Name: Midwife with Amulets & Sun Swept
Start: 2026-02-10T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Chautauqua Community House

Door time: 7:30
Show time: 8:00
Midwife
Madeline Johnston is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern Colorado by way of Denver, where she spent the last decade developing her sound and focusing on her artistic community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a room. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as “Heaven Metal,” AKA emotional music about devastation. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.
Amulets
Amulets is the solo project of Portland-based audio + visual artist Randall Taylor. Amulets employs handmade cassette tape loops and live processed guitar loops to create live, lush soundscapes and immersive drones. Through the recontextualization of cassettes, sampling, field recording, and looping, these long-form compositions blur the genres of ambient, drone, noise, and electronic music.
Sun Swept
Sun Swept is Sarah Christiansen of Denver, Colorado. Sarah works with flutes and electronics to create pastoral cosmic ambient music. Different textures from spacious reverb to granular flecks are extracted from the flute through electronic processing. Each composition is based on a loose structure for improvisation and is different each time when performed live. Sun Swept’s music is serene but with an experimental and even noisy edge at times. Sarah is inspired by the Rocky Mountains, alpine lakes, clouds, wind, breath, and classic new age flute tapes.