WAM Presents: Local Sirens featuring Skip the Needle at Rickshaw Stop

Join us on November 11, 2024, for a free night of powerful music and community as WAM proudly presents Local Sirens at the iconic Rickshaw Stop! Experience the electrifying sounds of Skip the Needle, a Bay Area supergroup that’s redefining rock with socially conscious grooves, unforgettable melodies, and boundary-pushing performances. We will be featuring special guests Stoni and B.Deveaux.

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. Formed in 2014, Skip The Needle has released two full-length albums and their latest EP - Octavia Of Earth, Volume 2, inspired by black feminist icon Octavia E. Butler, released on Soulectric - A division of Little Village Foundation in Fall of 2023. The band just wrapped a 2 month, entirely sold out run, of Hedwig and The Angry Inch at Shotgun Players in Berkeley, CA and have started writing their next album, after receiving a grant for the project from WAM.

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Flaunting vicious flows and a player-like persona, can hold her own with some of rap’s top-tier artists. Born and raised in Oakland, the California native grew up with a passion for poetry and writing. Stoni is gearing up to take the Bay Area and the whole industry by storm. Check out Stoni in action here.

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B. DeVeaux is a 24 year old non-binary, queer, Oakland Native. B. started singing at just 3 years old in their school choir, following after their older sister Ajali, and that’s when their family knew they had a voice! Their parents supported them and put them in any and every music opportunity they could.

In 2012, B DeVeaux really started to manifest their craft. B. studied at Oakland School for the Arts (many well known artists are also alumna: Zendaya, Kehlani, Adrian Marcel, & the list goes on!) for 7 years in the Vocal Department. While honing their musicianship, B. DeVeaux was able to learn music theory, music production, extensive performance training, choral training, solo voice training, and also, vocal direction. In their time at OSA, they had the privilege of performing and mentoring with the likes of Patrice Rushen, Kehlani, Adrian Marcell, Daveed Diggs, Ledisi, Tank & The Bangas, and many others.

Since embarking on their solo music journey, B DeVeaux has been awarded the San Jose Jazz Aid Fund Grant, from San Jose Jazz, worked as a teaching artist, at both OSA, and Oakland Public Conservatory of music, and have newly been ushered into the Women’s Audio Mission Residency!! With much more music on the way, you can catch B DeVeaux’s latest single “What if it’s love?” Available On all platforms!

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About Local Sirens

Local Sirens: Live Music Performance Series is a free, all-ages quarterly performance series that features exceptional Bay Area women and gender-expansive musicians and performers. Local Sirens supports artists who are creating new and innovative work that is representative of the diverse communities of the Bay Area. To date, Local Sirens has presented the work of 75+ local women and gender-expansive artists and reached over 7,500 attendees at venues.

The goal of WAM’s Local Sirens series is to address the chronic gender and racial inequity in the music industry by promoting and presenting female and gender-expansive BIPOC artists and supporting them with paid commissions to create new work and artist recording residencies in WAM’s professional studios.

Local Sirens is made possible thanks in part to grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Fleishhacker Foundation, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

is a San Francisco and Oakland-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing women, girls, and gender-expansive people in music production, performance, and the recording arts. With fewer than 5% of all media and sound being created by women or gender-expansive individuals—and even fewer from BIPOC communities—WAM is here to change the narrative.

Each year, WAM empowers 2,000+ women, girls, and gender-expansive people with award-winning training, education, performance opportunities, and artist residency programs in the only recording studios in the world run entirely by women and gender-expansive staff. Located in the heart of SOMA Pilipinas, San Francisco's Filipino Cultural Heritage District, our world-class studios offer a space for creativity, inclusion, and growth.

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