PDX Songwriter's Guild: Kendall Lujan / Ezza Rose / Arran Fagan / Carson Ponce
Event Details
A week-long celebration of songwriters in PDX. Portland Songwriters Guild is holding the first ever Songwriters Week in Portland. Modeled after some of Portland’s favorite weeks: Burger week, Pizza week, Beer week, Songwriters week brings two shows a day across the city ranging from $0-$10. Get a taste of the music makers in PDX and come join us for a show or two or 14.
Here’s the offering at the Laurelthirst this evening:
Kendall Lujan:
Portland, Oregon based artist, Kendall Lujan embarks on her second full length album “My Heart Needs Love” coming February 2027. A new sound after her debut record “Lucky Penny’ released February 21st, 2025. The new work shows her growth as an artist and new found more mature outlook on love and life. Songs that encapsulate heartbreak, new love, anger, light and freshness. After releasing her Debut self titled EP Spring 2023, featured on official playlist for Spotify and Apple Music. Lujan has also gaining attention from NPR’s Tiny Desk, MTV, Rolling Stone Germany, and the John Lennon Songwriting contest. She has also played Bluebird Festival in Vienna, Portland Folk Festival and Pickathon. Recently voted one of Portland’s ‘Willamette Weekly’ Best New Bands 2024. Sharing the stage with Amos Lee, Frazey Ford (of The Be Good Tanyas), Allie Crow Buckley, Early James, and The Magnetic Fields.
Ezza Rose
Since 2009, Ezza Rose and band have been cultivating a sound of their own. Drawing on several influences from the likes of Mazzy Star, Patti Smith, and their residency in Portland, ERB writes and performs music which reflects the listeners’ lives back at them while hinting at a new perspective. The fluidity of love, the ebb and flow of relationships, and getting caught in the machine of expectations, all are deconstructed with flowy rhythm, aggressive electric guitars, and dreamy vocal melodies.
https://www.ezzaroseband.com/
Arran Fagan
Praised for his introspective lyrics and vivid storytelling, Portland-based folk artist Arran Fagan has garnered a following in his native Oregon with his uncanny ability to weave the personal and universal. After getting his start in the grassroots music scene of Southern Oregon, Arran has spent the greater part of his life pursuing music, creating wistful and evocative songs that explore themes that connect us all—loss, addiction, change, and the endless passage of time.
With heartfelt lyrics and rich instrumentation that has garnered comparisons to Josh Ritter and Nathaniel Rateliff, Arran has spent years in the NW folk music scene, getting his start playing coffee shops and house shows for college classmates and eventually going on to open for Northwest favorites like Leif Vollebekk, Horse Feathers, Kris Orlowski, Matthew Fowler, and Jeffrey Martin.
https://www.arranfagan.com/
Carson Ponce
Carson Ponce is a Portland, Oregon based singer-songwriter celebrated for his emotive storytelling and a sound that blencd the essence of folk-rock yesteryear with contemporary landscapes. With his trademark introspection and songwriting finesse, he invites listeners on a persona journey that resonate with the human experience. With influences ranging from Tom Petty and Neil Young to Brandi Carlile and Angel Olsen.
https://www.carsonponcemusic.com/
More Info: https://portlandsongwritersguild.com/events/portland-songwriters-week