Pride in Concert: Deborah Cox, Peaches, Hunter Valentine and MAYDA

Join us for Pride in Concert, Saturday, June 27 at 5pm in Loring Park! Fireworks to follow the show around 10pm. --About Deborah Cox-- A GRAMMY®-nominated, multi-platinum selling and multi-talented entertainer, Deborah Cox has conquered the R&B and pop charts, with six top 20 Billboard magazine R&B singles, and an impressive twelve #1 hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. Cox new single, “Kinda Miss You” is produced by the award-winning team, The Rascals. While singing with Celine Dion, Cox was discovered by the renowned music industry executive Clive Davis and instantly signed to Arista Records. Cox also performed the vocals on the recent Whitney Houston biopic, “Whitney.” --About Peaches-- Peaches, born Merrill Nisker in Toronto, is a musician, singer, performance artist, producer, filmmaker, actor, and writer, who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2000 and is constantly disrupting traditional thinking on gender norms. She has released four albums—The Teaches of Peaches, Fatherfucker, Impeach My Bush, I Feel Cream—and a new album is forthcoming. She has collab- orated and appeared as a guest vocalist on albums by P!nk, R.E.M., Iggy Pop, Major Lazer, and Christina Aguilera, to mention a few. Her songs have been featured in dozens of films and TV shows including Mean Girls, Lost in Translation, Whip It, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, South Park, and True Blood. Peaches has per- formed in more than fifty countries and has constantly toured the world for the past fourteen years. --About Hunter Valentine-- Now based in Brooklyn, the band started making waves in Toronto in 2005 when original members Kiyomi McClosky (lead vocals and guitar) and Laura Petracca (vocals and drums) formed the group and came out with their first self-financed EP. Since then, Hunter Valentine has released three full-length albums. Working with such producers as Greg Nori (Sum 41, Iggy Pop), Julius “Juice” Butty (Alexis on Fire, City and Color, Protest the Hero), and Ian Blurton (The Weakerthans, Amy Milan, Cursed, Lowest of the Low). Their blatant disregard for a typical girl-group sound has garnered them international attention. The girls' success has taken them on tour around the world and back, opening for such artists as Sum 41 and Cyndi Lauper. --About MAYDA-- Mayda is a young yet seasoned Minnesota-based multi-musician/artist/producer whose work has been heard around the globe. Heralded locally by The Current for her “undeniably fresh R&B-infused pop,” the petite yet larger-than-life pop songstress swings between pared-down acoustic struts, full-band funkadelic blasts, and electronic drumbeats and synth flourishes, to brings her slick, expansive, and evolving pop sound to life. This June, Mayda will collaborate with Mu Theater Arts on DeMayda’d, a one-woman developmental show at the Guthrie Theater.