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SUMMARY:Soccer Mommy (Solo) with Pre-Show Discussion and Q&A with Special Guest
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate evening featuring a pre-show discussion and Q&A with Soccer Mommy and special Guest Interviewer\, followed by a local opener and solo performance by Soccer Mommy. This event is hosted by Papertrees Creative\, in partnership with Literary Arts and the Portland Book Festival 2026. \nSoccer Mommy  \n\n\nSophie Allison has always written candidly about her life\, making Soccer Mommy one of indie rock’s most interesting and beloved artists of the last decade. Allison has used Soccer Mommy’s songs as a vehicle to sort through the thoughts and encounters that inevitably come with the reality of growing up. After all\, Soccer Mommy began as a bedroom-to-Bandcamp exercise with teenage Allison posting her plaintive songs as demos. Over the years\, though\, she has often enhanced that sound\, using the endless production possibilities\, newly at her fingertips\, to outstrip singer-songwriter stereotypes. The records would start with songwriting’s kernels of truth\, and she would then imagine all the unexpected shapes they could take. Every Soccer Mommy record has felt like a surprise.On Soccer Mommy’s fourth album\, the tender but resolute Evergreen\, Allison is again writing about her life. But that life’s different these days: Since making her previous album\, 2022’s Sometimes\, Forever\, Allison experienced a profound and also very personal loss. New songs emerged from that change\, unflinching and sometimes even funny reflections on what she was feeling. (Speaking of funny\, this is a Soccer Mommy album\, so there’s an ode to Allison’s purple-haired wife in the game Stardew Valley\, too.) These songs were\, once again\, Allison’s way to sort through life\, to ground herself. She wanted them to sound that way\, too\, to feel as true to the demos—raw and relatable\, unvarnished and honest—as possible. The songwriting would again lead where the production would follow. Nothing overindulgent\, everything real.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/soccer-mommy/
LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 1126 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Music Events,Ticketed Events
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