The ArtsClub Presents Justin Vivian Bond, 6/4

A recent New Yorker article calls Bond "the greatest cabaret artist of (V's) generation" and Out magazine's May 2011 issue claims Bond's act "can be hilarious, heart-wrenching, vulnerable, sardonic, Wiccan, and world-weary all at the same time."

The material comprising Dendrophile reveals the variety of Bond's artistic passions. Bond is greatly influenced by early '70s folk-pop variety records by artists that defied genre and could easily go from protest songs to jazz standards, from adapting a traditional folk song to singing cabaret music: Marianne Faithfull, Judy Collins, Phoebe Snow, Melanie, Harry Nilsson, Sandy Denny, Linda Thompson, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris and Odetta. Bond wrote most of the original songs on the record-which complement interpretations of Nina Simone, Karen Carpenter, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

Sex, gender and sexuality are foremost themes of the album. Bond is particularly interested in queer, specifically transgendered, identity, which V has embraced in V's transition to the mixed-gender Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.

Bond has won Obie, Bessie and Ethyl Eichelberger Awards, been nominated for a Tony Award, been named one of the Top 40 Favorite New Yorkers by Time Out New York and been listed by Time Out London as one of England's 50 Funniest People.

Bond will be appearing at The ArtsCenter on Saturday, June 4 at 8:00pm.

WHEN: June 4 at 8:00 p.m.

WHERE: The ArtsCenter 300-G East Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510

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