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Butterfly Boucher, I Am Lightyear, Town Hall
Sat, June 23, 2012
2:00 pm
LittlefieldFree
This event is all ages
http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/124973/
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tumblr. + Everyone Is Gay: Pride Meetup
On June 23rd Tumblr and Everyone is Gay will be hosting a free, all-ages Pride Party from 2-5pm at Littlefield in Brooklyn. The event will include live performances from bands Town Hall, I Am Lightyear, and Butterfly Boucher, and will be one of the only major all-ages events at this year’s NYC Pride. All proceeds from donations will go to the Ali Forney Center, which provides housing for homeless LGBT youth in New York City.
Tumblr is a world-renowned blogging platform that reaches millions of users each day, and has a strong presence in the LGBT community. Everyone is Gay started as an an advice website for all, hosted on Tumblr, with an emphasis on LGBT youth. Since its inception, Everyone Is Gay co-founders, Kristin Russo and Dannielle Owens-Reid, have grown the site to an organization that also tours high school and college campuses nationwide to spread awareness and encourage change.
Tumblr is a world-renowned blogging platform that reaches millions of users each day, and has a strong presence in the LGBT community. Everyone is Gay started as an an advice website for all, hosted on Tumblr, with an emphasis on LGBT youth. Since its inception, Everyone Is Gay co-founders, Kristin Russo and Dannielle Owens-Reid, have grown the site to an organization that also tours high school and college campuses nationwide to spread awareness and encourage change.
Butterfly Boucher - (Set time: 4:00 PM)
Butterfly is radiating with positive energy, alive and happy. Scary Fragile will be released via her own imprint on June 2nd. She's been touring in advance of the album and playing new songs, including the first single "Gun For A Tongue". Talking to her feels like talking to a person who is just starting out. She's completely reborn. Already on a roll and writing new material, Butterfly has vowed that she'll never let anyone stop her from holding back what is inside of her again. She's come to an important realization. "It's not going to be worth anything unless I'm enjoying it."
I Am Lightyear - (Set time: 3:15 PM)
The ability to reinvent yourself takes talent, without a doubt, both because it requires enough skill to remake your persona and enough courage to let go of who you were before. Lightyear, the brand new electro-pop baby of Lauren Zettler, is the product of such talent in action. Lightyear combines stark, popping electronics, warm, bouncing basslines and Zettler's own airy vocals, to create a sound that's both human and intangible—filled with space and feeling. It's strong music
that addresses vulnerability while revering strength, in the great tradition of Emily Haines and Patty Griffin.
"It Beats" is a song about how even when you know you need everything to be different, you can rely on the fact that your heart can be trusted and will keep on beating. It might seem like a tried and true theme—trust yourself, everything will be okay—and it is. Zettler draws her songwriting
inspiration from such classic pop composers as Billy Joel and Elton John, neither of whom were strangers to themes of the heart, but her lush instrumentation makes the tunes more than just love songs. "Home" is another such example. Zettler once again takes the form—the break-up song—and adds her own twist, both through a driving guitar line and swirling keyboards and through her philosophical look at something so sad and simple as being absent and present at the same time, disappearing from someone's life but knowing you're still there.
Lightyear is true to its name. The songs are filled with space and sound that's bright as light, and they all take on a shape that's much larger than just their lyrics and arrangements. They pull from themes of change and heartbreak that are without a doubt familiar to everyone, and tap into that
feeling you always forget about until you're in it again. The feeling that everything is open and your life seems to be made of nothing and capable of everything at once.
that addresses vulnerability while revering strength, in the great tradition of Emily Haines and Patty Griffin.
"It Beats" is a song about how even when you know you need everything to be different, you can rely on the fact that your heart can be trusted and will keep on beating. It might seem like a tried and true theme—trust yourself, everything will be okay—and it is. Zettler draws her songwriting
inspiration from such classic pop composers as Billy Joel and Elton John, neither of whom were strangers to themes of the heart, but her lush instrumentation makes the tunes more than just love songs. "Home" is another such example. Zettler once again takes the form—the break-up song—and adds her own twist, both through a driving guitar line and swirling keyboards and through her philosophical look at something so sad and simple as being absent and present at the same time, disappearing from someone's life but knowing you're still there.
Lightyear is true to its name. The songs are filled with space and sound that's bright as light, and they all take on a shape that's much larger than just their lyrics and arrangements. They pull from themes of change and heartbreak that are without a doubt familiar to everyone, and tap into that
feeling you always forget about until you're in it again. The feeling that everything is open and your life seems to be made of nothing and capable of everything at once.
Town Hall - (Set time: 2:30 PM)
Town Hall is an adventurous folk trio that formed in New York City in the fall of 2010. All members are current juniors in NYU studying music and things. Since returning from their first West Coast tour in June, they've been working on their first full length album, expected to be released in December. For more information, please go to townhallband.com.
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