Join us for an intimate house concert featuring Amie Penwell, celebrating the release of her new record, and featuring special guests Pam Delgado and Jeri Jones from the band Blame Sally.
This music party will take place in a private home in Larkspur, the ideal listening space for Amie's music—but that means space is limited. So please be sure to RSVP to [email protected] to reserve your spot.
Feel free to bring a drink or a snack to share. If you have any questions, call (415) 706-3800. Looking forward to seeing you on May 12!
Cheers,
Drew
ABOUT AMIE PENWELL
Take the voice of an angel and drop it one octave, that’s the sound of Amie Penwell. Her voice seduces the listener with a mixture of grit and polish that gives honesty a whole new meaning. This is not the voice next door, but rather the velvety crooning voice of a choirgirl who ran away with the preacher. Penwell strikes a rare balance between Adult Alternative Pop/Rock and full-throated Soul/R&B, and has the crossover appeal of artists like Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Goyte, and Hozier, with the strong sonic architecture of influences like Ray LaMontagne, U2, and Tom Waits. Like the best of those artists Penwell’s songs don’t pounce, they pull you in and stay with you long after you are done listening. Modern, electrifying, with noir tendencies Amie Penwell's deep, gravelly voice is hauntingly soothing.
When asked why she makes music, Amie responded, “My main objective as an artist, is to focus on what the moment has to teach me, to extract the truth, the lesson from the beastly, the beautiful, and every ordinary passing in between. My experience has made clear to me that the more honest I am with myself, the more connected I can be with others. I believe there is no work worth sharing that won't at least try to be of service to another.”
Penwell’s underground hit single, “Mercy,” featured in the award-winning 2012 documentary, The Eyes of Thailand narrated by Ashley Judd. Her music is featured in the TV series Bloomers and The Ask BonBon Show. She was a semi-finalist in this year’s International Songwriting Contest (ISC) in the Adult Album Alternative category for my song “Dogfight On The Moon”. Penwell’s lyrics will be featured on Action Moves People United, a spoken word compilation for the United Nations. Her song “Somewhere The Sky Is Blue” with Grammy Award-winning Producer Ricky Kej, is featured in the upcoming Dominica Scorsese film Almost Paris. Penwell is fixing for her first full-length release record since her 2012 EP Under City Lights. Windows will be released March 2, 2018. In the meantime, you will be able to hear a new version of Mercy on this years Notes4Hope Breast Cancer awareness compilation in October of 2017, and Unstoppable on the credits reel of DVA Productions latest film Mary Janes The Women Of Weed.
Mark Langton from Marin Independent Journal stated, “Penwell is regarded by many in the Bay Area to be one of the next big heavyweights.” Followed by Skope Magazine’s Jimmy Rae, who says “AP is a one-of-a-kind artist with real substance. In this corporate music world that is undoubtedly known for pumping out unoriginal, one-dimensional Pop Radio puppets, Amie Penwell is a breath of fresh air to say the very least. Amie Penwell is an artist with an honest-to-truth sound and is on pace to Humanize the music world.”
A NOTE FROM AMIE ABOUT HER NEW RECORD
I believe all of us are trying to better navigate and understand our roles, plights, masks, defenses, and reactions to a world in an increasingly, desperate need to experience more of ourselves in these confines, real or imagined. Giving voice to our own truths, our realities, our power, our fear of that power, and the paradox of the need to admit powerlessness before true change proceeds.
I’ve spent the last few years working on a collection of songs that came out of conversations I had, and experiences I’ve shared, with women of diverse ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds.
With the help of my collaborators, that collection has become my new record, Windows. It’s an intimate, firsthand look into the lives of nine women on nine different journeys. Each song is a portrait of individual and collective exploration through acceptance, power, will, humility, denial, willingness, faith, surrender, and freedom.
The ultimate goal of this work is to stimulate conversations with one another, to help each other and the upcoming generations be more awake, objective, vocal, and free. To walk with one another through the sometimes brutal inventory of facing of ourselves, through the society we find ourselves in.