In partnership with State Theatre and the Maine Music Alliance, Thompson’s Point is proud to present a weekly outdoor experience this November featuring live music streams of your favorite talent from the stage of the State Theatre, fire pits for keeping cozy, delicious nosh and a full bar! The proceeds from reservations will be donated to the Maine Music Alliance (MEMA). MEMA is a team of Maine music professionals and
performers working to increase the awareness around the extraordinary live music venues if Portland and the tremendous impact their presence has in our local economy.
Doors: 7PM
Show: 8PM
Lineup:
Friday, Nov. 6 - Jeff Beam
Friday, Nov. 13 - MissFits
Friday, Nov. 20 - Save Maine Stages Fundraising Film Premier
Saturday, Nov. 21 - Save Maine Stages Fundraising Livestream with Brit Martin, Suzie Assam, Sydney, Viva, Hannah Harleen & S6ef with DJ Graphic Melee
Saturday, Nov. 28 - Beatles Night with Spencer and the Walrus
Additional details:
Fire pit reservations: $70 per fire pit with a maximum of 6 people per fire pit (names will be taken at the time of the fire pit being reserved). Propane is provided. Please bring your own folding chairs or picnic blankets.
This event is bring your own chair or picnic blanket. Evenings in November are chilly, so remember to bundle up!
Please remember to stay home if you have any cold or flu symptoms. Masks are required until you are seated. Seating will be at least six feet from other parties. No more than six people per quarantine pod.
Jeff Beam has been strumming at the crossroads of Portland, Maine’s fertile indie-rock, folk and
jazz scenes for years, and on this fittingly eponymous album, we get an eerie,
era-spanning snapshot of every soul he’s encountered and a timely statement of
activism that speaks to this particular moment in America’s history. The
multi-instrumentalist is responsible for nearly every sound on the 9-track
album—an inspiring and cathartic collection of songs that pleas for healing and
change through civic engagement and artistic output.
From the opening shuffle of the haunting “Stephen King,” Beam’s homage to the fellow Mainer’s
knack for creative alchemy, to the taut bedroom-funk of “Peripheral,” to the
sun-dappled lo-fi disco of “Disarray,” Beam’s songs are eerily familiar,
flashing before us his late friend and collaborator Tanner Olin Smith as well
as the ghosts of influences like Grizzly Bear, Spoon, Olivia Tremor Control,
and Radiohead before leaving their own distinct marks.
These songs resonate with a deeper urgency and focus than any material the polyphonic songwriter has
ever given us. Of course, a little urgency is what being a sharp political
observer will get you. Beam’s been a Bernie Sanders supporter from well before
2016, and many of these songs have shared the stage with the Vermont senator.
Beam fesses that several of the tracks were born from the hope and anxiety
coiled in today’s political moment—including “Think Twice, It’s Not All Right,”
a final plea to Donald Trump supporters with a tense melody and skittering tape
loops that sound as if lifted from the back half of The White Album.
On a sidewalk in Portsmouth, New Hampshire an eccentric gentleman offered to draw Beam for five
dollars. Beam only being able to offer a dollar, the man generously agreed to
do the sketch, and the portrait by that unknown artist graces the cover of Jeff
Beam, embodying exactly what Beam sets out to confront with his music:
connection. As much as Jeff Beam is an expression of the artist finding deeper
connections with himself, it is also an expression of our connections with one
another.
Whenever Jeff Beam makes an album, it feels like he’s arrived. But in the years since he first
began crafting his distinct brand of dreamy, hypnotic psych-pop, Jeff
Beam feels like the one we’ve been waiting for this whole time.
website: jeffbeammusic.com
bandcamp: jeffbeam.bandcamp.com
facebook: facebook.com/jeffbeammusic
instagram: instagram.com/jeff_beam
spotify: spoti.fi/2qieQpK
email: jefferson.beamplane@gmail.com