Lavender Sessions: Artist Booking with Haley Graves
[Update: Lavender Sessions on 3/10 will be postponed! See some of yall on Thursday, 4/7 from 6-8pm PST for our next Lavender Lounge!]
Sign up to join our Lavender Sessions Workshop: Artist Booking with Totem Star Artist, Haley Graves on Thursday, March 10th from 6-8pm PT via Zoom!
🔗 Visit bit.ly/LAVENDER-BOOKING to RSVP today!
🟣 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this workshop, Haley Graves will be sharing pieces of wisdom that she has learned in her journey in music. She will also have an open discussion sharing knowledge on how to build connections, how to engage in booking gigs, and how to put your work out publicly that feels authentic to who you are.
🟣 LAVENDER SESSIONS
Lavender Sessions is a space for the women and non-binary artists ages 14-25 of Totem Star to convene together to share music and stories, and provide mutual support and care for one another. Our gatherings range from self-defense workshops to holding discussions regarding self-care and sustainment. This space as well as all other Totem Star events are FREE for all artists ages 14-25 to attend.
Join Artist Mentors -- Momma Nikki, Amy Lp, Tracey Wong, and Christina Nguyen in creating art, collaborating, holding community discussions, and just being together.
🟣 ABOUT HALEY GRAVES
The way gravel in a driveway jumps when the truck rolls in from who knows where. The way birthday candles dazzle and glow when your eyes are at their widest. The hooky-shook pop-punk rock from Seattle-via-Maine-based artist, Haley Graves, is the stuff that butterfly-effects an earthquake somewhere millions of miles around the world. Will you be there when the wings are just outstretched, the vibrations rumbling?
Graves, who will release her debut EP, She Thinks My Pop Punk Is Cringey, on July 30th sounds like the band that originally inspired those like Green Day, Blink-182 and all of the other memorable power-rock-chord groups of the turn of the new century. Yet, perhaps unlike those commercial groups, Graves’ music is authentic, not derivative. The novel, not the carbon copy. In the original, there is experimentation, evolution. The mire is also a birthplace.
While Graves is a new name in the Emerald City, hers will assuredly be one to remember. From her power-ballad-hip-hop-mash-up, “Ten Things (featuring Air Jazz)” to the looming “Problem” and raucous cover of Machine Gun Kelly’s “Concert For The Aliens,” the tracks are like the pelting rain on the opened umbrella, creating the natural rhythms of provocation. Her hope is to make great music while also adding diversity to the Pop Punk genre, as a black woman. A career is born from a single note. It’s ringing out now.