Doors at 7:00 pm; Show at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $10-$20 sliding scale (Larger donations are welcome)
The 3rd Annual Pickin' on Hate Benefit will be held January 12, 2019 at Ashkenaz In Berkeley, CA. This year's proceeds will be donated to Trans Lifeline.
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis - for the trans community, by the trans community.
This year's lineup will include:
The Town Howlers
The Country Business
Evie Ladin Band
Undone in Sorrow
Plus speakers from Trans Lifeline
The Town Howlers
Pickin' On Hate is a Bay Area effort created and organized by The Town Howlers to bring together the thriving community of bluegrass musicians and fans to raise funds and awareness in support of tolerance.
At our 2017 benefit, we raised over $3,000 for The Southern Poverty Law Center.
At our 2018 benefit, we raised $4200 for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
The Town Howlers play traditional bluegrass music and are influenced by the great singers and pickers from the golden era of bluegrass, such as Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Vern Williams, and Jimmy Martin. With flashy picking, tight harmony singing, and original as well as traditional songs, the Town Howlers show a deference to traditional bluegrass while also adding their own style and sound.
Evie Ladin Band
The neo-trad kinetic-folk of the Evie Ladin Band is a mingling of the deep Appalachian sound of clawhammer banjo, guitar, bass and percussive dance, with contemporary storytelling and original, conversational interplay among the band members. Some of their adventurousness comes from early hip hop in the high school cafeteria, some from Evie’s early attraction to, and study of, the African roots in Appalachian music and dance. She created an African Studies In Dance major at Brown University, then studied dance in Eastern Nigeria on a Fulbright Fellowship. While myriad world and contemporary music influences permeate the band’s choices, they never reach too far, remaining seamless and true to the stories they tell.
Undone in Sorrow
Undone in Sorrow met as contributors to the Bay Area Old Time collective The Clementine String Band, a larger form ensemble which hosts jam tents at summer festivals, parties, and local dances in the tradition of Round Peak music. As a trio the group focuses on old time ballads, songs and fiddle tunes from throughout the Appalachians. As a small ensemble, they take special attention to arrangement that both honors and elaborates on the traditions of Old Time Music with a special attention to narrative and rhythmic forms that make the genre unique. Most importantly, and true to the tradition, the group is primarily a group of friends who delight in any opportunity to assemble and share the music which is their passion.
