{"id":15408,"date":"2019-05-23T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/singer-gabrielle-louise-and-the-deer-play-carbondales-steves-guitars-friday-sunday\/"},"modified":"2019-05-23T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T03:05:01","slug":"singer-gabrielle-louise-and-the-deer-play-carbondales-steves-guitars-friday-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/singer-gabrielle-louise-and-the-deer-play-carbondales-steves-guitars-friday-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Gabrielle Louise and The Deer play Carbondale\u2019s Steve\u2019s Guitars Friday, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Austin-based The Deer will play Steve’s Guitars at 8 p.m. Sunday in Carbondale.<\/strong>
Michael Schaffer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those who aren\u2019t hitting the camping trail this Memorial Day weekend, Steve\u2019s Guitars in Carbondale is hosting a weekend full of music.<\/p>\n

Visiting artists to Steve\u2019s intimate venue include singer\/songwriter Gabrielle Louise Friday night, and on Sunday it\u2019s Austin\u2019s transcendental folk group The Deer.<\/p>\n

Both bring a little folk, Americana, bluegrass and indie rock to the lower Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n

friday with louise<\/p>\n

Paonia based troubadour Gabrielle Louise will kick the weekend off at 8:30 p.m. Friday at Steve\u2019s, located on the Fourth Street side of the Dinkel Building.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to call my music \u2018Activist Americana.\u2019 It is socially activated roots music,\u201d Louise said.<\/p>\n

The oldest of four children, Louise\u2019s musically inclined parents traveled from show to show sharing their music throughout her childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally early on I developed a love for folk and narrative music, songs that carried a message or story,\u201d Louise added.<\/p>\n

She carried on those tendencies, telling a story with a message in her songs, and creating a relationship with her audience.<\/p>\n

Louise is excited to be back in Carbondale.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts been a few years since I played Carbondale. I had the opportunity several years ago to open up for the Infamous Stringdusters, so looking forward to coming back,\u201d Louise said.<\/p>\n

She is bringing 11 new songs she has been working on for her next album.<\/p>\n

Louise says many of them have a connection to different nonprofit causes that she cares about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new studio record,\u201d Louise added. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to be sharing this journey with my audience about fundraising for the project and what the new songs feel like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to eating at Senor Taco Show,\u201d she added, referring to the eatery located across the street from Steve\u2019s. \u201cThey are one of my favorite restaurants every time I pass through.\u201d<\/p>\n

sunday is deer day<\/p>\n

Finishing off the weekend run, and coming all the way from the Lone Star state, The Deer will bring a taste of the Austin music scene to the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n

For the self-described \u201cTexas folk, cosmic Americana, and stargaze surf-western group,\u201d The Deer had its beginnings as a side project for lead singer Grace Rowland Park.<\/p>\n

Park teamed up with core band members and music school friends Jesse Dalton and Michael McLeod in 2012, sparking a natural chemistry that led to touring and performing together as Grace Park & The Deer.<\/p>\n

After the death of band member Stephanie Bledsoe, the group of friends changed their focus from a solo effort to a group effort and collaboration, and became The Deer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe term represents the cohesive collaboration of all the members of the bad, because deer are herd animals, and because the group especially identifies with deer as a symbol of protective guidance,\u201d Park explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cLosing a friend and a band member is just devastating,\u201d Dalton said.<\/p>\n

The band released its next album in 2015, which they dedicated to Stephanie Bledsoe.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery album since has been released with Stephanie in mind. She is often the subject of lyrics,\u201d Dalton added.<\/p>\n

Dalton, who plays the upright bass and sings harmony, describes The Deer as \u201cpretty diverse,\u201d ranging anywhere from indie rock, folk to bluegrass and \u201call across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becoming a regular to the Colorado music scene, band members are looking forward to being in Carbondale again.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are very into music in the area, and we\u2019ve been lucky enough to find an audience here,\u201d drummer and harmony singer Alan Eckert said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI respect the Colorado music scene, and a lot of the bands we have been able to play with here.\u201d<\/p>\n

kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who aren\u2019t hitting the camping trail this Memorial Day weekend, Steve\u2019s Guitars in Carbondale is hosting a weekend full of music. Visiting artists to Steve\u2019s intimate venue include singer\/songwriter Gabrielle Louise Friday night, and on Sunday it\u2019s Austin\u2019s transcendental folk group The Deer. Both bring a little folk, Americana, bluegrass and indie rock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:52:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15411,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}