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Crys Matthews – The Difference Between

Crys Matthews

Social justice warrior, proud black woman and LGBTQ+ americana/folk/country singer-songwriter Crys Matthews releases “The Difference Between.”

The song features three LGBTQ artists, all of whom call Nashville home. She confides, “This is Country too, it looks like you and it looks like me. When I heard Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town”, I was so offended — not just as a Black woman, but as a proud Southerner. The audacity to think that there would be a South at all without my people is the kind of willful ignorance that keeps folks like me from feeling safe in Country and Americana spaces. There are consequences to that kind of hateful rhetoric.”

She shares, “This is a reclamation not just of the space Black artists have been denied in Country and Americana music, not just of the space LGBTQ people have been denied in communities of faith, not just of the autonomy women have been denied over our own bodies, but a reclamation of the South that raised me.”

Crys Matthews will be on tour with Julian Taylor in November and with Flamy Grant, Jennifer Knapp, Spencer LaJoye, and Heather Mae as part of the Make the Yuletide Gay Tour in December. In the meantime, here’s where you can catch her:

Fri-9/6/24 Bethlehem, NH The Colonial

Sat-9/7/24 New Haven, CT CT Folk Fest & Green Expo

Sun-9/8/24 Peterborough, NH Bass Hall

Wed-9/18-22/24 Nashville, TN Americanafest

**Mon-9/23/24 Austin, TX Nevertheless She Preached

Thu-9/26/24 Boothbay Harbor, ME The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

Fri-9/27/24 Northampton, MA Iron Horse

Sat-9/28/24 Boston, MA The Burren

Sun-9/29-10/5/24 Roots on the Rails w/ Seth Glier & Vance Gilbert

Sat-10/5/24 Oxford, NY 6 On the Square

Sun-10/6/24 Philadelphia, PA The Fallser Club

Wed-10/9/24 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle

Thu-10/10/24 Nashville, TN John Prine Tribute

Fri-10/11/24 Atlanta, GA St. Luke Lutheran Church

Sun-10/13/24 New Haven, CT Oasis Room @ Grande Arts Center

Fri-10/18-19/24 Asheville, NC LEAF Global Arts Festival

Sun-10/20/24 Durham, NC Séance

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