Event
Big Freedia & the Divas with Rusty Lazer
Tap the Masses Presents:
New Orleans Bounce Superstar!
Big Freedia & the Divas with Rusty Lazer (New Orleans)
w/ special guests Juiceboxxx (last MKE show for a year) and DJ Tarik
Stonefly Brewery
Friday October 15th, 2010
9pm
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. 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).
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.
Big Freedia has been featured in NY Times a number of times recently. Check out what the hypes all about!
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/07/22/magazine/1247468494644/shaking-it-to-new-orleans-bounce.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25bounce-t.html?scp=1&sq=gender+bending&st=cse
http://bigfreedia.com/
This will also be Juiceboxxx's last show in Milwaukee for a year! You won't want to miss this party!
http://juiceboxxx.com/blog/
Sponsored by The Plaza Hotel- http://www.shorelinerealestate.com/
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LocationStonefly Brewery
735 E. Center St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212
United States
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