The EPHEMERA tour: Ethan Buckner, Jessie Thoreson, & Charlie Horses

Thursday, Jul 2

7:00pm

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$10 suggested

The Lilly Pad presents: The EPHEMERA Tour, featuring Ethan Buckner, Jessie Thoreson, and Charlie Horses. Suggested donation $10-20, feel free to Venmo ahead or at the show. ABOUT ETHAN BUCKNER: Los Angeles indie folk/pop troubadour Ethan Buckner wants you to see who he really is: his traumas and triumphs, anxieties and hopes. His forthcoming sophomore record EPHEMERA is part meditation, part declaration: blink, you’re here - blink again, you’re gone. There’s a fervor, an urgency to the fundamental truth: you can’t stop change. Etherial, intimate and anthemic, his new work embraces vulnerability as a source of power. Following a whirlwind year of touring and releases, topped by a packed headline show at LA’s iconic Troubadour to celebrate his debut LP Treading Water, Ethan’s world ground to a screeching halt in early 2025 when he suffered a severe back injury while traveling in rural India. Multiple operating rooms later, Ethan was completely immobilized, confined to his apartment for months, reckoning with mortality, long-overlooked shadows, consequences of pushing past limits. In that liminal space, Ethan wrote much of the material that worked its way into his forthcoming record EPHEMERA, his second collaboration with grammy-nominated producer Justin Glasco (Paris Paloma, Lone Bellow). EPHEMERA builds from the alchemy of soaring hooks and lush soundscapes that blanket his debut Treading Water (2024). Where Treading Water searches for calm in the chaos, EPHEMERA fully surrenders to life’s fragility, probing deep into grief and reckoning. ABOUT JESSIE THORESON: Jessie Thoreson is a singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Drawing inspiration from classic storytellers like Joni Mitchell and John Prine, Jessie Thoreson pairs folk roots and instrumentation with the emotional grit and complexity of artists like Fiona Apple, Madison Cunningham, and St. Vincent. Her most recent album, Return to the Ground, is a meditation on life’s cyclical nature. Each song connects ecological patterns to emotional cycles, exploring themes of change, repetition, and renewal. When not playing music, Jessie works as a fire ecologist, studying how wildfire reshapes, renews, and reinforces our cultural and ecological systems. That idea of transformation runs through her music, which often explores natural systems, human behavior, and the tension between destruction and renewal. Playful yet sophisticated, her songs celebrate life’s contradictions, cycles, and the beauty found in between. ABOUT THE CHARLIE HORSES: The Charlie Horses bring bluegrass, old time, blues, and Americana influences into heartfelt original tunes that evoke thought and imagery in listeners

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