FAT WHITE FAMILY
Fat White Family are the greatest young rock band in the UK and this probably extends to the rest of the world as well. What's that? You want to know more? Christ on callipers, ok, let's see what we've got here then…It won't come as news to anyone who has been to one of their regular Slide-In nights at their local pub and HQ, The Queens Head in Brixton, South London but for a band that only really coalesced as the Fat White Family in 2011, the six piece have already got several once-in-a-lifetime/ 'OMG – were you there?' gigs under their belt. On December 10th 2013 they rattled the walls of the legendary 100 Club, thus aligning themselves with the numerous legends who have trod the very same stage. The band summoned up the feral electric skronk blues of The Magic Band and The Birthday Party, the proto-punk pummelling of The Monks and The Modern Lovers and the twisted folk of Charles Manson and The Country Teasers. And as singer Lias Saoudi, clad in nothing but a pair of back to front, skin tight rubber trousers, was carried at head height off stage by a crowd of howling devotees, it was clear that something special had just happened.
However, it's not all been plain sailing. When confronted by London's pay to play, indie toilet circuit, the Fat Whites aren't known for toeing the line. They're already adept at sniffing out bullshit. At a recent gig in a down at heel dive that shall remain nameless it took less than three songs for the train to come screaming off the tracks.
Nathan Saoudi, Lias' young brother and the group's raven haired organist, says: "It was more of a fight than a gig. It was promoted by these guys who weren't in it for the right reasons. They were just dodgy businessmen. They wouldn't let us play. They cut the microphones. They put bouncers on stage with us. So we just started smashing the equipment up. I remember looking round and my brother Lias was naked and masturbating and it was kicking off everywhere. I was laughing my head off, 'Oh my god what the hell's happening?'"
Saul Adamczewski, the gap-toothed musical director of the group adds: "Literally one minute I was on stage and the next I was outside on the pavement. One by one everyone came flying out of the same door. Then some locals came steaming out and there was a brawl in the middle of the road which only stopped when the police turned up…" He pauses and continues: "But it's not really about the venue or what kind of night it is. I think how good the show is has got a lot to do with how we react off each other. Unless you can go in fearless it doesn't really happen. It doesn't matter how many people are there. The best gig we ever played was to two people. We played for five hours. And it was great that Halloween in Hastings when Lias got naked and painted his cock black so it looked like he had no genitals…" Fat White Family were formed out of the ashes of two bands. In 2006 the 17-year-old Saul's band The Metros were signed to a major deal and touted as the next Libertines. However it was the classic case of too much too young and the band never lived up to their initial promise, fizzling out by 2009. (Saul says: "It was sickening really – telling us we're going to be the next Arctic Monkeys! [laughs] I was just completely lost. I went from having pocket money to having a really big record deal. In the long run it was good though because I became sufficiently jaded. And that's how that became this.") The second was a South London pub rock band called The Saudis, featuring brothers Nathan and Lias. (Lias says: "We were the worst band in London. Always third on the bill at the New Cross Inn on a Tuesday." Although it should be noted that good or not, they still managed to complete a three month tour of Algeria.) They would attend each others gigs but it was a meeting of minds that almost never happened.
DILLY DALLY
“Sexy, menacing, marching, triumphant, and chaotic” – SPIN
Dilly Dally began as a teenage dream shared by Katie Monks and Liz Ball. The two shared a love for dreamy, grungy guitars, epic pop ballads, and began writing music together in their Toronto apartment.
In spring 2014, Dilly Dally self-released their first single, entitled ‘Next Gold.’ The song has since received praise from Pitchfork, NME, and Brooklyn Vegan. It came from a collection of material the band recorded with producers Leon Taheny (Owen Pallett, Austra) and Josh Korody (Fucked Up, Greys) at Candle Studios. That October, the band released a 7” single “Candy Mountain/Green” through Fat Possum/Buzz Records.
It’s taken a few years for the band to fall into itself with the right people, but with the addition of Benjamin Reinhartz (drums) and Jimmy Tony (bass) joined this year, their live sound has never been more energetic and in April this year the band released another song – the raw, unkempt ‘Gender Role’. Dilly Dally is currently at work on their first full length record, scheduled for release in the Fall of 2015.
