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Lauren Sheehan, Songster
 Winter 2015
" .... a one-woman Americana jukebox... her fingerwork and sensitive singing, Piedmont picking....all sounds deceptively easy, which is a testament to her huge talent.” —Huffington Post
Hi folks,
It feels like late winter here in Portland and I've been enjoying my sweet box's heavenly scent, a few early Rhodie blossoms and daily visits to the witch hazel.
Last fall was so busy that I am just getting to my end of the year and new year news. Some highlights of 2014 were "inheriting" a 1916 Washburn guitar in excellent condition, touring with Jerron Paxton, recording a song for Pete's Sake, a tribute to Pete Seeger CD on Wepecket Island Records, helping with a wonderful tribute event for Pete here in Portland, playing Old Songs Festival in Altamont NY with my daughter, teaching at Centrum blues camp, being on BBC as part of a Kalamazoo Gals feature show, continuing to develop the Roots at the Rudder music series in Portland, ongoing acoustic blues with the sensitive monster, Terry Robb, cool solo work around the country and performing and meeting fans in South America. But the very most exciting thing of all was ...
TILLAMOOK BURN NW release shows
Mar 7 - 14 Seattle & Portland - see calendar at left for details and reservations.
Zoë Carpenter, my daughter, began working with me in 2011 singing tight family harmonies on recordings and in concerts. Since then, she has beome a powerful lead singer and an accomplished guitarist. We decided that we both enjoyed the music making with each other so much that we created a more formal parnership and started doing shows, festivals and we went to the studio.
We finished our recording in Nov., 2014, a 5 song EP which we made with Charlie Pitzer at Airshow, MD., with Alan Garren helping with production. Our release is scheduled for Feb 2015 and we will do some touring througout the coming year. (bookings through the website). As of this wrting, djs have not been able to wait for the official release date of Feb. 1, and we've already had over 20 plays, including some international!
View my full Calendar at ReverbNation.com
Sat Mar 7 Seattle Folk Society, with Mark Graham
Mon Mar 9 Lake Theater, Portlansd Or
Thurs TBA
Sat Mar 14 Muddy Rudder, with Ben and Joe opening
About Tillamook Burn
Tillamook Burn is a mother-daughter duo from the coastal mountains of Oregon.
Lauren Sheehan and Zoë Carpenter launched Tillamook Burn in January 2015 with a self-titled EP, which features their instinctive vocal harmonies backed up on guitar, banjo, and mandolin. Much of their music comes directly from time spent with some of America’s greatest folk and blues artists, including John Jackson, Cephas and Wiggins, Corey Harris, Ginny Hawker and Tracy Scwarz, Etta Baker, Howard Armstrong, Joe Thompson and others.
Deemed a “one-woman Americana jukebox” (Huffington Post), Lauren began her solo career in 2003 and since then has performed at numerous national festivals, been heard on BBC and NPR, charted at the top of folk radio charts, and in 2012 won a Portland Music Award. Zoë grew up steeped in American roots music and began her professional collaboration with Lauren in 2011.
“Songcatchers of the highest order, performing with joy.” —Rick Ceballos, Lake Champlain Folk
“...I like that description as it recalls great musical forebears who, though blues based, drew inspiration and material from wherever they chose and were thus referred to as Songsters rather than blues musicians...Lauren is very much in the Songster tradition.” —Mike Regenstreif, music journalist
On the road with
Mark Graham, King of Mongrel Folk
Sat Feb 14 - Pistol River, OR
Sun Feb 15 - Ashland, OR
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Mark Graham and Lauren Sheehan will surprise and delight you with an off the grid tour through backroads of American music, detouring for big subjects like: Natural Science, Mathematics, Cosmology, Love, Death, Food, Economics and the Classics of literature.
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