Topaz Farm proudly announces Andy Shauf and Haley Heynderickx for an intimate show under the massive Topaz Farm Historic Oak Tree on Sauvie Island.
Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy live music while enjoying local food and drinks.
ABOUT ANDY SHAUF
Canadian musician Andy Shauf pens songs that explore universal truths through picaresque vignettes, from the colorful people-watching observations of 2016’s The Party to the tale of a failed relationship explained over one night at a local watering hole on last year’s The Neon Skyline. But Shauf has never exactly been held up as a confessional sort of songwriter, even though underneath the carefully plotted narratives and conceptual storylines, he’s always been writing about himself.
Wilds might change that. A collection of nine songs culled from around fifty tracks recorded by the prolific Shauf during the writing of The Neon Skyline and presented in a near-unfiltered form, the unstudied rawness of the songs on Wilds is a revealing look at Shauf’s mindset during the time he was writing Skyline—what he calls “a glimpse into the window of how chaotic things were”—as well as a peek into the creative process behind a proper Andy Shauf studio album, a snapshot of how the multi-instrumentalist first begins building his songs into more ornately arranged final products.
ABOUT HALEY HEYNDERICKX
Indie folk singer/songwriter Haley Heynderickx, who performed to a sell-out audience at Topaz Farm in 2021, draws from a wide array of influences, citing her religious Philipino-American upbringing, the folk music of the 1960s and '70s, jazz radio, and the idiosyncratic acoustic guitar styles of Leo Kottke and John Fahey. All of those ingredients find their way into her music, which pairs deft fingerpicking with lyrics that flirt with levity but hew toward introspection. Her first album, I Need to Start a Garden, saw release in 2018.
An Oregon native based in Portland, Heynderickx self-released an EP, Fish Eyes, in 2016. The record elicited rave reviews regionally, and caught the attention of Mama Bird Recording Co., which put out her full-length debut, I Need to Start a Garden, in March 2018. She followed it with tours in support of the Low Anthem and Ani DiFranco, an NPR Tiny Desk concert, and headlining tours of North America and Europe before the end of the year.