Pamela Means w/ Matthew Thornton at The Parlor Room
Schedule
Fri Nov 01 2024 at 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
32 Masonic St, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060 | Northampton, MA
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Pamela Means w/ Matthew Thorntonat The Parlor Room
Friday, November 1st at 7:30pm
SHOW: 7:30pm / DOORS: 7:00pm
ADV TIX:
$15 GA / $13 MEMBERS
Pamela Means is a Easthampton MA-based Out(spoken), Biracial, independent artist whose “kamikaze guitar style” and punchy provocative songs have worn a hole in two of her acoustic guitars. Armed with the razor wit of a stand-up comic, engaging presence, elegant poetry, and irresistible charm, Pamela Means’s “stark, defiant songs” (New York Times) set the status quo and the stage afire.
Pamela’s commitment to interrogating social ills was fostered by her unique childhood. “As the adopted daughter of a white mother and black father, I learned about dismantling systems of oppression from the inside out.” Pamela received her first guitar at the age of fourteen, just after her mother died of cancer, and it soon became Pamela’s primary vehicle for expression. It would also serve as a passport out of a life that consisted of poverty, foster homes, and the inner city life of hyper-segregated Milwaukee WI.
Pamela Means relocated to Boston, busked in the city subway and famed Harvard Square, founded her own record label and began touring. Pamela has since performed on three continents and across the country, gaining fans and rave reviews from Anchorage to Amsterdam, Sydney to Stockholm, San Francisco to Honolulu to New York, breaking album sales records at national festivals and sharing stages with Pete Seeger, Neil Young, Shawn Colvin, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Gil Scott-Heron, Adrian Belew, Violent Femmes, Holly Near and more. Means has also been the recipient of several nominations and music awards in multiple categories.
Pamela Means “exhibits a rare emotional fire in today’s folk world,” (Seven Days, Burlington VT) so much so that Ani DiFranco exclaimed, “you’ve got such a deep, deep groove, I can’t get out. And, I wouldn’t want to.” With Truth as ammunition, Pamela Means brings the fight for social justice and human dignity to the forefront of a new generation.
Matthew Thornton plays cello through looper/FX pedals, playing meticulously crafted songs that draw from folk, progressive and alternative rock, jazz and more.
Matthew Thornton is a songwriter and musician living in Western Mass. Though he’s equally at home with a guitar or a piano, usually you’ll see him on the cello, live-looping through a roster of groovy, thoughtful originals. Think XTC and Radiohead raising Nick Drake's clone on a diet of European modern jazz and prog rock.
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Where is it happening?
32 Masonic St, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060Event Location & Nearby Stays:
