XX-Chro­mo­some Series: Cel­e­brat­ing Women in the Arts in the Loft at City Win­ery Philadelphia
Featuring:
Lib­by John­son of 22 Brides
Green Cathedral
Voltheque
Doors 6PM // Show 8PM

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Lib­by John­son is a singer/songwriter from New York City. Born in Ger­many while her par­ents were sta­tioned there, Lib­by was raised in the U.S. until the age of 13, at which time her fam­i­ly moved to Nairo­bi, Kenya. A self-taught piano play­er, she learned to play gui­tar from her moth­er, who was a folk singer of con­tem­po­rary and tra­di­tion­al folk and blue­grass. Her father played bag­pipes. John­son’s first per­for­mance in pub­lic was at a Nairo­bi pub. 

“Liv­ing in Nairo­bi was pow­er­ful,” she said. “That move was prob­a­bly the sin­gle most influ­en­tial thing to hap­pen to me grow­ing up, it gave me a sense of com­pas­sion and insight to live those years out­side of the U.S.” “I was unen­cum­bered and open to hav­ing many expe­ri­ences in Africa, a guest among an inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing the time when I first began exper­i­ment­ing with song­writ­ing and performing.”

As an adult, she had returned to the Unit­ed States, set­tling in New York City after study­ing at Berklee Col­lege of Music. Along with her sis­ter Car­rie, also a musi­cian and song­writer, she formed the band 22 Brides, and earned a slot on the 1998 Lilith Fair tour. The duo’s music was a blend of folk/rock fea­tur­ing the two voic­es har­mo­niz­ing. The Brides released three albums on the Zero Hour label, and one for Uni­ver­sal. They signed with Chrysalis pub­lish­ing in 1994 and spent the next four years tour­ing until both sis­ters paused to start families. 

Lib­by released her solo debut album ‘Annabel­la’ in 2006 on the Wrong Records label. The songs fol­lowed the thread of her writ­ing with the Brides, with “haunt­ing vocals over sly bluesy gui­tar tracks.” Four of the tracks on “Annabel­la” were fea­tured in the film “Trust The Man,” writ­ten and direct­ed by Bart Fre­undlich, as well as an addi­tion­al track co-writ­ten for the film. 

Her fol­low-up album, “Per­fect View,” was released in 2009, with sev­er­al of the tracks picked up for inter­na­tion­al licens­ing. She is work­ing on a new release to be out in ear­ly 2020.

Green Cathe­dral is an orig­i­nal Art-Rock band whose first album “Win­ter’s Veil” was released on Üser Records USA. This debut album is avail­able for pur­chase and dis­tri­b­u­tion through CD Baby, as well as dig­i­tal down­load and stream­ing through various
pop­u­lar online out­lets. Win­ter’s veil has been steadi­ly gen­er­at­ing sol­id pos­i­tive reviews as well as radio sup­port in pro­gres­sive regions.

Green Cathe­dral is made up of orig­i­nal music indus­try vet­er­ans from the Art-Rock, Post-Punk, and Prog Rock and Elec­tron­i­ca worlds and record­ed with the leg­endary Philadel­phia pro­duc­er Mark Mon­toro of Philly Jam Recording.

Green Cathe­dral is tak­ing a metic­u­lous craft­ing of songs with focus on musi­cian­ship and per­for­mance and infus­ing their mate­r­i­al with unmis­tak­able emo­tion that draws the lis­ten­er in. Lyri­cal­ly, the band explores the mytholo­gies of this and oth­er times, as well as the inner jour­neys of the mind, heart and soul. The music can be simul­ta­ne­ous­ly eso­teric and invit­ing, beau­ti­ful and some­times aggres­sive. With their focus always on the song, Green Cathe­dral achieves Art-Rock sen­si­bil­i­ty with Pop hooks, strong melodies and cho­rus­es. This music expands the bound­aries of radio friend­ly rock for the think­ing class while nev­er alien­at­ing the listener.

Green Cathe­dral is avail­able for live per­for­mance, tours, inter­views, radio, licens­ing and in-store appearances.

Voltheque was meant to be. As mem­bers of for­mer Philadel­phia rock acts splin­tered away and joined forces, a new project was born. Merg­ing clas­sic goth­ic rock influ­ences, ambi­ent sound­scapes and a pul­sat­ing groove, this band has all the class from the past and plen­ty of orig­i­nal­i­ty to pro­pel them far into the mod­ern age. Live, Voltheque con­jures a unique and unfor­get­table per­for­mance, com­bin­ing gui­tar-dri­ven melodies, cryp­tic lyrics, and a stage pres­ence that deliv­ers with evan­gel­i­cal fer­vor into a sound total­ly unique to the cur­rent Philadel­phia music scene. Check out their EP “The Ver­dict” (avail­able on Spo­ti­fy) as well as their lat­est music video “Unearthed” on YouTube.