Where:
OBERON
2 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$25
Categories:
Date Idea, Festivals & Fairs, LGBT, Meetup, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
http://americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/id-festival-%E2%80%94%C2%A0calpernia-addams
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In Testimony, Calpernia Addams’s debut album of original acoustic music, she tells stories from a life that began as the musical eldest child of a minister in a fundamentalist Christian cult hidden away in the woods of Tennessee. A harrowing escape into the burning deserts of the first Gulf War as a combat medic followed, and then her unlikely rebirth as a teetotaling showgirl and burlesque dancer on some of the South’s most dangerous and underground stages. A devastating tragedy led to years of work in activism and the crushing machine of Hollywood. Now Calpernia has returned to the simple instruments and music of her childhood to give testimony of her still-unquenchable passion for authenticity, hope and adventure.
Calpernia Addams is an ex-Navy Desert Storm combat medic turned Old Hollywood showgirl. From her earliest beginnings as a child playing Bluegrass gospel fiddle in an isolated fundamentalist cult deep within the woods of Tennessee, she has experienced a dizzying ascension into her globe-spanning career as a cult-favorite musician, actress and activist for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights.
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