Pamela Means at Stone Soup Coffeehouse Providence –
Stone Soup Coffeehouse is excited to bring local artist Pamela Means to The Music Mansion on Saturday, March 26. The show starts at 7pm. Tickets are $20 and are available at the door or reserved through our website.
Pamela Means’s commitment to interrogating social ills was fostered by her unique childhood. “As the adopted daughter of a white mother and black father, I learned about dismantling systems of oppression from the inside out.”
Pamela received her first guitar at the age of fourteen, just after her mother died of cancer, and it soon became Pamela’s primary vehicle for expression. It would also serve as a passport out of a life that consisted of poverty, foster homes, and the inner-city life of hyper-segregated Milwaukee WI.
Pamela “exhibits a rare emotional fire in today’s folk world,” (Seven Days, Burlington VT) so much so that Ani DiFranco exclaimed, “you’ve got such a deep, deep groove, I can’t get out. And I wouldn’t want to.” With Truth as ammunition, Pamela Means brings the fight for social justice and human dignity to the forefront of a new generation.
What the press is saying: “If Black warrior poet / feminist political activist Audre Lorde had taken up folk singing, she might have attacked her guitar and wrapped her lyrics around it the way Pamela Means does.” —
Valley Advocate, Northampton MA “Pamela’s vocals are hard-wired to her heart: emotional, raw, angry when it needs to be, yet supple and warm as an embrace. The truth may not always be pretty, but Means is a stunningly effective messenger.” – Oregon Live
Doors open 1/2 hour before the concert. All seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Drinks & goodies are now offered as part of your ticket price – our thanks for attending our shows.
Donations for refreshments, however, are graciously accepted and will be donated in turn to a worthy cause. Parking at The Music Mansion at 88 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02906 is limited, and carpooling, ridesharing, and mass transit are highly encouraged.
There is also available parking on Benefit Street, a short set of stairs will lead you right up to the Music Mansion.
LISTINGS INFORMATION FOR UPCOMING SHOWS
The Revenants at Stone Soup Coffeehouse Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 7pm Tickets $20 Online or At The Door For Tickets visit
http://stonesoupcoffeehouse.org/
An Evening with Pete Silva and Paula Clare at Stone Soup Coffeehouse Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 7pm Tickets $20 Reserve Online or Purchase At The Door For Tickets visit
http://stonesoupcoffeehouse.org/
ABOUT PAMELA MEANS
Pamela Means is a Easthampton MA-based Out(spoken), Biracial, independent artist whose “kamikaze guitar style” and punchy provocative songs have worn a hole in two of her acoustic guitars.
Armed with the razor wit of a stand-up comic, engaging presence, elegant poetry, and irresistible charm, Pamela Means’s “stark, defiant songs” (New York Times) set the status quo and the stage afire.
Pamela Means relocated to Boston, busked in the city subway and famed Harvard Square, founded her own record label and began touring.
Pamela has since performed on three continents and across the country, gaining fans and rave reviews from Anchorage to Amsterdam, Sydney to Stockholm, San Francisco to Honolulu to New York, breaking album sales records at national festivals and sharing stages with Pete Seeger, Neil Young, Shawn Colvin, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Gil Scott-Heron, Adrian Belew, Violent Femmes, Holly Near and more.
Means has also been the recipient of several nominations and music awards in multiple categories. “Within the music industry, I’ve been compared to both Tracy Chapman and Ani DiFranco. I’ve also been described as a cross between Suzanne Vega and Jimi Hendrix. And heir to the legacy of Nina Simone. But, really, I’m just me.” — Pamela Means
ABOUT STONE SOUP COFFEEHOUSE
Stone Soup Coffeehouse is one of the oldest coffeehouse venues in New England, presenting live music on Saturday nights from September through May. Stone Soup presents talented artists such as Greg Brown, Patty Larkin, Ellis Paul, and Catie Curtis as well as many gifted acoustic musicians and songwriters from Rhode Island and the New England Area. Stone Soup Coffeehouse has a history of recognizing talent and is proud to have featured many artists, such as, Dar Williams, Ingrid Michaelson, The Low Anthem, and Erin McKeown, many of whom have since become well known internationally.
Stone Soup is a member of the Boston Area Coffeehouse Association and supports the work of the Rhode Island Songwriters Association (RISA) and The Red Bandana Fund. Stone Soup Coffeehouse at The Music Mansion | 88 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02906
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ABOUT MUSIC MANSION
For almost a century, the hall has been filled with the sounds of beautiful music. The mission of the Mary K. Hail Music Mansion is to enrich the cultural life of Rhode Island by providing a unique and distinguished concert hall and reception facility in a beautiful, Neo-Georgian manor home, for musical events and other gatherings with a musical component.