Doug Theriault is a long time Portland improviser, performer, composer and instrument builder. His work has covered minimalism, noise, jazz rock and classical music. He is interested in the cross contamination of these different approaches.
Doug.theriault.org
Gordon Ashworth is an American musician and sound artist whose primary field is experimental composition for string instruments, magnetic tape and field recordings. He has been heavily involved in the noise and experimental music underground since 2002 and has released dozens of drone, noise, and folk recordings under the names Concern, Oscillating Innards, CAEN, Riverbed Mausoleum, and now his real name. He has performed in over 25 countries and is a member of the extreme metal band Knelt Rote. His debut full-length “S.T.L.A.” is a deep exploration of the fundamental elements of American folk music, musique concrete, and modern classical. Gordon is the head of the cassette label Iatrogenesis, the archival vinyl label Olvido, and is a volunteer at KBOO community radio. His brother is the musician Owen Ashworth (Advance Base, ex-Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), who runs the label Orindal Records.
gordonashworth.com / gordonashworth.bandcamp.com / soundcloud.com/gordonashworth
5-15, sliding scale
Join Lucy Lee Yim for SELFIE-HELPIE
4 Wednesdays (see below for dates and details)
Description:
Getting into, out of, over and under yourself (or at least flirting with the idea that this is a possibility).
In this class we are going to be with ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, entertain ourselves, bore ourselves, encourage ourselves and scare ourselves all while somehow being with one another.
Worried you are self-centered? Dancing when no one is looking? Wanting to be seen but also wanting to be invisible? This is an interdisciplinary class centered around our bodies and our bodies in relation to each other, space and time. The swirl of emotions and excitement that comes with art making will simply be in the room with us as we proceed.
There will be in class activities and self studies outside of class that may potentially spark the beginnings, middles and ends of a creative project. We will share with each other our questions, needs, desires, fears and curiosities, ultimately entering into performance.
Wednesdays April 13+20, May 4+11
Time: 7-8:15
Cost: All 4 class for $40 or $12 Drop In
Artist Bio/Pic:
http://cargocollective.com/lucyyim/ABOUT
Bent Design Lab will be participating in an Open House during Design Week Portland on April 20th, 2016.
The open house will host a pop up gallery featuring 6 of our talented Design Lab artists, a view into the minds of Directors Solomon Burbridge and Josh Cox, a chance to see our reels projected on our brand new 25’ screen and a blow out interactive dance party from 7pm on with co-hosts ASIFA and CASCADE ACM SIGGRAPH!!!
Small snacks provided by DogTown Hotdogs and Little T American Baker. Adult beverages provided by Base Camp Brewing Company and Coffee provided by Nectar Cafe PDX!
Click here to register and RSVP!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dwp-2016-open-house-bent-image-lab-registration-21545577402?aff=es2
Design Week Site:
https://2016.designweekportland.com/openhouses/bent-design-lab
10 bux. This show is a benefit for Community Alliance of Tenants
www.OregonCat.org
For nearly two-decades Turiya has spent her time educating, motivating and inspiring audiences of all ages. Collaborating and opening for renowned leaders and artists like Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, Angela Davis, John Trudell, Saul Williams, Staceyann Chin, Al Letson, & Al Olson, Bryonn Bain; Turiya delivers messages that resonate with wide audiences. Her work incorporates the arts, pop culture, and history, with personal, community and political struggles. As a teaching artist Turiya's provided assemblies, workshops & residencies to over 50 different schools K-12. She's created and hosted a variety of events to feature the talents of youth and other artists since 1997. Creating and delivering almost 20 unique university courses, across four departments, Turiya has built a veritable trunk show on culture and identity. Author and performer, her collection of poetry, Roots, Reality & Rhyme is a poetic journey that bridges the personal & political, the mythic & the real. Her one-woman show, with the same name, garnered great reviews and delved deep into her life story. She’s provided feature performances, workshops, panels, guest lectures and keynotes at over 20 colleges. Turiya has featured at hundreds of venues, including: The Nuyorican, CBGB's & Bar 13 in NYC,Black Lily in Philadelphia, the Bezerkley Slam in Berkeley, CA & Power to the Peaceful in Golden Gate Park SF. She competed at the National Poetry Slam competitions 3 years and was Portland's Grandslam champion. She hosts a monthly radio show, Poetic License, on KBOO Portland community radio that highlights the poetry and work of artists she meets along her travels of the country, as well as in her former state of residence.
