Joe Kye’s The Well Sessions featuring Shin Yu Pai

Saturday, August 31st, 2024, 8PM – Alberta Rose Theatre

Joe Kye takes listeners on a transcendent personal journey, recollecting lineage and love through looping violins, vocals, and traditional Korean instruments interwoven with the poetry of Shin Yu Pai.

Tasting notes: meditative, spiritual, textural

Joe Kye is a musician and storyteller based in Portland, Oregon. Joe’s music is a tapestry of his many influences as a Korean American immigrant. His latest project explores his roots, melding Korean traditional sounds with everything from jazz to electronic music. Tenderhearted and peaceful, these improvisations foster a sense of deep internal reflection and healing.

Shin Yu Pai is Seattle’s Civic Poet (2023-2024) and former Poet Laureate of The City of Redmond (2015-2017). She is the author of 13 books, most recently No Neutral (Empty Bowl, 2023) and Less Desolate (Blue Cactus, 2023). Her work has received awards from The Academy of American Poets, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and The Awesome Foundation. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Tricycle Magazine, Off Assignment, and Zocalo Public Square. Shin Yu is also the creator and host of Ten Thousand Things, an award-winning, chart-topping podcast on Asian American stories that she produces with Seattle’s NPR affiliate KUOW. The show has received two awards from the Asian American Podcasters Association and a silver Signal Award. Mashable named Ten Thousand Things one of the best podcasts of 2023.

Theresa identifies as a queer neurodiverse artist who loves her camera, and to create with the Earth. She believes everyone should have access to nature and to making the art inside them. Her work, life, and understanding of the World is inspired by the magic of nature on Earth. You will always see flowers in her work or pieces of nature because beauty is always the sign of importance.

Theresa believes there is a connection and language older then time between us humans and the Earth that is always whispering in our ears, “we belong to each other.” She strives to find, create, and tell the tales of this magic in each of the art pieces she makes.

She stands in solidarity for the care of the Earth, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Disabled, Trans, and LGBTQIA communities.

Lineup: Joe Kye, violin, electronics, vocals; Shin Yu Pai, poet; Dario La Poma, piano; Sam Arnold, bass; Cory Limuaco, drums; Theresa Bear, botanical media artistry

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