March 14, 2027 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring Mar Caribe & Sara Jean Stevens
March 14, 2027 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring Mar Caribe & Sara Jean Stevens
Join us at the Sunday, October 18, 2027 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring the incredible musical stylings of Mar Caribe & Sara Jean Stevens
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Art Makers Outpost!
Doors open: 5:45
Tickets $30 online each (anyone who is no longer sitting on a lap needs a ticket)
(*Tickets are $35 if purchased at the door)
Open Seating / Some standing room - first come first serve
Complimentary beer by Sketchbook and Appetizers by La Principal while supplies last at every concert!
SPONSORED BY: Evanston Family Chiropractic, Sketchbook, La Principal, Art Makers Outpost, Pink Poster Club, Squeezebox & Our Evanston
2 sets & 1 intermission to visit the upstairs studios and mingle
Read about the musicians:
OPENER: Sara Jean Stevens
No matter how much time passes, it always seems to catch up with you. For Sara Jean Stevens, those fleeting moments became a rich source of inspiration for her sophomore EP, Lovesick. Out February 14, the four layered tracks bring hints of country, folk, roadhouse and singer-songwriter poetry, and continue exploring her unique voice in Americana. On the pensive title track, padded with delicate lap steel and earnest vocals, Stevens pleads over and over, I look for you in cold strange places. It’s a search that has eclipsed her for years. “I wrote the song 20 years ago, and have never even played it live. It’s like it had to marinate deep in my cells for two decades before it was ready to see the world,” she says.
To be fair, in those two decades, Stevens has been busy. The Chicago-based artist – who grew up on a horse farm in the flatlands of Illinois and began taking classical voice and piano lessons as a child before picking up the guitar at 18 – had a lucrative career touring the world as part of top-line ensembles before choosing to find her own place in music. Her solo material has been hailed as a mix of Emmylou Harris and Mazzy Star and described as music for the loners, the hopeless romantics and the dreamers. In the past couple of years, her sound has caught the attention of acclaimed roots, rock, country and folk artists like John Hiatt, Rhett Miller (Old 97s), The Wood Brothers, Nora O’Connor and Whitehorse who have called on Stevens to open
for them. - Bio written by Selena Fragassi
HEADLINER: Mar Caribe
Mar Caribe is an all-instrumental band from Chicago that performs originals that blend spaghetti-western, surf, and country as well as a wide range of covers. Begun as a duo in 2006 by two friends who loved the Ventures, Dick Dale, and Leo Kottke, the group has since grown to a seven-piece lineup featuring three horns, banjo, and pedal steel. Tom McGettrick (banjo, pedal steel) leads the group.