BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:John Craigie w/ special guest The Lowest Pair - Night 1 X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:John Craigie w/ special guest The Lowest Pair - Night 1 DESCRIPTION:$20 adv. - $25 day of | 7pm doors - 8pm show\n\nPortland\, O R-based singer\, songwriter\, and producer John Craigie adapts moments o f solitude into stories perfectly suited for old Americana fiction antho logies. Instead of leaving them on dog-eared pages\, he projects them wi descreen in flashes of simmering soul and folk eloquence. On his 2022 fu ll-length album\, Mermaid Salt\, we witness revenge unfurled in flames\, watch a landlocked mermaid’s escape\, and fall asleep under a meteor shower. \;\n\nAfter selling out shows consistently coast-to-coast an d earning acclaim from Rolling Stone\, Glide Magazine\, No Depression\, and many more\, his unflinching honesty ties these ten tracks together.\ n\nThe album comes from the solitude and loneliness of lockdown in the N orthwest. Someone whose life was touring\, traveling\, and having lots o f human interaction is faced with an undefinable amount of time without those things. So\, he began writing new songs and envisioning an album t hat was different from his past records. The sound of everyone playing l ive in a room together was traded for the sound of song construction wit h an unknown amount of instruments and musicians—a quiet symphony.\n\n Rather than steal away to a cabin or hole up in a house with friends\, C raigie opted to set up shop at the OK Theater in Enterprise\, OR with lo ngtime collaborator Bart Budwig behind the board as engineer. A rotating cast of musicians shuffled in and out safely\, distinguishing the proce ss from the communal recording of previous releases. The core players in cluded Justin Landis\, Cooper Trail\, and Nevada Sowle. Meanwhile\, Shoo k Twins lent their signature vocal harmonies\, Bevin Foley arranged\, co mposed\, and performed strings\, and Ben Walden dropped in for guitar an d violin plucking parts.\n\n“Instruments were scattered around the the ater and microphones placed in various spots\,” he recalls. “It’s hard to say who all played what exactly.”\n\nAs such\, the spirit in t he room guided everyone. On “Distance\,” warm piano glows alongside a glitchy beat as he softly laments\, “I could lose you to the lonelin ess\, vast and infinite.” Then\, there’s “Helena.” A jazz-y bass line snakes through head-nodding percussion as he relays an incendiary parable of a mother \; and son in exile. He croons\, “She said fir e was how we’d make ‘em pay. As I ran across the fields\, she would scream\, ‘Light it up son’\,” uplifted in a conflagration of Shook Twins’ harmonies. Strings echo in the background as his vocals quake front-and-center on “Street Mermaid.” \;\n\nElsewhere\, the guit ar-laden “Microdose” beguiles and bewitches with an intoxicating ref rain dedicated to a time where he “Microdosed for months and months\, dissolve my ego in the acid.” Everything culminates on the glassy beat -craft and glistening guitars of “Perseids” where he sings\, “Ther e’s always a new heart after the old heart. Maybe a new heart is enoug h.”\n\nDuring this period\, he explored the environment around him “ from the Oregon coasts to the waterfalls” and read books about Levon H elm\, Billie Holiday\, and Ani DiFranco.\n\n“I got time to silence all the noise and chaos of touring and look inward\,” he observes.\n\nCra igie had reached a series of watershed moments in tandem with Mermaid Sa lt. Beyond headlining venues such as The Fillmore and gracing the stage of Red Rocks Amphitheater\, his 2020 offering Asterisk The Universe earn ed unanimous tastemaker applause. Rolling Stone noted\, “tracks like Don’t Deny’ and ‘Climb Up’ bridge a Sixties and Seventies song writer vibe with the laid-back cool of Jack Johnson\, an early supporter of Craigie\,” while Glide Magazine hailed it as “one of his best re cords.” Perhaps\, No Depression put it best\, “For many weary and he avy- listeners hearted\, the album might be exactly what they need.” A long the way\, he generated over 40 million total streams and counting\, speaking to his unassuming impact.\n\nIn the end\, Craigie offers a sen se of peace on Mermaid Salt.\n\nCovid-19 Policy:\n\nWe are very excited to be hosting live music shows again in our listening room. OLS is commi tted to providing a safe environment for all who work\, listen\, or perf orm live music in our venue. Because our venue is so small\, we will req uire all staff\, volunteers\, performers\, and patrons to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 when they attend OLS events AND to wea r masks indoors unless they are actively drinking\, eating\, or performi ng.\n\nProof of vaccine must come directly from the health care provider that performed the vaccination and can be a photo or physical copy of t he vaccination card or record with an accompanying photo ID. Full vaccin ation means that the date of the performance you are attending is:\n\n*a t least 14 days after your second dose of an FDA or WHO authorized two d ose COVID-19 vaccine\, or\n\n*at least 14 days after your single dose of an FDA or WHO authorized single dose COVID vaccine.\n\nWe hope we can e ase these restrictions once further progress has been made reducing tran smission of the virus. Until then\, we greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation.\n\nOne Longfellow Square does not assume liability\; th e ticket holder will assume all risks involved. By purchasing a ticket t o this event you agree to assume full liability for any risks incurred b efore\, during and after the event and agree to the current Terms of Use . URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/john-craigie-w-special-gu est-the-lowest-pair-night-1/ UID:urn:uuid:289aeb9d-d614-4f22-84e7-a36b54a747bd STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260430T085935Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR