Marisa Anderson with Cloudland Canyon

At the Green Room, Marisa Anderson brings her singular, transportive guitar work to the stage—music that feels at once timeless and strikingly new. Don’t miss this rare chance to experience one of today’s most compelling instrumental voices up close.
Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Artists presented by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.
In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others.
Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union.
Cloudland Canyon is the long-running psychedelic project led by Memphis-based artist Kip Uhlhorn and Thomas Corbin known for blending kosmische music, drone, shoegaze, dub, ambient electronics, and experimental rock into immersive sound environments that feel equally influenced by German progressive music, DIY noise culture, and cinematic psychedelia. Across releases on labels including Holy Mountain, Tee Pee, and custom collaborations with artists such as Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3),
Cloudland Canyon has developed a reputation for expansive live performances that move fluidly between hypnotic repetition, heavy atmosphere, and melodic dream states
For this special performance, Cloudland Canyon shares the bill with acclaimed guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson for an evening centered around immersive instrumental music, emotional resonance, and deep listening. The pairing brings together Anderson’s meditative, Americana-infused guitar work with Cloudland Canyon’s layered psychedelic soundscapes, creating a uniquely transportive live experience.