Thursday, March 25

FENNE LILY

support tba

7 pm doors

$22 advance / $25 at door

all ages

The record started like this: a move to New York from England. An out of the blue phone break-up, on Independence Day. A month of running, not eating enough, drinking too much. A month of writing thousands of words a day, frantically, from a place of guilt. A month where it felt like this loss of self. It started out like an exorcism. But it doesn’t end that way. Because things started to shift for Fenne Lily. The blame she placed on herself dissipated. New York, her new city, started to feel like her home. A place she had some ownership; a place that now held her own memories and experiences. She drove to New England in a truck. She made music with her friends in the Hudson Valley. She spent nights running pool tables. She fell in love again. She began writing the songs to her fourth album, Win Win. And she found that as she did this, the songs she wrote were coming from a place of warmth, self discovery. Something new was emerging from inside of herself. “I wanted to make music that sounded like the sun was out,” says Fenne. Win Win is a record that sounds like the sun is out.

Just after turning 18, Trinity Gardner took a month-long road trip with her estranged father to meet her paternal side of the family for the first time. They drove across the American West, cutting through red canyons from Texas to Colorado, meeting family she never knew existed. Learning to Be a Cowboy on the Horse that Broke My Arm, her debut EP and first photography book, sprung from the need to process the experience. Back in San Francisco, Gardner formed a band, fronting as singer and lyricist for a six-piece orchestral ensemble. Together they bend experimental rock, Americana, and folk into a six-track reckoning with forgiveness, building new relationships on muddy ground, and the spirituality that comes as a gift of grief.