Melodic transformation
Which Way The Wind Festival concludes tonight (Saturday, Oct. 15) with Songs Of The Wind at 7 p.m. at Synapsis, 1675 Union St., Eureka.
The evening features performances by the top three winners of the festival’s Songwriter Contest:
First Place: Marcia Mendels/”California Burns”
Second Place: Anna Hamilton/”I Told You So”
Third Place: Matthew Wallace/”Song for the Doomed”
Also performing will be FireSign, a Humboldt-based band drawing inspiration from folk, pop and indie rock, and The Nu Heavenly Tone Singers, directed by James Harris, this group performs selections from the gospel music genre.
The evening’s special guest performers are Jeff Pevar and Inger Nova Jorgensen.
Jorgensen, also an accomplished sculptor and painter, has been writing music with Pevar for 17 years. Pevar is a guitarist, composer, producer, performer and multi-instrumentalist, who has worked on stage and/or in the studio with world-renowned artists including Ray Charles and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Pevar also served with Russ Cole as a juror for this festival’s Songwriter Contest.
Speaking of singer-songwriter pairings, FireSign’s acoustic guitarist Jim Hubbard and wife Tamara (a vocalist in FireSign) began singing together the day they met.
“Music has been a foundational part of our marriage,” Jim Hubbard said. “We wrote a song for our wedding and the music is engraved on our wedding bands.”
Hubbard is also a WWTW Festival Steering Committee member. He said this festival and how it has united our creative community - including the talented musicians on tap for tonight - makes him hopeful for the future.
“I have always loved the way songwriters can speak to an issue through a melody,” he said. “ (And) bring the message to the listener in a way that reaches our emotions with the sound and the lyric. This type of communication can reach people in a way that is unique and can have a lasting impression.”
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