Acoustic, singer-songwriter

Ryan Cassata, is a 16 year old, singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York. Ryan plays guitar, piano, harmonica, and vocals. At the young age of 14, Ryan began to gig on Long Island. Now only two years later he has played over 100 shows and has already completed a Florida tour, and a New England tour, titled the “Love Around The World Tour.”

Ryan Cassata is the composer of the soundtrack for “Loop Planes”, an independent film about a transgendered teen and his relationships. Loop Planes appeared in the South By Southwest (SXSW) film and music festival (2010) and also appeared in the Tribeca Film festival. (2010) Ryan Cassata also appeared on The Larry King Live Show (2009) and the Tyra Banks Show (2010) for being transgender himself. Aside from being a musician Ryan is a strong advocate for the Transgender community. He has taught at many schools on Long Island, and even made it up to Albany to talk to New York State Officials. Ryan appeared in Hamptons Bay Magazine (2008), and Go Magazine (2008), for his hard work and advocacy. He also appeared in Bay Shore High Schools’ “Maroon Echo” twice for his advocacy along with his musical achievements.

Links to Ryan Cassata:

Ryan Cassata Music on Myspace

Ryan Cassata Videos on Youtube

Dalice Malice (A.K.A. Dalice Marie) is the internationally ignored Cuntry/Anarcho/Queercore/Folk songsstress currently located in Chicago. In January 2005 she was signed to DeadWait Records (Mt. Pleasant, MI) and released two full length albums (27Remastered and In Case You Haven’t Heard) under the name VanessaMarie.

In the summer of 2007 she released ‘Autoshow 1963′ and was the first album released under the name Dallas/Marie. In December of 2008 she released “Opening Your Mouth Once Again” following quickly with the album “A Young Patriot’s New Anthem” released in July. her final release came in the winter of 2008 when she released the album ‘Until We’re Good and Ready’. In the summer of 2009 she was diagnosed with epic brain freeze after indulging in seven consecutive 7-11 slurpies. She can now be found kicking cans down the streets of Chicago.

Links to Dalice Malice:

Music on Myspace

Youtube Videos

Dalice on Twitter

Trashcanpoet is the rhyme-spitting alter ego of Miles Gabriel Burke, an Oakland-based slam poet, writer and spoken word artist. He was first published at 17 and co-founded the alt/hip-hop group RUUDE in Atlanta before moving to the Bay Area, where he has been a finalist for Berkeley’s and San Francisco’s national poetry slam teams and has performed with Fella-Fem, The Men’s Story Project, Artists Against Rape, and the Queer Girl Theatre Project (of which he was the first male-identified member), among others. In addition to performing, he is currently working on a novel, Oaklandia, which is half semi-autobiographical and half pure unadulterated bullshit.

Links to Trashcanpoet:

Official Site

Trashcanpoet on Myspace

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Links to Walki’s Monster:

Walki’s Monster on Myspace

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Find and Listen to Music on CdBaby and Bandcamp

Too Much Information (TMI) plays the music of the “post-Boomer generation”—70s and 80s classic rock—as well as a mix of older and newer hits. The band covers a wide range of artists, from The Eagles and Eric Clapton to Bonnie Raitt and The B52s. They have a special knack for blues by way of Muddy Waters and Big Mamma Thornton, and a growing list of mixed-genre original tunes. Their musical versatility is apparent in every set. Not only do they play a wide range of pop, rock, funk, and blues, but five of the six take the main mic from time to time.

Lead singer Michael Woodward’s bluesy tenor voice is complimented by the rich vocal blends of Traci Payer, Jennifer R. Lopez (rhythm guitar), Jerry Diaz (percussion) and Bruce Blackstone (lead guitar & harmonica). The instrument section showcases the lead guitar magic of Blackstone, a Tucson music scene veteran formerly of Tucson favorites the Rusty Boys, the Wayback Machine, and the Dave Marsh Band. Sandra Starling keeps the party hopping on bass. TMI made its first public appearance at the Epic Café on Fourth Avenue in Tucson on March 25, 2005. In June 2006, TMI was named “Runner Up – Best Cover Band” at the Tucson Area Music Awards, less than 18 months after their first performance. They have played a number of local events including Tucson Folk Festival (2007, 2008), Fourth Avenue Street Fair (2007), Child & Family Resources’ Lobster Landing (2007), Pima County Child Abuse Prevention Council’s “Never Shake a Baby” Benefit (2006, 2007), Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation’s AIDSWALK (2006, 2007), Humane Society of Southern Arizona’s Doggie Boogie (2005, 2006), Phoenix Pride (2006, 2007), and Tucson’s Pride in the Desert (2006, 2007, 2008). The band has travelled as far as Atlanta, Georgia to headline the 2007 Southern Comfort Conference and was similarly featured at the April 2008 International Foundation for Gender Education Conference in Tucson.

