Men's Music Festival

Description

Qcc presents its first ever Men’s Music Festival: a day of music you'll never forget. Come on by, pick up lunch or dinner at our outdoor grill, chill and take in six grade A musicians. Hosted by Blackberri, you will be exposed to different styles of music in a relaxed atmosphere. Featuring Patrick Haggerty, Ernest Lijoi, Scott Free, Deepdickollective, Cedric Brown and more TBA. The schedule will be posted on the website.

Men’s Music Festival

Gay music pioneer Patrick Haggerty wrote and produced the first gay country music album Lavender Country in 1973, and his band performed up and down the west coast at some of the earliest gay pride events, including San Francisco Pride in 1974. In 1999, twenty seven years later, the Country Music Hall of Fame finally acknowledged Lavender Country as a "first", and invited him to archive the album at the Hall of Fame, center-piecing his contribution in a well researched article on the history of gays in country music. It appeared in the Journal of Country Music in 2000. In 2004, Country Music Television invited Haggerty to Nashville to talk about Lavender Country in a televised documentary entitled Forty Greatest Firsts in Country Music.

Still an active musician, Haggerty has made several CD's, and spent the last several years working with noted gay country music artist Doug Stevens, touring the country and producing At the Dry Creek Grange Hall with Steven's band "Pearl River". A long time resident of Seattle, he currently performs over one hundred fifty shows a year with his music partner, Bobby Taylor, around western Washington.

Haggerty married his domestic partner of twenty years, Julius Broughton, in Canada three years ago. They live in the Seattle area. He also has a daughter and son-in law, Robin and Maxwell Boland, a grandson, Maxwell Boland II, and a son, Amilcar Navarro who films and edits progressive documentaries in New York.

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http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/