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South by Southwest (SXSW) Drops Third Round of Musical Acts for 2024 Festival – Glide Magazine
The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced the third round of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 38th annual event. The festival features one-of-a-kind music showcases from rising talents and renowned artists from around the world performing in front of industry professionals, influencers, press and a multitude of engaged fans who have a passion for music discovery. The first event on every music industry professional’s calendar, the SXSW Music Festival takes place March 11-16, 2024.
SXSW Music Festival programmers present the best in eclectic and acclaimed artists offering a unique opportunity for national and international exposure. Artists in this announcement hail from Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Panama, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Third round highlights include Angélica Garcia (El Monte CA), The Black Keys (Akron OH), Blind Channel (Helsinki FINLAND), Bootsy Collins (Cincinnati OH), Boza (Panama PANAMA), Chase Shakur (Atlanta GA), Fabiana Palladino (London UK-ENGLAND), Flyana Boss (Los Angeles CA), GOKUMON (UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) (Tokyo JAPAN), J Noa (Santo Domingo DOMINICAN REPUBLIC), Johnny Jewel (Los Angeles CA), Kneecap (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND), Lime Cordiale (Sydney AUSTRALIA), Luther Dickinson (Memphis TN), Marcelo D2 (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL), Mayuan Poet (Kunming CHINA), Miso Extra (London UK-ENGLAND), Moffa (José Gabriel Feliciano) (San Juan PUERTO RICO), Scowl (Santa Cruz CA), SNŐÕPER (Nashville TN), STRFKR (Portland OR), and Vitesse X (Brooklyn NY).
Spanning six nights, Music Festival showcases are curated by SXSW programmers in collaboration with record labels, booking agencies, export offices, management and PR firms, publishers, media outlets, lifestyle brands and festivals. These showcases give attendees the opportunity to experience today’s and tomorrow’s headliners in Austin’s iconic and offbeat venues. Showcase presenters include: Adult Decisions, All The Vibes, ATC Live, Athens In Austin, Atomic Music Group, BBC Introducing, Beyond the Music Manchester, Big Picture Media, Billboard, BIRP.fm, Breakout West, The Broadside Hacks Folk Club, CareFreeBlackGirl, Chicken Ranch Records, Chopstars. City Slang, CLASH Music, Classical Unlocked, The Color Agent, Crosstown Concerts, Dear Life Records, Dedstrange, Deezer, Don Giovanni Records, Double Denim, End of the Trail, Everything RnB, Fair Enough PR, Father/Daughter Records, Fierce Panda, Flatspot Records, FOCUS Wales, Folk Alliance International, Friends from the East Festival, FRIENDSHIP., Future Classic, Gar Hole Records, Give A Note Foundation, Houndstooth, Iceland Music, Island Wave, Italia Music Export, Italians Do It Better, Gorilla vs. Bear, High Road Touring, Indie Shuffle, Initiative Musik, Jaded, Jazz Re:Freshed, KUTX The Breaks, LICKS Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, The Loyalty Firm, M for Montreal, Mint Talent Group, Monster Child, Mothland, Music from Ireland, Music Website, MUTEK, Nerdcore, New West Records, NIVA, NoiseCo, Now Wave, Paper Bag Records, Penny Loafer PR, POP Montreal, Post Electric Artists, PlantWave, Reeperbahn Festival, Roskilde Festival, Ramp Local, Range Magazine, Rhythm n Vibes, Rolling Stone, School Night, Selector Radio, So Recordings, The Smoke Out, Sofar Sounds, Space Agency, The Spanish Wave, Synásthesie Festival, Taiwan Beats, Tiger Bomb Promo, Tokyo Calling, Traffic Music, Trucha Soul, Violet House, WeFoundNewMusic, We Were Never Being Boring, Wide Days Scotland, and WOMEX.
