The Stakeout is excited to invite you to an intimate night in the sage, at sunset with Chicago-based musicians Squirrel Flower + Free Range. Both will perform haunting stripped-down sets from our Sage Deck. Tickets are $20 online and $25 at the door (if not sold out). A ticket grants you entry into the concert space—our sage, piñon, & juniper dreamscape—and includes one specialty cocktail or mocktail. The restaurant and bar will be open for dining and drinks, but this show will take place across the road, far removed from our typical Sunday energy.
It’s not our average Sunday and we can’t wait!
DOORS @ 7:30p
MUSIC @ 8p
TIX online for $20
OR $25 at door
S Q U I R R E L F L O W E R
B I O
After getting involved in the DIY scene in Boston as a teenager, Ella O’Connor Williams moved to Iowa. There, she wrote her first EP as Squirrel Flower and began setting up small tours for herself. This first EP, titled Early Winter Songs From Middle America, was self-released in 2015.
In 2016, Williams released her second EP titled Contact Sports on a St. Louis-based DIY tape label called It Takes Time.
Williams' debut album, I Was Born Swimming, was released in 2020 via Polyvinyl Records. The album was produced by Gabe Wax. This anticipated label debut earned overwhelming praise from the likes of Gorilla vs. Bear, NPR Music, and Paste, and she was named Rolling Stone Artist You Need To Know, Stereogum's Artist to Watch, The FADER's Gen F, and The Guardian's One to Watch. In May 2020, Squirrel Flower released the single "Take It Or Leave It", backed with her cover of Caroline Polachek's "So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings."
In March 2024, Williams was the first artist to withdraw from the South by Southwest festival due to sponsorships by "defense department contractors [that] make the weapons that the IDF uses to bomb Gaza." Eighty artists followed her lead, causing the festival to terminate their contracts with US Army and RTX Corporation for the 2025 festival. Also in March 2024, she was featured on NPR Tiny Desk for the first time.
F R E E R A N G E
B I O
Free Range is the stage name of American indie folk musician Sofia Jensen. Jensen grew up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Under the Free Range moniker, Jensen has released one full-length album. On December 7, 2022, Jensen announced plans to release their first album, titled Practice. The album was released on February 17, 2023. Jensen began writing for the album when they were fifteen years old alongside their live drummer Jack Henry. The album received the attention of numerous publications, such as Pitchfork, Chicago Reader, New Noise Magazine, and Paste.