, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and The Indigo Girls. In 2019 she got back in the saddle herself, partnering with Mason Jar Music in New York to capture pieces of her 2017 legacy and triumphant new sound post-surgery recovery.