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. They work with found text, ephemeral sculpture, and photography. Their first book List of Consonants is available from Bottlecap Press. Find manuel at twigtech.tumbl
Doors 7pm. Show 8pm. 21+over. Free.
The lo-fi pop prodigy swings through Portland in support of her new album, Next Thing.
All Ages (bar w/ ID) / $12 adv - $14 dos
adv tix:
http://holdmyticket.com/event/236458
What is Portland Pizza Week? $2 specialty slices available during pizza week only from:
Amalfi's Restaurant
Atlas Pizza
Baby Doll Pizza
Bella Faccia Pizzeria
Blackbird PIZZA
Bridge City Pizza
DeNicola's Italian Restaurant
East Glisan Pizza
Good Neighbor Pizzeria
Hot Lips Pizza
Mississippi Pizza Pub
Old Town Brewing Co. (NE only)
Pazzo Ristorante
Pizza a go go
Roman Candle Baking Co.
Scottie's Pizza Parlor
Sizzle Pie
Straight From New York Pizza
UFO Pizza (Portland)
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/996464263742371/
The band’s debut album is intent on dismantling the ideas western listeners have about popularized Tuareg music. This new wave of Tuareg musicians sound very different to the desert distortion that accompanies groups like Mdou Moctar or Group Inerane. Instead, it finds a calm and passionate soul, provides sumptuous slow burners, and a complexity of composition that hasn’t been demonstrated by previous music exported from the Saharan people’s musical repertoire.
Even if the band has a direct DNA link to trail blazers Tinariwen - (Eyadou Ag Leche of Tinawiren is a cousin of frontman Sadam, and guided their evolution and produced and co-wrote several songs on this album), their poetry and flow has a more integrally urban base than the ancestral tamashek poetry and traditional rhythms of their elders, Tinariwen. Instead they offer something much more fresh and intricate; there is a lot of sensitivity and space in these jams, a lot of room for your mind to ponder and drift.
This intimacy of Imarhan’s sound is no coincidence. In the language of the Kel Tamashek people ‘Imarhan’ means ‘the ones I care about’ - Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane aka Sadam, Tahar Khaldi, Hicham Bouhasse, Haiballah Akhamouk and Abdelkader Ourzig all grew up near each other in Tamanrasset, Southern Algeria, in a Tuareg community of Northern Malian descent. The giant divide between their spiritual home and physical home is heard in their tracks: the funkier groove of Western Africa, the emptier, subtle tones of Saharan Traditional folk music and the fire and romance of Algerian Rai music. No other Tuareg release to date has had such a variance of rhythms, tempo and feeling.
Imarhan’s record is a heads-up to anyone who thought Tuareg music as just one thing: it’s an invitation to closer listening and also an album that will stay fresh for a long time and influence those from the Sahara and beyond.
Following the highly-anticipated release of her twentieth album, "Dig In Deep" (Feb 26, Redwing Records), Bonnie Raitt will kick off her 2016 North American Tour, returning to major cities where she's long been recognized as one of contemporary music's great live performers.
Bonnie's Dig In Deep Tour will feature her longtime touring band, which backs her on the forthcoming album, including James "Hutch" Hutchinson (bass), Ricky Fataar (drums), and George Marinelli (guitar), along with Mike Finnigan (keyboards), who joined the line-up for the triumphant 2012-2013 Slipstream tour.
"So much of the album is focused on what I want to do live," she says. "I write and pick these songs so we can nail them on stage."
Since the release of 2012's GRAMMY Award-winning album "Slipstream," Bonnie has performed over 200 shows in the U.S. and abroad, including a sold-out concert at Boston's Fenway Park with James Taylor this past summer. Her powerful chemistry with this band creates a magic that has been described as "exquisite" (Chicago Tribune) and "perfect" (Boston Globe).
