Izaak Opatz//Devin Champlin

The Quilcene Lantern is proud to present Izaak Opatz (w/ full band) and Devin Champlin!

$12 advance//$20 at the door 

no one turned away for lack of funds

6pm doors//7pm music

all ages, bar w/ id 

Izaak Opatz’s music has always been about longing, run through with nostalgia for the passed-by and out-of-reach. His first two albums, Mariachi Static and Extra Medium, were propelled by a longing for specific people and places, made relatable by wry humor, thoughtful simile and close observation. 

More recently, he’s been writing songs that long for an alternative reality, for different possibilities than the short, doomed menu offered by our tech lords and the current kakistocracy failing to regulate them. Songs that push back against the coercive pressure to indulge in small conveniences at the expense of personal privacy, a 20th-century attention span and the steady drip of a monthly subscription: 

I spend a lot of my time now, jumping through hoops / asking permission from a little screen convincing a robot that I’m not a robot / this future isn’t all it was cracked up to be

Devin Champlin is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist based in Bellingham, WA. His recordings, solo and as the songwriter/frontman for Sons Of Rainier have found their way into the permanent library of hobos, widows, fry cooks, and fancy pants alike. Intimate lyrics filled with optimistic existentialism are unhurriedly floated with a wavering voice over sometimes unexpected fingerpicked guitar lines. As an artist with a DIY aesthetic, he uses songwriting as a medium to create imagery- along those lines he also produces animations, videos, paintings, drawings, and prints in tandem with his musical output. In addition to writing and performing, Devin often teaches workshops on fingerpicking guitar, songwriting, and fiddle. When not nerding out on songcraft and art, Devin can be found at his day job, running a brick and mortar guitar shop in Bellingham, pulling guitars apart and putting them back together.