Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms

April 16th – Caleb Clauder and Reeb Willms

No Depression SPOTLIGHT: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms Put ‘Gold in Your Pocket’ with Love and Collective Joy

BY MAE FERGUSON

Before he ever saw her, Caleb Klauder heard Reeb Willms sing. It was some decade and change ago at a music festival in Idaho, and Klauder had ventured off from a jam session for a drink. Behind him, he heard an incredible voice that compelled him to turn around and see where it was coming from. Their meeting more than 500 miles away from home in Idaho, you might say, was kismet.

Beyond their shared love of playing music, both originally hail from Washington—she from the dry high desert, east of the Cascade Mountains, he from the dank forests and maritime shores of the San Juan Islands in the west. The two began collaborating not long after that fateful night, and Willms joined Klauder in his adopted city of Portland, OR, as a member of his longtime local outfit Foghorn Stringband and in a home the two shared together (until a couple years ago when they relocated to Orcas Island, near Klauder’s hometown). Her timeless, pure vocals and acoustic guitar picking fit right in with the old-time string band dedicated to traditional music.

Willms and Klauder also found their sweet spot together as a duo and with Klauder’s long-running backburner project, a country band where he experiments with playing his original songs. In both outfits, they’re free to try their hands at a vibrant array of genres and sounds, from bluegrass to modern folk, sharing in harmonies like some of the greats—Rawlings and Welch, Harris and Parsons—and letting the power of their earthen vocals fit to the song.

Looking forward to this one, Dust off your boots for an evening of true, modern honky-tonk with Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms.

General Admission: 25.00
Join us before the show in our bar area at 7pm
Concert Hall opens at 7:30pm
Music at 8pm