Justin Vivian Bond and Carletta Sue Kay at Great American Music Hallhttp://www.slimspresents.com/events/2013-05-05/justin-vivian-bond/ $27, All ages. Hi San Francisco friends. I'm coming to town to celebrate my 50th birthday with a Cinco de Mayo Concert -that's May 5th for those of you who don't speak Spanish- at The Great American Music Hall!!! My special guests will be Leigh Crow, Veronica Klaus, Dave End, Nathann Carrera, Amber Martin and Lance Horne. I'm very excited to tell you that Carletta Sue Kay will be the opening act. 50 years! That's 600 glorious months of glamour! I hope you can come to the party. Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a writer, singer, painter, and performance artist. Mx Bond is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, published by The Feminist Press and Susie Says… a collaboration with Gina Garan (Powerhouse Books, 2012). V's debut CD DENDRPOPHILE was self-released on WhimsyMusic in 2011 and was followed by SILVER WELLS in 2012. In 2011 Justin Vivian's art exhibition The Fall of the House of Whimsy was presented at Participant Inc. in New York City. Mx Bond was nominated for a Tony Award for Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway in 2007. Other notable theatrical endeavors include starring as Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis in Scott Wittman's production of Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis as part of La Mama E.T.C.'s 50 Anniversary Season, originating the role of Herculine Barbin in Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking play Hidden: A Gender, touring with the performance troupe The Big Art Group and appearing in John Cameron Mitchell's film Shortbus. Other films include Sunset Stories (2012), Imaginary Heroes (2004), and Fanci's Persuasion (1995). Mx Bond is a recipient of The Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award for Performance Art/Theater, an Obie and a Bessie. Justin Vivian Bond is Living! Carletta Sue Kay Carletta Sue Kay is a creation of Randy Walker, a large man who puts on wigs and dresses and, backed by a rock band, sings beautiful, often lovesick songs with a skilled tenor voice. This may tempt you to make some assumptions about Carletta Sue Kay, possibly about drag queens and/or a gay fan base – but resist that urge. Rather than serving preconceived notions, Carletta's incongruous presence serves to heighten the drama of her songs. It helps that Walker is an incendiary singer who can surge from a soft lilt to a hysterical climax – and then back again – with unnerving ease. (Find online a video of "Cruel, Cruel Man," from an earlier Great American Music Hall performance, to see this in action.) Carletta raises a number of questions, but also one major certainty: When she is onstage, your attention will be, too.
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Reminder: Justin Vivian Bond and Carletta Sue Kay at Great American... @ Sun May 5, 2013 8pm - 11pm (Queer Things)
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