Name: Al Olender//Ahna Ell
Start: 2023-03-02T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Skylark Lounge

Al Olender//Ahna Ell

The Skylark Lounge is a historic Denver bar located in the Baker neighborhood on South Broadway. As an independent music venue, the Skylark Upstairs (aka Bobcat Club) is focused on highlighting great up and coming local and national acts. Co-owners Nathaniel Rateliff and Bob Ashby would like to welcome you to the new and improved neighborhood gem. Cheers!Our music venue is located on the second floor of the building and is only accessible via stairs at this time. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you.All shows are 21+.P﻿lease request refunds 24 hours before show doors time. Refund requests received after doors will not be issued.

Skylark Lounge

Al Olender
with Ahna Ell
Doors at 7:00, show at 8:00
$15
21+

<a href="https://alolender.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A﻿l Olender</a>There’s nothing scarier than being honest with yourself. For singer/songwriter Al Olender, facing her fear of the truth has been a cleansing, often cathartic process that’s led to the kind of revelations she had previously thought unobtainable. On her debut full-length album Easy Crier, the Upstate New York based artist asks: what happens if we vow to never tell a lie, ever again? Charting the daunting territories of staring your demons right in the face and prodding at the ugly parts of your reflection, Olender pieces together her most vulnerable moments to produce a celebratory and beautiful rumination on grief, and reminds us of the power that comes in really getting to know yourself.The catalyst for this renewed outlook stems from the sudden loss of her older brother. As a huge supporter of Olender’s musical talents from the very beginning, he would often invite his friends over and encourage a then-teenage Olender to play her “angsty love songs” for them. “Everything that I do musically revolves around my brother,” she says. “It&#x27;s like every single thing I do in my life – my brother is so much in the front of my mind.” The introduction for Easy Crier comes with “All I Do Is Watch TV,” a darkly humorous comment on the unmoored early stages of losing a loved one, way too soon. “I read a book on grief, it told me to lay in bed,” she laments over a chromatic, repetitive melody – the kind that perfectly mimics an untethered, sped-up montage-like existence, as she watches true crime and buys a Big Gulp just to spill it on her bedroom floor. Here, she jabs at the numbness protecting her heart. “Nothing fixes grief,” she explains. “It transforms. Sometimes it&#x27;s like a giant glooming thunder cloud and sometimes it&#x27;s like a tiny little raindrop.”<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4cOgXQJbtmvUkxXA4VO66N" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A﻿hna Ell</a>Ahna Ell is a songwriter steeped in poetry and wandering. From her teen years hitchhiking across America, to studying in a great books program, and the global travel that shaped her sensitive perspective, Ell has cultivated an earthy and honest voice.Ell&#x27;s debut album, Everybody&#x27;s Gonna Let You Down, is lo-fi bedroom folk that was self recorded in five days. Now, she&#x27;s on the road bringing the songs to life as often as she can. The show is as vulnerable and intimate as the songs, and it leaves plenty of room for the ambling levity that comes hand in hand with sorrow. Birth, death, pancakes, heartache, Charles Manson, and Pascal’s God shaped hole—Ell mines the ordinary and the exceptional for meaning.Throughout the 2010s, Ell&#x27;s previous band, Nashville based Forlorn Strangers, recorded and toured across the country. They were featured in Rolling Stone and Relix magazines. Forlorn Strangers played the IBMAs, Americanafest, and many other prominent festivals and shows, including opening for The Head and the Heart, The Wood Brothers, and Yonder Mountain String Band. Their full length album was recorded with Grammy award winner Sean Sullivan (Sturgill Simpson, Mandolin Orange, The Travelin&#x27; McCourys) at John Prine&#x27;s iconic studio, The Butcher Shoppe.Ell&#x27;s debut book is forthcoming—a literary memoir of music, travel, and love. She now lives on the coast, where she enjoys surfing and eating oysters when she&#x27;s not writing or on the road.

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