Opening for Bonnie on the tour will be The California Honeydrops, a five-piece ensemble led by dynamic vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski. Known for its engaging live show and diverse musical influences, the group incorporates Bay Area R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, New Orleans second-line, gospel, and psychedelic groove into its sound.
Continuing a long-standing tradition in conjunction with the Guacamole Fund, Bonnie will donate one dollar from every ticket purchased to grassroots local, regional, and national organizations whose work focuses on safe and sustainable energy, social justice and human rights, environmental protection, and blues/music education.
The album pre-order for "Dig in Deep" begins on November 6. The pre-sale for the tour will start on November 10 for Bonnie's Fan Community (available through her website), and will be followed by the public on-sale November 13. Ticket sales on Bonnie's site include Special Benefit Seats and packages to pre-order "Dig In Deep" CDs and LPs and to purchase an exclusive merchandise item.
Bonnie Raitt on the Web:
Please join the Ambient/Experimental every third Sunday of the month event at various Portland haunts. The monthly line-ups represent varying genres of electronic music, from Glitchy IDM to Ambient, Drone and coolly Experimental soundscapes.
Come out for a night filled with delicately blended electronic sounds, samples, and live instruments guaranteed to bring the electronic heads out of their basements and into this cozy sanctuary.
This month welcomes:
| Indignant Senility |
Desecrated and haunted offerings
https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/indignant-senility
| Idol Eyes |
Astral Guitar Voyages
https://idoleyes.bandcamp.com/
| Selim X |
Glossy Ambient Cycles
https://realnewfast.bandcamp.com/
Visuals by:
Tape Jockey: Ant'lrd
FREE
Booking/Promotions:
Coco Madrid - djchachapdx@gmail.com
The second session of the home school class, generously hosted at the Cherry & Lucic house adjacent to the garage exhibition space (http://cherryandlucic.com/). Stream will be available for those who can't make it. A pdf of session #1 powerpoint can be found here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzcxE8roGFt1LXhmUDJVcHFPOW8/view
In lieu of a description of the class, here is an excerpt from an email from Manuel Arturo Abreu sent to the Cherry co-directors:
"I have a very busy week ahead of me but I will try very hard to provide you all with an overview of my talk. I am thinking this one will relate to poetry's incursion into art - both in canonical high modernist times as well as in the contemporary moment and intervening periods. The last class worked heavily with ideas from David Joselit (his "heritage and debt" lecture specifically), and this time I am building on those ideas and seeing how they dovetail with Paul Mann's Theory-Death of the Avant Garde, in which he argues "the dematerialization of the art object is the refetishization of discourse." Maker aesthetics, abject figuration, and nostalgic craft have all seen a resurgence in contemporary practice and I want to investigate how this relates to poiesis and politico-aesthetic gentrification paradigms (whether it's neocolonial heritage-debt dividends as Joselit describes, or more innocuous subsumptions of marginality such as Portland's love of regionalism-as-institutionality).
Also will probably be tying in some ideas from Bifo's book And: Phenomenology of the End regarding the neurosocial shift from conjunctive thinking, which is open and driven by interpretation/sensibility, to connective thinking, which is driven by syntactic rules and set roles and denigrates phenomenological experience (ie embodied experience). His claims regarding language's power to negate actually-existing reality and the opportunities for alienation that arise from it resonate with my thoughts on the incursion of poetry (or the idea of poetry as a valueless object operating on an economy of magic) into art as well as its discourse and marketing. These are all loose ideas and I welcome us all hashing them out before Sunday, if there is time. If not, I will be happy to present a finished powerpoint and talk summary on (probably) Friday. One pressing need is the simplification of the ideas I am presenting. I will keep you posted.
I'm compiling an ebook consisting of art exhibition press releases which are poems. I'm just mentioning it because it amuses me."
Most of all, have fun !
Portland's fifth Silent Reading Party will be a special weekend-edition SRP, which will help accommodate folks who can't make SRP happen during the busy working week. All ages welcome. See your weekend out in readerly style!
Join fellow readers to read silently in good company. Bring your own print or digital book and enjoy two hours of undistracted time to read whatever you want. Expect happy hour prices and ambient music.
