COYLE — When Fleur Jack dreamed about the future, romance was not part of the picture.
“For me, the biggest dream was music,” said the New Zealander-turned Seattleite.
But naturally, life happened, specifically her solo tour around the Pacific Northwest in fall 2011. She went into a music store in Lynnwood to buy an amplifier.
Up walked Wesley Wood.
“It was straight out of a movie. I turned around to see him, and thought, ‘Wow. What am I going to say next?’”
Both people became “stuttery,” she recalled. But Wood managed to sell her an amp, introduce himself and, later, join her on tour.
The pair are now the W Lovers, married musicians bringing their Americana and alt-country music to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center this Saturday night. This Concerts in the Woods show starts at 7:30 p.m. and, as is traditional, welcomes all ages with admission by donation.
Wesley and Fleur Wood sing of “love, road trips, moonshine, old towns and rodeos,” with influences ranging from the Beatles to Johnny Cash, according to www.theWLovers.com.
The road trips and love part come from the period of time between Wesley’s marriage proposal and Fleur’s completion of the immigration process. They were making their way through the paperwork when Fleur, on a visit home to Auckland, discovered she was pregnant.
“It was a crazy time. A lot of music came out of that time,” she said.
The couple now have Phoenix, their 19-month-old son. They share an apartment in Bothell, where Fleur also teaches nine students to play guitar and Wesley repairs guitars.
The W Lovers are busy on the Northwest live-music scene, too: Among their regular gigs are the Portland Saturday Market and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where they’re among the musicians cleared to play on the concourses.
“You put your guitar case out there,” said Fleur. “Some days, you can pay your rent. And your mailing list fills up with people from all over the world.”
At the airport or at an intimate venue such as Coyle’s Community Center, Fleur hopes to impart something beyond notes and words.
“Our songs are about all sorts of different things,” but the thread running through is love.
“I feel like people pick up on that,” she said.
