The Listening Room at 443 welcomes Penny Jo Pullus, Kay Miracle, and Linda McRae to Syracuse for The TeXChromosome CNY Unsung Heroines Tour – Stories & Songs on Friday July 5
About the Artists:
Linda McRae is a Canadian – US-based songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and 2016 BC Entertainment Hall of Fame Pioneer Inductee. Her unforgettable melodies and thought-provoking lyrics, make her a captivating and sought-after artist. Linda has performed in venues as diverse as Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre with the VSO and New Folsom Prison, where she facilitates writing workshops for the inmates. These experiences lead to the creation of her Express Yourself Writing Workshops currently being presented across North America.
No Depression Magazine, John Apice, “Linda carries on a priceless tradition of folklore through her music even though her songs are originals. She is firmly footed in the mud and moss of country-folk-blues.”
Americana Singer/ Songwriter KAY MIRACLE performs as a soloist and is the founder and lead singer for two original Americana bands “Kay & the Miracle Cure”, a “Folk Roots” group, and the Outlaw Country band the “Ghost Town Ramblers”. Wanting to pursue “all things original” Thr GTR merged their songs and headed to the studio to work with Mick Walker on their first CD released in 2018 and was Nominated yet again for a Sammy Award.
Kay has showcased her original songs at the “ SXSW Women“ TeXchromosome” showcases in Austin TX, as well as “Highway Woman” radio show while touring with “Last Honky Tonk Train” songwriter series. “Kay & the Miracle Cure” released “Buck Naked Demos” which has received national airplay on “WOS Radio”, “LadyLake Productions”, “Song Trader”, “Song Ladder”, and selected for the “Independent Music Awards”. Both “Kay & the Miracle Cure” and “Ghost Town Ramblers” have appeared at the “Native American Stage of Nations” at the Blue Rain Ecofest in Syracuse NY, the “American Roots Historical Songwriter Series”, and various festivals, and TV shows. Kay continues to record her extensive portfolio of music.
It has been during her tenure in Austin, TX that Penny Jo Pullus has found her musically eclectic and organic ideal, a heady, smoky combination of roots and pop styling’s that now defines her unique and soulful sound. Penny Jo truly is in her element as she charts a musical course squarely between Roseanne Cash and Lucinda Williams but with a hip shake and a nod to the Stones and the Ronettes. Hers is a great big voice, a mighty twang that takes a song, whether she writes it or not, and makes it real – breathtakingly, unmistakable. As William M. Smith writes it in Rockzilla World, “Pullus’s vocal attraction lies in her ability to alternate between hellcat on a tear and the girl next door.”
Sultry or snarling, Penny Jo Pullus is the real deal. “Penny Jo, who blanches at the title “chick singer,” defies pigeon holes. She started off at the age of 18 in a punk rock band called the Natives. Rockin’ Bones, The Muddpuppies and Trailer Trash were soon to follow as alt-country favorites. But lately, what Pullus has been up to has been something more. She has stepped into her own authentic style of playing and singing with her solo project on stages around the southwest. This happens all while simultaneously singing with 70’s Legends and Texas Music Hall of Fame-ers, The Greezy Wheels, Grammy Award winning “New Bohemian,” The John Bush Band, and vox session fave, Penny Jo stands firmly at the helm of the Independent Women’s music community as President and Founder of non – Profit, TeXchromosome, advocates for women in music. PJ is “driving the bus” for their international terrestrial Radio series. Dedicated to showcasing women independent artists.
“Ever since I decided that music is what I wanted to do, it has been about my gut instincts, finding my own way of being me, helping others and surrounding myself with like-minded people,” Penny Jo concludes. And from her brother’s record collection to the clubs of Texas, the East coast, West coast, and Europe. Penny Jo is worth knowing and listening to.
Artwork by Ed Hamell
SHOW: 7pm
$15 tickets available at the door