In May 2008, they played for the National Stonewall Democrats’ Black & White Ball. TMI’s music is universally fun and familiar, with a broad appeal to youth and seniors alike. The band represents a diverse spectrum of cultures and identities, which is evident in the selection and arrangement of the tunes they choose–and especially in their originals.

Links to TMI:

Official Website

Myspace

Reverbnation

Youtube

Facebook

Wolfie E. Rawk is a genderqueer fabric artist. Their work deals with themes of fragmentation, repetition, anonymity/erasure and communion. He uses fabric and embroidery to discuss the body as a site of ongoing trauma, a series of tenuous connections and a locus of earthly revelation.

Using clothing as a stand in for the body, Rawk recycles and manipulates discarded clothing of known and unknown origin. He uses its gender and craft contexts to discuss the concepts of anonymity, gender, violence and healing.

Links:
Official Website

Writer, Rapper, Story-teller

Red Durkin, from Raleigh, North Carolina, has toured extensively with the Tranny Roadshow, written and illustrated nine of her own zines, and wormed her way into the likes of Punk Planet magazine and the Advocate. A proud, mouthy southerner, Red brings her charming cleverness to everything she does and often carries herself on wit alone.
As a writer, a rapper, and a story-teller, she balances laugh-a-minute humor with her own queer-positive, pro-woman politics. Expect firey, from-the-hip feminism and unapologetically sarcastic satire from this multi-talented entertainer.

Links to the Wonderful World of Red Durkin:
Watch Videos and Subscribe to Reds Vlog on Youtube

Listen to Music from Red Durkins Hip-hop/punk/pop project MC Redorix

Red Durkin on Myspace

Copy of a Copy Press on Myspace (Check out Reds awesome Illustrations here!)

Desiree Hines, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, is well on her way to being one of the worlds most visible African American Women who is a Classical/Pipe Organist. Miss Hines began her transition from Male To Female at the age of 22, leaving Mississippi for Seattle-Tacoma, Washington.

Miss Hines serves as an organist for several churches along the East Coast, in NewYork, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. In 2010, she will return to the extension division of the famed Mannes College of Music in New York City to pursue the diploma in Organ Performance. In 2007, Hines began to develop the idea for an integrated Performing Arts Festival featuring emerging Arts Professions from the GLBT Community worldwide. In 2009, the first annual Philadelphia GLBT Arts Festival was held, showcasing over 10 performers from 5 of the United States and two Canadian Territories in over 25 performances. For 2010, the festival will over 50 performers in ensembles and solo concerts over one week in June.

Links to Desiree Hines:

Watch Videos of Miss Hines on YouTube!

Click Here to Learn about the Philadelphia GLBT Arts Festival!

poetry, music

oakland, ca

Performer/author/musician solidad decosta is an uppity Portuguese woman who isn’t afraid to claim her black Latina maternal ancestry. Equal parts street journalist, storyteller and crone-ta-be with Leo moon credentials, her work encompasses the why and where of life outside the boxes in a label obsessed world, and the what, when, who and how of everything else.

solidad has performed at a variety of venues throughout the US, including St. Marks, Antioch University, Pitzer College, Bumpershoot Literary Stage, SomARTS and Brava! Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Shampoo, Mirage#4/Period(ical), ALLiance, P!, Angry Poet, Street NOTES and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In addition, solidad has facilitated writing and performance workshops at Cell Space, STARC, Dancing Tree, SF Juvenile Hall, Alameda County Youth Facility and Pitzer College. She holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and was the 2008 recipient of the Kari Edwards Scholarship at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program.

Official Website of solidad decosta

Click here for Show Schedule

Shock Value – Video

Location: the Trans-Genre Booth @ the Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference

Tickets: $1/ea or 6-$5

Raffle ends @ 4pm on Friday

Winner announced by 5pm.

Attending PTHC this Year? Visit our booth and enter for your chance to win the Complete Trans-Fusions Audio Library! A 2-Album Compilation set featuring over 30 audio tracks and Artwork from some of the Transgender Performance Art and Music Community’s finest!

… while you’re there,  visit our interactive media booth where you can read zines, listen to music, and watch videos from your favorite Trans-Genre Artists! and don’t forget to pick up your copy of the Trans-Fusions 2 Compilation (limited copies available!)

All proceeds go back into the Trans-Genre Project

Click here for more info on the first Trans-Fusions Album

Click here for more info on the Trans-Fusions 2 Album

Congratulations to Our Raffle Winner, Ticket # 46!

Trans-Genre @ PTHC 2k9

We had the honor of the Live performances from Trans Fusions 2 Artists Metahuman, Joshua Klipp, Shawna Virago, Modern Day Pinnochio, and Ryka Aoki De La Cruz followed by a dance Party with DJ ONO SENDAI spinning electro dance till 2 am!