The third round of artists invited to perform include:
Acantha Lang (London UK-ENGLAND)
Ada Oda (Brussels BELGIUM)
Adriana McCassim (Los Angeles CA)
AHI (Brampton CANADA)
airu (Bilbao SPAIN)
The Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet (Austin TX)
Alice Ivy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Alisa Amador (Boston MA)
Alix Fernz (Montreal CANADA)
Allan Harris (New York NY)
Allegra Krieger (New York NY)
Altameda (Toronto CANADA)
Amber Lang (Willingboro NJ)
Amiture (New York NY)
Andrew Gould (Queens NY)
Angélica Garcia (El Monte CA)
Ankur Tewari (Mumbai INDIA)
A’Rise (Sun-El Musician, Kay Faith, Kooldrink) (Mooi River SOUTH AFRICA)
Arny Margret (Ísafjörður ICELAND)
Asha Jefferies (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Ashley Kutcher (Baltimore MD)
Aubrey Haddard (Brooklyn NY)
Aurora D’Amico (Palermo ITALY)
Ayoni (Los Angeles CA)
Babe Corner (Vancouver CANADA)
BackDrop Cinderella (Tokyo JAPAN)
Bebo Dumont (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
The Belair Lip Bombs (Frankston AUSTRALIA)
Ben Buck (Austin TX)
Ben Kweller (Dripping Springs TX)
Bia Ferreira (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Big Dumb Baby (Brooklyn NY)
Big Jade (Beaumont TX)
Big Wy’s Brass Band (Austin TX)
Big Zeeks (London UK-ENGLAND)
Billy Allen + The Pollies (Muscle Shoals AL)
The Black Keys (Akron OH)
Blakchyl (Austin TX)
Blaketheman1000 (Los Angeles CA)
Blind Channel (Helsinki FINLAND)
Blue Water Highway (Austin TX)
BODUR (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bones and Jones (Geelong AUSTRALIA)
Bonnie Montgomery (Fayetteville AR)
Bootsy Collins (Cincinnati OH)
Boza (Panama PANAMA)
Brad Byrd (Los Angeles CA)
breathe. (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Brie Stoner (Grand Rapids MI)
Bubble Tea and Cigarettes (New York NY)
Buggin (Chicago IL)
Byron Juane (Charlotte NC)
C4 (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Cactus Lee (Austin TX)
Caleb De Casper (Austin TX)
Cale Tyson (Los Angeles CA)
Cameron Romance (Los Angeles CA)
Cardinals (Cork IRELAND)
Carpetman (Kyiv UKRAINE)
Cassadee Pope (West Palm Beach FL)
Chance Emerson (Hong Kong HONG KONG)
Chase Shakur (Atlanta GA)
Chelsea Days (Oklahoma City OK)
ChihiroYamazaki＋ROUTE14band (Kawasaki JAPAN)
Chih Siou (Taipei TAIWAN)
Chinese American Bear (Seattle WA)
Chioke (Philadelphia PA)
Chris Acker (New Orleans LA)
Chris Patrick (East Orange NJ)
Cloudchord (Austin TX)
Clover County (Athens GA)
COASTCITY (Miami FL)
College of Hip Hop Knowledge (Austin TX)
Corridor (Montreal CANADA)
Cotton Mather (Austin TX)
Couch Prints (New York NY)
The Courettes (Mariager DENMARK)
Crabe (Montreal CANADA)
Creekbed Carter Hogan (Austin TX)
Crys Matthews (Nashville TN)
Cuffed Up (Los Angeles CA)
Curtis McMurtry (Austin TX)
DAIISTAR (Austin TX)
Daisy Rickman (Penzance UK-ENGLAND)
Dale Hollow (New York NY)
Dani D y Franky (Miami FL)
Dani Gurgel & Debora Gurgel (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Danxgerous (Rome ITALY)
Day By Day (South Florida FL)
DBMK (Tampa FL)
Deer Fellow (Austin TX)
Def-i (Albuquerque NM)
Dende (Katy TX)
Desiree Cannon (Jenner CA)
The Deslondes (New Orleans LA)
Die Slo (Austin TX)
The Dinosaur’s Skin (Taipei TAIWAN)
Dj Napalm (Austin TX)
Doohickey Cubicle (Vancouver CANADA)
Dual Core (Austin TX)
DV-i (New York NY)
DVTR (Montreal CANADA)
Dyce (Leuven BELGIUM)
Dylan Earl (Fayetteville AR)
