Join us for Live Wire's next intimate recording at Kiln, a stunning open-air co-working and event space in SE Portland—the perfect setting for an unforgettable summer evening.
Savor curated wine and craft cocktails, alongside delicious food and dessert, while enjoying an extended musical performance from acclaimed duo and Live Wire favorite The Lowest Pair, followed by a riveting conversation with award-winning writer and memoirist Edgar Gomez.
THE LOWEST PAIR
During the spring and summer of 2020, The Lowest Pair (Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) found themselves camping and sharing songs around the fire with two dear friends and incredible musicians, Adam Roszkiewicz and Leif Karlstrom of the instrumental duo Small Town Therapy. Founding members of the progressive string band Front Country, multi-instrumentalists Adam and Leif bring a new dynamic palette of colors to Kendl and Palmer’s own instrumental prowess and expressive lyricism.
After sharing a handful of new songs and tunes, (and making immediate fans in the campground) there was no doubt that a record was in the future, and In August of 2020, they spent a week out in Enterprise, Oregon recording at the OK Theater.
Their new record Horse Camp leans towards each member’s string band roots and showcases brand new Lowest Pair songs Kendl and Palmer wrote during the strange times of the pandemic. The album also includes an instrumental by each musician involved. It’s an awesome display of how a simple collaboration of friends can result in music that is as organic as it is undeniable.
“One of the best under-rated Americana duos today” — Paste Magazine
EDGAR GOMEZ
Edgar Gomez is a queer NicaRican writer born and raised in Florida. He is the author of High-Risk Homosexual, winner of the American Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. His memoir, Alligator Tears, was released February of this year and was called "triumphant, dazzling, and unfailingly stylish" by Publisher's Weekly.
“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace. Alligator Tears speaks for the lost tribes of ‘other.’ They walk the earth among us, invisible, without a voice. I am so glad that Gomez has given them one.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author
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