~ New Rescheduled Date - all tickets from 9/24 will be honored ~
$25 advance, $30 at the door (General Admission)
Youth 17 and under / 5 College Students $12.50 advance, $15 at the door
Presented in collaboration with UMass Fine Arts Center - the first installment of a 3 part artist-activist series.
This, folks, is a thrill! This fall our Codemakers series of events featuring artist-activists from across the globe includes a trio of intimate performances presented in partnership with downtown Amherst’s very happening nonprofit venue, The Drake. And here comes mind-blowingly talented Brazilian singer-songwriter Bia Ferreira to get things started.
In a season studded with powerful and provocative women’s voices, this is the perfect way to strike up the band. Don’t miss this. Don’t even think about missing this.
Come for Ferreira’s music, which blends elements of R&B, funk, blues, reggae, and folk. Ferreira calls her powerful, captivating, danceable concoction Música de Mulher Preta (Black Woman Music). You’ll call it mood and mind altering. Come for Ferreira’s activism. This is an artist who speaks her truth in lyrics and stage commentary alike, addressing LGBTQ+ activism, anticolonialism, anti-racism, feminism, and a host of other topics. Come to be challenged. Come to be affirmed. Come to be blown away.
Singer, songwriter, anti-racist activist and fierce defendant of the LGBTI+ community worldwide, Bia Ferreira defines her music as MMP: Música de Mulher Preta (Black Woman Music). She broke into public consciousness in 2017 with the track, Cota Não é Esmola, about the importance of the quota system for the access of the black population to the university. In addition to the 13 million views on YouTube and several million Spotify plays, the song became mandatory reading for the University of Brasília entrance exam. She was nominated for the 2018 Women in Music Awards, and on her 2019 album, Igreja Lesbiteriana: Um Chamado, (Lesbitarian Church: A Calling), the messages are harnessed to a carriage of funky beats, reggae and soul ballad grooves. This year she played major stages in Portugal including a memorable performance at LMM Sines.
Bia Ferreira has been, in the last years, one of the most and best defensors of free speech in Brazil, mainly about racism and LGBTQIA+ community/issues. She's been also one of the strongest "voices" against Jair Bolsonaro inside and outside Brazil. Her shows are full of music, love and speech.