[ATTENDED: July 18, 2018] Old Maybe
I had never heard of Old Maybe before this show, although I understand that they have been playing together for a while. (Their earliest demos are from 2014).
The band consists of Jazz Adam (guitar and vocals), Ricardo Balmaseda (bass and vocals) and Nina Ryser (drums).
The only person I knew in the band was Nina Ryser whom I had seen on this very stage when she played with Palberta a year or so ago.
But this band belongs to Jazz Adam on vocals and guitar. She invited anyone of color or non-cis to the front of the audience before the show began.
I didn’t know much about her, so I have learned that
in 2015 Adam began playing solo shows, performing most songs a capella, creating vocal layers with looping and effects pedals. Adam attributes her lack of stage fright to her background in theater and stand up comedy. “I am able to be myself onstage,” she says. “And I am aggressive.” [Quote from The Spark).
Adam has been pushing that belief in Philadelphia via All Mutable, a booking collective she started with Nicki Duval and Robin Meeker-Cummings. The mission of the collective is to “diversify lineups sonically and racially,” she says. “Our focus is to book lineups that represent and attract those who are under-represented in this music scene, including (but not limited to) POC, queer identified, trans identified, and those who identify as non-binary. We also hope to sonically diversify lineups, and represent genres that are not often recognized in this culturally homogenized city.”
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They went through the cycle of singers one more time and then played a couple more songs at the end. It was cool that they kept things moving and all sounding pretty different while maintaining their overall vibe.
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