Sun, Jul 19th , 8-10pm, Concert – Patchy Sanders - Oregon based Alt-Folk Orchestra
Whittled down, the name Patchy Sanders becomes a mythical muse, an unknown source of inspiration and beauty.  Based out of Ashland OR, they are 6: Danielle (banjo...) and Jacqui Aubert (vocal), Dan Sherrill (guitar...), Sara Wilbur (violin...), Ian Van Ornum (mandolin...), and Eric Jones (bass).  Working with ecclectic themes from dreams, fairy-tales, after-life, wild lands etc... Patchy crafts stream-of-conciousness story music with an emphasis on melody and lyrics.  These aren’t songs as much as they are musical emotional experiences which conjure other worldly journeys.  By and large their music fits as well in an acoustic art-house as it does in a farm house hootenanny hoe-down or main-stage at a pop festival.  "If Danny Elfman had a folk orchestra it would be Patchy Sanders. This is honest music full of nuance and dynamics.” - Kenneth Pattengale, The Milk Carton Kids.  “Great musicianship, harmonies, and feel.  A really warm vibe that makes wherever you are standing feel like the center of a Gypsy Caravan.” - Mason Jennings, singer-songwriter
www.patchysanders.com  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upZSgpNXD4c   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVw_Gyi48kM 
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FMI http://alberni.ca/events/15635   Char’s 19+ Lounge opens M-F 4pm, S-S 1pm www.charslanding.com Char’s Landing, 4815 Argyle @5th. Port Alberni V9Y 1V9

Touring behind their debut record & The Wild Peach Forest Patchy’s momentum has been building during their extensive NW concert season in 2014.  Notable festival appearances include, Kate Wolf Music Festival, Oregon Country Fair, The Britt, Beloved, Northwest String Summit, CA Worldfest...  They’ve also played historic venues in the Bay Area like the Great American Music Hall and The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse. Seeking to broaden modern folk’s traditionalist approach, Patchy has new material in the works for 2015.  Fresh original music bending towards avant-folk, with folk-orchestral arrangements blending diverse genres and musical styles.  This is contemporary, independent, eclectic, eccentric, folk music which critics have been, with effort, trying to categorize.  Like many things which remain hard to classify, Patchy Sanders’ music comes from their mythical muse, their unknown source of inspiration, and from here it will continue to flourish "Great musicianship, harmonies, and feel. A really warm vibe that makes wherever you are standing feel like the center of a Gypsy Caravan." ~Mason Jennings  "Timeless. I could hear this band in the 16th, 18th, and 21st Centuries." ~Sedge Thomson (West Coast Live, Host)

Danielle Aubert:  Dani is a lover of the land and her music grows from the vines, trees, polypores and spring ephemerals that inspire her.  She plays the banjo, harp, pennywhistle and sings like a hawk nestled in a rose patch.  Her songs are filtered through dreams, forests, owls, and cedar trees creating what she likes to call "banjo witch ballads." They weave chromatic melodies, dissonant vocal harmonies and a soundscape of rhythmic and melodic orchestration.  From the appalachians to the cascades, the wilderness continues to inspire her to write and share her music.  Dani is also mother to Eowyn Deora De', a beautiful 3 year old girl.

Jacqueline Aubert: Jacqueline's natural heart talent is harmony, but this little bee dreams of writing her own songs, learning to play the guitar, bouzouki, and ukulele and doing it all with grace and copious amounts of self love along the way. Yeah! As a graphic artist; nature, modern society, and self growth inspire Jacqueline's multidimensional visual creations featured throughout Patchy's website and new E.P. This year her creative forces have shifted into music with the serendipitous creation of Patchy Sanders.

Sara Wilbur: Born into the birch forests of Alaska's interior, Sara's childhood was full of close encounters with moose, late night trudges along snowy roads under the northern lights, and weekends spent screaming down slopes on her tiny skis. This intrepid young explorer demanded at an early age to be a violinist and continues to pursue musical opportunities of all shades and colors. Sara was scooped up by Patchy one day whilst innocently playing at the Rogue Valley Farmers Market, totally unaware of the amazing journey she was about to embark upon. Sara also enjoys baking sweet treats and spending time in luscious forests.

Daniel Sherrill: Oh sun! the sky, the clouds, rain and waterfalls, from a trickle to Niagara.  Born in Baltimore, lived in Pennsylvania for many years, hopped around the globe, from NYC to Buenos Aires to Pittsburgh to Portland.  He carries diverse influences from Roots Reggae, Chamber Music, Radiohead, Thelonious Monk's piano, Bright Eyes, Joanna Newsom, and many other lovely harmonious melodies and words.  Studied music in Pittsburgh.  Now in Ashland, Oregon.  He writes songs about geese, sweet treats, and lucid dreaming.  Creates on many instruments, primarily the guitar tickles his bow strings the most.  Contact Directly listen to his solo record "Another Human Birth" from 2011 HERE

Ian Van Ornum: Born then raised in the great state of Minnesota where it's cold and the snow flurries most often between the months of November and March (April on a good year).  Expression through music has fascinated me since as long as I remember. It wasn't until the age of 17 when I finally "mustard the strength" the give it a whirl for myself.  Well ever since that winter, when I received a Fender and an amp for Christmas, I've been spending most every "free" moment trying to better my efficiently explaining just what exactly I'm trying to say, musically.. The word "Ancient" gets tossed around in the group quite a bit. Ancient things inspire me. Ya know, old and well worn ways of making a good living. Like castles and bakers and bards.

Eric Jones:  As a Portland, Oregon native, music and nature have always been an integral part of Eric’s life. In his early teenage years he began using the bass as a musical medium and was later drawn to Southern Oregon as a place to create and call home. Nurtured in the community of Ashland, Eric has explored, expanded, collaborated, and created. After over a decade of playing electric, his focus has shifted to the double bass and he feels happily at home in the warm embrace of the Patchy family.