Email (Karen & Amanda) at silentreadingpartypdx@gmail.com for more information.
Bach’s Mass in B Minor is the pinnacle of the Baroque repertory and represents a synthesis of the musical and spiritual possibilities that Bach worked on throughout his life. Written over a period of 25 years, the Mass was never performed in its entirety during the composer’s lifetime. Performed by ten expert singer/soloists and chamber orchestra.
Get to know your local letterpress printers at the 7th Annual Letterpress Printers Fair. This family-friendly event will feature goods from an array of local printers, book artists, designers, and lovers of type, as well as live printing and hands-on demonstrations.
Letterpress printing is one of the few remaining craft industries where its practitioners are innovating contemporary applications using centuries’ old technology. Celebrate 500 years of the historic craft of letterpress printing and the community that sustains it here in Portland.
Cost: Free
Visit the event page for more information.
Celebrating the 108th day of the year with:
LIVE
Personable (LA) https://mgeddesgengras1.bandcamp.com/
Caustic Touch https://caustictouch.bandcamp.com/releases
Krycek https://soundcloud.com/kry_cek
Wav Fuzz https://soundcloud.com/wave-fuzz
DJ
Doubt (MPLS) https://dvs1mistress.bandcamp.com/album/mistress-03
S1 Resident DJs ;n)
Going late - take a power nap
21+, 8 presale/10 door (link when available)
BBQ/Backyard show with M. Geddes Gengras
Spend The Night Presents:
GUNNAR HASLAM (Portland Debut)
L.I.E.S, Mister Saturday Night, Delsin - NYC
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/gunnarhaslam
https://soundcloud.com/gunnar_haslam
OLIN (Portland Debut)
Argot, SmartBar - Chicago
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/olin
https://soundcloud.com/olin
+ Spend The Night residents:
Ben Tactic
Graintable
About Gunnar:
Haslam got his feet wet with DJing and production as an undergraduate at NYU, a time when he attended The Bunker religiously. When he released his first record in 2013—a full-length called Mimesiak—it was like a dam had broken. Since then he's maintained a steady outpouring of music, dropping EP after EP on Delsin, Argot, Mister Saturday Night and Efdemin's Naïf label, which put out what might be his biggest track yet: "Overcomplete," a colossal acid banger that's become something of a sleeper hit. In the meantime, he also made music with Tin Man as Romans, a duo that's about to tour Europe as a live act.” - Resident Advisor
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=504
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/gunnar-haslams-lebesgue-measures-interview
About Olin:
A Kansan by birth, Chicagoan by privilege, Olin has been quietly offering up his unique take on dance music. With several recent releases on respected labels such as Argot, Discovery, God Particle, Night Owl Diner, DETOUR, and more, Olin has cast a wide net with his productions, which range from deep techno to italo disco. His DJ sets offer the same dynamic variety and are often long-haul, cross-genre affairs. He is a resident DJ at Chicago institution, smartbar.
http://bit.ly/OlinBoilerRoomSet
21+
Take the sultry vibe of the Latin American Tropics, combine with the rhythm of India ("Taal") and stir into Tropitaal, a Desi/Latino Soundclash where the hottest club sounds from India and Latin America go head to head in an all-night dance-off of epic proportions. Resident DJs Anjali & The Incredible Kid combine their deep passions and deep crates from across the spectrum of Caribbean, Indian and Latin vibes. (We are not talking Salsa, but Reggaeton, Moombahton, Digital Cumbia, 3Ball Guarachero, Dembow and more.)
