Join us at the Saturday November 14, 2026 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring ANNA VOGELZANG & Opener: Samuel Aaron

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm at Art Makers Outpost

Doors open: 6:45

BYOB- And you may bring your own food

Tickets $30 online each (anyone who is no longer sitting on a lap needs a ticket)

Open Seating / Some standing room - first come first serve

Complimentary beer by Sketchbook & Appetizers by La Principal at every concert while supplies last!

SPONSORED BY: Evanston Family Chiropractic, Sketchbook, La Principal, Art Makers Outpost, Squeezebox, Pink Poster Club & Our Evanston

Opener: Samuel Aaron

Samuel Aaron has no interest in appearing nonchalant. The Chicago-based, Portland-born artist has a refreshingly earnest approach to making music, weaving together confessional lyricism, playful arranging, and soulful vocal performances. While Aaron’s songwriting is rooted in the folk lineage, his affinity for eclectic soundscapes and his taste for a wide array of genres–including art-pop, R&B, and indie rock–reverberate through his music. In the vein of artists like Big Thief, Bon Iver, and Andy Shauf, Aaron’s brand of alternative folk is brimming with substance but never in lieu of style. His versatility as a vocalist, lyricist, producer, and instrumentalist manifests in his music’s innate sense of world-building; ringing clearly on Aaron’s debut album, Rambler (2025), and the subsequent Live at Thalia Hall (2026), which find him and his band rollicking through boisterous rock songs, theatrical chamber-pop orchestrations, and stripped-down guitar ballads. He has toured and performed across North America on bills and festivals with Racing Mount Pleasant, Hudson Freeman, Anjimile, Greg Freeman, Lily Seabird, MJ Lenderman, and more. 

REVIEWS 

“He’s discovered his own way of capturing the world through his writing. It’s as imperfect and immediate and cool as a snap of a camera” --The Great American Folk Show, NPR “Pretty, sweet, and a little raw” --Anthony Fantano 

“Soft and smooth…angelic vocal abilities” --Lyrical Lemonade 

“Acoustic roots and bouncy, eclectic dreams, a melding achieved by the artist’s honeyed vocals and gentle yet certain lyricism.” --These Days 

“Aaron has a gift for creating sensual, intimate indie ballads.” --Second Street 

VIDEOS 

Live Performances / Music Videos 

PHOTOS 

Press Photos / Instagram 

WEBSITES 

Streaming + Social Links / Bandcamp / Website

HEADLINER: Anna Vogelzang

Award-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Anna Vogelzang believes in the power of songs. Her latest release and eighth studio album, Afterglow, is no exception. Recorded in Nashville and co-produced with Anthony da Costa (Lydia Luce, David Wax Museum), the indie folk collection dives into new sonic territory for Vogelzang, exploring who we become in the aftermath of life’s cosmic shifts.

The resulting eleven tracks navigate distinct transformative moments that tear down our sense

of self and place and propel us to begin again. “Creating this album has been a long labor of love that has wrestled with having young kids, recovering from vocal injury, & re-examining my own relationship with the music industry. Looking back at my own timeline after a very intense five years, I felt like a different person on the other side. These songs emerged as the

touchpoints for each of those big life altering moments; releasing Afterglow independently feels like the reclaiming of my power from this new vantage point.” Vogelzang's musical journey began in earnest in 2004, and she has since released several albums, including Driftless (2014), Hiker (2016), and Beacon (2019). The latter album was co-produced with Tyler Chester and features collaborators Chester, Jay Bellerose, and Adam Levy. The recording process for Beacon paralleled Vogelzang's personal experiences, as she was pregnant during its creation, adding a layer of depth to the album's themes of transition and light. Atwood Magazine praised the album and its songwriting as “beautifully visceral…the kind of storytelling ability passed down through decades of folk tradition”, while Magnet Magazine said Vogelzang’s voice “nets melodies like it’s catching monarchs.”

Vogelzang is much revered in the national DIY scene. Deeply committed to community and education, in 2012 she founded Wintersong, an annual charity concert in Madison, Wisconsin, which raised over $34,000 for the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southwest Wisconsin in its first 8 years. Vogelzang has also led & taught at Girls Rock Camps across the country, empowering gender expansive youth through music. During her tenure as an LA resident, she co-founded the NELA Song Salon with Adam Levy, a songwriting group that evolved into a residency at the Bootleg Theater. This structure took on a life of its own when she hit Chicago and she began Song Club - a quarterly songwriter night amplifying the voices of BIPOC, womxn, & queer musicians of the Chicago scene. She has served on the songwriting faculty at the Los Angeles College of Music, Northpark University, and is currently a songwriting workshop facilitator at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. A celebrated songwriter, Vogelzang’s collaborators include Sara Watkins, Todd Sickafoose, Madison Cunningham, Tyler Chester, Aoife O’Donovan, Courtney Hartman, and many more.

No stranger to transformation, Vogelzang's new album weaves through musical landscapes spanning folk, indie pop and Americana to celebrate the strength, resilience and enlightenment of self (and in this case, some damn good songs) that can come in the wake of all that life throws at you, for better or for worse. Afterglow is out now. 

Description of Beacon (2019)::

The feeling of embodying a transient physical state while living in new surroundings was the origin of Anna Vogelzang’s latest album, Beacon, a project made with Grammy-nominated producer Tyler Chester. The group of songs was born from both places of unknowing, and ultimately proved itself inspired by the West Coast ether. Beacon is Vogelzang’s seventh studio album and celebrates the momentum of surrendering to the unknown, a feeling she knows intimately from her time in L.A . Her music transcends place by acknowledging the true illuminating source of soul and sound: people and self.