Dana and Alden, Alex Amen
Dana and Alden
Brothers Dana and Alden McWayne, along with a troupe of multi-instrumental artists, come together to create jazzy melodies with indie sounds inspired by their unconventional upbringing in Eugene, Oregon. Their debut album, Quiet Music for Young People, is a lush album that melds vintage sounds with the aesthetic and experience of existing in gen Z and the digital age. Quiet Music For Young People also reminisces of their childhood, summer days spent working at an apple orchard and jamming at jazz clubs on rainy Oregon nights. Alden, the younger of the two, is a drummer and recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, while Dana, the elder statesmen, is a saxophonist and organic farm inspector in Durham, NC. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
About This Event
Thursday, October 15 Dana and Alden Papas Boat Tour w/ Alex Amen at Grog ShopDoors 7 PM | Show 8 PMALL AGES$22 advance / $25 day of show+ $3 at the door if under 21Papas Boat, the new album from Dana s earliest memories and furthest travels: an eclectic mix of familial ties, friends new and old, and moments of musical ascension. Affectionately known as Papa, he was the kind of person others naturally gravitate towards. Always an eccentric, he was a retired engineer involved in manufacturing the first Fairchild semiconductors and a recreational sailor.
It was a photograph from one of his trips to Asia that inspired Papas Boat. In the image Papa is wearing tattered jorts and looking out across the horizon. The result is an album that escapes landlocked rigidity for something more open, free, and expressive.
An album in Papas image.