Cicada Session Featuring Jack Parker | May 25th

Emerge is thrilled to be announcing, Jack Parker, as May's featured Cicada Recording Artist. 

Join us on May 25th at 7pm! In this unique listening experience, enjoy a live recording of Jack's music while you sip on a refreshing beverage from our no-host bar. 

Doors open at 6:30 - live music starts promptly at 7pm.

The Cicada Sessions will be open to ticket holders. Guests will be able to listen to a live album recording session of original music from some of our community's most talented musicians. Participating musicians receive a professional live recorded album and interview.

Pre-order Online - $15

At the door - $20

Jack Parker

Over the Span of his 20-year career, Jack Parker has taken a life-long journey through the peaks and valleys and shaped a musical sound reminiscent of a timeless America. For years, Parker has been the ingenious six-string slinger interpreting other people’s songs from “stage-right” as a founding member of Tumbledown (along with Mike Herrera of MxPx), Rocky Point All-Stars, New Old Stock, and Dark Horses; Parker was also a guitarist for the legendary Bremerton punk band MxPx from 2011-2016. More recently he has taken center-stage to write, sing, and play his own songs. Songs that have an air of rambling down the open road but ultimately a longing for coming home. His roots lie in the heart of the great Pacific Northwest, right next to the shores of Puget Sound.

Parker released his first solo EP entitled Homegrown, also available on Vinyl LP, in 2014. The album opens with the exciting southern-rocker “It’s So Good (To Be Back Home)” that mixes the attitude of his Tumbledown twang with his meticulous ear for melody. He sings about loving life on the road but that coming home is what makes it all worthwhile. On other songs like “I Might Love You,” “Gone,” and “Put Me Down,” he pulls beautifully from his bluegrass and southern rock influences, like Tony Rice or The Outlaws, to create a whole new sound all his own. His songs invoke a romantic sense of longing, for overcoming pain caused by life’s hardships and failed relationships, coupled with a desire to find true joy.

In 2019 Parker proudly formed “Jack Parker and The Remedy,” an exciting, dynamic, electric band that is rapidly turning heads all around the PNW music scene. On August 12, 2022 Parker released his full-length follow-up to “Homegrown” titled “Through the Darkness.” For this album, he recorded and produced the songs almost entirely himself in his own studio Homegrown Recording Co. with the help of long-time collaborator/producer Bryan Daisley (Bryan Daisley Band). The new album blends styles of southern rock, americana, country, and even a touch of bluegrass. It also features prominent PNW musicians like Mike Herrera (MxPx), Tony Reed (Mos Generator), Greg Kramer (True Loves), Darla Rae (Craetorus), and many more. Through the Darkness is now available everywhere!

This is a nonrefundable event. For questions please email programming@emergecda.com.