Eliza McLamb (Los Angeles CA)
Embla and the Karidotters (Bergen NORWAY)
End It (Baltimore MD)
Enji (Munich GERMANY)
The Eric Hisaw Band (Austin TX)
Erykah Officer (Miami FL)
Ethan Tasch (Menlo Park CA)
Eva Westphal (New York NY)
EyeQ (Brooklyn TX)
Fabiana Palladino (London UK-ENGLAND)
The fin. (Kobe JAPAN)
FLEWNT & INKABEE (Perth AUSTRALIA)
FLWRSHRK (Bronx NY)
Flyana Boss (Los Angeles CA)
Font (Austin TX)
FOXCULT (Seattle WA)
Foyer Red (Brooklyn NY)
Frances Chang (Brooklyn NY)
Friend (Philadelphia PA)
Gabby’s World (New York NY)
GameboyJones (Kent OH)
gglum (London UK-ENGLAND)
GOKUMON (UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) (Tokyo JAPAN)
Grace Pettis (Nashville TN)
Greg Freeman (Burlington VT)
grimelda (Saskatoon CANADA)
Gummy B (Taipei TAIWAN)
Hanorah (Montreal CANADA)
Helsinki Lambda Club (Tokyo JAPAN)
Hembree (Lawrence MO)
High. (Boonton NJ)
His His (Toronto CANADA)
Hollows (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Hotel Mira (Vancouver CANADA)
HUSHMONEY (Los Angeles CA)
The Ian Fays (San Francisco CA)
If I Die In Mississippi (Gulfport MS)
Ila Barker (Winnipeg CANADA)
Indian Giver (Toronto CANADA)
ISMAY (Petaluma CA)
Ivoris (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Jack Van Cleaf (Encinitas CA)
Jason Calhoun (Philadelphia PA)
Jaz Dhami (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Jeff Lofton (Austin TX)
Jess Cornelius (Los Angeles CA)
JET THE 3RD (Houston TX)
Jhama (Vidigal BRAZIL)
J. Isaiah Evans & The Boss Tweed (Dallas TX)
JJ Shiplett (Calgary CANADA)
J Noa (Santo Domingo DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Jobi Riccio (Nashville TN)
Johnny Jewel (Los Angeles CA)
John Roseboro (Brooklyn NY)
JOSEON (Los Angeles CA)
Joudy (Brooklyn NY)
JPerry (Port-Au-Prince HAITI)
J Soulja (Austin TX)
JW Francis (Sapulpa OK)
Kadesh Flow (Kansas City MO)
Kaitlin Butts (Tulsa OK)
Kalamari (San Antonio TX)
Kaleah Lee (Vancouver CANADA)
Kalpee (Lange Park TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
Keenan Te (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Kharma (Chicago IL)
Kierst (Brooklyn NY)
King Nun (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kiss Bang (Los Angeles CA)
Kneecap (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Kolb (Brooklyn NY)
koleżanka (New York NY)
kudaranai1nichi (Tokyo JAPAN)
K.Williams (Tacoma WA)
Lady Apple Tree (Los Angeles CA)
La Gallo 3:20 (Monterrey MEXICO)
Lamont Landers (Decatur AL)
Laney Jones (Nashville TN)
Latir (London UK-ENGLAND)
Laveda (Brooklyn NY)
Lev Snowe (Winnipeg CANADA)
LEX the Lexicon Artist (Taipei TAIWAN)
Liam Benzvi (New York NY)
Liam St. John (Spokane WA)
LIE NING (Berlin GERMANY)
Life’s Question (Philadelphia PA)
Life In Vacuum (Toronto CANADA)
Light Beams (Washington DC)
Limbo (San Francisco CA)
Lime Cordiale (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Lisa Morgenstern (Berlin GERMANY)
Little Wilderness (Durango CO)
Lizzie & The Makers (Brooklyn NY)
Los Choclok (Cosoleacaque MEXICO)
LOS KEMET (Jackson MS)
Lost Bayou Ramblers (Lafayette LA)
The Lostines (New Orleans LA)
Lucaa (Washington DC)
Lucky Lo (Copenhagen DENMARK)
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) (Northampton MA)
Luna Aura (Nashville TN)
Luther Dickinson (Memphis TN)
luvis (Tokyo JAPAN)
Lxandra (Helsinki FINLAND)
Madeleine Mayi (Los Angeles CA)
Madeline Goldstein (Los Angeles CA)
Madison Baker (Austin TX)
