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ivy room presents

SUNDAY MAY 11TH

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Mya Byrne

Side Pony

Amina Shareef Ali

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Doors 1:00pm / Show 2:00pm

ADV TICKETS AVAILABLE / $15 DOOR

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IVY ROOM

860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+

Mya Byrne

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Mya Byrne is a celebrated Americana singer-songwriter and firecracker guitarist, combining influences from countrypolitan to glam-pop, blues, and ghostly incantations into a singular voice and vision, with elements of John Prine’s whimsy, Leonard Cohen’s spiritual gravitas, Dylan’s wit, and Lucinda Williams’ aching sensuality. Like a crackling backyard fire outside of a city at dusk, stars on one side of the sky and light pollution on the other, Mya’s music is in the pocket of traditional country and Americana, yet firmly rooted in the modern world.

Mimi’s second solo album, “Rhinestone Tomboy”, produced by Grammy-nominated songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan, was praised by All Things Considered, Rolling Stone, and No Depression, among others. She’s spent the last year performing as an opener or featured act at many sold out shows, including an appearance at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for the Love Rising benefit, which was lauded by NPR’s Ann Powers as an event highlight.

Her videos from Rhinestone Tomboy were in constant rotation on CMT, and she is the first out queer trans woman to be an official Gibson Guitars artist.

Her work both on and offstage for social justice drives her passionate, fiery music, and she’s an absolute sweetheart who will make you cookies at midnight if you ask nicely.

Side Pony

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Side Pony is an Oakland-based queer trans low femme weirdo earnest indie rock group, inspired by queercore, 80s power ballads, and too many Virgo songwriters to count. Femme forward vocals with catchy hooks, a retro vibe, and queer punk flare. Side Pony is here for collective liberation and being total homos.

Amina Shareef Ali

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Based in Oakland, California, Amina Shareef Ali performs songs of love and struggle, of pain and wonder, of loss and redemption. Lyrics by turns poignant and sardonic are set against a backdrop of American music both traditional and modern, from folk to punk to country to jazz to rock and roll.

Hailing from St. Louis, Missouri, Amina Shareef Ali studied music composition at Oberlin College and moved to the Bay Area in 2007. Amina has released five records: The Once and Future Boyfriend (2010) and Holy Rock and Roll (2011) with her band, The Radical Folksonomy; and the solo albums How to End the War (2011), A Place to Remember the Dead (2014) and In The Dark (Awake Of Course), Vol. 1 (2021).

In 2017, Amina came out as a transgender woman.