We are collaborating a fun filled evening at the Blue House State featuriing Matt the Electrician!
Sunday April 10th
Doors 5pm | Show 6pm | $30 | kids 12 & under free
FOOD | MUSIC | WINE
Blue House Stage & Lille Aeske present Matt The Electrician @ Blue House Stage Doors 5pm|Show 6pm|$30|12&under free
About this event
An evening not to be missed as Blue House Stage & Lille Aeske welcome a Santa Cruz Mountain favorite - Matt the Electrician! We can't wait to see you and to gather together to enjoy live music, joy, and one another in the heart of the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains.
Doors 5:00pm
Show 6:00pm
No pets! Show cancels in heavy rain.
Bring your blanket and/or your lawn chair and make yourself at home. Indian food pop-up, farm goodies and libations for purchase. Feel free to meander through the vineyard, coo with the chickens, meehh with the sheep, snuggle the kitties, and get some love from our farm doggies Otis and Ozzy.
The exact location and parking details are sent when you reserve your seats. You can expect to walk 3-5 minutes from the parking to the stage. Please just let us know if you have a handicap placard or need any assistance getting to the stage and we've got you covered!
Please do not come if you are feeling ill! Thank you for prioritizing the health of yourself, the audience, and the performers so we may all continue with live music and events. We will be following all CDC-required COVID protocols.
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Matt the Electrician
For his latest album We Imagined an Ending (November 5, Burnside), Matt the Electrician (Matt Sever) challenged himself to turn the seven deadly sins on their head. “I got to wondering, ’What would be the opposite of that?’ Despite Sever’s teenage years immersed in nihilistic hardcore and metal, bleak-for-bleakness’ sake has just never been his bag.
“Of course, I didn’t realize ‘the opposite of the seven deadly sins’ was also a fairly well-worn path,” Sever continues with a laugh. “There are all these different virtues that answer the sins, like the seven Bushido virtues and the seven Quaker virtues...”
Sever can rattle off many of his song pairings without even checking his notes: “Night Owls” (Faith); “Big Changes” (Justice); “Dance” (Honesty); “Switch Shadows” (Empathy); “When the Lights Went Out” (Hope); “Heartbeat” (Peace); “Home Again” (Prudence); “Temporary” (Equality); “What If You Needed Me” (Community); and “Mindless” (Knowledge).
Produced by Tucker Martine (Decemberists, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, First Aid Kit), Sever recorded We Imagined an Ending way back in October of 2019. “On all of his records, Tucker creates this wider space,”says Sever. “There’s just this natural wide space to this album that I really love.”
At least three songs— “Night Owls,” “Temporary,” and “If You Needed Me” — were written with his late mom at the forefront of his mind, and “When the Lights Went Out” (whose lyrics include the album’s title) came to him within minutes of hearing the news about the death of fellow songwriter Neal Casal by suicide. “When the lights went out / We had to light the way,” he sings.
“There’s actually a lot of death on this album,” he observes. “But it’s more about the cycle of things. The full line in “When the Lights Go Out” is, ‘We imagined an ending, and then tried to let it go.’ We all have what we think is going to be the way things are going to work out, but then they don’t always work out that way at all. Like you might think, ‘Oh, we’ll see Mom next Christmas,’ or whatever, and then you just don’t. So then you have to just figure out how to move on and get through that. And as hard as it may be, there’s growth that comes out of that moving-on process, and things you learn from it. And out of that growth comes... hope.”