BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:157252@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T190000 DTSTAMP:20260706T131109Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/sean-rowe-w-amelie-lucille/ SUMMARY:Sean Rowe w/ Amelie Lucille DESCRIPTION:“This album was truly a risk and a chance encounter. It playe d out like a spring storm in Eau Claire\, Wisconsin.”\nAbout half-way th rough the recording of Sean Rowe’s excellent new album\, The Darkness Dr essed in Colored Lights (Fluff &\; Gravy Records)\, he and producer Tro y Pohl were taking a break. They were holed-up in Eau Claire\, Wisconsin\, working at Brian Joseph’s studio\, Hive\, which is situated on a remote acreage of rolling green hills. While catching their breath\, they notice d a minivan that had turned off of the rarely traveled road adjacent to th e property and onto the grass\, driving straight towards them. It pulled s o close that it almost touched the picnic table. A stout and somewhat mena cing man emerged\, who did little to calm suspicions when he spoke.\n“Yo u ever been on TV?” he asked.\nRowe\, thinking that’s exactly the kind of thing someone might say before murdering you\, replied\, “I actually have. Have you?”\n“Yep\, back in the early 90’s\, I was on David Le tterman twice.”\n“Oh yeah\, for what?”\n“Stupid Human Tricks — I could pour two beers at once without using any of my appendages.”\nTroy and Sean nodded in recognition and without another word\, the man climbed back into his minivan and drove off. As he was pulling away\, Brian Josep h came sprinting across the yard to see what was happening. They recounted the head-scratching tale of their brush with a minor celebrity and after some failed attempts to make sense of it\, went back to the business of ma king a record.\nA blessing and curse of a curious mind paired with a sense of adventure is that one becomes a collector of stories. Some\, like this \, play out over the course of a few minutes while others\, more profound and complex\, take years to untangle. Rowe\, an artist and nomad at heart\ , has made himself into the perfect repository for spun yarns of every var iety — hysterical\, terrifying\, heartbreaking\, mystifying\, and ridicu lous — and on this record\, he makes it clear that at some point it’s hard not to feel them all at once.\nThe album’s title is taken from its first single\, “To Make It Real.” “All this darkness\, dressed in co lored lights. Everything is wrong but you look so damn beautiful tonight. ” It’s a relatable couplet that illustrates the paradox between what o nce was and what now is\, while the chorus howls in response to being lost in the inbetween. “When you lose your way\, when you lose your face\, w hen you’re paid in full for what you used to steal. When you lose that l ove\, when you lose your mind\, well then oh my God\, you make it real.” \nWhile “To Make It Real” was forged from the despair that comes from losing yourself to heartache\, “Little Death” recognizes that both in spite of and because of such events\, it’s possible to find yourself aga in. Here\, Rowe brushes off the dirt and looks ahead to the freedom of onl y being accountable to oneself. “A little death\, it won’t kill us aft er all and that’s fine. When you ain’t there\, you ain’t there to fe el all that pain.” In the chorus\, he lists some of what he’s looking forward to. “I’m gonna write a song\, gonna phone a friend. I’m gonn a fall in love with the road again. I’m gonna wrap my arms around her wa ist. Work me Lord and wash my sins. I’m gonna fall in love with the wood s again. Fix that sorry shape I’m in.”\nRowe opened up about some of t he work he’s been doing to build a fitter\, happier version of himself. “The heaven and hell that swirls around in our head — to a large exten t\, we make both. So\, in realizing that\, you begin to realize that you h ave the ability to decide which one you’re gonna make.” Rowe credits t herapy and a guided ayahuasca retreat with helping him to reach this under standing.\n“Over the course of an intense weekend\, I had three profound experiences that stripped away all of my defenses and rationalization\, a long with the guilt and anger that built up over the course of being a hum an. Two of those experiences brought me to a place of such intense beauty and peace\, while the third showed me the exact opposite. I think that the lessons learned over that weekend are still being revealed but in those m oments\, I seemed to experience real heaven and hell. Now it’s up to me to choose which one I want to exist in.”\nThe Darkness Dressed in Colore d Lights is ripe with both dimensions. It was produced by Rowe’s friend and longtime collaborator Troy Pohl\, whom he has known since he was in hi s early twenties while Pohl was still a teen. The two grew into their prof essionalism together and here\, they make the most of their combined ambit ion and experience.\nThe studio Hive in Eau Claire\, Wisconsin was chosen so that they could work with the Grammy-winning engineer\, Brian Joseph (B on Iver) and for its proximity to a group of musicians that Sean came to a dmire while listening to Anna Tivel’s remarkable album\, The Question\, in his manager’s basement studio. That group includes drummer/percussion ist\, and producer Shane Leonard\, along with Jeremy Boetcher on bass\, an d Ben Lester on keys and pedal steel. Courtney Hartman was flown from Colo rado to provide background vocals and guitar. Chris Carey provided additio nal bass\, while John DeHaven\, Jeff Nania\, and Joel Yannuzzi made up the album’s brass section.\nRowe’s admiration for Tivel’s album was not limited to its sonics. The Portland\, Oregon label Fluff &\; Gravy Rec ords\, which has released all of Anna Tivel’s albums\, is home to The Da rkness Dressed in Colored Lights\, which will be released on CD and double -vinyl\, as well as available on all streaming services on October 8.\n\n\ nhttps://www.seanrowe.net/\n\n\nAMELIE LUCILLE\nAmelie Lucille is a singer -songwriter and producer whose music blends intimate storytelling with raw \, emotional production. Influenced by artists like Adrianne Lenker\, Joni Mitchell\, and Bon Iver\, she began releasing original music at just 14 y ears old. Her self-titled debut album\, co-produced during her freshman ye ar of high school\, premiered on the BBC and introduced a deeply personal songwriting style rooted in vulnerability\, warmth\, and honesty. Since th en\, she has continued crafting music that feels both cinematic and deeply human.\n\n\nhttps://amelielucille.com/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://kingstonhappenings.org/wp-content/upload s/2026/07/702064151_1645242167401339_1002001542079714175_n.jpg CATEGORIES:@Featured,@Newsletter,Music,Nightlife and entertainment LOCATION:Colony Woodstock NY\, 22 Rock City Rd\, Woodstock\, New York\, Uni ted States GEO:42.0424924;-74.11799489999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=22 Rock City Rd\, Woodstock \, New York\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Colony Woodstock NY :geo:42.0424924,-74.11799489999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR