Party: The Saturday Giant w/ Pure Brown and Ashley Rempe | Duffy's Tavern |

Party: The Saturday Giant w/ Pure Brown and Ashley Rempe | Duffy's Tavern |

9 pm, $5, 21+

Sometimes people ask me why I insist on performing all components of my songs live. "It would be a lot easier to use pre-recorded drum patterns," they'll say, or, "Why don't you just sequence everything and play over top of the backing tracks?"

The short answer is, that would be cheating. The long answer goes something like this:

Going to see a show should be about what happens that day, in that room, between that audience and that performer. It shouldn't be a carbon copy of the same performance from the night before. How I slept, what I ate, the conversations I had, the articles I read: all of those things affect my brain chemistry and how I'm going to interact with the songs that day. Making art is an opportunity to synthesize and reinterpret our unique lived experiences and reintroduce them to the world as shared dreams of sound and light. If I used canned backing tracks I'd be robbing myself of that opportunity.

I want the freedom to make mistakes. Mistakes are far more human and interesting than mechanized accuracy. Be suspicious of anyone who wants to scrub art of its imperfections. As soon as art becomes perfect, it dies.

Invited: Philip Cogley, Amy Schmidt, Hilary Stohs-Krause, Bryan Klopping, Jeremy Buckley, Chris Williams, Chris Bowling, Alexa Krueger, Carlos Lopez, Ian Craig, Micah Josiah Leamer, Dustin Duff Hunke, David Ozinga, Dale F Ted, Brady Potthoff, Charlie Scherer, Patrick Kelly, Hailee Sahs, Jessica Errett, Juice Wick, Brooke Kuykendall, Samuel Segrist, Princess Baeza, Kristoffer Williams, Kevin Zakrzewski, Mikala German, Tnert Roberto, Stormy Jo, Carrie Lynn Zepf, Jeff Dotson, Scott Rogers, Kayla Parr, Melanie Kluever Druery, Katie Jane, Brandon Filbert, Brittany Harder, Kelsey Rose, Jesse Butterfield, Eric L. Harris, Jessica Faye, Susan Streit, Cullan Brennan, Ben Gnam, Stan Washington, Tiffany Groteluschen, Craig Mustard, Anthony Carter, James Dean, Hannah Demma, Michelle Hessheimer, Emily Bass, Chris Rowe, Lacey Keen, Shelby Jean, Jesse Elsener, Yandel Gonzalez, Melissa Beard, Tommy Van Den Berg, Alexandra LaMendola, Paige Lynn Jones, Melissa Sukhram, Megan Beaner, Ben Jones, Caleb Bailey, Adam Hintz, Joshua R Hoyer, Emma Nelson, John Freidel, Blake Carter, Andrew Danger Standley, Ro Hempel, Rosalie Faith, Austin Howard, Donald Pishna, Kris Lager, Shanesaw Goodall, Ramiro Prince Gonzalez, Lori Lewis, Daniel Christian, Anne Hintz, Nicomedez Calhoun, Hana Zara, Faith Bambery, Bradley Nordell, Nate Armstrong, Lacey Hopkins, Rolyat Inosnas, Jane Do, Brady Oltmans, Arthur Harrison Mauseth IV, Paige Hubl, Sasha Obrecht, Anna Marie, Kayla Sorensen, Aaron Lightner, Katie Rose, Mallory Finch, Justin Hladik, Abbie Lewis, Paige Yowell show more »