JUMP TO: San Francisco / Santa Rosa
November 16 – 22nd
TONIGHT!!!
Wednesday, November 16th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – ROCK & INDIE MUSIC
The Campbell Apartment and The Spectones
The Campbell Apartment is an Indie/grungy/melodicy/punky/poppy power trio with “passion, intelligence, melodies and phrases that stick pleasingly in your head.” – Danny Goldberg, Manager, Nirvana & The Beastie Boys. The Spectones are a San Francisco based rock trio influenced by The Byrds, The Beatles and The Monkees, conjuring moods reminiscent of their times.
www.weareindierock.com
www.thespectones.com
Recommended if you like: Guided by Voices, Weezer, Fountains of Wayne, Pavement, Wilco, Tom Petty, Big Star
Thursday, November 17th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK-ROCK/AMERICANA MUSIC
Lilli Lewis (NOLA) + Secret Emchy Society
Athens, Georgia native turned New Orleans Folk Rock Diva, Lilli Lewis is a powerhouse composer and performing artist with jaw-dropping vocal stylings, a voice for the voiceless in Americana, “storytelling with transformative empathy and classically trained poise.” Jewly Hight, NPR.org. Melding classic twang with a punk ethos, Cindy Emch of Secret Emchy Society is the First Lady of Queer Country, known for her distinct voice and ability to blend Americana, California Country, Hellbilly, Goth, and Honky Tonk, spinning radically distinctive tales from her singular perspective. Emchy’s not only a highly regarded musician in the Bay Area—nominated three times for Best Local LGBT Band by Bay Area Reporter—but she’s also a seasoned student of the history of LGBTQA musicians dipping their toes in genres that have always been “off-limits” for non-hetero participants. She was the founding editor of Country Queer and still hosts Gimme Country’s popular Emchy’s Outlaw Americana show.
Recommended if you like: Allison Russell, Ruthie Foster, Tuck and Patti, Bill Withers, Laura Nyro, Nina Simone, Toshi Reagon, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Loretta Lynn
Friday, November 18th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – ROCK/BLUES/FOLK MUSIC
The Anita Lofton Project + Easy Queen
The Anita Lofton Project illustrates an energy and Bay Area based bounty of styles with rich instrumentation that stretches from current day fascinations to vintage rhythm & blues rock traditions. Easy Queen are three fierce, feminist, funny folx forging fabulously funky rock with their blend of grunge-y hooks, shoegaze-y guitar delay, and pop-y vocal harmonies. Experience the magical, sensual, infectious rock-n-roll of Easy Queen!
https://www.theanitaloftonproject.com/
https://easyqueenband.com/
Recommended if you like: Gary Lee Clark Jr., Valerie June, Ben Harper, Elizabeth Cotten, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Sharon Van Etten
Saturday, November 19th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – ROOTS ROCK MUSIC
Kyra Gordon & Pi Jacobs: Maiden Voyage to the NEW Lost Church
Kyra Gordon has belted out Janis Joplin hits in a one-woman show, earned a conservatory degree interpreting jazz standards, and spent several years in the improvisational hip-hop group The Freeze, but it was the long road she traveled winding from Hollywood to New Orleans to a rural North Carolina commune to Paris that fueled her remarkable debut album Soul of a Showgirl. Her music flows from the vicissitudes of her footloose life, glinting with insights she’s gleaned along the way. Pi Jacobs draws inspiration from her unconventional upbringing in “The Land of Weed and Wine” aka Northern California. Blending roots-rock swagger and storytelling soul, her music has drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Dolly Parton, and Lucinda Williams.
https://www.kyragordon.com
https://linktr.ee/pijacobs
Recommended if you like: Brandi Carlisle, Lucinda Williams, Regina Spektor
Sunday, November 20th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – INDIE-FOLK MUSIC
The Feelings Parade & Glitterfox
Led by songwriters Morgan Bolender and Scott Ferreter, The Feelings Parade has developed a loyal following of diehard “Feelers” who come as much for the poetic songwriting, tight harmonies, and rich textures as they do to drop into their own tender human hearts in a space of collective radical vulnerability. On more than one occasion, fans have said that Feelings Parade shows are “better than therapy.” Glitterfox has been called “one of the most successful Portland bands of the pandemic era. By blending Americana and rock into an indie-folk cocktail, they have created a singular sound that can both rouse and soothe, as fans of their ferociously emotional EP Night can attest.”
