#young-chhaylee

[thedaveandkimmershow]

Of course it's the music that carries the day when we're out experiencing a new band at a local venue.

I will say, though, that some bands manage to bring a little something extra, a little bit more of themselves. 

Last Thursday we went out to Tim's Tavern in Burien to experience Young-Chhaylee. Right off the bat, the lead singer gets into his given name and the confusion it incurs with strangers. For anyone with an even mildly different name, that tiny bit of sharing rings absolutely true. And yeah. It's nice to be part of the club. Even if it exists because of mildly annoying to crazy annoying behavior. ☺️

After that introduction and not long into the set comes a confession: Young-Chhaylee admits to feeling like the individuals in his band are better musicians than he which gives license to this little piece of advice:

If you wanna start a band, hire people who are more talented than you.

It's a refreshingly humble thing to say... with a bit of endearing thrown in for good measure.

Later after that, he indulges some self-reflection from the stage that you don't see every day. A brief reminder on the challenges of human life in this very moment:

Do you sometimes think you don't know what you're doing with your life?

Of course I realize gigs aren't meant to be therapy sessions. I do think, however, that it's not the worst thing in the world to give people a touch of a sense that they're not alone. 

Even at shows. 

I appreciate the honesty, is all.

Toward the end of the set, he introduces the upcoming song with a story and prefaces his introduction with

"This is me. This music is me."

So what's the deal?

Well, it turns out that once upon a time he was at a bar and became  quite taken with the bartender. So he took to sitting at the bar when he was there so that he could strike up conversations with her. He went on and on about this woman, pouring his heart out from the stage.

Here's the thing, though. Earlier that evening I was introduced to his girlfriend.

Whoops.

Okay no. False alarm.

He was talking about her this whole time which was very very very very super sweet.

Plus, it was a great song about feels. ❤️❤️❤️

I think we're all suckers for stories like that.

In the end, it was an all-time great performance. More personal. More relatable. I asked Linzy if these were originals because the quality of music was so astonishing. I told her this band should open for Bruno Mars and she replied 

"They should open for Silk Sonic" which is an R&B/soul/funk/hip-hop/pop super duo composed of musicians Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. 

It's a helluva thing the quality of professional music and musicians you can see around town anymore that are worth seeing again and again.

Add one more to the list:

Young-Chhaylee

[nwbeerguide]

Summer Live Music Series at Pike Brewing Company

The Pike Brewery Beer Garden returns for its second season, and this year we’ve added live music, an exclusive Brewery Beer Garden menu, and more! Join us Memorial Day weekend (May 25) through Labor Day weekend (September 1) Saturdays 12-8pm and Sundays 12-6pm in Pike’s production space in Post Alley. Beer, snacks, and live music every Saturday 5-7pm.

Drink: Pike Space Needle IPA, Pike Monk’s Uncle, Pike Kilt Lifter, and Pike XXXXX Stout on draft, plus Pike Pils, Pike IPA, and a rotating selection in cans, all $6.

Eat: House-made pretzel dog featuring a Bavarian Meats wiener served with Pike XXXXX Stout Mustard for $6, house-made warm pretzel served with Pike XXXXX Stout Mustard for $4, hot mixed nuts for $4, and Bavarian Meat Landjaeger for $6.

5/25: Craig Suede

6/1: Christopher Brown

6/8: Max Hay

6/15: Craig Suede

6/22: Kristen Marlo

6/29: Jake Carden

7/6: In Aisle Eight

7/13: Alex Rasmussen

7/20: Craig Suede

7/27: Jessie Thoreson

8/3: TBD Cadence Whittle

8/10: Jake Carden

8/17: Alex Rasmussen

8/24: Young-Chhaylee

8/31: Sarah O’Dea

[lenoresings-blog]

Just Announced! Lenore. @ The Conor Byrne w/ Drew Martin & Young-Chhaylee in Seattle, WA - November 10th

[centralsaloon1892]

Tonight! Come catch the smooth sounds of @thecharliefinn with Hannah Abrams and Young Chhaylee! 8pm $5 (at The Central Saloon)

[thedaveandkimmershow]

If I had to answer the question What did you guys do in March? I'd probably say It was a pretty chill month. Can't really think specifically of anything we did.

