Who: A Strange Bird
A Strange Bird is a queer nomadic songster and guitarist whose sharp-tongued tunes echo a life spent slipping through the cracks.
Raw, openhearted, and hauntingly familiar, A Strange Bird sings soft songs about hard truths. Unapologetically honest, their autobiographical tunes give voice to words often thought and seldom spoken. Lyrically-forward and interspersed with spoken word, their sound brings to mind artists such as Valerie June, Nina Simone, and Tracy Chapman. With a syncopated thumping and plucking of chords, this griot’s honeyed voice leads you down the shadowy hallways of their past, walks you through the hard lessons they’ve learned, and offers you hope and solidarity as the cure for what ails you.