https://thefeelingsparade.com/
https://www.glitterfox.org/
Recommended if you like: Rainbow Girls, Fleetwood Mac, Shook Twins, Sharon Van Etten
The Lost Church San Francisco is located at 988 Columbus Avenue at Chestnut Street in North Beach
(26-min from Oakland, 33-min from San Rafael, 52-min from Vallejo, 1 hour and 6-min from Santa Rosa)
Photo by https://www.instagram.com/claypoleon/
Send your photos from TLC to hq@thelostchurch.org
SAN FRANCISCO
Friday, December 2nd: JUST ADDED — Sylvie Simmons joins Marisa Anderson of Thrill Jockey Records – EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR MUSIC & DARK FOLK SONG
Thursday, December 8th: You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes – GRIEF OPEN MIC
Friday, December 16th: John Courage Trio & The Bribes – STRIPPED DOWN ROCK N ROLL
Saturday, December 17th: Megan Keely CD Release + Alex Stanley – POWERFUL SONGWRITERS
Evening performances end at 10:30pm
We’re offering full refunds for non-attendance or cancelations due to COVID exposure, so there is no risk in showing your support by getting advanced tickets.
ADA Accessible.
FOR BOTH SAN FRANCISCO & SANTA ROSA THEATERS
Seating is First Come, First Served.
All Ages are welcome
(Except for babies, children, and adults who cannot focus for two hours and enjoy the performance)
Our Current Safety Protocols
Vaccines, boosters, and masks are strongly encouraged, but are not required as per local Public Health Policy.
December Rentals are 10% off!!!
November 16 – 22nd
TONIGHT!!!
Wednesday, November 16th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK-ROCK/AMERICANA
Lilli Lewis (NOLA) + Sebastian Saint James
Athens, Georgia native turned New Orleans Folk Rock Diva, Lilli Lewis is a powerhouse composer and performing artist with jaw-dropping vocal stylings, a voice for the voiceless in Americana, “storytelling with transformative empathy and classically trained poise.” Jewly Hight, NPR.org. Sebastian Saint James’s songs share messages of love and longing mixed with an edge that stems from part vintage – part modern approach. He is a fast rising star beyond local circles and his ever growing fan base gives him no reason to slow down.
https://sebastiansaintjames.com/
Recommended if you like: Allison Russell, Ruthie Foster, Tuck and Patti, Bill Withers, Laura Nyro, Nina Simone, Toshi Reagon
Thursday, November 17th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – SONGWRITING & STORIES
TLC Song Service w/ Dean Tisthammer, Amber Fenex, Ross Barbieri
TLC Song Service is an intimate evening, every third Thursday, with three artists passing the spotlight. Expect insights into the craft of the song from inspiration to final form.
Dean Tisthammer’s solo music is minimalist and impressionistic, equally influenced by the angular textures of post-punk and the meditative soundscapes of early ambient and new age music. Amber Fenex has been gigging Sonoma County for years and have recently released her first EP. Ross Barbieri has recently developed a love for acoustic songwriting drawing inspiration from the likes of Foy Vance, The Tallest Man on Earth, David Bazan, Gregory Alan Isakov, and many others.
https://tisthammer.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4i79UQEOs4lo4AIaxPvBNN?si=qx2mBACOTPqJjV6wcLsxjQ
facebook.com/rossmakesmusic
Recommended if you like: The songwriting process
Friday, November 18th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK-ROCK/INDIE MUSIC
Mickelson (solo) & King Dream (solo)
Scott Mickelson has been referred to by anecdote as a cross between Michael McDermott and Billy Joel. “It’s American folk-Rock with a post punk edge, rustic but scarred.” – Alternative Press Magazine. King Dream is an indie psych-rock project from Bay Area songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Lyon. With a soulful voice, roots planted in the golden era of California psychedelia, and a wry energy that places him firmly in the 21st century, Lyon charts a path through timeless themes: disillusionment with oneself, with adulthood, with one’s country — and the discovery, time and again, that somehow there’s still plenty worthy of a love song.
http://www.mickelsonmusic.com
http://kingdreamband.com
Recommended if you like: Michael McDermott, Billy Joel, Pearl Jam, The War on Drugs, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys
Saturday, November 19th | Matinée. Doors at 1:00pm Show 1:45-4:00pm – CIRCUS THEATER
Symmetry Entertainment & Design Presents: The Incredulous Incident
Symmetry Entertainment and Design Presents: The Incredulous Incident is a highly anticipated debut of their monthly variety show featuring fantastic acts of circus, theater arts and heroic drama. This is the first of their rotating, never the same themed show. Make sure to catch this month’s action and be a part in supporting their growing production! Featuring: Krysta Cook, Alissa Phelps, Gabriel Westbrook, Maia Walker, Aaron Rosen, Mia Miller, Maria Paulina Greene. DJ DYOPS gravitates towards music that gets your body moving and takes the crowd on a musical journey from hip hop and R&B to Afrobeats and house to trap and bass. She takes great care in curating a unique musical experience for the audience.
