Name: Neko Case in conversation with Cheryl Waters
Start: 2025-02-05T19:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-05T19:30:00-08:00
Location: The Great Hall

Neko Case in conversation with Cheryl Waters

The Harder I Fight The More I Love You: A Memoir

Date:: Wed Feb 5, 2025
Time:: 7:30 pm PST
Cost:: $10 - $35 + Optional Book Add-on

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Venue

: The Great Hall
: 1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Note: Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

Headshots of Neko Case (left) and Cheryl Waters (right)

Arts & Culture

In today’s world, learning details about a celebrity’s life is just a click away; a quick Google search can take you directly to a Wikipedia article or tabloid headline. But some artists choose to tell their own stories, diving deeper into their backgrounds and into who they are as people than any online link could do. Neko Case, the popular alt-country and indie-rock artist, has done just that.

The Grammy-nominated musician, known to fans for her candor and authenticity, has penned a memoir that offers both seriousness and levity. In The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, Case explores her poverty-stricken childhood, where she refers to herself as feral and “raised by two dogs and a space heater” here in Washington State. Case also reflects on desire and friendship and the way that art, music, and a deep connection to nature guided her journey from neglected girl to international stardom.

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You offers itself as a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles.

Singer, songwriter, music producer, visual artist, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers. She authors the newsletter ‘Entering The Lung’ and is composing the musical theater adaptation of an Academy Award-winning motion picture.

For over 30 years, radio DJ and producer Cheryl Waters has been enriching people’s lives through artist advocacy and music discovery at the influential Seattle radio station KEXP. Cheryl’s career in radio began in 1994 as a volunteer DJ at the station, then-known as KCMU. Since 2005, Cheryl has been the host of the Midday Show on KEXP, a daily music program where she interviews and champions a wide spectrum of musicians from KEXP’s studios in Seattle as well as remote broadcasts. She is Creative Director of KEXP’s live performances, which have collectively received over 1 billion views worldwide on KEXP’s YouTube channel.

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