Saturday, February 14

Saturday Nights on Phinney Ridge

Kate Power and Steve Einhorn

Phinney Neighborhood Center (Brick Building), 7:30PM

General Admission: $14
$2 off for SFS & PNA members and seniors, kids half price

Music to Life winner of the Grand Prize at Kerrville 2006 for her song, "Travis John", Kate Power's songs are inspired by a simple take on a complex world. In tandem with music partner and husband, Kate Power & Steve Einhorn build community through the music they write, play and perform and leave their audiences a little richer, positive, and humane. Using a lifetime of tools brought to a fine patina behind the counter at folk instrument shop, Artichoke Music, Kate is refining her focus on art, music and writing, reflecting life as she finds it inside and outside the community. One life in music. Two lives in harmony. Kate Power is a voice whose song is growing.

Steve Einhorn swings from Jugband favorites to original new folk without missing a beat. The sound of his guitar lends a rich and elegant background to a voice that growls warm with the comfort of molasses and a shade of grit. New folk, old folk; Steve produces a sound that holds all the ingredients in balance with perfect seasoning, subtlety and panache. A spicy and extensive vocabulary in the ways of the world, his repertoire refreshes the ear with new takes and old tales. Genuine, warm, funny and sensitive, Einhorn carries music to fresh heights while shooting straight from the core to reveal complex matters of the heart held close from inside the simplest song. A musician's musician, Steve's songs come alive through the door of the heart.

The songs, music and performance of Kate Power & Steve Einhorn captures the attention of folk heroes such as Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger and Judy Collins along with a growing audience of music lovers around the country. Kate and Steve take their place among the many voices of the American story.

Coverage of the adventures of Kate Power & Steve Einhorn brings more into focus than music, it's the stuff of life. Intentional activism for positive social change and a love for harmony brings one story after another from the edge of the trail these two have chosen together. Decades of serving up folk music at Artichoke Music, winning the Music to Life Grand Prize at Kerrville for a song from a lost boy, community work against hunger and setting the Guinness World Record with the world's largest guitar band singing "This Land is Your Land" to fill the pantry at Sisters of the Road Cafe in Portland, playing A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor when he came to Oregon with his road show, letters from a lifetime hero, Pete Seeger telling them how much he loves their music or giving an unknown Zimbabwean boy a great guitar to play after he built his first one out of an oil can, raw wood and stripped bicycle brake cables; there are hundreds of stories to tell. Kate and Steve are delighted to share many of these stories and songs with a Seattle audience.

Not only will this be a lovely SFS concert, but it will be a celebration. February 14th is Valentine’s day, and it is also Kate and Steve’s wedding anniversary. For Kate and Steve, there’s no better way to celebrate love than by doing what they love and by sharing it with a loving audience. Come celebrate with Kate and Steve and spend a night that will be full of thought provoking, inspirational, and sweet folk music.

Reserve online, or by calling 206-528-8523.