Pgh Complaint Choir, Summer Phun w/ Phat Man Dee, Korel sightings & more!

Hey! Bon jour! Guten tak! Shalom! Hola mi amigos!

I have so many things happening simultaneously I don't always get the word out in the timely fashion I would care too. If you want to know where/when I will be singing, please follow me on twitter or facebook or check my calendar online, I hit those up with far more frequency than I do the email and blog stuff. That said, here goes!

Tonight June 6, 2014! 2 gigs!
6 p.m. Gateway Center T Station DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH with the Pittsburgh Complaints Choir. Complaints Choir website for exact locations. Al performances are free.

This project was conceived of by Christiane D, poet, vocalist, artist liaisons officer at the Pittsburgh Arts Council. She and I wrote a song with Pastor Deryck Tines, Andrew the Impaled, the arrangement was done by Douglas Levine and we got all the actual complaints through her website, so really, we wrote it with the Citizens of Pittsburgh. So, tonight is debut performance and we will perform it every night at 6 p.m. of the next 10 days of the Arts Festival downtown, so check the


Later tonight on June 6, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. at Mr Smalls Theatre in Milvale, PA!

 I am part of the Creative.Life.Support Revival Series show featuring Drowning Clowns, the Wreckids, Grey's Fool and a reunion of one of my favorite collections of Pittsburgh musicians, Crisis Car! I will sing with Liz Berlin and Korel Tunador! I will also debut some brand new tunes, as of yet unreleased! Show is at 7:30, over 21 is FREE under 21 is $2 to get in.
More info online:  https://www.facebook.com/events/545331375577015/

THIS SUNDAY June 8, 2014 at Equality on Ellsworth!

Event time is 4 pm, and I know Mayor Peduto, Councilman Bruce Kraus and poet Vanessa German are all on before me. Then I sing with the High Priestess of Pittsburgh Jazz, phenomenal pianist Ms Donna Davis! Don't miss this most excellent party, featuring local Drag Queens, the Re-52's (B 52's tribute band) and Charice of GLEE!  This event has a suggested donation of $10.
More info online: https://www.facebook.com/events/1482373621976239/

Next FRIDAY June 13, 2014 at Howler's Coyote Cafe!  I am co hosting a ridiculous evening filled with way too much amazing stuff. Me and my friend, local rapper and event organizer, HollyHood shall co emcee and evening featuring my husband's band Amoeba Knievel, Weird Paul, burlesque artist and filmmaker Smokin' McQueen and nationally dubious freak rocker Andy D. Its a 21 and over show, $10 at the door. My sister's production company booked it, so I am sure it will be a drunken and raucous evening of unparalleled joy and tomfoolery.
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/285165618323864/

Then I think I get to work on video editing for a couple weeks and get my work from this past spring and winter online....before I go out to my summer festival season!

July 1-6 - SubGenius World Gathering at Wisteria Campground, Pomeroy, NY

MUST BE A REGISTERED SUBGENIUS MINISTER TO ATTEND!
More info: http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html


July 7 - 12 Sankofa Festival at Brushwood Folklore Center, Sherman, NY

This is a very exciting gig for me, for I am leading a choir, a pan spiritual and multi cultural choir of singers at the event during the week, and we are going to perform with my band "The Cultural District" on Sat July 12, 2014 on the mainstage and my musicians for the evening shall be the High Priestess of Pittsburgh Jazz, Ms. Donna Davis, saxophonist Roby Supersax Edwards, percussionist JT Smitty Smith, and guitarist Carlos Peña! We'll be sharing that evening with Macabre Noir of Steel City Burlesque Academy and her burlesque students from the festival as well as our troupe, Kabarett Vulagre! Come on out and join us as we get down with America's modern pagans, wiccans, druids, Voudoo and Goddess worshippers! It is a campground, so you need to bring a tent, and there are week rates, weekend rates, and day rates. Bonfires, workshops, cool vendors and artists from all over!
More info:
http://www.brushwood.com/sankofa.html

Like I said, I am sorry for short notice on this weekend's stuff, but if you follow me on the twitter or the facebook or the web calendar, you can find out whats up as soon as I know it. I am honored to have you in my life and I appreciate sincerely your support of my work and the work of our community of wonderful artists and musicians. I hope you have a beautiful day and a beautiful summer. I hope our paths cross somewhere.
One love,
Mandee