Majin (Taipei TAIWAN)
Malin Pettersen (Oslo NORWAY)
Mali Velasquez (Nashville TN)
Marcelo D2 (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Marissa Burwell (Regina CANADA)
Mary Scholz (Los Angeles CA)
Mary Shelley (Brooklyn NY)
Mayuan Poet (Kunming CHINA)
MC LARS (San Francisco CA)
MDUKE (San Antonio TX)
Medusa (New York NY)
Mel Bryant & the Mercy Makers (Nashville TN)
Me Nd Adam (Austin TX)
Merce Lemon (Pittsburgh PA)
Merv xx Gotti (Regina CANADA)
Midnight Navy (Austin TX)
Mikaela Monet (Valencia VENEZUELA)
Mina Okabe (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Mind Shrine (Houston TX)
Miranda Joan (Montréal CANADA)
Miso Extra (London UK-ENGLAND)
Moffa (José Gabriel Feliciano) (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
Moon Walker (New York NY)
MOTO BANDIT (Nashville TN)
My Education (Austin TX)
Myrkvi (Mosfellsbær ICELAND)
Natalie Price (Austin TX)
Native Sun (Brooklyn NY)
Nawf Lxrds (Waco TX)
Nick Finzer (Denton TX)
Night Drive (Austin TX)
N Nao (Montreal CANADA)
Noah And The Loners (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Nonô (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Nur-D (Minneapolis MN)
Nyssa (Toronto CANADA)
Office Dog (Aukland NEW ZEALAND)
Ohm-I (Kansas City MO)
Ok Cowgirl (Brooklyn NY)
Old Heavy Hands (Greensboro NC)
The Oxys (Austin TX)
The Past Lives (Austin TX)
Peelander-Z (Austin TX)
The Peevie Wonders (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PEGGY (Ann Arbor MI)
Pendulum Hearts (Austin TX)
Philip Labes (Los Angeles CA)
PIAO (Toronto CANADA)
Pierce Washington (Dallas TX)
pimpawatb (Baltimore MD)
Poise (New York NY)
Pony Girl (Ottawa-Hull CANADA)
PRINCE AMINE (Montréal CANADA)
Programmique (Brooklyn NY)
Proper. (Brooklyn NY)
Provoker (Los Angeles CA)
Prowess The Testament (Washington DC)
Purple Bee Experience (Volente TX)
QUANNA (Savannah GA)
Rachel Rose (Brooklyn NY)
Rain on Fridays (San Diego CA)
Ray$av (New Orleans LA)
Remo Drive (Minneapolis MN)
Restos (Austin TX)
Reyna Tropical (McAllen TX)
RIP Dunes (Brooklyn NY)
Robert Grace (Kilkenny IRELAND)
Rose Hotel (Atlanta GA)
SANITY (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Sara Parigi (Prato ITALY)
Schatzi (Austin TX)
Scowl (Santa Cruz CA)
Scuttino (Dallas TX)
Searows (Portland OR)
The Sewing Club (Nashville TN)
Shallow Alcove (New York NY)
Shalom (Fairfax VA)
Shannon and the Clams (Oakland CA)
Shubzilla x Bill Beats (Seattle WA)
Six Missing (Austin TX)
SkyBlew (Chapel Hill NC)
Slow Fiction (Brooklyn NY)
SNŐÕPER (Nashville TN)
Songer (Reading UK-ENGLAND)
Sophia Galaté (Los Angeles CA)
The South Hill Experiment (Los Angeles CA)
Space Goonz (Austin TX)
Spoon Benders (Los Angeles CA)
Star Parks (Austin TX)
Stereo Jane (Los Angeles CA)
Storey Littleton (Woodstock NY)
STRAWBERRY LAUNCH (New York NY)
STRFKR (Portland OR)
Sugadaisy (Nashville TN)
Sunnsetter (Hamilton CANADA)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
SWEET SPINE (Greenville SC)
SWIDT (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Taija Kerr (Austin TX)
Tami Hart (Brooklyn NY)
Telescreens (New York NY)
Tempers (New York NY)
TENN (Sheffield UK-ENGLAND)
Tetchy (Brooklyn NY)
Thelonious Love (Houston TX)
Therapy? (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
There Go My Baby (San Antonio TX)
Thomas Hinds (Cartersville GA)
Tiffany Poon (Hong Kong HONG KONG)
Tino Martinez Quintet (Hamilton BERMUDA)
Tonina (St. Louis MO)
