Pride Singer-Songwriter Benefit for Black & Beyond the Binary Collective

Cloud out loud is a queer songwriter, originally from the east coast and currently living in Eugene. Their sound weaves in jazz, folk, and pop on the electric guitar, with lyrics that reflect love, loss, and all things gay.

A West Coast multi-hyphenate artist, Lisa Forkish creates music that infuses soul stirring harmonies with life-affirming lyrics, reminding us of our interconnectedness while singing into the seemingly lonely paradox of the human experience. Through themes of destruction and rebirth, grief and joy, transformation, justice and love, Lisa’s music can be described as queer song alchemy for the revolution, rooted in the musical traditions of jazz, folk and contemporary a cappella: https://lisaforkish.com/

California-raised songwriter, musician, and sound artist, MJ Upstairs, was obsessed with GarageBand as a kid. Inspired by her Dad’s introduction to the software, she immersed herself in looping MIDI instruments and layering her voice into demos on the family computer. She continued writing music and gigging throughout Oakland as a teen and eventually moved on to the indie-rock basements of Philadelphia’s house show scene. MJ Upstairs weaves lush soundscapes into catchy pop-rock anthems.

Hailing from the Southwest, Indy Songsmith, Tender Desertrat, writes songs that leave us searching for shapes in the clouds, bones in the sand, and stories in our blood. Their lyrics, both pensive and playful, collude with their melodic cadence to create an irresistible sonic spellscape. Accompanied by Temple on drums and Berkley on violin (The Mischief), their sound is a deep, anchoring presence that brings out all the colors, textures and nuances of the human heart.

Queer Choir is a non-gendered, intergenerational, re-humanizing community choir for queer, trans and gender-expansive individuals of all identities and voice types, weaving lush vocal harmonies with messages of love and liberation: https://queerchoircollective.com/

Doors at 6pm, Showtime at 7pm

$20 ADV, $25 DOS