Recommended if you like: The Traveling Spectacular, North Bay Cabaret, Flynn Creek Circus
Saturday, November 19th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK-PUNK MUSIC
An Evening With The Indoctrinated and Ben Perdition
Jordan, Nate and Tom are The Indoctrinated! Two bands in one, this show is their softer side, heartfelt, acoustic punk rock and more. Frontman of punk rock band, Stumbling For Miles, Ben Perdition explores a world unraveling at the hands of mankind through vacuum-saturated post-apocalyptic folk punk.
https://www.facebook.com/TheIndoctrinatedBand
https://www.benperdition.com/music
Recommended if you like: Defiance, Ohio, Harley Poe, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, Green Day, Alice In Chains
Sunday, November 20th | Matinée. Doors at 1:00pm Show 1:45-4:00pm – ALT-POP-ROCK-GROOVE MUSIC
X Confidence and David El
X Confidence plays synthesizer-based new wave alt-pop-rock, fronted by sweet evocative vocals of keyboardist Robin Schaffner and the gritty plaintive vocals of guitarist Bob Pittman. They have performed at several Sonoma County venues, including the Railroad Square Music Festival and the Rohnert Park Party on the Plaza. David El has been described as Santana meets The Roots meets George Benson, blending elements of jazz and blues tonality into a Latin rock, hip hop vibe. He can kill it on the mic, croon a ballad, rip a rockin’ guitar solo with jazzy harmonic sophistication.
https://www.facebook.com/xconfidenceband
https://www.facebook.com/davidel3oh/
Recommended if you like: The Roots, D’Angelo, Santana, George Benson, Kruangbin, Blondie, The Human League, Everything But the Girl, Sonny and Cher
Sunday, November 20th | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – CIRCUS THEATER
Symmetry Entertainment & Design Presents: The Incredulous Incident
Symmetry Entertainment and Design Presents: The Incredulous Incident is a highly anticipated debut of their monthly variety show featuring fantastic acts of circus, theater arts and heroic drama. This is the first of their rotating, never the same themed show. Make sure to catch this month’s action and be a part in supporting their growing production! Featuring: Krysta Cook, Alissa Phelps, Gabriel Westbrook, Maia Walker, Aaron Rosen, Mia Miller, Maria Paulina Greene.
Recommended if you like: The Traveling Spectacular, North Bay Cabaret, Flynn Creek Circus
The Lost Church Santa Rosa is located on Ross Street (between Mendocino & B) in Downtown Santa Rosa
(23-min from Petaluma, 40-min from San Rafael, 1 hr 6-min from San Francisco, 1 hr 9-min from Oakland)
Send your photos from TLC to hq@thelostchurch.org
SANTA ROSA
Friday, December 2nd: Brittany Aquamarine and Amy Obenski en vivo! Presented by Casa Ceni – PIANO BASED FOLK-ROCK
Thursday, December 15th: TLC Song Service w/ Audio Angel, Eric Butterfield, Orion Rush – SONGWRITING & STORIES
Sunday, December 18th: An Afternoon of Music and Mayhem with Joe Craven and Sheridan Malone (4-7pm Matinée) – AMERICANA IMPROV
Saturday, January 7th, 2023(!): The Susie Straight Band and Chicken Town, feat. Gailene Elliott – JAZZ/SWING/BLUES
Matinee performances end at 4pm | Evening performances end at 10:30pm
We’re offering full refunds for non-attendance or cancelations due to COVID exposure, so there is no risk in showing your support by getting advanced tickets.
ADA Accessible elevator is available.
VIDEO
Compilation of Rachel Garlin
Watch the video on Rachel Garlin‘s Instagram Page at https://www.instagram.com/p/CiY98kArw9l/
From Your Everlovin’ Editor
Hi from TLC Headquarters,
It’s so good to be visiting you and your inbox again. I treasure our email get together.
This week we welcome a new Circus Theater production to TLC Santa Rosa plus a fine coterie of folk-diva songs, indie crooners, songwriter stories, stripped down hobo punk, anthemic alt-rock, and new wave fun.
And at TLC San Francisco our stage gets to host pure power pop, New Orleans piano magic, fierce female folk and rock hooks, serious roots rock belters, and poetic musical therapy.
There is nothing like stepping into the secret world of The Lost Church and being whisked away from the mundane with friends and strangers sharing a rarified moment of connection with artists.
Shall we do it again this week?
(Just say yes!)
Love,
Michele & The Lost Church
Email us at hq@thelostchurch.org with your questions and comments, testimonials…and to talk about Rentals!
