$10/$12 at the door
LETITIA VANSANT – Full band show
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Letitia VanSant’s lyrics are at once intensely personal and politically relevant. Hailed as one of Baltimore’s strongest songwriters, her distinctly intimate voice is fortified by sparse indie folk and Americana arrangements. Songs from her upcoming album Gut It to the Studs have already won critical acclaim from across the map, including Kerrville New Folk, the Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest, Falcon Ridge, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, and Culture Trip’s Top 8 DC-Area Musicians to Follow.
BE STEADWELL
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Be Steadwell is a singer songwriter from Washington DC. With roots in jazz, acapella and folk-Be calls her music QUEER POP. In her live performances, she utilizes looping, vocal layering and beat boxing to compose her songs on stage. Be’s original music features earnest lyricism, and proud LGBTQ content.
As she pursued her career in music, she began a career in film. Shooting and editing her own music videos, Be combined her love of music with narrative film. Her film Vow of Silence featured in festivals around the world. After receiving a BA at Oberlin College, Be completed her MFA in film at Howard University in 2014.
Be kicked off 2017 at The Women’s March, singing behind Maxwell and Janelle Monae. The Astraea Global Arts Fund awarded Be a grant to produce her next album, “Queer Love Songs”. In September, Be had the opportunity to open for Big Freedia at DC’s Honeygroove Festival. The DC Commission in the Arts awarded Be with the 2018 Artist Fellowship. Be is currently touring her music and screening her film Vow of Silence internationally.
ELENA LACAYO
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Elena Lacayo is a singer-songwriter and leader of the DC-based bilingual folk-rock band Elena & Los Fulanos. Originally from Managua, Nicaragua, Lacayo identifies herself as both American and Nicaraguan and her music, which ranges from twangy, heartbreak-themed folk Americana, to soothing, introspective, violin-infused Latin rock reflects this dual identity. Her band’s Wammie-nominated debut album, Miel Venenosa, was released in 2014 and her band’s second album, Volcán, (2017) has been hailed as “a bilingual folk album for the resistance” by the Washington City Paper, which also included her in their People Issue 2017 highlighting notable Washingtonians.
