Orcas Center’s Summer Concert Series returns to the Village Green
No tickets necessary thanks to our generous sponsors!

Hank Lemon & Naked Giants
Navid Eliot
Tekla and Jeff

Sunday, June 15th at 5pm
On the Village Green
203 N Beach Rd, Eastsound, WA 98245

Hank Lemon & Naked Giants

Hank Lemon is the solo project of Naked Giants’ bombastic drummer and co-founder, Henry LaVallee. The northwest rocker-turned-folkie has taken insights from living on the road and set them to his own style of acoustic songwriting and sensory storytelling. With inspirations ranging from Dylan to Fairport Convention, Hank Lemon’s music is a familiar freshness to saturated ears.

Navid Eliot

Navid Eliot is best known as the songwriter and frontman of the bands ‘Bodies On The Beach’ and ‘Planes On Paper,’ but he is also an active touring sideman, studio guitarist, and producer for a slew of well-loved artists. Navid’s songwriting has been celebrated and featured by The John F. Kennedy Center, American Songwriter Magazine, The Seattle Times, Relix Magazine, and dozens of other venues and print media outlets. Navid’s songs have enjoyed airplay on KEXP Seattle, NPR, WNYU, KCSN, WXPN, WNRN, OPB Portland, and many, many more. His solo shows are, in equal measure, a display of his songwriting prowess and an homage to the songwriters he holds in high regard.

“Folk music at the highest level.”
— Greg Jones, Ear To The Ground

“Navid’s voice barely rises above a whisper, but his words have the fury of Shakespeare and the fire of the old testament. […] Plangent doom-folk, with a religious mystic level of self-reflection. Delivered with instrumentation so gentle that it’s therapeutic, it finds a path through extreme isolation, and anti-social behavior, to acceptance and surrender, and eventually happiness.”
— Sean Jewell, American Standard Time

Tekla and Jeff

Seattle based singer/songwriter Tekla Waterfield incorporates elements of folk, country, roots, rock and soul creating a wide-ranging sound unified by dynamic vocals and compelling observational storytelling. Paired with her husband and musical partner, accomplished internationally touring producer/guitarist, Jeff Fielder, known for his work with The Indigo Girls, Mark Lanegan, the Amy Ray Band, Stone Gossard, Painted Shield, Duff McKagan and Sera Cahoone, the duo present lush, harmonic, thoughtfully developed & playfully artistic Contemporary American Roots.

Waterfield and Fielder were recipients of the prestigious Sonic Guild artist grant in 2023, and have received grants and nods for their work from 4Culture, KEXP, NPR, KBCS, KUTX, One Reel, No Depression, American Songwriter, Sing Out! Radio Magazine; with glowing international reviews in the Netherlands, Croatia & Spain; radio play in Scotland, Wales, Korea and across the US for their first album released as a duo, “Trouble In Time”. (2021) “Better Days” from the “Trouble In Time” release was selected as a national finalist in the 2021 US Songwriting Competition.

They’re set to release their second album as a duo, in September of 2025.

Follow Tekla and Jeff online:
https://www.teklawaterfield.com/tekla-waterfield-jeff-fielder-epk