Join us for KAINA in concert at Truro Vineyards, an intimate and COVID-safe outdoor show, with a full bar and the delicious eats of Blackfish's Crush Pad food truck on offer.

7pm doors | 8pm show

KAINA is a first-generation Latina, born and raised in Chicago. Since the release of her debut EP sweet asl in 2016, she has created generational music that surpasses borders, a unified expression of her native Chicago coupled with her Venezuelan and Guatemalan heritage. From collaborating with peers like Saba, The O’My’s, and Sen Morimoto, and through multidisciplinary work around the city with various organizations, she has found a sound for herself that is gentle, yet full of intent. A listener can feel the intimacy resonating in her lyrics, as she pens odes about love, legacy, and ancestry, and how those concepts become more complex as one grows older. Her 2019 album Next to the Sun (Sooper Records) was featured in Pitchfork, Fader, Teen Vogue, and NPR and resulted in her touring as support with Cuco, Sleater-Kinney, and Durand Jones and the Indications. Her forthcoming album, It Was a Home (City Slang Records), releases March 4, 2022 and will be followed by both North America and European headline tours.

“The Chicago artist makes music for complex first-generation Latinas like herself—and anyone who’s ever felt less than enough.”
- Pitchfork

“KAINA delivers soothing reflections on Latinx identity and feelings of purposelessness atop music that fuses pop, R&B, jazz and salsa, the album feels as expansive as countless longer collections.”
- Paste Magazine

Join us for Celeste Lecesne in *POOF!* at Truro Vineyards, an intimate and COVID-safe outdoor show, with a full bar and the delicious eats of Blackfish's Crush Pad food truck on offer.

7pm doors | 8pm show

Fairies have always enjoyed a close association with the natural world. But with so much of the natural world under threat from Climate Change, the fairies are not pleased, and they are beginning to show up in surprising ways. In addition to making everything more fabulous just by simply being, fairies have come to pass along a few spells that will be needed in the days to come. One such fairy is scheduled to make a rare appearance in Truro and they will have their say. Join them.

Development of POOF! has been supported, in part, through a residency and workshop performance at Ancram Opera House (Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi, Directors), Ancram, New York. Costume design by Michael Krass.

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Celeste Lecesne

I've been telling stories for over 25 years.

Whether I'm writing, acting, producing or trying to create social change, it's usually the story that gets me involved. But in the process of getting things done and trying to make the world a better place, I've also been telling the story of my life. My hope is that you find something here that will inspire you to live your life more fully and continue to tell your story.

I’m using my middle name from now on - Celeste. As a child I was terrified people would discover Celeste. Throughout my life I’ve ghosted that part of myself and kept them out of sight. No more.

When I co-founded The Trevor Project 22 years ago along with Peggy Rajski and Randy Stone, our intention was to save the lives of LGBT and Questioning youth and provide them with a place to turn in crisis. But one of my personal hopes for the Trevor Lifeline was that it might become the means by which older LGBT people could appropriately express their love and support for queer and questioning youth, a channel through which the wisdom and experience of one generation could be passed along to the next. For too many generations, young people have had to figure out in secret what it means to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. As adolescents, many of us had to search for proof that we weren’t crazy, we had to find our gay history by reading between the lines and we had to locate one another in a world that required us to be practically invisible. My own journey was not exceptional in this regard. I found my way to queerness by feeling my way forward alone and without the support of mentors or teachers. Friends and lovers certainly helped, but it was basically a DIY situation. Only in the last decade have gay youth been able to be more than just beginners at being queer. In fact in many respects, they are showing us how it’s done in this brave new world.

For the past three years I’ve been working closely with LGBTQ+ youth, and I’ve been so impressed by their ability to express who they are. It’s ironic that these young people are now encouraging me to be more myself and proving to me that it’s never too late to become yourself.

–Celeste

Join us for Mali Obomsawin in concert at Truro Vineyards, an intimate and COVID-safe outdoor show, with a full bar and the delicious eats of Blackfish's Crush Pad food truck on offer.

7pm doors | 8pm show

Mali Obomsawin is an award winning songwriter, bassist and composer from Odanak First Nation. With an eclectic background in indie rock, American roots/folk and jazz, Obomsawin carries several music traditions. A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist, Mali has toured internationally, receiving acclaim from NPR and RollingStone and several Boston Music Awards nominations with her band Lula Wiles. Obomsawin frequents the folk/roots circuit as a frontwoman and sidewoman, appearing several times at Newport and Philly Folk festival, and also performs as bassist/singer in the creative music scene with Peter Apfelbaum, Taylor Ho Bynum and with her Sextet project, Sweet Tooth. Known for her striking, sardonic lyricism and sonic dreamscapes, Mali’s songwriting delivers the lush, anti-imperialist rock show we’ve all been craving.

IG & Twitter: @featherbitchxx

Facebook: facebook.com/maliobomsawin

photo credit: Nolan Altvater (Passamaquoddy Tribe)

in-photo art: Jo Povi Romero (Pojoaque Pueblo Tribe)

Thank you to the New England States Touring (NEST) program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

Join us for Roots Meltdown with New Sheriff, featuring percussionist Jon Joly and special guests. Twenty Summers Concerts at Truro Vineyards, intimate and COVID-safe outdoor shows, with a full bar and the delicious eats of Blackfish's Crush Pad food truck on offer.

7pm doors | 8pm show

From early roots to rockers, deep dub, rub-a-dub and early Dancehall, New Sheriff (Andrew Sloan)  brings the heavyweight sounds of Jamaica, curated from his personal collection of over 6000 pieces. All vinyl. All ways. With 25 years of collecting and more than a decade immersed in the business of Jamaican music, New Sheriff has a deep knowledge of the history of Jamaican music from Studio One and Treasure Isle in the 60s to the digital takeover of the late 80s.

“I am blessed with a life's work of amazing music from the island of Jamaica. Music that was never meant to be streamed or downloaded, but that must be played and enjoyed in its original vinyl format with all its snaps, crackles and pops.”

First exposed to the sounds of Jamaica working at RAS Records in Washington in the early 90s, New Sheriff spent most of that decade traveling the world as tour manager with Israel Vibration and the Roots Radics Band.  Sharing stages with all the top international bands from Jamaica, England, and Europe, and buying records.  In 2000, he moved to Miami to work with the producer Joe Gibbs for two years and continued to build his knowledge of the history of Jamaican music and grow his sound with more than a dozen trips to Kingston.

Jon Joly is a local percussionist and hand drummer, and a member of the Shango Axe.