NEKO CASE with Rodrigo Amarante – SOLD OUT!

Neko Case

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!

Thursday, April 16 – OFS presents
NEKO CASE
with Rodrigo Amarante

7:00pm doors / 8:00 show
Mezzanine Lounge Open (21+ w/ ID)

Neko Case is a Grammy-nominated solo artist and one-eighth of the celebrated Canadian pop outfit the New Pornographers. The Washington-bred singer/songwriter has achieved worldwide critical acclaim and a loyal following for her smoky, sophisticated vocals and the downcast beauty of her music. With her latest release, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, the singer known as much for her restless musical curiosity as her clarion voice charts a powerfully personal course across the rocky landscape of childhood, love and loss. Case’s 2009 album, Middle Cyclone, was her most ambitious to date, vaulting her to new heights of critical and commercial success and netting two Grammy nominations. But if Middle Cyclone – laced with frogs, tornados and killer whales – was Case’s exploration of the potency of the natural world, the new album sees Case turning inward. The Worse Things Get…plunges into the wilderness of human experience, revealing Case at her most emotionally raw and yet, paradoxically, in steely control. It’s some of her most instantly gratifying work, perfectly encapsulating all of her personas, from the erudite, whiskey-shooting provocateur to the sweet and soulful, small town crooner who sounds like she was plucked from the pages of a novel set in the antebellum north. Case has proven time and again that she has the songwriting chops to match her earthy, superlative voice, but never with such authority. The Olympia Film Society is thrilled to present the one and only Neko Case.

Rodrigo Amarante

Rodrigo Amarante: One of the masterminds behind Brazilian band Los Hermanos and founding member of the samba supergroup Orquestra Imperial, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Amarante is an inescapable musical figure in his native South American home. Breaking out of the Brazilian market in 2008, Amarante formed the group Little Joy and released their self-titled debut album which gained critical acclaim in the US and worldwide.