Nick Waterhouse

Event Details

(((folkYEAH!))) presents Nick Waterhouse with special guests Los So-Lows!

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm

$25 in advance / $30 day of the show 21+

*Tickets go on sale Friday, May 9th at 10am PT*

NICK WATERHOUSE

We had a joke in the studio, says Nick Waterhouse. Some of the guys were like, Nick, you're gonna end up at a press conference like Dylan in 65: Who's The Fooler? I don't know, man, maybe it's you! Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm becoming The Fooler right now.

The title of the sixth album from the Californian singer-songwriter is more than just the name of one of its dozen immaculate tracks. The Fooler is both a clue and a red herring. The Fooler is the observed and the observer, narrator and subject, truth and lie. The Fooler is the shadow and reflection of a city the artist knows sufficiently well to wander with his eyes closed, and a place which very possibly never even existed. The Fooler is not so much an unreliable narrator as a constantly shifting perspective. The Fooler is the new album by Nick Waterhouse, and it's a lot.

Many of the stories in the record come from that feeling of plasticity, says Waterhouse. What is memory? What is time? What is love between two human beings like in this imaginary city? It's Cubist. A listener sees the angles of my life and inexorably, my career reflected in this work from all sides at once. I started thinking again about my university days, about modernist writers like Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, Hart Crane, or Ford Maddox Ford; about memory and how it betrays you; what you can see and what you can't. Recorded by Mark Neill in Valdosta, Georgia, the album is a song-cycle of sorts, the arc of the album telling a tale of a city and its denizens.

There's a phase shift that occurred writing this record, says Waterhouse. I had a breakthrough in how to tell stories in songs. It's like an epiphany. I started realising how I could bend time in these words and a lot of the things that weave through the record. I have a perspective as a narrator now, instead of being the occupant of the songs.

LOS SO-LOWS

Los So-Lows are a sweet soul group from Oxnard, California. Their goal is to make and highlight the importance of Soul music. From dropping records to hosting community-driven concerts and events, they aim to lead the next generation of soul artists while paying homage to the legends of the past. Born and raised in Oxnard, it is important for them to stay true to the energy of their city and establish the newest chapter of the Oxnard sound.

Age Restrictions

This event is 21 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.