The Lincoln Theatre is proud to present Black Belt Eagle Scout and Lori Goldston, on stage together!
In May, two musical forces -- Black Belt Eagle Scout and Lori Goldston -- are coming together for a unique live performance. Black Belt Eagle Scout, known for their powerful indie rock infused with personal and poignant storytelling, will join forces with Lori Goldston, an accomplished cellist whose haunting and emotive sound has graced countless recordings and performances.
Their collaboration promises a rich, dynamic blend of introspective, atmospheric music, with Goldston’s lush cello arrangements weaving beautifully with Black Belt Eagle Scout’s raw, immersive sound.
This rare pairing will offer audiences a chance to experience an unforgettable mix of strength and vulnerability, making for an extraordinary and unmissable live experience.
Black Belt Eagle Scout
This land runs through Katherine Paul’s blood. And it called to her. In dreams she saw the river, her ancestors, and her home. When the land calls, you listen. And Paul found herself far from her ancestral lands during a time of collective trauma, when the world was wounded and in need of healing. In 2020 she made the journey from Portland back to the Skagit River, back to the cedar trees that stand tall and shrouded in fog, back to the tide flats and the mountains, back to Swinomish.
It is a powerful thing to return to our ancestral lands and often times the journey is not easy. Like the salmon through the currents, like the tide as it crawls to shore this is a story of return. It is the call and response. It is the outstretched arms of the people who came before, welcoming her home.
Paul's latest album under the Black Belt Eagle Scout moniker, The Land, The Water, The Sky, is a celebration of lineage and strength. Even in its deepest moments of loneliness and grief, of frustration over a world wrought with colonial violence and pain, the songs remind us that if we slow down, if we listen to the waves and the wind through the trees, we will remember to breathe.
Lori Goldston
Lori Goldston plays written and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, curator, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, her voice as a cellist is visceral, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought.
She records and tours as a soloist, and collaborates with bands, orchestras, composers, film makers, writers and choreographers: Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Mirah, Maya Dunietz, Jherek Bischoff, Tara Jane O'Neil, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, David Byrne, O Paon, Terry Riley, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Torben Ulrich, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, Christian Rizzo, and many, many others.
The Softies
The night features an opening set by The Softies, the musical duo of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia, whose songs convey galaxy-sized emotions with stunning grace and straightforwardness. The chemistry shared by the two best friends has resulted in a minimal pop soundworld unlike any other, and multiple albums that perfectly articulate their upheaval, joy, confusion, and metamorphosis using almost exclusively just guitar and vocals.
The band was first active throughout the '90s, intersecting with various independent movements of that time but existing outside of scenes, eras, and ideologies, doing their own thing in a way only they could in a constantly-shaking snow globe of their own making. So much has changed and changed again since Melberg and Sbragia began writing their impossibly beautiful songs of fire and melancholy, but never has the Softies' timelessness been more apparent than on 2024's The Bed I Made, their first new album in 24 years.
Advance Reserved Seating Tickets: $20 1st Section, $15 2nd section + applicable fees. Lincoln Theatre Members receive $2 off all seating tiers.
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs.