Dao Strom & Alicia Jo Rabins Duo EP Release Show + Readings!
Schedule
Wed, 02 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Turn Turn Turn | Portland, OR
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Portland-based songwriters, composers, and poets Dao Strom and Alicia Jo Rabins present "Wild Nights," a six-song collaboration that traverses an ambient-tinged landscape of piano-and-strings-based instrumentals interwoven with acoustic country/folk traditionals–plus one very emo Emily Dickinson poem set to music. Alicia and Dao first met in person at the 2021 Portland Book Festival, which featured the two artists in a live conversation at the Newmark Theatre, discussing poems and song-cycles arising from their experiences of diaspora, culture, and inheritance. In front of a live audience they discovered deep parallels in their work as hybrid writer-musicians.
Recorded and mixed in home studios over the span of three summers, the EP represents a creative friendship founded on listening and learning, a slowing down and seeking of quiet and undefined spaces amid the noise of the present world.
Wild Nights will be released independently on all platforms on April 2, 2025, with a release show at Turn!Turn!Turn! in North Portland (8 NE Killingsworth St.) on Wednesday, April 2. The show will feature brief readings by five Portland women and non-binary writers: Danielle Frandina, Sara Jaffe, Emily Kendal Frey, Chrys Tobey, and Jennifer Perrine. 21+, $10-20 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds benefit Pueblo Unido PDX.
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Where is it happening?
Turn Turn Turn, 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97211-2624, United States,Portland, OregonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
