Big Freedia Image from Discogs If “gay rapper” is an oxymoron where you come from, how to get your head around the notion of a gay rapper performing in a sports bar? What in most cities might seem plausible only as some sort of Sacha Baron Cohen-style provocation is just another weeknight in the cultural Galapagos that is New Orleans. Sometime after midnight on the sweltering Thursday before Memorial Day, the giant plasma-screen TVs at the Sports Vue bar (which “proudly airs all major Pay Per View events from the world of Boxing and Ultimate Fighting”) were all switched off, and the bar’s backroom turned into a low-lit, low-ceilinged dance club, where more than 300 people awaited a return engagement by Big Freedia, who by day runs an interior-decoration business and who is, to fans of the New Orleans variant of hip-hop music known as “bounce,” a superstar. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. Artist biography from last.fmUpcoming gigs:
Sun 19 May 2024 | Big Freedia: Big Freedia with Trombone Shorty , Asheville, NC, United States | RSVP | Sun 26 May 2024 | Big Freedia: Toulouse Theatre, New Orleans, LA, United States | RSVP | Fri 14 Jun 2024 | Big Freedia: BLAVITY House Party Music Festival 2024, Nashville, TN, United States | RSVP | Sun 7 Jul 2024 | Big Freedia: Mosswood Meltdown , Oakland, CA, United States | RSVP | Fri 18 Oct 2024 | Big Freedia: NOLA Funk Fest 2024, New Orleans, LA, United States | RSVP |
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