BIG PRIDE: Big Freedia / Cuntry Kings

Sep 28, 12 BIG PRIDE: Big Freedia / Cuntry Kings

Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 Show Starts: 10:00 pm

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With: DJ JIL / L.E.D Hoop Dancer Paige LaWall afterparty!

Celebrate Pride week with the Proudest. Fun starts at 5:00 PM in the Garage Bar with DJs and live music and goes until we can't be open any more. In the Showroom and the Garage Bar.

Presented by Wonderland Promotions and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

  • $20 wristband gets you in the showroom for the entire evening for both the Cuntry Kings and Big Freedia
  • $12 wristband gets you in the showroom for Big Freedia ($15 @ door)
  • $10 wristband gets you in the showroom for Cuntry Kings

Big Freedia

On stage at Midnight PBR
Big Freedia (pronounced "Free-da") is the undisputed "Queen Diva" of Bounce Music, and performs six or more times a week in various venues throughout her home town of New Orleans.

Bounce Music is an original urban music rising up from the intimate and fun-loving nature of the New Orleans housing projects which dominate the city's street culture, and Freedia performs a derivative of Bounce reserved for self-proclaimed "Sissies" (a locally used name for biological men with varied and ambiguous sexual identities) that has risen to prominence in recent years and features explicitly gay and cross-dressing musicians and themes. Big Freedia, like other "Sissy" artists, has achieved mainstream success with several New Orleans hit singles such as "Gin in My System" and "Azz Everywhere!" from her albums "An Ha, Oh Yeah" (1999) and "Queen Diva" (2003). Freedia began her musical career almost 15 years ago at the Walter L. Cohen High School in New Orleans, where she was enlisted as choir director from her Sophomore to Senior years. She sees her performance as a Bounce artist as an extension of this work, often interacting in a call and response/teacher and student, fashion with her audiences.

While also running a successful decorating business (for which she counts the Mayor's office as a client), Freedia recently developed a musical about her life entitled "Catch That Beat" which featured cameo appearances by a who's who of New Orleans Bounce artists alongside the story of her upbringing in New Orleans 3rd Ward. Since 2009 Freedia has begun traveling outside the city regularly with her dancers and live DJ, Rusty Lazer, playing to audiences on the East and West Coast alongside (or onstage with) artists such as Spank Rock, Ninjasonik, Japanther, Monique and many more. Big Freedia has always acted as a mentor for many younger artists and is currently at work on her third album. This year Freedia performed on the West coast with New Orleans band Galactic, recreating her collaboration on the critically-acclaimed 2010 album "Ya-Ka-May", and at North By Northeast alongside Kid Sister, De La Soul and her New Orleans neighbors Quintron and Miss Pussycat.

Dj Whodi and Dj Shahzad will be DJ'ing!

http://bigfreedia.com/bootybattle/
Big Freedia on Facebook

Cuntry Kings

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On stage at 10 PM
The Cuntry Kings fashion feminist anti-racist drag performance from the raw material of pop culture, Southern queer experience, and national disgrace. The fifteen-member troupe is based in Durham, North Carolina, but has been spotted strutting on stages across the US and Western Europe. Blending an intersectional analysis of oppression with campy Broadway choreography, their cuntry cookin' is sure to satisfy.

Cuntry Kings on Facebook
Cuntry Kings event page

DJ JIL / L.E.D Hoop Dancer Paige LaWall afterparty!

After Big Freedia

Drop by Motorco to buy advance tickets and save the service charge!