Audio Angel on the cover of The Bohemian
— see her live at TLC Santa Rosa
Audio Angel appeared on the cover of The Bohemian with a great story and interview by Michael Giotis.
We get the rare treat of hosting her not once, but twice before the last bells of 2022 ring out.
Hear Audio Angel perform a couple of tunes as part of A Melodious Evening, a new live band collaboration between local singers and rappers, on Friday, November 25th at TLC Santa Rosa. TIX
And hear the stories behind her heartsongs and about her seriously compelling life adventures at TLC Song Service on Thursday, December 15th also at TLC Santa Rosa. TIX
Hey…look at that! Lost Church Family Joshua James Jackson (bass), Josh Windmiller (guitar), and Rashida Clendening (aka Audio Angel on vox) in print and looking fabulous.
Please VOTE for The Lost Church Santa Rosa
in The Bohemian’s Sonoma & Napa’s Best of 2023
Have you Voted, yet?
Let’s bring new awareness to our Santa Rosa Theater and projects in Sonoma County.
https://votesonoma2023.bohemian.com/
Vote for TLC Santa Rosa and our nonprofit’s projects in these categories (in order of appearance):
Best Comedy Night: StandProv! every 1st Thursday at TLC Santa Rosa
Best Festival: Railroad Square Music Festival (a project of thelostchurch.org)
Best Film Festival: AVFest (in various places including TLC SR)
Best Music Festival: Railroad Square Music Festival
Best Music Venue: The Lost Church Santa Rosa
Best Performing Arts Center: The Lost Church Santa Rosa
Best Outdoor Music Festival: Railroad Square Music Festival
Best Theater Troupe/Performance: Symmetry Events & Design present The Incredulous Incident (at The Lost Church Santa Rosa)
Private Event Rentals at TLC Santa Rosa and TLC San Francisco
Now Booking Holiday Events!
A private event in our beautiful and rather eccentric theater is a party or event that your guests will really remember.
Daytime is delightful at The Lost Church Santa Rosa (as is the evening).
–photo by Bobbee Cline
Brad Barton, Reality Thief at The Lost Church San Francisco.
Rent our theater and hire Brad to perform at your holiday party at either theater in SF or Santa Rosa!
Our Executive Director Brett D. Cline on the
North Beach Now Podcast
In case you missed it…
CLICK THE IMAGE to listen to our co-founder Brett’s great stories about TLC in his really neat conversation with Blair Helsing of North Beach Now.
Musicians Age 10-18 — Join SASY our After School Education Program !
We’ve partnered with A. Fiddle-Hooper for an After School Education Program called SASY.
The first auditions went well and are on going!
Please reach out to Conductor A. Fiddle-Hooper at sasysoco@gmail.com or 530-921-6671 if you or a loved one is between the ages of 10-18 and is based in the Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Rohnert Park, and surrounding areas!
AUDITION REQS: Prepare 3 different scales 2 octaves, 1 short prepared song, site reading required
MISSION STATEMENT:
Sonoma Alternative Symphony 4 Youth – SASYSASY provides a creative outlet for youth who are broader socially and creatively than the traditional expectations of a Classical Symphony. SAS4Y focuses on modern classical, popular/alternative music and original compositions with special focus on group composition.
CONDUCTOR BIOGRAPHY:
A. Fiddle-Hooper an internationally seasoned violinist, electric violinist, cellist, composer, videographer, producer and instructor has touched thousands of lives globally with music. Their 27 years of professional repertoire provides a well-rounded blend of Classical, Soul, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock & Roll, Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian Classical and Alternative Trance styles. They have taught nationally and internationally in Europe, India, Japan and the U.S. They have performed professionally in 19 countries. Currently, they are the Co-Founder & Conductor of SAS4Y (Sonoma Alternative Symphony 4 Youth). They are a resident Instructor of violin & cello at Sonoma Community Center and The Lost Church-Santa Rosa.
We STRONGLY RECOMMEND MASKS be worn while inside our theater to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Masks are no longer mandated by the State of California and are no longer required for entry.
TLC YouTube Archives
Moving pictures… with sound!
Visit our Lost Church YouTube Channel for new videos from the archives uploaded weekly!
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Volunteer Needed
We have an admin/research project in need of a clever, curious, and brilliant volunteer.
TASK: Create a spreadsheet of local San Francisco Hotels for postcard distribution.
HOURS: approximately 3-5 hours total.
Please reach out to Michele at hq@thelostchurch.org if you’re available and interested.
THANK YOU!
F.A.Q.
Answers to your burning inquiries.
Find the answers to your questions by visiting https://thelostchurch.org/faq