Haley Heynderickx & The Westerlies - Millennium Stage (March 21, 2024)

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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Haley Heynderickx’s songwriting is crushingly intimate, vivid, melodically inventive, and completely unpredictable. Her debut album I Need to Start a Garden seamlessly contrasts her unconventional tunings and American Primitive-inspired fingerpicking with enveloping sonic outbursts. Led by her raw, immersive vocals, the Portland songwriter’s music defies categorization. NPR called her “an utterly distinct and wonderfully nervy, idiosyncratic presence,” while Stereogum named the album “one of the most intriguing and immersive debuts of the year.”
The Westerlies, a New York-based brass quartet, will be joining Heynderickx for a collaborative set, showcasing an original body of music that was developed together on an artist retreat in The Berkshires during the pandemic. It is an expansive collaboration that builds off their 2020 performance together on NPR’s Live from Here with Chris Thile, where they debuted expansive new arrangements of Heynderickx’s previously released material.

[@cormy_doo]

0:49 - Seed of a Seed - Haley solo
4:00 - Saro - The Westerlies solo
8:40 - The Bug Collector
13:08 - Melanin
18:01 - Oom Sha La La
22:43 - Ginger
27:46 - One By One (Connie Converse cover)
31:24 - Mouth of a Flower
36:46 - Moss Hands
42:10 - Redwood Song
47:47 - Swoop
53:47 - Untitled God Song

[@notalkmeimangyy]

The untitled song is called Ginger!

[@cormy_doo]

@@notalkmeimangyy Thank you!

[@steenosrs8077]

Thank you haley heyndrickx, for letting the music escape the basement.

[@richardwilde1348]

Great to see Haley active and a new collaboration

[@kristinhess2280]

This is fucking stunning.
Audience etiquette is on-point.
What a show.

[@joshua_bagel]

Seeing Haley in a couple of days. No words can express my excitement. Wish I could’ve seen her with the Westerlies live, but I’ll have to settle with what I get :)

[@miloreyes4713]

im so glad shes performing please come to argentina

[@izraiEL235]

That Connie converse cover hoo boy. Wowie. 😮‍💨

[@michellemaye4419]

Loved this!! Oh and yes I was watching. Just waiting on my picture of the Jumbotron 😃

[@josephspudic6460]

❤😊 Thanks

[@jeffreyrowlands9849]

wonderful

[@macb6528]

“end myse- no just kidding” ohhhh Haley you always make me laugh with your tuning banter

[@katlehomphuthi9353]

My heart is so fulfilled ❤

[@stolasish1184]

Oh how I wish all of her stuff got automatically recorded and released to streaming

[@tulavivaldi110]

Continuing inspiring 🎉

[@adrianohca]

Lovely person, lovely group! Haley Heynderickx has originality and a lot of sincerity in her way of being and in her songs.

[@kristinhess2280]

Goddamnit. Haley is SUCH an arresting songwriter. There’s an artistry to going away? Jesus. Gut-puncher. Gotta see this chick live. Maybe she needs a guitar tech. Fucking phenomenal shit.

[@randiread]

31:30 my all time favorite

[@Lockdheart]

I love the closed caption, "Wine gets spilled on my couch." Uh, she didn't say "couch."

[@Max-cz3iy]

This is unreal

[@samantalin]

37:00, 47:45 my favorites

[@tulavivaldi110]

Haley U R

[@tulavivaldi110]

Haley U R $

[@chosenbumbledee1402]

the messup on oom sha la la was so authentic i loved it

[@kristinhess1704]

This is gorgeous. Thank you for creating this. Thank you for posting this.

[@BiglezSassy]

42:11 Begging her to release a studio recording of "Redwood Song"

[@randiread]

What an amazing artist! Her music invokes beautiful emotion and imagery. Her songs are as sincere as her personality.

[@cameronkueneman2519]

7:38 very nice

[@archivingthearchive]

8:50 53:39

[@georgeashlina6047]

Hi:) i love your music so much:):)

[@tulavivaldi110]

Many more sunrises 2 haley the encouragement

[@margauxb3591]

Hope the new songs make it onto an album soon!

[@paulodavi9166]

So stoked for the album. Love this girl.

[@DarraghQuinn-d8o]

8.45. Thank you, yes.

[@tulavivaldi110]

Haley u keep peps tryin

[@natasjabarham518]

Yeah! 🤩💫❤