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Event
Sunday Serenades, Featuring Abbey Blackwell, with Keeley Boyle & Nelson Kempf
Rage City Vintage is bringing back Sunday Serenades!
A low-key, cozy, listening room concert series in our lounge.
Featured artist:
Abbey Blackwell
With Local support from Keeley Boyle & Nelson Kempf!
Sunday, September 15th from 5-7pm at Rage City Vintage
$20
Get Tickets in-store to avoid the online fees!
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About the Artists:
Abbey Blackwell:
https://www.abigailblackwell.com/
https://www.instagram.com/abbeyraeblackwell
BIO:
"Primarily known as a bassist with groups like Grammy-nominated band Alvvays and folk sensation Haley Heynderickx, Abbey Blackwell (Seattle, WA, USA) is focusing her energies on writing for solo guitar and voice. Since making her home in Seattle, WA in 2009, moving down from Everett, WA, Abbey has enmeshed herself in the myriad scenes there via the University of Washington. Moving between avant-garde, jazz, classical, rock, and pop, Abbey has been busy gigging as a bassist for a decade, playing with Seattles best and beyond: including La Luz, Wayne Horvitz, Macklemore, Jonathan Wilson, Cassandra Jenkins, and Shana Cleveland. However in the last handful of years, she has begun to focus more on composing and leading groups of her own."
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Keeley Boyle:
https://keeleyboyle1.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/keeleyboyle
BIO:
Keeley Boyles Inviting began in Kenai, Alaska as guitar compositions written while homeschooling her three children during the pandemic. Over several years Boyle produced and recorded the songs at home, and collaborated with instrumentalists Carmen Quill, Joseph Shabason, and others from afar. Her husband, Nelson Kempf, played electric guitar and engineered the project. The songs were mixed by Joseph Shabason. Inviting will be released in early 2024.
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Nelson Kempf:
www.nelsonkempf.com
https://www.instagram.com/nelsonkempfmusic
BIO:
Having spent his late teens making and performing music, in 2011 Kempfs first son was born and everything changed. He stopped making music and began working as a welder in the Arctic tundra. During this time he and his family relocated to the lush rolling hills of Tennessee and every three weeks Kempf would leave behind the symphony of crickets, cicadas, sirens and traffic to fly twenty hours north and replace those sounds with the -80 degree wind ripping off the Arctic ocean.
Over my years of separation from music, I grew increasingly disillusioned with my old creative processes Kempf says, the folky song writing of my early twenties didnt seem to accommodate the illness, death, mental breakdowns, social alienation, and poverty that had pervaded my immediate experience. What emerged was a new process of simple and honest beauty one that involved improv games that attempted to create a seismograph translating the movement of natural phenomena into sound. These were then fleshed out into the songs that make up Family Dollar.
Thematically Family Dollar may initially sound like a dark record. The emotional experience of poverty is largely overlooked Kempf says, the intense pressure that inflates every moment; the exhausting physicality of stress; the impossibly stacked odds against sound decision making. But right from the soft light and delicate harp strums that open the album its clear that what Kempf found when attempting to translate these feelings was something else. That there is also beauty in darkness. As he describes it he found, a deep, connection to the buzzing grit and gristle of life; the salves of shimmering evening light, cheap alcohol and childrens laughter; the overwhelming, irrational ecstasy when a moment of calm pierces through.
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Rage City Vintage is an Art Collective, Vintage Boutique & Community Space in the heart of Spenard.
3400 Spenard Rd #104
Hours:
M: 1-7p
T: -closed-
W: -closed-
Th: 1-7p
F: 1-7p
Sa: 11a-6p
Su: 11a-6p
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LocationRage City Vintage (View)
3400 Spenard Rd. #104
ANCHORAGE, AK 99508
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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