Penny and Sparrow | Cookout Concert Series
Schedule
Fri, 14 Aug, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
HopMonk Tavern Novato | Novato, CA
KC TURNER PRESENTS PENNY AND SPARROW
+ Cece Coakley
13th Annual COOKOUT CONCERT SERIES
HOPMONK NOVATO OUTDOOR VENUE
Sponsored by JAMBAR
MOSTLY STANDING ON GROUND LEVEL
LIMITED SEATING ON LAWN & TOP OF HILL
ALL AGES
ABOUT:
A wise wizard once said: “when in doubt, always follow your nose.”
The last album from Penny and Sparrow, Olly Olly, was a work of revelation and
liberation.
A search for and an embrace of the self. I imagine they were left with a headscratcher of
a question: well, shit. Where do you go from there?
Fortunately, they listened to the wizard and followed their noses backwards to find their
way forward.
Aiming to strip away pretense and invite experimentation, they commandeered a garden
shed from a friend and retrofitted it to make a twenty-track album that is vast, weird, and
wholly unexpected.
If Lefty is anything, it is the journal of Penny and Sparrow’s inner child. Dog-eared, lock
busted open. On its pages the sketches of dreams, nightmares, erotica, and literary fan
fiction graffiti the margins of poetry, elegies, and love letters in the wild colors of
saxophone blue, electronic pink, and blood harmony red.
Beautifully varied and richly rendered, it is an album that wanders from theme to theme,
style to style, exultation to tragedy. Yet it is never lost. If anything, it is at play.
United by its intimate vocals and aching harmonies, its acoustic laments trickle into
ethereal pop only to surge into whimsical ballads and crest into grand hooligan anthems
that sway gently down to familiar shores where melancholic ballads tell of love lost,
found, forgotten, and remembered.
Andy and Kyle have written some albums in blood. Others they’ve whispered to the sea.
This one they danced in the sky with smiles on their faces. Lefty feels like not just a
celebration of their journey beyond the bounds of their traditional genre, but as if they
have rediscovered the joy in music by honoring the sounds that inspired two boys
growing up in Texas to one day make the damn stuff themselves.
- Pierce Brown, author and friend
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EVENT INFO:
Q: Is this show outdoors?
A: Yes. This event is held in HopMonk Novato's outdoor concert venue.
Q: Are kids allowed?
A: The shows are all ages. Kids need a ticket to attend. No babies in arms.
Q: Is there seating?
A: Seating is limited and is first come. You're allowed a LOW-BACK chair in the lawn section. At the top of the hillside section there is table seating that is first come. We recommend arriving at the time doors open. Some shows are open dance floor/standing room only while others are mostly seated. Varies from show to show.
Q: Is there parking?
A: Parking is free and there is plenty of it.
NO PETS
NO COOLERS
NO BACKPACKS
NO OUTSIDE FOOD
NO UMBRELLAS
Where is it happening?
HopMonk Tavern Novato, Hopmonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato, CA 94945, United States
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