Join us for an evening of live music from singer songwriter Erika Lundahl recorded surrounded by art in the BIMA galleries.

About Erika Lundahl

Erika Lundahl is a musician and climate justice activist, living on traditional Duwamish Land, in Seattle. She employs her classically trained voice and distinctive “tapping” guitar style to create an enveloping, earth-centered musical space. Her poetic, often autobiographical lyrics employ poignant and powerful imagery to deal with contemporary social issues. Her band’s debut album “Songs of Shattering,” released in 2015 was inspired by the poetry of Edna St. Millay and debut onto CMJ’s top 200 albums of college radio in March 2016. Her recent live in-studio album ‘Right Back at You’ recorded at London Bridge Studios features the moving storytelling and talented performance that Erika is known for. She tours the Pacific Northwest in her electric vehicle, from Vancouver, CA to San Francisco in late 2018.

Originally from the Willamette Valley of Oregon, Erika began to perform in earnest in upstate New York in 2012 with her band Animals of Grace. She returned to the tall trees and rugged wilderness of the Pacific Northwest in late 2013. Her band’s debut album “Songs of Shattering,” released in 2015 on Rolling Crone Records was inspired by the poetry of Edna St. Millay and made it’s debut onto CMJ’s top 200 albums of college radio in March 2016.

Erika’s 2016 EP ‘Brambles’ (released under the band Animals of Grace) is the compilation of 7 songs “of pilgrimage, climate change, and the wielding and waking of love for the Earth, each other, and all the hard lessons we haven’t learned yet,” says Lundahl, the lyricist and guitarist for the duo. Inspired by traveling to the tar sands or Alberta, Canada in 2015 – the third largest reserve of crude oil in the world – and by events like the Mosier oil spill in Oregon and the powerful Break Free protests in 2016, this beautiful compilation of songs is an introspective gaze into the heart and a search for the resiliency and love we need to come together. Her recent live album Aim for the Center exhibits the moving storytelling and talented performance that Erika is known for.

“..Their live performance locked us in awe with Erika’s beautifully clear voice….Watching her fingers play that 12-string was mesmerizing as she rapidly switched between tapping, drumming and finger picking” – Norm Johnson, host of Concerts in the Woods Series