www.anjaliandthekid.com
www.facebook.com/Anjaliandthekid
www.soundcloud.com/djanjali
www.soundcloud.com/the-incredible-kid
www.instagram.com/anjaliandthekid
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent fifteen years igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by borders or language. They host the longest-running Bhangra and Bollywood party on the West Coast, co-founded the Pacific Northwest’s first Global Bass dance party and host two weekly radio shows on XRAY.FM and KBOO.FM. Few DJs can be said to have changed the sound of their city but that is exactly what DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have accomplished since they first introduced Portland, Oregon nightclub audiences to the many varied sounds of Global Bass at a raucous New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the heavy dance floor artillery of South Asia, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local music traditions with window-rattling production. Anjali and The Kid regularly perform at festivals including five sets at the Sasquatch! Music Festival tenth anniversary where they headlined the dance tent opening night. They have performed at festivals such as Decibel, MusicfestNW, PICA's TBA Festival, Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, Beloved, Photosynthesis, Soul'd Out Music Festival, Portland State of Mind, Fairytale Music Festival, Kaleidoscope, Vancouver Queer Film Festival & Portland International Film Festival to name a few. The duo travel to perform in cities such as New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco and Vancouver, BC to headline parties such as Basement Bhangra, iBomba, Bhangrateque, Ottomania and Non Stop Bhangra.
After making a name for themselves in their hometown’s raucous house party circuit, DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid introduced the Portland, Oregon nightclub scene to the sounds of Bhangra, Bollywood and Global Bass on New Year’s Eve 2000. A series of residencies followed, beginning with a night at the legendary Blackbird, and the duo began hosting their ANDAZ dance parties in July of 2002. The party’s focus on hardcore Panjabi Bhangra and the latest electronic confections from the Bollywood film industry continue to pack the dance floor after 13 years. While ANDAZ was still in the bloom of youth, Anjali and The Kid founded the revolutionary dance night ATLAS (with co-host/DJ E3) at Holocene in November of 2003 to introduce Portland to Global Bass sounds such as: Balkan Beats, Reggaeton, Funk Carioca, 3Ball Guarachero, Digital Cumbia, Urban Desi, French and Arabic Hip-Hop, Rai N B, Reggada, Dembow, Dubstep, Kuduro, Merengue Urbano and a host of other local and diasporic future musics. ATLAS was a vital party in Portland nightlife and the Global Bass scene internationally for more than nine years and remains the longest-running night in Holocene’s history. In 2013 Anjali and The Kid initiated TROPITAAL: A Desi Latino Soundclash, their latest project.
They have supported artists as diverse as Digable Planets, Balkan Beat Box, Major Lazer, Skrillex, A Tribe Called Red, DJ Spooky, Tigerstyle, Boban i Marco Markovic Orkestar, Delhi 2 Dublin, Sleigh Bells, Glitch Mob, State of Bengal, MSTRKRFT, Karsh Kale, DJ Rekha, CeU, Antibalas, Dengue Fever, Blockhead, Soulico, The Decemberists, Uproot Andy, Rupa & the April Fishes, Gold Panda, DJ Marcelinho Da Lua, Saini Surinder, Washed Out, Toy Selectah, Pink Martini, Quantic, Opiuo, Bonobo, Extra Golden, Maga Bo, Poirier, Plastician, Flying Lotus, Ming & FS, Joro-Boro, Kultur Shock, Ghostland Observatory, Rafi eL, J-Boogie, and Nickodemus from Turntables on the Hudson.
$5, 21 and over
Pink Collar Comedy Tour PDX! Partial proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood Oregon.
The Pink Collar Comedy Tour features New York-based comedians Kaytlin Bailey, Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson, and Erin Judge as they bring cutting-edge, hilarious stand-up comedy all across the US and beyond.
The Tour premiered in South Carolina in 2012 and has since played to packed houses in more than 36 cities, including Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco, Raleigh, and many more. The Boston Globe said it best: The Pink Collar Comedy Tour is "smart comedy by female comics.
Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/06/20/road-again-with-pink-collar-comedy-tour/5M2yEOKA249oGo6BkXd2xK/story.html
Kaytlin Bailey is the founder of the Pink Collar Comedy Tour and performs regularly at the famous Vagabond Cafe in the West Village of Manhattan. Her nothing-to-lose honesty and brazen comedic style are sure to make you laugh, or avoid eye contact with your significant other...and mom. She is originally from Raleigh, NC, and she has appeared at the Cape Fear Comedy Festival and the North by Northeast festival in Toronto.
Abbi Crutchfield is a comedian, writer and actor from Indianapolis, IN. Her insanely popular @curlycomedy Twitter account boasts more than 22,000 followers! She produces two live comedy hours in New York City: The Living Room Show and Positively Awesome. You can read her work on Witstream.com. Abbi has been featured on VH1 and MTV as well as in national commercials.