What I remember, of course, are our daily routines. My work in post-production across several companies, Kimmer's work that manifests in the relentless task of charting and also her doctoral program that manifests through writing, research, presentations, tests, class discussions and, of course, class.

I think of all that as our sort of baseline of activity atop which all kinds of other things happen.

So.

If I'm wondering what we did in any given month, for sure those threads pop up first.

A major reason last month's a bit opaque to me is that we spent the first six days of April in southern California camping above the beach with family. It's a yearly tradition and there's a lot of experience happening every day which makes for big new memories crowding out all the other ones in March.

There are ways I naturally leave breadcrumbs, though. And in tracking them back to the beginning of March, I realize that March got underway in the shadow of a life celebration for a friend and mentor who died at the end of November last year.

Leaving a helluva long shadow.

During the celebration, many many many many stories were told which is my favorite thing. In fact, it was pretty much all stories about our friend who's no longer with us which, as I think about it, is a wonderful way to both celebrate and to grieve.

One of the loveliest features of our family life is Linzy's music career. Because whenever there's a gig, life feels normal.

Normal?

Well, once upon a time there were no live gigs. For a coupla years at least.

So yeah. Live gigs feel normal.

In March, we went to Tim's Tavern in Burien to see a friend of Linzy's, Young-Chhaylee, whose band performed that night. Linzy's boyfriend, Reuben, plays keys for that band. No lightweight midi keyboard for Reuben, though. He's got a classic, old-school keyboard/cabinet set up.

What does that mean?

It means it's heavy. As in heavy heavy. And tall. He's gotta muscle this thing wherever he goes with it.

Cool as hell, though. And he's a master on those keys.

Also playing in March, The Little Lies had a gig at The Spanish Ballroom in Tacoma. A sold-out show opening for Queen Mother, the local Queen Tribute band, a good time was had by all at this all-ages event, including the little girls down front who were gobsmacked by all the things Linzy was doing on stage, like vocals, keys, and acoustic guitars.

Interesting takeaway from the gig: everyone mentions the hidden room. I'm guessing the building existed during prohibition so there's an actual hidden bar that's accessed through a nondescript wood panel that you have to already know opens into a hidden corridor.

Linzy also had a solo gig at Off Main in downtown Edmonds where we hung out at a nearby table with Reuben for dinner and conversation whist Linzy demonstrated an absolute command of mom 'n dad's favorite hits of the seventies and eighties.

🤯☺️👍

Toward the end of the month, as predicted by people who keep track of such things, the cherry blossoms in the Quad at my alma mater, the University of Washington, bloomed into pink and white gloriousness whilst hordes of students, moms and dads with children in tow, pro-photographers, and brides posing for that most perfect wedding photograph under a pink and white canopy under a mid-morning sun in full wedding gown royalness.

It's a big deal, pretty much.

Quick pivot here, I'm not sure when this happened. Early February, I think, is when we brought on board a second cat by the name of Quarter. A friend of ours was gonna be away for a while and needed someone to care for him. So yeah.

Two cats.

The cats each have a home base. For Dinker, that's our bedroom. For Quarter, that's the family room on the opposite end of the house.

When Quarter came to us, he kept to himself mostly under the couch in the family room, making temporary appearances for food... then retreating to his safe place. 

After a while, he grew comfortable in a nearby padded chair on a red blanket cuddled up to a large Boo doll (the little girl from Monsters Inc.). Soon as he did that, he also became comfortable exploring the dining room... then the living room...  then all the way down to the other end of the house from his: our bedroom.

By 'n by... 'n by 'n by... he starts jumping up short heights onto surfaces throughout the house: the arm of the living room couch. One of the dining room chairs and then, of course, the dining room table itself.

Not cool.

He jumped up onto the day bed in Kimmer's office and then, of course, our bed.

Boundaries much?

As well, there are definitely behaviors he's picking up about how to be a cat from Dinker. Like meowing loudly when I'm dishing up meals. Which makes no sense 'cause I'm already dishing up their meals. Like chasing the little red dot that I make run across the floor. At first Quarter would just watch it. But after observing Dinker go after it with a predator's wrath, he started doing that, too.

And then the at night thing.

You see at night we're in bed, reading, talking, listening to something, watching something... and Dinker lays on the bed with us. Winding his own self down.

So.

