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Brad Ogbonna

Chastity Brown

This intimate near east side club will be an incredible environment to hear Chastity Brown's folk-soul music and storytelling. Based in Minneapolis but originally from Tennessee, Brown mixes personal experience with urgent political leanings. She's toured with Ani DiFranco and Andrea Gibson, and appeared at Bonnaroo; Chastity Brown won't be playing small clubs like this one much longer, so catch her while you can.

$15

media release: Chastity Brown is a storyteller in the blues tradition. The Minnesota-via-Tennessee songwriter and musician tells stories populated by marginalized characters to stake her own space as a queer black woman and to speak to other experiences oftentimes ignored. The daughter of a black blues musician and white Irish mother who was raised in Tennessee, she’s made a home in Minneapolis for more than a decade. She was signed by Red House Records and released her acclaimed album Silhouette of Sirens in 2017, going on to tour nationally and internationally, sharing the stage and supporting artists such as the Indigo Girls, Ani Di Franco, Andrea Gibson, Jayhawks, The National, and Michael Kiwanuka. 

She’s been praised by NPR, CMT, American Songwriter, the London Times, Paste Magazine, and The Independent, among many others, and appeared on the U.K.’s Later…with Jools Holland. Chastity Brown will release her newest full-length record in 2022.

“Carried Away” is beautifully matched by the complex restraint of the backing, as is the seven-minute centrepiece “My Stone”, which coalesces magically — ★★★★ The Independent

“a work of brooding soul eloquence, alt-rock wiriness, atmospheric pop sweetening and folk-inflected naturalness" — NPR Music

“…a collection that showcases Brown’s dexterous musicianship, thoughtful songwriting and careful attention to detail—American Songwriter

“She traverses the tumult of relationships, marking desires, downfalls, and joys in a voice that deftly ranges from sensual swagger to quiet vulnerability.” —All Music

"She draws on the pointed, confessional potential of folk and soul and the digital texturing techniques of contemporary pop and hip-hop, while depicting the patient pursuit and safekeeping of self-knowledge as a sign of strength." —Jewly Hight, The Bluegrass Situation 

“To listen to Chastity is to lose yourself completely in the sorrow, joy, yearning and wonderment of a hopeful voice that never stops searching; a voice so enormous and evocative that it seeps down past your skin and bones and settles right down into your soul.” —Andrea Swensson, The Current