Samara Jade - Southern Lights Winter Concert Series

APLR Presents with Samara Jade

Southern Lights: Winter Concert Series

Friday, January 15th, 2027

AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806

Doors 6PM || Event 7PM

Mariee Siou

Mariee Siou, now based in Portland, Oregon, is an abstract story teller of the natural world via a form of deep emotive folk music ushered by her clever worthsmithing and sharp ethereal voice . Through her music she strives to fill a cultural void left by severed connections to her Indigenous Mexican and Hungarian heritage and to thereby address the broader cultural voids felt by Americans today. She has been a fixture in the Neo-folk scene since her 2007 debut breakthrough album Faces in the rocks (selling a heroic number of both CDs and vinyls), an album now acclaimed as a cult classic that remains one of the true gems of modern-day folk music. She is revered for her delicate finger picking style and poetic mysticism, often drawing immense feeling through a voice of soft potency and haunting sensitivity. Marie deeply values the medicinal qualities of music and believes that gathering to share her songs is ultimately for healing purposes.

She has extensively toured Europe and the US and has shared tours with acclaimed artists like Mazzy Star, Buffy St. Marie, Bert Jansch, Brightblack Morning Light, and Joanna Newsom. She has released 4 studio albums including collaborations with artists such as Alela Diane, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and just released an EP called “Circle of Signs” in May of 2023.

Southern Lights: Winter Concert Series

In the deep quiet of January, when the mountains settle into their coldest nights, APLR will host Southern Lights, a small and close-in series devoted to musicians whose work thrives in stillness. These evenings are shaped for the listening room at its most essential. The warmth of the space, the natural glow of the old church, and the remarkable acoustics create a shelter from the season while allowing every detail of a voice or a guitar to land with clarity and presence.

Southern Lights grows out of APLR’s commitment to elevating consciousness through the creative act. The series welcomes artists who write from a place of honesty and depth, whose songs carry the same care, devotion, and reflective quality that define so much of the work presented here. In these winter weeks the room becomes a meeting place for quiet expression and attentive listening, a chance to gather against the cold and share in the intimacy that this space makes possible.

The listening room was designed for exactly this. Built within the walls of a former church, its acoustics are shaped by careful sound treatment, sliding panels that allow the atmosphere of the room to shift, and a sloping floor that brings every seat into focus. The result is an environment where warmth and resonance feel almost physical, a place where a single line or chord can fill the room with shape and intention.