PAMELA MACHALA RINGS IN SCORPIO SEASON

Nov. 16, Swallow Hill

Singer-songwriter Pamela Machala has called Boulder home for nearly a decade. After fine-tuning her craft this summer at the Song School workshop on Planet Bluegrass, the homegrown artist is gearing up to release a four-track EP called Scorpio this November.

“There’s a sex song and a death song and a jealousy song and a song about being sensitive,” Machala says. “It’s these qualities of myself that are stereotypically associated with that particular star sign that are hard to talk about. I’ve done a lot of work in therapy around accepting myself, and the idea behind the EP was [the] normalization of talking about uncomfortable, sort of shadowy things. And perhaps me being honest about this will resonate with someone else and help them feel less shitty.”

Machala celebrates Scorpio with an EP release show on Nov. 16 at

Swallow Hill in Denver, a listening room fit for the artist’s slinky soul and indie-pop sensibilities. Scan the QR code for a BW feature on Machala from this year’s edition of Boulder Insider (on newsstands now). See listing for details