COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS
You can’t water old flowers. Yes, you fall in love, you make mistakes, and so do they. You run through blackberry fields in the summer of your youth, dream in passenger seats gazing past towns and fields, imagining a future life where everything works out. I fell head over heels in love at nineteen. The kind of love where you call up your best friend and say, “I think I’ve found my soulmate.” The pull towards that first true love is strong. It consumes you, makes you question your own dreams.
We taught each other, grew up together, we were family. We fit just right, for a time. Then one day, after a long and rocky nine year road, life changed and became a complicated mess too hard to untangle. We couldn’t get our love back, no matter how many dreams that shadowed this hard truth. We grew resentful, selfish, harboring past mistakes and holding them up like armor from every blow. We grew up and our paths diverted.
On New Year’s Day, 2018, a great horned owl dropped dead at my exes’ feet in my mother’s yard. It felt like a daunting omen, ushering on change for the both of us. We were distraught. We couldn’t afford the taxidermy, so we placed it in a big blue plastic garbage bin. Now it felt so cheap, that mystic creature in a plastic coffin. That’s how love feels sometimes – like we don’t serve it the ending it deserves.
The omen was true. That year, I started to see the woman I could be, the woman I wasn’t yet. Anytime I felt like myself, I was alone and wandering, and I knew that was a sign that it was time for change. New Year’s Day 2019, I said goodbye to my first true love and moved across the country. Losing someone you spend every day for nearly a decade with is intense. We talked in our dreams. I knew where he was, even before I entered a place. He’d always be there if I had a feeling. Humans are connected in unexplainable ways.
THE BROTHER BROTHERS
The Brother Brothers are the indie folk duo of Adam and David Moss. The identical twins were born and raised in Peoria, Illinois and originally based in Brooklyn, but have been ultimately and profoundly shaped by indiscriminate rambling. They are the kind of people who have a story about everything, and moreso, one you might genuinely like to hear.
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Sahba Motallebi / Reza Mohsenipour | 8:00pm | University Lutheran | All Ages |
Skating Polly / Bugsy | 8:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Chris Forsyth’s What Is Now / Wasnt Wisnt / The Other Side of a Dream | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
Civil Rats / Problem Addict / Negative Affirmations / DJ Romain Let Us | 8:00pm | Ring 1 | 21+ |
Minka / Gina Zo | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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2nd Street Festival Shakedown | 12:00pm - 10:00pm | North Bowl | All Ages |
Bill Frisell Trio | 7:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
Griffin Benton / American Fraternity / Modern Culture | 7:30pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
Tommy Oeffling / Makeout City / Blood Estate | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Waax Girl / Magic America / Video Days | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
Vandoliers / Nate Bergman | 8:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Charlie Burg | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
Flaming Lips / Modest Mouse | 8:00pm | Mann Center for the Performing Arts | All Ages |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Impending Joy / Riko / Whaler Collective | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Spilly Cave / Bristoltooth / So Long Surfer | 6:00pm - 11:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |