Penny and Sparrow | Cookout Concert Series

KC TURNER PRESENTS PENNY AND SPARROW+ Cece Coakley13th Annual COOKOUT CONCERT SERIESHOPMONK NOVATO OUTDOOR VENUESponsored by JAMBARMOSTLY STANDING ON GROUND LEVELLIMITED SEATING ON LAWN & TOP OF HILLALL AGESABOUT:A wise wizard once said: “when in doubt, always follow your nose.”The last album from Penny and Sparrow, Olly Olly, was a work of revelation andliberation.A search for and an embrace of the self. I imagine they were left with a headscratcher ofa question: well, shit. Where do you go from there?Fortunately, they listened to the wizard and followed their noses backwards to find theirway forward.Aiming to strip away pretense and invite experimentation, they commandeered a gardenshed from a friend and retrofitted it to make a twenty-track album that is vast, weird, andwholly unexpected.If Lefty is anything, it is the journal of Penny and Sparrow’s inner child. Dog-eared, lockbusted open. On its pages the sketches of dreams, nightmares, erotica, and literary fanfiction graffiti the margins of poetry, elegies, and love letters in the wild colors ofsaxophone blue, electronic pink, and blood harmony red.Beautifully varied and richly rendered, it is an album that wanders from theme to theme,style to style, exultation to tragedy. Yet it is never lost. If anything, it is at play.United by its intimate vocals and aching harmonies, its acoustic laments trickle intoethereal pop only to surge into whimsical ballads and crest into grand hooligan anthemsthat sway gently down to familiar shores where melancholic ballads tell of love lost,found, forgotten, and remembered.Andy and Kyle have written some albums in blood. Others they’ve whispered to the sea.This one they danced in the sky with smiles on their faces. Lefty feels like not just acelebration of their journey beyond the bounds of their traditional genre, but as if theyhave rediscovered the joy in music by honoring the sounds that inspired two boysgrowing up in Texas to one day make the damn stuff themselves.- Pierce Brown, author and friend-----------------------------------EVENT INFO:Q: Is this show outdoors?A: Yes. This event is held in HopMonk Novato's outdoor concert venue.Q: Are kids allowed?A: The shows are all ages. Kids need a ticket to attend. No babies in arms.Q: Is there seating?A: Seating is limited and is first come. You're allowed a LOW-BACK chair in the lawn section. At the top of the hillside section there is table seating that is first come. We recommend arriving at the time doors open. Some shows are open dance floor/standing room only while others are mostly seated. Varies from show to show.Q: Is there parking?A: Parking is free and there is plenty of it.NO PETSNO COOLERSNO BACKPACKSNO OUTSIDE FOODNO UMBRELLAS