Tableaux Sonique Returns to Restaurant Roy
**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Date & Time
Thu, Sep 26 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Address (map)
7 W. Carrillo St.
Venue (website)
Restaurant Roy
Tableaux Sonique, pandemic era-born, Lobero-launched,
Shows Up to Shine Up at Roy, Sept. 26
Back in the days when COVID reigned and reined us all in, old musical allies/pals Shelly Rudolph, the soul-fired chanteuse from Portland, and guitarman Joe Woodard joined forces to create a new original band. Because… why not? Tableaux Sonique (the bandname is a long story) was created mostly long-distance, swapping ideas and flying in tracks from their separate home studio outposts. A songbook, an eclectic brew with shades of Tom Waits, Madeleine Peyroux, Aretha et al, was formed and loosely dubbed “Boho Soul.”
Rudolph, well established as a go-to singer in Portland, had lived in Santa Barbara for a few years and made her album Water in My Hand at Tom Lackner’s Tompound Studio here in 2005. As the Tableaux built up a proper songbook, she landed in the 805 to play a special Lobero Theatre show curated and ringmastered by Zach Gill, and also featuring Spencer the Gardener, Volt per Octaves, Teka and Gill’s special brew pageantry. It was July of 2021, as hopes were rising that Before Times life might resume. Shortly thereafter, the Delta strain came knocking. But that’s another subject.
Short story long, after a too-long vacation, the band story continues: a compact version of the group plays at Roy (7 W. Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara) on Thursday, September 26 at 7:30, with a mostly original TS playlist sprinkled with tunes from Water in My Hand and covers from Rudolph’s vast library of soul, blues, standards, and more. An album is in the works, and in the collective mind in progress. Pop by Roy, grab a table or barstool and see what’s cooking in the sonic kitchen.