Carrie Gravenson, a native New Yorker, won the 2009 New York Underground Comedy Festivals Emerging Talent Stand-Up Competition and was a runner up in 2009s Catch a Rising Star Stand-Up Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the Ventura Comedy competition and the She Devil comedy contest in 2012. She also co-produces The Tomfoolery Hour, a popular monthly comedy showcase in New York City.
Erin Judge has appeared on Comedy Centrals "Live at Gotham" and at comedy clubs and venues all around the world. This Brooklyn native recently released her first stand-up album, So Many Choices (Rooftop Comedy Productions), to rave reviews. She has appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival, at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and in the pages of TimeOut New York, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. Erin's humor writing has appeared all over the internet, including on Salon.com and the Good Men Project.
Producer and guest comic: Belinda Carroll is a Portland based stand-up comedian, actress, and singer; she has appeared on fun stuff like Portlandia, MTV, XM Sirius radio and NBC’s Grimm a couple of times. She also has opened or featured for people like Erasure (Andy Bell), The Cliks, Julie Goldman, Deanne Smith, ANT, Dwight Slade, Laurie Kilmartin, among others. She also gets to travel, which is good because she gets to stay in hotels and there is something very gratifying about stealing little soaps. http://www.belindacarroll.org
Price: 12.00 Advance 20.00 Day of Show
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2518883
www.pinkcollarcomedytour.com
Pink Collar Comedy Tour PDX! Partial proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood Oregon.
The Pink Collar Comedy Tour features New York-based comedians Kaytlin Bailey, Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson, and Erin Judge as they bring cutting-edge, hilarious stand-up comedy all across the US and beyond.
The Tour premiered in South Carolina in 2012 and has since played to packed houses in more than 36 cities, including Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco, Raleigh, and many more. The Boston Globe said it best: The Pink Collar Comedy Tour is "smart comedy by female comics.
Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/06/20/road-again-with-pink-collar-comedy-tour/5M2yEOKA249oGo6BkXd2xK/story.html
Kaytlin Bailey is the founder of the Pink Collar Comedy Tour and performs regularly at the famous Vagabond Cafe in the West Village of Manhattan. Her nothing-to-lose honesty and brazen comedic style are sure to make you laugh, or avoid eye contact with your significant other...and mom. She is originally from Raleigh, NC, and she has appeared at the Cape Fear Comedy Festival and the North by Northeast festival in Toronto.
Abbi Crutchfield is a comedian, writer and actor from Indianapolis, IN. Her insanely popular @curlycomedy Twitter account boasts more than 22,000 followers! She produces two live comedy hours in New York City: The Living Room Show and Positively Awesome. You can read her work on Witstream.com. Abbi has been featured on VH1 and MTV as well as in national commercials.
Carrie Gravenson, a native New Yorker, won the 2009 New York Underground Comedy Festivals Emerging Talent Stand-Up Competition and was a runner up in 2009s Catch a Rising Star Stand-Up Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the Ventura Comedy competition and the She Devil comedy contest in 2012. She also co-produces The Tomfoolery Hour, a popular monthly comedy showcase in New York City.
Erin Judge has appeared on Comedy Centrals "Live at Gotham" and at comedy clubs and venues all around the world. This Brooklyn native recently released her first stand-up album, So Many Choices (Rooftop Comedy Productions), to rave reviews. She has appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival, at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and in the pages of TimeOut New York, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. Erin's humor writing has appeared all over the internet, including on Salon.com and the Good Men Project.
Producer and guest comic: Belinda Carroll is a Portland based stand-up comedian, actress, and singer; she has appeared on fun stuff like Portlandia, MTV, XM Sirius radio and NBC’s Grimm a couple of times. She also has opened or featured for people like Erasure (Andy Bell), The Cliks, Julie Goldman, Deanne Smith, ANT, Dwight Slade, Laurie Kilmartin, among others. She also gets to travel, which is good because she gets to stay in hotels and there is something very gratifying about stealing little soaps. http://www.belindacarroll.org
Price: 12.00 Advance 20.00 Day of Show
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2518883
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