Squirrel Flower
Rickshaw Stop
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San Francisco
Thursday, March 10 at 8 pm PST
Serves Food
Outdoor Patio
Concert Venue
Bar
Thursday, March 10 at 8 pm PST
Serves Food
Outdoor Patio
Concert Venue
Bar
Entry Options
Details
Description
SQUIRREL FLOWER
Tenci
Maria BC
8 pm
$14 adv / $16 doors
all ages
*All attendees must be fully vaccinated and be able to show proof. Let's keep everyone safe and sound during this return to live music! *
Squirrel Flower’s heart-rending sophomore album Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a world entirely of artist Ella Williams’ making. The title came first to her as a joke: it’s her made-up name for the new planet people will inevitably settle and destroy after leaving Earth, as well as the universe imagined within her music. https://www.squirrelflower.net/
Tenci began as Jess Shoman’s bedroom-folk project in Chicago in December 2018. With the help of Spencer Radcliffe and Tina Scarpello it quickly became something more fully-formed. By spring of 2019 they’d recorded their debut My Heart Is An Open Field, which is about the wavering feeling of laying everything out in the open where sometimes dormant memories bubble up to show their faces. It’s about picking at your own knots and scabs and eventually joining yourself in an honest and present form. This album is filled with nuance– breaths of saxophone and flute, and touches of cello, piano, and pedal steel are hung on the sturdy folk songs of Shoman, whose vibrato and range cuts through these dreams like a loved one’s voice. https://tenci.bandcamp.com/
The debut EP from Ohio-born, San Francisco-based artist Maria BC leans heavily into a sense of closeness and emotional vulnerability. Recorded in their apartment through April and May, the ‘Devil’s Rain’ EP is concerned both with nostalgia and carving a better path forwards. From religion to childhood memories and giving advice to a depressed version of yourself, it’s a debut statement that tackles the big questions with openness and grace. Musically, the EP is gorgeous and sparse, with Maria’s classical training as a mezzo-soprano mixing with hushed pop melodies and a love for the quiet grandeur of Grouper. In order not to disturb their neighbours and roommates during lockdown, Maria had to write and record the music on ‘Devil’s Rain’ quietly. The forced constraint helped them craft the songs as something approaching “hymns or lullabies.” https://mariabc.bandcamp.com/