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Event Summary:

Los Angeles indie folk/pop troubadour Ethan Buckner wants you to see who he really is: his traumas and triumphs, anxieties and hopes. His forthcoming sophomore record EPHEMERA is part meditation, part declaration: blink, you’re here - blink again, you’re gone. There’s a fervor, an urgency to the fundamental truth: you can’t stop change. Etherial, intimate, vulnerable, and anthemic, his new work embraces vulnerability as a source of power. Joining him on stage on June 14 is singer-songwriter, and good friend, Sarah Christine and local artist Tallula Loeb.

Following a whirlwind year of touring and releases, topped by a packed headline show at LA’s iconic Troubadour to celebrate his debut LP Treading Water, Ethan’s world ground to a screeching halt in early 2025 when he suffered a severe back injury while traveling in rural India. Multiple operating rooms later, Ethan was completely immobilized, confined to his apartment for months, reckoning with mortality, long-overlooked shadows, consequences of pushing past limits. 

In that liminal space, Ethan wrote much of the material that worked its way into his forthcoming record EPHEMERA, his second collaboration with grammy-nominated producer Justin Glasco (Paris Paloma, Lone Bellow). EPHEMERA builds from the alchemy of soaring hooks and lush soundscapes that blanket his debut Treading Water (2024). Where Treading Water searches for calm in the chaos, EPHEMERA fully surrenders to life’s fragility, probing deep into grief and reckoning.