Ashe @ The Independent 1/23/2018

After being on tour with Louis the Child in December, which included a show at The Fox Theater in Oakland on December 16th, Ashe is on the road again. This time around the "Girl Who Cried Wolf" singer is touring with Lauv, landing her two stops in San Francisco: January 23rd at The Independent and January 24th at Rickshaw Stop. 

The first of two shows in SF last month was the San Diego native's very first time playing with Lauv and her second time ever in San Francisco. The city definitely was not shy to welcome her back as fans flocked to the sold out show that Tuesday night, The Independent was packed well before opening act Ashe hit the stage.

Ashe @ The Independent 1/23/2018
photo by Nikki DeMartini

As the sweetly eerie Willy Wonka theme song, "Pure Imagination" filled the air, Ashe appeared in an over-sized pink blazer, bleached washed denim and barefoot.  With her long golden locks flowing and non-stop smiles ahe fit the bill of a California dream girl and the crowd warmed up to her almost immediately.










Amongst Lauv's back-lined equipment, her drummer, Tom stayed poised on his kit  behind her as she buoyantly gallivanted around the stage singing through that effervescent smile of hers.  When each song ended she smiled and laughed and chatted as she introduced the next song, happily announcing that her grandparents and aunt and uncle were in crowd about halfway through her set. After playing the Summery single she did Louis The Child, "Right To It", she played a not yet released song "Choirs". According to her, the song may very well be her next single and she described it as being very weird which reminded me of our Q & A when she was on tour with Louis The Child: I asked how she'd classify her music and in short she answered "I try not to classify my music - but, it's some sort of combination of weird and accessible". For someone who doesn't like to classify their own music, I'd say Ashe classifies her music perfectly. It definitely lives somewhere in the ever evolving  indie-pop genre.

Ashe @ The Independent 1/23/2018 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Her exuberant stage presence not only made her colorful songs pop that much more but watching her was like a breathe of fresh air. Ashe is paving her own path as super charged new artist and she hasn't even released an album yet. I can't wait to see what she brings to the stage when her debut does drop.