FIELD GUIDE with Abbey Blackwell
High Dive
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Seattle
Thursday, September 26 at 8 pm PDT
Concert Venue
Thursday, September 26 at 8 pm PDT
Concert Venue
Entry Options
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Description
9.26 Thursday (Folk)
High Dive & Solid Sound present:
FIELD GUIDE
with Abbey Blackwell
$20adv
8pm, 21+
High Dive
513 N 36th St
highdiveseattle.com
Field Guide (aka Dylan MacDonald) is a weaver of worlds. Built around his inviting voice and wrapped in warm textures, his self-titled sophomore full-length builds his most engaging world yet. It lives in a place between darkness and hopefulness with unshakeable melodies at its heart. “Melody is what makes words fall out of my mouth. It’s disarming. When I find a melody that represents my internal world, I drop my guard. I allow the words to appear out of thin air without judgement. A lot of these songs came to life that way. I wasn’t trying to make anything, but the songs became a home for words that I wasn’t yet ready to write on the page,” MacDonald says.
The past few years haven’t allowed for much escape from our interior worlds. There’s been a lot to move through, and many things can be true at once. This album lives at the sometimes-tense intersection of those truths – loving someone dearly while being pulled toward something new, feeling joy in the melancholy, a gratitude for deep friendship and an uncertainty of one’s place in it.