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Springing Toward By Chad Hundley 2015 Lexington Pride Festival Chair
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pring has sprung, and the
lookout for more information about
shorts and t-shirts are starting
those! We are pleased to welcome
to be spotted all around town. You
SoundBar and Kettle One back as
know what this means, right? The
sponsors this year. Without our
Pride Planning Committee members
sponsors this festival would not be
are finalizing all the plans for the
possible, so please be sure to support
upcoming Pride Festival to be held
those who support us!
on Saturday, June 27, 2015!
Our Entertainment committee, under
This month we will be preselling
the new direction of Mark Johnson,
our 2015 Pride packs online. The
has been working hard finalizing
Pride packs will include: an official
contracts for our performers. We
Pride t-shirt, 3 selected Pride buttons,
are pleased to announce a couple of
Pride koozie, Pride poster, and
them now to you all! Our afternoon
taking the stage at 8 p.m., will be the
wristband all placed in an official
headliner will be the amazing soul/
all-female band Sick of Sarah. Sick
Lexington Pride Festival polyester
jazz/reggae musician Nhojj. A native
of Sarah is a rock band based out of
drawstring backpack for the low price
from the country of Guyana, Nhojj
Minneapolis and has been featured in
of $25. So please be sure to place
returns to Lexington after performing
the popular local lesbian web series
your order during the month of April
at our 2010 Lexington Pride Festival
Girl/Girl Scene. Now in their tenth
for this special Pride deal at www.
and is excited to be back! He was the
year, Sick of Sarah has an extremely
lexpridefest.org. Our limited edition
first queer indie artist to reach #1 on
busy tour in 2015, and we are so glad
Pride coffee mugs will also be on
the MTV Hive chart with his same
that they are making the Lexington
sale at the Pride events, GLSO Pride
gender loving video, Love, receiving
Pride Festival one of those stops!
center, and Third Street Stuff. There
a feature on Advocate.com. In late
You can see and hear more of Abisha
will be a limited amount, so these are
2009, Nhojj opened doors when he
and the rest of the girls at www.
guaranteed to sell out as well.
became the first black male to win
sickofsarah.com.
We
are
pleased
to
announce
an OUTMusic Award: The LGBT
We have a couple of exciting
SoundBar and Kettle One Vodka as
Academy of Recording Arts voted
fundraisers coming up during the
Rainbow sponsors for this year’s
Love R&B/Soul Song of the Year. To
month of April for Pride, and would
festival. SoundBar will also be
hear and see more about Nhojj, visit
love to see everyone out for these
hosting a couple of fundraisers for the
his website at www.nhojj.com.
events. Lexington Diner (one of our
Pride committee in May, so be on the 12
LinQ
Our main headliner this year,
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