If that's what cats do, Quarter observed, then I've gotta be up there, too.

So yeah.

Two cats laying around on our bed at the end of the night.

It's still Dinker's home base, though, so when it's time to sleep, I carry Quarter back to the chair in his home base which is where he sleeps the whole night through. 😊

Quick status report on Cheeky & Dry, the non-alcoholic product center of the universe: we managed to stop in the same day each week in the evening after work. The only days we missed were two days we were on the road.

Lovely, lovely drinks, by the way.

Now, we left for our traditional yearly vacation with family at Crystal Cove in California over by Laguna Beach on the 31st. Easter. The last day of March this time around. And, because our first flight was scheduled for departure super early in the morning, Kimmer booked us into a hotel near South Center, about ten minutes down the hill from the airport. So we spent Saturday the 30th packing all day then leaving for the hotel.

And the night before all that gettin' outta town activity?

We spent the evening with dear friends and their children. And then when the kids went to bed, it got to be 100% adults hanging out time. It wound up, as you might suspect, an evening filled with everything including playing with beads and string on the floor as well as Adult Talk around the table. A lovely evening including dinner and drinks.

In a way, that felt like the last day of March. Whereas Saturday with all its travel arrangements and Sunday with its actual travel feel like they're attached to the beginning of April.

So there it is. March!

Now. Onward through April.

😊

[thedaveandkimmershow]

When Linzy's performing schedule first started rolling post-pandemic, it was summer that tended to be the gravitational center of her scheduled gigs.

This year, summer was good...

But not this good. Fall and winter are turning downright busy.

Did I say turning?

I mean they are downright busy.

Here's what's ahead for the remainder of 2024, split between her winery/cafe gigs where she performs as Linzy Collins, then Dream Patrol, then Midnight High, then The Little Lies PNW.

OCTOBER

Tuesday, October 22 DREAM PATROL Sunset Tavern, Ballard Show starts at 8p

Friday, October 25 LINZY COLLINS Tsillan Cellars, Woodinville 5-7p

Wednesday, October 30 LINZY COLLINS Palisade Restaurant, Seattle 6-930p

NOVEMBER 

Saturday, November 2 THE LITTLE LIES PNW Clearwater Casino, Suquamish 7p

Friday, November 8 LINZY COLLINS Tsillan Cellars 5-7p

Saturday, November 9 THE LITTLE LIES PNW Apex Everett 7p

Tuesday, November 12 LINZY COLLINS Palisade Restaurant, Seattle  6-930p

Friday, November 15 LINZY COLLINS The Cottage, Bothell 6-9p

Saturday, November 23 Midnight High (opening for Smokey Brights) Tractor Tavern, Seattle 830p

Friday, November 29 LINZY COLLINS Palisade Restaurant, Seattle  6-10p

DECEMBER 

Tuesday/Wednesday, December 3/4 THE LITTLE LIES PNW Aladdin Theater, Portland 8p both nights 

Friday, December 6 LINZY COLLINS Palisade Restaurant, Seattle 6-10p

Wednesday, December 11 THE LITTLE LIES PNW Moore Theater, Seattle 8p

Friday, December 13 LINZY COLLINS Palisade Restaurant, Seattle 6-10p

Tuesday, December 17 LINZY COLLINS Palisade Restaurant, Seattle 6-930p

Friday, December 20 LINZY COLLINS The Cottage, Bothell 6p

Friday, December 27 LINZY COLLINS Willows Lodge, Woodinville 6-830p

Saturday, December 28 THE LITTLE LIES PNW (co-headlining with Queen Mother) Neumos, Seattle  8p

Tuesday, December 31 Young-Chhaylee, Craig Suede, Reuben Woodruff, Linzy Collins TBA

So yeah.

Seriously, it's packed. Linzy won't even consider booking another Dream Patrol gig until February, maybe later, since January features separate Little Lies road gigs to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco.

Or vice versa. 

Probably vice versa.

Anyway, that's what's on the schedule right now, peppered in and around her day job as a private music teacher whose students and their families show up to all her winery/cafe gigs and all the gigs that aren't 21+.

Yeah.

Look who's making it as a professional musician. ☺️

[lenoresings-blog]

Just Announced! Lenore. @ The Conor Byrne w/ Drew Martin & Young-Chhaylee in Seattle, WA - November 10th