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Jun 19 2025
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Grrl Band and Major Tomboys

I got to see this fun all girl band play at the wow Hall they played originals and a cover of a Chapel Roan song.

Their songs are on Spotify but they are hard to google because of their name. Their Instagram is here

Grrl band at wow hall

They were opening for the best cover band ever! The Major Tomboys!

I can’t recommend them highly enough! They were so fun! Of course Bowie has more wonderful catchy hit songs than almost any other artist and they packed the night with hit after hit played impeccably. “Fame” was a highlight. Notice they have a sax player? She also picked up a flute sometimes. This band totally rocks and they put on a fantastic show 🙂 I’d go again in a heartbeat.

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Nov 05 2024
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Big Thief, Project Pabst

One of my favorite things to do is go to a festival and try to draw everybody who plays.

I drew many of the bands at project Pabst but I wasn’t able to draw all of them.

More are coming but here is Big Thief, who wrapped up the last night.

Adrienne played with some new band members and played a long jammy style, channeling Neil Young sometimes. She didn’t play the old songs I love but that’s ok because all her new songs still sound like big thief songs and sound pretty good.

My brother gave me a watercolor brush pen from Italy and I used it here and used my homemade acorn ink . Ironing the page had some unexpected results but that’s ok.

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Aug 17 2023
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Singer songwriter nights at spectrum

The May show lineup. I 💜 femme daggers “50s housewife” satire persona making music with an electric fan , a telephone and an ironing board. How ironic. One of her songs is about watching “wheel of fortune” with you. It’s so domestic and cute.
The April show lineup. Atlas had a real powerful voice. Thy have one song on Spotify. Alexa Ro is on Instagram @alexa.ro.music

Osprey flies the nest is on spotify too!

The June show lineup. Hannah has several albums and is available on Spotify.
When I hosted a show in January, I drew each artist on an individual page and gave them the drawings
Ziree sun’s music is on Spotify and it’s beautiful!
Cloud is a fantastic performer. Cloud Out Loud is what their name is on Spotify. They remind me a bit of Brett Dennen.
Amiia Nectar is on Spotify too! Very sexy music 💜 she’s collaborated with me before but we didn’t make recordings yet. she reminds me of Biig Piig
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Aug 17 2023
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March fourth marching band

I made this drawing months ago at their wow hall show in Eugene and I’ve been working on inking and coloring it.

This band always puts on a fun show and I highly recommend you catch them live sometime. I drew on a BIG piece of Bristol board and I was able to fit every musician in, but I wish I had taken more reference photos at the time.

Here was one of the photos I took that night 🙂
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Aug 11 2023
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Xoticon, Los Angeles!

Here’s a drawing of members of “mambo diabolico” they have Richard elfman the filmmaker on bongos. Their vocalist Lena Marie was channeling yma sumac as a tribute! Ego Plum also cocmposes music for SpongeBob and the cup head show.
Here’s a drawing of the full band, I experimented with ink and just one color of water colors. I met all the horn players and they were friendly.
The hukilau hotshots were a delightful band! So charming to hear their front person Natalie Mendoza say for nearly every song “I think this is my favorite song we play”

Listen to them on Spotify.
Creepxotica is a side band of a group called “the creepy creeps” listen to them on Spotify! Their songs are not long and jammy, but short and tight!
The martini kings have played at the Oscar’s and the Grammys, their announcer boasted. Many songs were instrumental but gretje sang some songs including “fly me to the moon.”
The tikiyaki orchestra play surf rock with jungle rhythms and vibraphones, fun silly samples pepper the music too.
I went to this fest because my online friend Thea triffid, aka ghoulish gal posted that she would be there. I got to see her play in a band, above and a solo theremin set
I animated a little gif of her hand moving. That’s vibrato!
Click here to see this drawing animated with music added
She wore a few different costumes, so I drew her several times!

There was burlesque, djs and gogo dancers too!

I had such a fun time and I learned a lot from the symposiums/ seminars. I’d love to go again if they have the event again, I actually made several more drawings but I haven’t finished them yet. So there may be a “part 2” to this post!

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Aug 11 2023
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Band drawings summer 2023

Kef playing downtown Eugene

I was able to make two drawings during their 2 hour set. They play traditional Balkan music.

Black Magdalene play organic dark wave, music to belly dance to.

I took photos of the show and made drawings at home based on them. I was fun to add the lace effect in the background. Their music is on Spotify!

Banter Waves play guitar based jazz, sometimes jammy covers of pop songs. It’s very chill and the drummer hits trashed cymbals and boxes with springs mounted on them.
Math Fourth play exciting zany marching band circus music with rock and funk! They put on a wild party every time! their music is on Spotify and all the streaming sites, and their music has appeared in films! This was their show at the wow hall.
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Jun 27 2016
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Portraits of Brazilians

In my travels I made a few drawings of locals and gave them away.

This was a waitress at a restaurant in Natal.

These were guests at a wedding.

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Jun 21 2016
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Luisa & os Alquimistas

I got to catch a live reggae band in a club in natal. Their music is on Spotify if you search for them. They didn’t have a live drummer, but a dj and they made the crowd dance with lyrics in Portuguese and English. Check them out!

http://youtu.be/a6uc7-mDpkE 

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Jun 09 2016
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Caravelas

A sleepy little beach town. Few tourists come here so there aren’t the quantity of bars and curio shops we have seen in the other towns. It’s mostly Fishermen, biologists and locals who have many generations here.




We came upon a festival, with lantern decorations and people playing music in the streets.

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Jun 04 2016
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View from the beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Can you see the little lifts? This is sugar loaf mountain in Rio. It was cloudy today.What a beauftiful place. I’m here in winter (June) so the beach is almost empty. But as soon as I approached it, I heard surf music in my head. Everything is like a surf music album cover photo. It’s so gorgeous here!

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