Matt The Electrician - A Spring Equinox Concert
Matt the Electrician Spring Equinox Concert will be Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at the Historic Silver City Schoolhouse
385 High Street, Silver City.
For his first time ever in Northern Nevada, Matt The Electrician will play a special show in Silver City. Based in Austin, Texas, Matt the Electrician, will be touring the west coast in March and we landed a date with this master of song.
This show is a benefit for the Silver City Preservation Society, a 501 c3 nonprofit that manages the Silver City Schoolhouse Community Center, develops and promotes community programs and facilitates the presentation of art, in many forms, in Silver City, and for the regional community.
For his latest album We Imagined an Ending (November 5, Burnside), Matt the Electrician (Matt Sever) challenged himself to turn the seven deadly sins on their head. “I got to wondering, ’What would be the opposite of that?’ Despite Sever’s teenage years immersed in nihilistic hardcore and metal, bleak-for-bleakness’ sake has just never been his bag.
“Of course, I didn’t realize ‘the opposite of the seven deadly sins’ was also a fairly well-worn path,” Sever continues with a laugh. “There are all these different virtues that answer the sins, like the seven Bushido virtues and the seven Quaker virtues...”
Sever can rattle off many of his song pairings without even checking his notes: “Night Owls” (Faith); “Big Changes” (Justice); “Dance” (Honesty); “Switch Shadows” (Empathy); “When the Lights Went Out” (Hope); “Heartbeat” (Peace); “Home Again” (Prudence); “Temporary” (Equality); “What If You Needed Me” (Community); and “Mindless” (Knowledge).
Produced by Tucker Martine (Decemberists, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, First Aid Kit), Sever recorded We Imagined an Ending way back in October of 2019. “On all of his records, Tucker creates this wider space,”says Sever. “There’s just this natural wide space to this album that I really love.”
At least three songs— “Night Owls,” “Temporary,” and “If You Needed Me” — were written with his late mom at the forefront of his mind, and “When the Lights Went Out” (whose lyrics include the album’s title) came to him within minutes of hearing the news about the death of fellow songwriter Neal Casal by suicide. “When the lights went out / We had to light the way,” he sings.
“There’s actually a lot of death on this album,” he observes. “But it’s more about the cycle of things. The full line in “When the Lights Go Out” is, ‘We imagined an ending, and then tried to let it go.’ We all have what we think is going to be the way things are going to work out, but then they don’t always work out that way at all. Like you might think, ‘Oh, we’ll see Mom next Christmas,’ or whatever, and then you just don’t. So then you have to just figure out how to move on and get through that. And as hard as it may be, there’s growth that comes out of that moving-on process, and things you learn from it. And out of that growth comes... hope.”
"Matt the Electrician’s warm rasp is like perfectly softened leather, enveloping you like a warm hug and getting better and better with time." - No Depression
"Matt The Electrician is romantic with a tendency to wrap his hindsight-steeped epiphanies in quirky folk tunes and decorate them with vivid imagery." - The Vinyl District
"Matt The Electrician approaches songcraft with the life-or-death attention to detail required in the former day job that spawned his performing moniker." - The Austin Chronicle
This event is an Evangeline Presents, Yellow Truck Productions joint.
Doors 6:00 pm, Show 7:00 pm
Historic Silver City Schoolhouse
385 High Street, Silver City NV
https://www.facebook.com/events/721977302807237
$15-$25 donation at the door
For reservations email: evangeline@evangelinepresents.com with subject line Matt The Electrician.
Include the number of people in your party and your phone number. Space is limited so don't delay!
Donations taken at the door. There will be a beer and wine bar and home made treats!