Jude Brothers // Creekbed Carter Hogan // McKain Lakey

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Jude Brothers is an Arkansan folk derived singer-songwriter with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful, calculated & relaxed, approachable & quirky.

Their lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving, a practice in raw and shameless vulnerability shared through song. All of this is transmitted through nimble vocal frolicking- a shapeshifter voice crawling, leaping, pirouetting through a mystical landscape of their own creation.

…..Let’s say you are in a forest, and you don’t know how you got there. A strong voice lilts from an autumnal quiet to a riveting loud stream to sing you the spell of their story. Is it a mockingbird? The spirit of an ash tree? A mischievous, but benevolent forest sprite?

Nay! Tis but your new friend, Jud. Or Jude. Or Judith. With harp, guitar, and sometimes tenor banjo in tow, this freaky little Ozark bard comes bearing gifts- songs from somewhere between the real and the ethereal landscapes of their life.

Creekbed Carter Hogan:

Blasphemous, stripped-down, and a stomping good time: Creekbed Carter Hogan is a trans idiot with a heart of gold slinging queergrass out of dive bars, sewer creeks, and fancy national stages alike. Weaving stories of growing up Catholic around deftly written songs that pierce the soul and tickle the funny bone, Carter creates a unique blend of folk picking and queer mayhem where anyone can feel welcome and loved.

Raised Catholic in rural-suburban Oregon and hailing from the sewer creeks of Austin, TX, Creekbed Carter is equal parts vaudevillian clown, anticapitalist tramp, and “fingerpicked bittersweet confessionals” (Austin Chronicle). Watching Creekbed Carter is like attending the party of a poet, a jester, and a wayward saint, all in one guy’s performance. He engages audiences warm heartedly, and it is disarming how quickly he appears to be among his very best friends in a crowd of perfect strangers. His singing voice is clear as a bell, fingerpicking as delicate as a sparrow, his witty wordsmithing sharp as a blade. Hailing from Austin, TX, this rascal delivers a unique blend of folk whimsy that audiences are certain to find compelling. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Roger Miller, Lucinda Williams, and Claude Cahun, a Creekbed Carter show aims to craft an opportunity for audiences to laugh, cry, connect, and – above all – have a great time.

Since their debut in April 2021, Creekbed Carter has quickly garnered the attention and support of folk fans far and wide. In addition to touring nationally with other queer artists and playing locally at some of the most loved venues in Austin, their work has received generous support this year from both New Music USA and Bluegrass Pride. Their Tiny Desk Contest submission was featured as a Desk of the Day on NPR in 2021, and their debut album “Good St Riddance,” which they self-released in the height of the pandemic, has received rave reviews from music critics. With a rotating cast of trans and queer musicians, Carter is currently hard at work recording a full-length album, forthcoming in 2024. As if that’s not enough, they are also publishing their debut book of short stories under the name Carter St Hogan with 11:11 Press in Spring 2023.

Good St Riddance marked Creekbed Carter’s debut, a homespun album recorded in the literal roadside ditches and creek beds of Arkansas during the 2020 pandemic year “when the only other musicians I could collaborate with were bluebirds diving for bugs at dusk, millipedes jangling along in the leaf litter, and acorns falling just right on the roof above me while the mountain mist turned to rain,” says Carter. Recasting the story of Catholic St Wilgefortis as a queer human/ghost love story in a neo-Southern Gothic setting, Good St Riddance is patient, moving, and pared-down, quietly lifting up both the historical and the personal. With their sophomore album, Carter’s setting out to burn down barns, break a million hearts, and fix them back up again with a little laughing and a lot of honesty – but you’ll have to stay tuned for more on that project.

In the great tradition of queer/trans punk and outsider art, Carter continues the legacy of DIY energy, genre bending, and pushing at the boundaries of societal norms to make space for everyone. In Creekbed Carter’s world, joy is found in deep pain, community is built in profound difference, and change sits at the tail end of every honest note.

McKain Lakey:

Armed with George the trusty road cat, a carful of instruments, and all the fight of a rambling, rural-raised, queer femme wanderer, McKain Lakey is one to be reckoned with. She’s the rare human who feels as comfortable wielding a chisel as she does a guitar, who can be as often spotted behind the soundboard in a crowded venue as discussing the intersections of race and gender in old time music with a classroom full of 5th graders.

Described by What’s Up Magazine as “a time capsule unearthed, fine-tuned and re-imagined”, Lakey draws creative inspiration from far corners of the American music tradition, tracing the lines of musical lineage that connect Old Time to Rockabilly, Country to Cajun to Dixieland. She’s a dedicated student of tradition, but at once unafraid to stare down convention through the modern lens of her lived experience. Her new album, Somewhere, blurs lines of old and new, referencing musical textures of past eras while unabashedly exploring topics of mental health, family separation, rural identity and queer love.