- Mother Falcon
I’ve been looking forward to seeing Omar Souleyman at Millennium Park since the Downtown Sound lineup came out at the end of April. That concert isn’t until Monday, but thankfully there are plenty of other shows to go to in the interim.
“A few years ago New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia began to find an audience far afield from her city’s club scene, and her booming popularity among hipsters raised some eyebrows,” writes Miles Raymer. “When you see a gay self-described “diva,” flanked by a troupe of twerk-happy female dancers, performing black dance music to a largely white audience as the opening act for Matt & Kim or the Postal Service, it’s hard not to suspect that there’s at least a little exoticization going on. But the relentlessly positive energy that Big Freedia manifests during her shows is enough to power-wash those worries away, along with any others you happen to have brought along.”
Sun 6/8: Somos at Beat Kitchen