Totalement Sublime (Montréal CANADA)
Trinket (Brooklyn NY)
Una Canción Bonita (Tuxtla Gutiérrez MEXICO)
Utley3 (Austin TX)
VAPERROR (Brooklyn NY)
Vertarias (Austin TX)
Vitesse X (Brooklyn NY)
WAKE (Calgary CANADA)
West 22nd (Austin TX)
Wez Atlas (Tokyo JAPAN)
WifeKnife (Brooklyn NY)
William Singe (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Willow Parlo (Hamburg GERMANY)
wilt (Los Angeles CA)
Wishy (Indianapolis IN)
Wonderly (Portland OR)
Wreck The System (Temple Hills MD)
X Ambassadors (Ithaca NY)
XAV (Roxborough TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
xJermsx (New York NY)
Yayoi Daimon (Osaka JAPAN)
Yung D3mz (Accra GHANA)
Zach Person (Austin TX)
ZADA (Whistler CANADA)
Zay.Peace (Wichita Falls TX)
Zitah (London UK-ENGLAND)
(This list is subject to change. More performers will be announced at later dates.)
AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin-based improv troupe is celebrating a major milestone with performances in Texas and on a national stage.
Jane Austin Improv celebrates third anniversary with Texas shows & a national NYC stage
Jane Austin Improv is marking its third anniversary with a series of shows, including a headlining performance at the Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre on June 6.
The award-winning group is known for blending Regency-era storytelling with improv comedy, bringing Jane Austen-inspired characters, costumes and courtship drama to life with quick wit and audience-driven humor.
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Following their Austin shows, the troupe will perform in New York City at the Del Close Marathon, one of the country’s premier improv comedy festivals.
Jane Austin Improv celebrates third anniversary with Texas shows & a national NYC stage
Jane Austin Improv has grown from local stages to performances across the U.S. and internationally, earning multiple nominations from the B. Iden Payne Awards, winning the 2023 Ethel Hinkley Award for Outstanding New Improv Troupe, and being named a “Best of Austin” finalist by the Austin Chronicle in 2025.
Organizers say the anniversary performances celebrate both the group’s growth and its mission to connect audiences through creative, accessible comedy.
Tickets for the June 6 performance at the Long Center can be found here: https://thelongcenter.org/events/janeaustinimprov/
After ranking as the third-best large U.S. city for starting a business last year, Austin took a surprising tumble into the 24th spot nationally for 2026.
WalletHub’s annual report, “Best Large Cities to Start a Business (2026)” compared 100 U.S. cities based on 19 relevant metrics across three key dimensions: business environment, access to resources, and costs. Factors that were analyzed include five-year business survival rates, job growth comparisons from 2020 and 2024, population growth of working-age individuals aged 16-64, office space affordability, and more.
Florida cities locked other states out of the top five best places in America for starting a new business: Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Hialeah, and St. Petersburg.
Austin’s business environment ranked 11th best in the country, and the city ranked ninth in the “access to resources” category. The city also tied with Boise, Idaho, and Fresno, California, for the highest average growth in the number of small businesses nationally.
