Rainbow Soup
Watch an episode of “Rainbow Soup” featuring various artists of all mediums from around the world!
Watch an episode of “Rainbow Soup” featuring various artists of all mediums from around the world!
The end of a concert featuring a performance by the Patti Smith Group of “Gloria” and “Time Is On My Side,” followed by a concert featuring the Ed Davis Band.
A concert played by the Patti Smith Group in Cincinnati in 1978, featuring Smith and guitarists Lenny Kaye and Ivan Král.
Cincinnati-based punk musicians The Ed Davis Band (aka The Ed Davis All-Artists Band) plays a concert in a small performance space.
A folk music concert organized and led by Pete Seeger to benefit the Sloop Clearwater revival.
Club LaRay presents a “Battle of the Stars” with host Anita Baker (impersonator) and co-host Tasha Thomas. This video documents the performances throughout the night by queen impersonators of popular soul and r&b singers and groups such as Gladys Knight, Grace Jones, and The [male] Emotions.
Club LaRay was a Black, gay club in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, IL. The club was owned by Ray “LaRay” Hill. The club was housed in a former theatre consisting of two bars, a dancefloor, and a staircase that went from the floor to the ceiling, dubbed the “Stairs to Nowhere”.
Wholesome Roc Art Gallery and Cafe, an alternative art space opened in Chicago in 1987, provided a place for artists, particularly black queer artists, to display their art and engage with one another. This video contains footage from the second half of the Wholesome Roc First Anniversary Show, celebrating Wholesome Roc Gallery and Cafe’s first year in operation and featuring various types of performance art.