Cassandra Lewis Backyard Concert!
It's happening— Backyard Concert season is here! Come join us for the first in a spring/summer series, with Cassandra Lewis! We're so excited to have her come play for us and share her insanely gorgeous voice.
Doors to my backyard will open at 5:00pm on Saturday, May 10, and Cass will go on at 6:00. Feel free to bring any snacks/drinks to share (or just for you!). Tickets are sliding scale, $20-40 (or more, if you really like to support artists!) and there may be some available at the door, too. I'll have some chairs and pillows set up, but feel free to bring anything else that will make you comfortable. Please be mindful and respectful of neighbors, and I can't wait to have you join as we bring together sweet community with sweet music!
Here's a little about Cassandra Lewis, if you're not familiar, and you can check her out at her website, https://www.cassandralewismusic.com/ :
Cassandra Lewis knows how to tell a story. She could go into detail about a childhood in constant motion, moving in a montage from Germany through Florida, Texas, and, eventually, Idaho among her family of “high mountain desert folk.” She shares memories of escaping loneliness and insecurity in front of the television set or tasting her first bit of fanfare as “a little yodeling cowgirl” at the town’s lone Walmart or retirement homes. There were moments of houselessness, working in countless restaurants, sleeping in a shared tent at a refugee camp, and selling joints “out of the back of a Subaru” that she lived out of with her rescue dog and cat after a wildfire burned down her farm in Mendocino. She found community in the Bay Area and if not for the integration of psilocybin and psychedelic medicine, she may have succumbed to the pitfalls of life instead of moving forward and using her pain to heal and forgive. She says she holds a deep gratitude for these dualities. “You can’t appreciate the light without living and breathing the dark.” She inhaled inspiration from cut-and-dry classic country and rock ‘n’ roll, smoked-out soulful psychedelia, and exhaled a shadowy signature sound—easily likened to a fever dream between Marty Robbins and Joni Mitchell. This is a new kind of cosmic Americana. She slung her songs for anyone who would listen only for a proverbial “last shot” to pay off by landing a deal with Low Country Sound/Elektra Records circa the Pandemic. Now, she’s taking this foundation and paving her own yellow brick road on her 2024 full-length album, Lost in a Dream.