Trails & Tunes at Threshold Brewing
I’ll be playing a Trails & Tunes set at Threshold Brewing alongside my incredible fianceé Molly, bringing these songs out of the Gorge and into the room. The set draws from a growing body of work written on trails across the Pacific Northwest—songs shaped by time spent moving through these places, learning their stories, and translating that experience into music. Each piece begins out in the landscape itself and carries something of that place back with it.
Trails & Tunes is built around a simple idea: one trail, one song, every week. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been keeping that rhythm—heading out to a different location, learning about its history, ecology, or the people connected to it, then returning home to write and record a song that holds a few of those details. Small things meant to stick. A line about a landslide, a species name, a fragment of local history—woven into something melodic and repeatable, so the story travels a little further than it might otherwise. Three months in, the project has taken on a life of its own, growing into a steady, ongoing exploration of place through music.
Along the way, the work has started to expand in unexpected directions—collaborations with local groups, songs inspired by scientists and community members, and moments where the music loops back into the places it came from. A recent performance at a Columbia Gorge quilting showcase, for example, turned into a room full of people singing along to a brand new piece inspired by the quilts themselves. Those kinds of exchanges—where different ways of seeing and interpreting a place overlap—have become central to the project.
This show is a chance to share a wide range of that new material live for the first time. Songs from the Gorge and beyond, shaped by winter and early spring, just as the hiking season begins to open back up. It feels like a natural point in the year to gather these pieces together, bring them into a room, and send people back out into the landscape with a few new associations in mind.
The performance will take place on April 24 from 7–8pm. The show is free and open to all ages.