Pride at the Freight Curated by Vicki Randle

Name: Pride at the Freight Curated by Vicki Randle
Start: 2026-06-28T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704

Schedule

Sun, 28 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704 | Berkeley, CA

The Freight’s Annual Pride show is a new tradition officially launched in 2025 curated by Vicki Randle and backed by her band Skip The Needle.
This concert celebrates women and nonbinary musicians from a wide array of genres and backgrounds. Vicki’s radically genre-inclusive vision makes for an electrifying set featuring historically significant artists right alongside emerging artists.
Vicki Randle was born into a musical family; her father a jazz pianist and her brother a world-renowned opera singer. A guitarist, bassist, percussionist, composer and singer, Vicki has a 50 year long career recording, touring and composing in multiple genres: folk, jazz, rock, pop and others. Vicki has toured with Narada Michael Walden, Laura Nyro, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Wayne Shorter, and Kenny Loggins, and has recorded with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Todd Rundgren, Branford Marsalis, and many more. She was a percussionist and singer in the Tonight Show with Jay Leno band from 1992 to 2010. She toured with Mavis Staples for 8 years, appearing on 3 records, and her HBO documentary Mavis! Her rock and funk band Skip The Needle has released their 3rd album on Little Village records and she most recently recorded and toured as a member of the iconic rock quintet MC5.
Skip The Needle is an Oakland-based queer female quartet made up of Bay Area superstars; Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown and Katie Cash who fashion punk, funk and soul influenced rock they like to call black dyke rock. As the name Implies, they are musically diverse and bring a biting, socially conscious message, delivered with radical joy.

Guests this year include:
Linda Tillery
Linda Tillery has been an influential force in the northern California music scene bringing her talent to vocal styling, arranging, music production, and ethnomusicology. Born and raised in San Francisco, she grew up listening to jazz and blues but her entry into performing in the Bay Area was in 1968 with the psychedelic soul group, The Loading Zone. Other opportunities followed, with Linda working as a session musician, singing and occasionally playing drums with Santana, Boz Scaggs, Huey Lewis and the News, and the Turtle Island String Quartet.
B DeVeaux
B DeVeaux is a 25 year old Neo-Soul vocalist and songwriter who has performed all over the Bay Area and beyond, including Yerba Buena Gardens, The Breakroom at San Jose Jazz, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the Mountain Winery, the Kennedy Center and most recently SF Jazz this January! Hailing from Oakland, CA, DeVeaux been singing since the age of 3 and has just recorded and released their first album, CHRYSALIS.
Tammy L. Hall
Tammy L. Hall is a Grammy-recognized, award winning pianist/composer/educator/collaborator/musical director who’s career spans some 40+ years. Hall has worked with a wide array of vocalists and instrumentalists, including the late Etta Jones, Ernestine Anderson and Mary Wilson; Melba Moore, Ms. Loretta Devine, Leberta Lorál, Susanne Mintzer, Marcus Shelby,Terri Lyne Carrington, Regina Carter, Houston Person, Dr. Kim Nalley, Laurie Anderson, Gerald Clayton, Mads Tolling, Linda Tillery, Leberta Lorál, Vicki Randle, Holly Near, Barbara Dane, Mimi Fox and Allison Miller.
Anna Joy Springer
Anna Joy Springer (she/they) is a lifelong Californian whose artistic work uses fantastical, speculative, and other figurative modes to explore the nature of interbeing and to register lesser cultural currents through writing and pictures. Frontwoman of former punk bands Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy’s hardcore full-throated feminism inflects a wildly responsive performance style that’s saturated in femme camp, intellectual reflexivity, and political outrage on each of her twelve records. Springer widely toured the U.S. and Europe in the 1990’s with these bands and as a member of Sister Spit, a queer feminist group of punk writers.
Joh Chase
Career trajectories are rarely linear or make logical sense. Life is unpredictable so all you can do is put in good work and keep at it. Joh Chase is a testament to this. Over the past two decades, the Seattle-raised, Los Angeles-based artist has persistently honed their songwriting and toured, opening for acts like Noah Gunderson and David Bazan. This dedication comes out entirely in their music, which feels so timeless, confident, and fully realized it can only come from someone who’s devoted their whole life to their craft. Their new songs feel like a turning point for them: the culmination of a lifetime of writing, losing, loving, and doing it all yourself. These singles, which toe the line between confessional folk and breezy but ethereal pop, are a dynamic introduction to an essential artist. In the spring of 2024, Northwest Indie label, K*ll Rock Stars, put out Chase’s record, SOLO, co-produced by Chase and Dan Molad (Lucius, Coco). Later that fall, they toured with Kate Nash on her North American tour across the midwest and the west coast. Look out for US dates and west coast summer dates with Oakland’s Black Dyke Rock group, Skip the Needle.
Comrade Lover
Comrade Lover chases away evil spirits like colonizers and imperialists! They're a queer & trans punk social justice lion slam dance crew in Oakland.
Christelle Durandy
Christelle Durandy (she/her) fuses Afro-Caribbean, jazz and other polyrhythmic sounds in a provocative exploration of the African diaspora’s diffuse and powerful musical energy – a multicultural complexity Christelle herself embodies, having been raised in France by a mother from Reunion Island and a father from Guadeloupe.
Marina Crouse
Marina Crouse is one of the most notable talents on the San Francisco/Bay Area music scene. Her early classical training is reflected in her powerful and versatile vocal style that creates a genuine excitement in every performance. Blessed with an incredibly expressive voice early in life, Marina Crouse applies her distinctive talents to a wide range of material while delivering an emotional authenticity that consistently cuts deep. “When I sing,” she says, “I feel like I break myself open and let a little piece of myself come out. I’m reaching out to people with hopes to connect on a personal level. And when we do, that to me is better than anything else."