Margo Cilker’s sophomore album Valley of Heart’s Delight refers to a place she can't return: California’s Santa Clara Valley as it was known before the orchards were paved over and became more famous for Silicon than apricots. Margo is the fifth generation of Cilker’s born there and in this 11-song collection family and nature intertwine as guiding motifs at once precious and endangered beautiful and exhausting. The trees here are family trees or they’re apricot trees but suburban sprawl isn’t looking good for either. Cilker moved from California to the Pacific Northwest in her mid-twenties and wrote much of Valley of Heart's Delight while living in Enterprise Oregon a small town near the Snake River and powered by the river’s massive publicly-funded hydroelectric dams. The dams (part of the same system Woody Guthrie was hired to write about) provide clean electricity to much of the western US but make it extraordinarily difficult for anadromous fish (such as Steelhead Trout) to return from the ocean and spawn in their native streams. Valley Of Heart’s Delight feeds off of this tension - how we live in and off of nature how we live within and without family and why we return to the places we were born.
Bar opens at 5 PM and happy hour from open to 7 PM. (21+) The Velvet Elk Lounge does not allow minors - No Exceptions.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302, United States
