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LGBT Akron Art Fest Presents Coyote Joe

Presented by LGBT Akron Arts Festival at Jilly's Music Room, Akron OH

Oct 11 2018
LGBT Akron Art Fest Presents Coyote Joe

This performance by “Coyote Joe” Stevens is kicking-off the first of many programs in October for LGBT Akron Arts Fest in collaboration with Akron Soul Train! This event is free and open to all.

California-born singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Stevens is a third-generation professional musician in a long line of restless westward moving souls. He caught the songwriting bug at 15 and has been at it ever since. After starting out as a self-taught guitar player and songwriter, he received a Bachelor of Music from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA, and has been traveling with his music across the US and abroad.

Joe’s music rides the edge of the first wave of transgender performers to break through into the public consciousness. The social media explosion combined with shifting public opinion created the conditions that enabled trans and queer artists, a highly marginalized and isolated subculture, to connect and gain visibility. There is now a thriving community of trans and queer musicians, with new comers and folks who have been playing music all along, that is visible and growing in every corner of the world.

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Jilly's Music Room

111 North Main Street, Akron, OH 44203

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