An artist who can plumb the depths of sadness in a single note, then release it in the very next breath, Chastity Brown is excited to announce her return to the UK this Autumn - and she's starting it here in Milton Keynes, at The Stables.
Based in Minnesota, but with roots in Tennessee, Chastity grew up surrounded by country and soul music.
In the full gospel church of her childhood, she played saxophone and drums and found her singing voice and a passion for music. Her first show was in Knoxville, TN, and then it was on to Minneapolis.
Chastity has toured the US and Europe, appearing on Later...with Jools Holland a couple of year’s ago when touring the UK.
For much of 2016 / 2017 she toured alongside folk icon/ activist Ani Difranco and has recently toured with LGBTQ poet Andrea Gibson.
Chastity melds folk, pop, roots and Soul on her acclaimed album Silhouette Of Sirens, released in the UK last Spring.
Weaving together a poet’s lyrical ear and a soul-laid-bare quality, Chastity’s music embraces the political, covering topics of identity and belonging.
“What I’ve realised is that the personal is political,” Brown said in a recent interview. “Just by me being a bi-racial, half-black, half-white woman living in America right now is political.
"Just being a person of color, a queer woman of color, for that matter, is freaking political.
" My focus, as far as this record, I guess it’s really been psychological. I’m really intrigued by the perseverance of the human spirit and the complexities and contradictions that we embody as human beings."
An intriguing artist with something to say.
Book tickets here for the show on September 20.
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