Crys Matthews – The Difference Between
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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