LILA FORDE AND ZAN FISKUM

Lila Forde and Zan Fiskum Soul'd Out Presents: Lila Forde and Zan Fiskum. Doors: 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm Ages 21+. Special Note: Ticket holders for this show receive free admission to Jack London's Burly Q Revue Cabaret after the music! LILA FORDE With a voice steeped in jazz, soul, folk, and old-school American songcraft, the Seattle-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter has always carried a deep sense of self through her music. But on Life Can Still Be Sweet, her sophomore album, that self comes into fuller focus: A little older, a little wiser, more instinctive, and more firmly in command of the world she's building. Warm, whimsical, and full of growing pains, the record captures Forde in the thick of her twenties -- chasing songs, learning lessons, finding her people, and holding onto beauty even when life gets hard. "I think I have a really unique voice -- not just my literal voice, but my proverbial voice," Forde says. "In this day and age, and in this industry, there's a lot of trend following, and there's a lot of homogeny. I'm just really trying to be my own artist." That individuality has been there from the beginning. Raised in a spiritual, music-filled household in Seattle, Forde grew up without a television and with her feet in the dirt -- the daughter of a musician and meditation teachers who encouraged her to stay curious, grounded, and creatively free.