Austin lagged behind in the “business costs” ranking, coming in at No. 80 overall. This category examined metrics such as the city’s working-age population growth, the share of college-educated individuals, financing accessibility, the prevalence of investors, venture investment amounts per capita, and more.
Earlier this year, WalletHub declared Texas the third-best state for starting a business in 2026, and several Houston-area cities have seen robust growth after being recognized among the best career hotspots in the U.S. WalletHub also ranked Austin on its top-10 list of the best U.S. cities to find a job. Entrepreneurial praise has also been extended to 15 Austin-based innovators that made Inc Magazine’s 2026 Female Founders 500 list.
Texas cities with strong environments for new businesses
Multiple cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex can claim bragging rights as the best Texas locales for starting a new business. Dallas ranked highest overall — appearing 11th nationally — and Irving landed a few spots behind in the 16th spot. Arlington (No. 23), Fort Worth (No. 30), Plano, (No. 35), and Garland (No. 65) followed behind.
Only six other Texas cities earned spots in the report: Houston (No. 26), Lubbock (No. 36), Corpus Christi (No. 39), San Antonio (No. 64), El Paso (No. 67), and Laredo (No. 76). Corpus Christi and Laredo also topped WalletHub’s list of the U.S. cities with the most accessible financing.
“From the Gold Rush and the Industrial Revolution to the Internet Age, periods of innovation have shaped our economy and driven major societal progress,” the report’s author wrote. “However, the past few years have been particularly challenging for business owners in the U.S., due to factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Resignation and high inflation.”
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‘I want to be louder’: Austin Drag King Bobby Pudrido refuses to be deterred by Texas ban
Jay Thomas grew up like any kid, laughing at silly things and making up funny names.
So in the ’90s, when Tejano superstar Bobby Pulido’s songs played on the radio, young Jay and his peers couldn’t help but rhyme his last name with the Spanish word pudrido (which means rotten in English).
“We grew up calling him that just because it was funny,” he told Austin Signal host Jerry Quijano.
When he was thinking of a name for his drag persona, Thomas created a list.
“I was thinking of some queer icons and some not queer icons,” he said. “This one just resonated because he is a Tejano star. And in the ’90s he was this really big heartthrob that everybody wanted to be or be with.”
And three years ago, Thomas became Drag King Bobby Pudrido.
He thought it would be fun to impersonate a masculine figure from the Latino community and perform for an audience attracted to that type of energy. He also wanted to bring his culture into his drag.
Pudrido’s name has new recognition these days: Tejano singer Pulido decided to retire from music and go into politics. He’s running for Congress in South Texas’ District 15 against incumbent Republican Monica De La Cruz.
Both in an out of drag, Pudrido is also politically vocal. He advocates for trans rights and against the drag ban that went into effect statewide in March. The law prohibits drag performances in public properties or in front of children. Venues that host these performances can be fined up to $10,000.
“As a drag artist, one of the things we need to do is get booked so we can pay our bills,” Pudrido said.
Even though it’s unclear whether the ban affects some venues, he said, he thinks certain business owners won’t book drag performers because of the risk of being fined.
But as a working-class artist, he doesn’t have the luxury to dwell on it.
“You have to go to work, because you need to pay your bills,” he said.
The law has taken an emotional toll on him, too.
“The way it chips away at a queer person to hear any type of anti-queer legislation pass is something that is really big for me,“ he said. “We are constantly — just as human beings — trying to maintain our mental health. “
But that doesn’t mean his love for performing has been diminished. In fact, quite the opposite is true.
“It has fueled me,” Pudrido said. “Right now I’m in the angry phase where I want to be louder.”
As a performer and producer, the drag king has put on shows in the Austin area and recently traveled back to his hometown in Laredo for a show.
“It’s hard for drag kings to get booked sometimes, so we are still far away from the perfect ideal world for [them],” he said. “But the fact that I have a platform at all is huge.”
Pudrido’s passion for performing comes from his drag ancestors, “who started the art form as a way of being political and of being against the systems that were oppressing queer people.”
Drag King Bobby Prudido is currently producing his second queer quinceañera, “Con Mucho Amor,” with an anticipated show date in the fall.
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