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SUMMARY:98.9 WCLZ presents: Madi Diaz with special guest Dead Gowns
DESCRIPTION:Doors open an hour before showtime.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nADVANCE PURCHASE: $25 (+ fees)\n\n\n\nAT THE DOOR: $35 (+ fees)\n\n\n\nAll surcharges and member discounts will be calculated at checkout.\n\n\n\nClick Here to learn how our ticket surcharge supports OLS.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadi Diaz has built a reputation for writing songs that cut straight to the emotional core. Following the critical success of History of a Feeling and the Grammy-nominated Weird Faith\, her forthcoming album Fatal Optimist continues that journey\, exploring heartbreak\, reinvention\, and the complicated choice to remain open to love despite the risks. \n\n\n\nAfter the end of a relationship she once imagined lasting forever\, Diaz retreated into solitude\, spending time alone and confronting feelings of grief\, embarrassment\, and disappointment. What emerged was a period of profound self-discovery. “The only person I’m never gonna leave is myself\,” she says. That realization became the foundation of Fatal Optimist\, a collection of songs that traces the path from loss toward self-acceptance. \n\n\n\nTo match the intimacy of the material\, Diaz stripped the album back to its essentials\, recording largely with just her voice and acoustic guitar. The result is her most vulnerable and unguarded work to date. As Diaz describes it\, “Fatal Optimism” is the choice to keep believing in something magical\, even when you know there are no guarantees. It’s an album about embracing uncertainty\, putting your whole heart in\, and choosing hope anyway. \n\n\n\nWebsite | Facebook | Instagram \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDead Gowns\n\n\n\nHow does one cope with the pang of desire? It’s the tender\, sometimes volatile question that  confronts Genevieve Beaudoin on her debut full-length as Dead Gowns.  \n\n\n\nA deft lyricist with a sweeping range of poetic color and texture\, Beaudoin paints her story in  dark romantics\, presenting a woman in the high summer of adulthood deciphering life’s capacity  to fulfill desires or let them go painfully unmet. These cravings – to be touched\, to be known\, to  have just one more encounter with someone lost to time – are a lacuna Beaudoin prods at  insistently throughout the album’s twelve songs. \n\n\n\nThough never named outright\, Beaudoin’s home in Maine – and its ragged\, granite-strewn  coastline – is an evocative character inhabiting the album\, a force even more implacable than  Beaudoin’s emotions. Also present is the acute awareness of time passing. Pulled from an  Eileen Miles poem\, the album’s title\, It’s Summer\, I Love You\, and I’m Surrounded by Snow\,  evokes a feeling of disorientation and the inevitability of change. External and internal forces  charge Beaudoin\, her inner world shifting much like the dizzying change of the seasons. “We  get swept up in the blizzard\, and then we are set down in the hot salty haze of August\,” she  says\, remembering the Maine winters of her childhood.  \n\n\n\nBy the album’s end\, Beaudoin holds her longing in the balance\, no longer overcome but  embodied. And if you listen carefully – these songs will pick you up and put you down again\,  transformed\, raw\, and satiated. \n\n\n\nWebsite | Facebook | Instagram
URL:https://onelongfellowsquare.com/event/madi-diaz/
LOCATION:One Longfellow Square\, 181 State Street\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Folk,Folk Pop,Indie,Indie Folk,Singer/Songwriter
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