Annie Bethancourt’s Cozy Little Music Blog.

Goodbye Portland! Love, Anniebeth

i’m sitting here drinking coffee and eating an oatmeal chocolate chip muffin. every monday my friends make ‘em and we all hang out and tell jokes and share stories and try to solve riddles. it’s superneat, and i highly recommend you start a “muffin monday” chapter in your very own town with your very own friends.

anyway, it was rainy earlier today in portland, oregon, but now the sun is out and the sky is blue with just some remaining wispy clouds, and i’m listening to the lovely breanna paletta and her pure voice coming through my tiny macbook speakers, and enjoying this coffee (the first i’ve had in weeks, since i cut out sugar before my half marathon that i ran yesterday, and, really, what’s the point of drinking coffee without sugar and cream?) and loving this city and thinking about all the wonderful people i’ve met here and writing terrible run-on sentences and really, really, enjoying this life.

which makes it all the more sad to say: i’m leaving this town.

i’ll be back, i promise. but for now, i am costa rica-and-then-california bound. i will be teaching again at pura vida adventures until february, and then finishing my new record in orange county. although i’ll miss the northwest, fun times are ahead for the southlands, that’s for sure.

for now, i’ve got one last show, and i’m not gonna lie: it’s guaranteed to max out your fun quota. i’ve got some surprises up my sleeve, and am going to be joined by some amazing, amazing pdx people. i’m really excited about it. i hope you are, too, portlanders! i’d love to see you before i leave rain and coffee behind for palm trees and pineapples.

love,
annie

* sweet poster by my new friend isaac reichenbach, elephant drawing by my old friend pip craighead. both talented gents.

Last Minute Show with Adam Gnade

adam gnade is pretty much one of those people that you meet and want to crawl inside their heads so you can poke around and see how all the gears work to make everything come out of his mouth so beautiful-like. he’s wonderful at making spoken word and experimental songs that entice you to get on the road and drive somewhere with your windows down to jump in an ice cold lake. or something of that sort.


anyway, he’s leaving this fair town and he asked me to share his set at his last show:

saturday, oct.
18th @ langano lounge
(* under Jarra’s Ethiopian restaurant)
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
8 pm.

you can visit him here: www.myspace.com/gnade

what could be better than a night filled with drivingwindowsdownicecoldlake music?

love,
annie