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Kent Stage’s Alleyway Echoes with Hometown Folk

23
Aug
2010

Kent Stage’s Alleyway Echoes with Hometown Folk

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Angie Heimann and Cass Sochacki are a match made in folk heaven. Their story sounds like it could be straight out of an odd yet beautiful folk song. After growing up in the Kent area for most of her life, Angie decided to split for Mendocino, California about nine years ago. When she got there, she integrated pretty quickly by living with, of all things, a rural circus named The Flynn Creek Circus.

Kent Stage

While she was working on the circus’ float for the Fouth of July Parade, she met a guitar player named Cass. Since then, they’ve been making music together, most often with a full band backing them up. But tonight it’s just the two of them, playing folksy originals for a small crowd in the alleyway of the Kent Stage. Cass carefully tunes up his guitar for each song as Angie fills time with funny, off the cuff banter, sometimes with Cass, sometimes with the crowd, sometimes just with herself. But she gives him plenty of time because, as she says, “We have to respect the capo.” Angie’s songwriting is based heavily on personal experience, both conscious and unconscious. Several of her songs she said were about dreaming or were derived from dreams. “I do wake up a lot with sort of a seed of something on my mind or an idea,” she says. She adds that another common theme in her music is love. “A lot of them, for me, are sort of how to navigate in love and how to do it while still remaining strong in yourself.” Angie makes this apparent with a strong stage presence, mellow vocals and beautiful guitar playing. Her preformance is only enhanced by the chemistry shared between the two together, giving fans an honest dose of original folk. She plans on staying in California but the two hope to return later with their full band for an eastern tour. “I’ve been in California for nine years,” she says. “It feels good to be back.”