Led by Stephanie Strange, Strange & the Familiars’ storytelling songs guide the audience into the supernatural Strange World that walks alongside ours, either path leading to a crossroads. 

Their live show mixes dark cabaret multimedia elements. Like comic books that delve deeper into the Strange World and shadow puppetry, crankie box, and storytelling, Strange & the Familiars offer a unique multifaceted perspective on the direction that humanity is heading, where our salvation may very well lie in our ability to dream our way through this long, dark night.

Featured in publications like The Portland Mercury, Vortex Magazine, Willamette Weekly, and Eleven Magazine, radio stations like KBOO, Portland Radio Project, XRAY.FM, and on podcasts like Emerge, Storytellers Telling Stories, Storybound, Geek in the City and more, Strange & the Familiars has been steadily finding their audience of odd ducks in the Pacific Northwest through the years. Featured at a showcase for SXSW in Austin, The Portland Folkfest at The Crystal Ballroom, and opening up for national acts like Tom Goss, Bria Skonberg, Curtis Eller, and Charming Disaster, Strange & the Familiars are doing their best to Keep Portland Strange.