Performances by: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Yaya Bey, Green-House, Soft Rōnin, Niecy Blues, Joy Guidry, Asher White, Eli Winter, Time Wharp, Jamal Shakeri, Nsámbu Za Suékama, More Eaze, and more special guests.
 
The tradition of gathering for live musical performances threads together all of Red Hot’s projects since the first compilation in 1990, when the album Red Hot + Blue uplifted queer culture amid the grief and compassion fatigue of the AIDS crisis. Art and joy was key to survival then. And it is now. TRANSA: A Celebration heralds the 46-track album celebrating trans artistry with appearances by the project’s innovative contributors who guide listeners through a deeply spiritual sonic journey. At this event, you’ll hear songs from TRANSA performed live in the same spirit that gave shape to the recordings in advance of the album’s November 22nd release.
 
It takes time for new worlds to be born – time and space and slow, sustained belief. It takes courage to grieve the worlds that died before this moment, and those that might have arrived but never did. TRANSA, the new compilation from storied activist music production organization Red Hot, spotlights the gifts of many of the most daring, imaginative trans and non-binary artists working today. It also softens the edges of the world we know, and invokes powerful dreams of the futures that might one day thunder from its cracks. – Sasha Geffen