Free Copies of the Trans-Fusions II Album went out to over 100 people in attendance!

Get Yours Before they’re Gone!

Limited Edition Trans-Fusions II CD’s, commemorating the First Ever Trans-Genre CD Release Party!
$12 Get’s this Collectors Edition featuring Artists Shawna Virago, Joshua Klipp, Metahuman, Athens Boys Choir, Ryka Aoki De La Cruz, Dylan Scholinski, and Many (oh so many) more, mailed right to your door! (US & Canada) and helps support Trans/Giving, an L.A. based showcase of art, music, performance, and literature from trans*, genderqueer, and intersex artists.
paypal transgiving@gmail.com w/ your address to have it shipped today!

Check out Pictures and videos of the Party and Performances Below!

Photo’s Courtesy of Happy Land Photography

Photo’s Courtesy of Happy Land Photography

“Happy Land/Liz Acosta’s eagle eye Photography will have you bringing home more than just a few snapshots from the night of your life’ With an almost omnipresent sense of motion, Liz has given me the chance to relive the Trans-Genre CD Release  Party over and over through her creative visual sense of  ‘in the moment’ ” AJ Bryce – Founder – Trans-Genre.net

Raised in Central Florida to be a good little Catholic girl, Bastian found out he was really a nice Jewish young man fairly early in life, but did not come out as trans* until 2005, when he was 23 and living in Kansas. Bastian is a writer and poet who dabbles in watercolor and oil painting, printmaking, and Native arts and crafts. He also plays trumpet, piano, baritone, bassoon, french horn, and sings…but does not practice as much as he should, aside from his trumpet in pep band.

Bastian Quinn Dubh-Ze’ev  attends a small Catholic university, where he is out on campus and frequently participates in PFLAG Coming Out Panels across Wichita. He will graduate in 2011 with a degree in English and Elementary Education. Bastian plans on eventually teaching Special Education using Expressive Arts Therapies (Music/Drama/Dance/Art) and would eventually like to open his own school.

Unpublished professionally, he regularly contributes and edits his school’s yearly literary magazine. Bastian loathes traditional terms for sexual orientation and gender identity. He self-identifies as “heteroflexible” or “qweird.” He and his adorkable ftM boyfriend, Elliot Holloway, live in Wichita with their cat, Smokey Elvis, and dog, Rufus Valentine. They are active members of the Wichita Two-Spirit Society and regularly attend shul at Temple Emanu El. When they have time, they hold weekly TransFamily dinners for their small community.

Check out the Official Website for Bastian Quinn Dubh-Ze-ev

Got a spiritual core which I like to keep in touch with, especially through music. Previously known as data-boy, better known these days as astottara, which I play all styles under – from jamming a guitar with sweet melodies, to electro chaos, to more poppy rap kind of stuff.

Never really been one to play much with others Started my life in a girl’s body but always played with the boys, learnt pretty much anything and everything musicwise from six, got into composition and songwriting, poetry, gay activism since I was 13 after coming out somewhat involuntarily. Use my music to muse, my main loves are kirtan (Hare Krishna style of getting wild musically) and 80s new wave, as well as emocore, hardcore, folk, country and also indie and industrial.

Always looking to collaborate with ideas – especially those combining a sociological and psychological awareness to spiritual awareness, which are usually unfortunately isolated ideals. In my spare time I do vegan catering, eat pizza cupcakes and sushi, produce music, ride bikes, renovate caravans or at least dream that I am, converse and play with my friends, read lots and dream about pirate ships.

Listen to Music by eRinn on the player below! eRinn has a variety of differnt styles of tracks below so if you don’t connect with one def check out a few others! eRinn is truly an incredibly diverse musician, check it out:

Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art making process.

As a duet music project, Actor Slash Model creates fun, quirky, entertaining music exploring gender and sex positivity as well as the most basic inspirations to all people: love, heartbreak, joy, pain, etc., set up in what they like to call an “Indie-Grass” musical style, often incorporating costumes and vaudvillian performative styles. The duet has toured the United States including performing in New York, Boston, Philadephia, Washington DC, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Clevland, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, Los Angelels, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and of course, their hometown, Chicago, amongst other places.

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Watch Videos from Actor Slash Model

Links for Actor Slash Model:

Official Website
Actor Slash Model On Myspace
Facebook link for Riot Acts the Movie
Facebook link for Actor Slash Model
The Homoticons – the latest brain child of madsen minax (of actor slash model), jesse alexander (of cobalt and the hired guns) and elias krell (ex opera singer goes maverick accordionist) make up the homotional rollercoaster that is THE HOMOTICONS.

Threat Level – This is a quarterly screening series of both new and old short (maximum 30 minutes) queer film/video work.