Matty Frank / CSB / Debbie The Artist / JR – LGBTQ Center Benefit!
Matty Frank “I’ve been small town, i’ve been big city. i’ve been Grimes and i’ve been Soccer Mommy. but i still haven’t been to Dorothea Dix Park, can we please go for the love of GOD. Self taught in almost all of his musical and engineering knowledge, multi instrumentalist and vocalist matty frank audaciously combines powerhouse pop/r&b vocal runs with introspective and moody indie folk rock sound palettes inspired by the genre’s saddest of lesbians. with lyricism at once infinitesimally specific and boundlessly universal, matty frank aims to show that queer people have much more to talk about than same sex attraction.” Debbie The Artist (they/themme) is a non-binary black-queer-feminist musician who embodies the power of creative expression as a vehicle for social change. Unapologetic in the pursuit of social justice and racial equity, Debbie pictures a revolutionary society where folks can exercise their fundamental human rights free from fear. This abolitionist politic shows up in all that they do. When they say, “Art is who and what I am”, what they mean is art is their tool, their medicine, their voice and vision. The songbird hails from Durham, North Carolina where they shake, make, bake, and create. Debbie writes music rooted primarily in the lived experiences of love, loss, magic, and triumph.JR is Outlaw queer country singer/songwriter based in Durham, North Carolina. Blending elements of bluegrass, classic country, folk, and blues to tell the often unheard story of being queer in the rural south.
Chris Pureka / John-Allison Weiss
It’s rare for an artist to bridge the divide between critical acclaim and dedicated fan engagement. Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose body of work has resonated deeply with these seemingly disparate milieus. Her music has straddled the folk, americana and indie rock genres over the course of her 20 year career, and over that time, her bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of life in song has struck a chord with those listeners who crave authenticity and depth. Chris’s elegant emotionality as a vocalist and her flair as a lyricist have garnered her favorable comparisons to Chan Marshall, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. Over many years of touring on both sides of the Atlantic, she has shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as The Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Cowboy Junkies, Haley Heynderickx, and Ani DiFranco. She has had her songs featured on such television shows as Brothers and Sisters, Covert Affairs and Shameless and well as a song featured in the Sundance featured indie film, The Royal Road. Along the way, Chris has remained truly independent, selling nearly 50,000 albums through her own label, Sad Rabbit RecordsJohn-Allison Weiss: Known for their gritty, melodic indie pop songwriting, John-Allison Weiss emerged at the end of the 2000s as an early crowd-funding hero with a strong D.I.Y. ethos that has defined them throughout their career. After establishing themselves among the punk underground, they became a staple of the Warped Tour and released highly rated albums like 2013’s Say What You Mean and 2015’s New Love. Touring with everyone from Lou Reed to Letters to Cleo, Weiss has also collaborated as a songwriter with artists including Tegan Quin and Kevin Devine. Following a live album and 2021’s Death Valley Demos EP, they signed with Get Better Records and issued the singles “Different Now” and “Feels Like Hell” from their upcoming album ‘The Long Way’ out February 17th.
BITCH (seated show!) / Katie Cash / Dissimilar South
“Between her effervescent style and, and the violin and synth-heavy music they’re known for, Bitch sure is giving new meaning to the word.” – BUST Bitch is a straight-up, real, fearless performer.” – Ani Difranco Glide Magazine calls single “Easy Target,” “subtly electrifying.” “Bitchcraft is poppy and poetic and will put her on the map for new audiences to discover.” – Brooklyn Vegan Read the LA Weekly feature, “Life’s a Bitch and then you Fly” Bitch makes witchy poet pop. She does it with violins and synthesizers. The resulting songs from her new album Bitchcraft, which came out on Kill Rock Stars February 4th, 2022, are heartbreaking, spectral, political and beautiful. Bitch is based in Los Angeles after living in New York for many years. She’s a longstanding queer music icon and “Bitchcraft” is her 9th studio album. Bitch first achieved notoriety as one half of the queer folk duo Bitch & Animal. The band went on tour with Ani DiFranco, whom they met while playing a gig at a pizza shop in Provincetown. In the mid 2000s, Bitch went solo, and shared stages with the Indigo Girls, acted in John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus, co-wrote a song with Margaret Cho, produced two albums of her elder folk hero Ferron, and licensed some of her songs to The L Word. Read More Eight years ago, she began to weave together Bitchcraft, her latest record. Bitchcraft was born in a move from New York City, where Bitch had lived for 15 years, to a log cabin in the woods. There was all the time in the world to make art, and it was there, in the cabin, that Bitch began to write some of the songs that would appear on Bitchcraft. “It gave me space to think about the biggest version of myself that I could be,” she says of those early days in the cabin. The songs she wrote were a departure from anything she’d ever written before, and she began to craft huge pop tracks with the help of her trusty violin. Then, she moved to LA and Bitchcraft began to shapeshift again. In the years that followed, Bitch assembled a coven to complete it. She called on Anne Preven (Beyonce, Demi Lovato), the rapper God-des and Roma Baran (Laurie Anderson) as advisors. Melissa York (Team Dresch, The Butchies) and Faith Soloway (Transparent) co-wrote some of the songs. Bitchcraft, her first album in 8 years, is one that makes you think and makes you dance. It was recorded in LA, Austin, Provincetown, and Boston. Full of violins, synths, and huge vocals, the record is neon pink and in your face. It’s Joni Mitchell set to a click track; it’s queer Cyndi Lauper and will hex you with its brilliance. It also makes you think: about the state of the world, about evil politicians, about what it means to exist as a woman, and how to find joy along the way.
Pinhook Open Stage
SIGN UP OPENS @ 7PM THAT DAY! Welcome back – open stage. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open mics! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.
Pinhook Open STAGE
Welcome back – open mic or in this case – open stage. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. 1rst Tuesdays starting in June will be our open stage / mic / whatever! (check the web before you come to make sure its happening!)Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open performances! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.
Pinhook Open Stage
SIGN UP OPENS @ 7PM THAT DAY! Welcome back – open stage. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open mics! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.
Pinhook Open Stage
Welcome back – open mic or in this case – open stage. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. 1rst Tuesdays starting in June will be our open stage / mic / whatever! (check the web before you come to make sure its happening!)Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open performances! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.
Pinhook Open Mic / Stage
SIGN UP OPENS @ 7PM THAT DAY! Welcome back – open stage. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open mics! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.
Pinhook Open Stage
SIGN UP HEREWelcome back – open stage. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. 1rst Tuesdays starting in June will be our open mic! (check the web before you come to make sure its happening!)Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open mics! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.
Pinhook Open Mic
Welcome back – open mic. We really have loved these forever, and are offering them again. 1rst Tuesdays starting in June will be our open mic! (check the web before you come to make sure its happening!)Bring your instrument – your poem – your song. We’re doing everything but comedy for these open mics! There will be limited inputs for this event. Please message our instagram @the_pinhook or twitter @thepinhook with questions. And lets workshop our art together team.