Go By Ocean

$12 General Admission Doors at 7:30pm. Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission Stanroy Music Center Presents Song Service, an intimate evening with three artists passing the spotlight. Expect insights into the craft of the song from inspiration to final form. *Every Third Thursday Wilder Sharp Teeth is a genderqueer anti-folk artist from Bodega Bay, California. Usually they are accompanied by their band Gender Trash, who they have been writing for and performing with for the past seven years. Their lyric focussed songs run the whole spectrum, having been described as "genuinely heart wrenching at times but then like super self aware and silly." Spending most of their time now in Santa Rosa as an unrenowned cryptid and hermit, it is a rare and thrilling event to see them perform. Spotify “Can I Communicate With the Unknown?” is the new album from Go By Ocean, moniker of Northern California based singer/songwriter/producer Ryan McCaffrey. Co-produced alongside Tim Bluhm (The Mother Hips) and David Glasebrook, the album features contributions from a wide cast of characters, ranging from the tight knit community of Phil Lesh’s much loved Terrapin Crossroads to the wider West Coast indie-rock scene, including members of The Mother Hips, Sugar Candy Mountain, ALO, Tea Leaf Green, and more. The story begins back in March 2020, just before the streets emptied out and the world shut down. McCaffrey and Bluhm convened at the latter’s Forrest Power studio in Fairfax, CA and over the course of a few days recorded the basic tracks for about 12 songs. The initial plan was to make a stripped down record that focused on acoustic guitar and vocals, with a little Mellotron or piano here and there. However, McCaffrey soon found himself at home with a lot of time on his hands at his newly built Sun Machine studio in Novato, CA, and decided to invite collaborators new and old to contribute to the tracks and see what they could bring to the burgeoning arrangements. Pretty soon co-producer David Glasebrook was brought into the fold and the two set about bringing the songs to life. From opener “Say Man” all the way through to closer “Right Moon”, the songs trace a hero’s journey as the narrator struggles with addiction; eventually finding peace and freedom in a tumultuous world, wrestling with all kinds of metaphysical and spiritual ideas along the way. Fittingly, the album title appeared out of thin air - McCaffrey and Glasebrook were going through old files on a hard drive and discovered his computer had auto-named a session Can I Communicate With the Unknown? Somehow it all made perfect sense, and it stuck as the title of the album. Building upon McCaffrey’s catalog of songs, the new album finds inspiration in the down-to-earth music of 1970’s Marin County, when songwriters like Michael Hurley, Norman Greenbaum, and Jesse Colin Young lived out in Olema and Point Reyes, the kind of places where there’s songs just blowing in on the breeze from the Pacific Ocean. McCaffrey’s studio sits on the edge of a nature preserve nearby and it’s not hard to imagine some of these songs floating in on the coastal fog, ascending ghosts indeed. New Album Arthur Godfrey is an award-winning Americana artist threading folk, blues-tinged Americana, and whiskey toned lyrics into his own autobiographical raw roots sound. He is a two-time winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Folk Category, the Maxell Song of the Year, and was one of the five finalists in the Independent Music Awards. “Take one listen to his gritty songs about life and surviving, and you’ll recognize the soul of a poet”. – Performing Songwriter Magazine Arthur’s unique full-bodied style has been compared to the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Joe Cocker and Tom Waits. His songs capture true stories of a lifetime growing up in inner city Boston and the social causes he’s been involved with. Arthur has been featured on the American Music Associations “This is Americana” CD as the only independent singer-songwriter alongside the honorable Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne & Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others. https://arthurgodfreymusic.com/ Spotify Profile https://youtu.be/W7afowks9Gg King of Little Magazines https://youtu.be/cTGUYnCT1II Richard's Song Stanroy Music Center - located at 850 4th Street in Downtown Santa Rosa celebrates it's 76th anniversary this year. A locally owned, full-service music store providing instrument sales and rentals, private music lessons, and repairs. Stanroy Music Center - serving Sonoma County musicians and their families since 1947. More at www.stanroy.com Recommended If You Like: The songwriting process Vaccines, boosters, and masks are strongly encouraged, but are not required as per local Public Health Policy.