Bart Budwig, Matt Zeltzer play the Fort Ales & Ideas examines allure of travel, art
Americana folk songs on tap Sunday from two songwriters CCC Art Instructor Kristin Shauck talks ‘Paris, Florence, Rome’
ASTORIA — Americana song-
writers Bart Budwig and Matt
Zeltzer will bring their folk
tunes to the upstairs stage at
the Fort George Brewery at
8 p.m. Sunday, April 26. The
brewery is located at 1483
Duane St. All ages are wel-
come.
Budwig grew up on the
Idaho Palouse, with a pawn
shop trumpet and a heart as big
as a skyscraper — if skyscrap-
ers knew how to be humble.
He learned melody from clas-
sic jazz charts and learned that
fault-lines in big hearts create
drifting continents, cut new
oceans and forge new moun-
tains. Everyone close to him
disappeared, whether to death
or Texas, and from Texas he
got a letter from Waylon Jen-
nings entreating him to pick
up a guitar and a pen.
Budwig doesn’t write the
big songs. He writes the songs
about the places between the
hills, in the draws and hidden
canyons, where truth is a lit-
tle more in focus, stories can
take their time gettin’ told,
heartbreak is a place of deep
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have to wear rhinestone suits
or drive new, shiny cars to be
beautiful. He’s also not afraid
of working out of the spotlight.
Budwig engineered not only
his own full-length “Whiskey
Girl” (2012), but also albums
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ASTORIA — Clatsop Com-
munity College and the Fort
George Brewery announce the
April program of the 2014-15
Ales & Ideas education series,
which will take place at 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 23 in the Fort
8 p.m. Sunday, April 25
George Lovell Showroom.
Fort George Brewery
For this month’s presenta-
tion, join Kristin Shauck of the
1483 Duane St., Astoria
CCC Art Department faculty
All ages
in an engaging discussion of
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national travel experiences.
In June of 2014, Kristin led a
group of students and commu-
away in the studio producing nity members on an extraor-
his friends’ records.
dinary 11-day tour of Rome,
California songwriter Matt Florence and Paris in order to
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McCarthy and John Steinbeck world. In addition to sharing
as by Neil Young. Mediating slides from this fascinating
a soul torn between fatal- artistic journey, Shauck will
ism and romance, he weaves present her ongoing effort to
folk, blues and soul idioms, integrate further travel oppor-
acknowledging his predeces- tunities into the CCC Art De-
sors, while staring blindly into partment curriculum, includ-
the future of American music. ing a 2016 trip to London,
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the ornate in his writing, nor in
She will be joined by Kris-
his music, known for its sim- ten Geleynse, one of the CCC
ple, organic production, pre- Art Center Gallery assistants,
ferring to leave the cracks and who will introduce the new
inequalities exposed. Led by Adventure Club on campus
his torn, soulful voice, it is the and also serve as one of the
intense energy, vibrancy and group leaders on the 2016 tour.
unusual honesty that transform
Shauck holds a Bachelor
Zeltzer’s music into profound of Fine Arts degree in paint-
and compelling art.
ing and drawing from Baylor
Bart Budwig &
Matt Zeltzer
Submitted photo
Matthew Zeltzer, left, and Bart Budwig
will play Americana tunes at the Fort
George Brewery on Sunday, April 26.
and tours with Radiation City,
Holiday Friends, Girlfriends,
Misé, John Craigie, Edmund
Wayne, and Mama Doll. He
also made the rare (for song-
writers these days) move of
covering both a Waylon tune
and a friend’s (An American
Forrest) tune on “Whiskey
Girl.”
His second full-length
album, “The Moon & Oth-
er Things,” is due out in late
2015. In the meantime he’s
busy regularly updating “Ja-
lapeno Business,” a covers
and duets record available for
free on Soundcloud, featuring
Joseph, Craigie, Forrest, Luke
Ydtsie (of Blind Pilot), Janis
Carper, and a whole slew of
other Northwest musicians.
Budwig will be touring the
Northwest from his home of
Enterprise when not locked
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Kristen Geleynse, left, gallery assistant, will speak about the new CCC Advenure Club, and
Kristin Shauck, right, CCC art faculty, will speak about art and travel at the next Ales &
Ideas talk.
University in Waco, Texas
and a Masters of Fine Arts de-
gree in painting and drawing
from Texas A&M Commerce.
Prior to relocating to the
Northwest, she taught art at
the college level in both Tex-
as and South Dakota for over
a decade, and she is current-
ly in her 11th academic year
teaching painting, drawing
and design at Clatsop Com-
munity College. Shauck also
serves as founding director
of “Au Naturel: the Nude in
the 21st Century,” an annu-
al international competition
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hibited her own artwork in
various regional and national
exhibitions as well as inter-
nationally in England, Japan
and India.
Doors open at 6 p.m.;
seating is limited.The Fort
George Lovell Showroom
is located at 14th and Duane
streets. Minors are welcome.
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