BarbieQ is Albany Pride royalty – first performing at Albany Pride Festival back in 2017, and returning each year since!

BarbieQ is renowned in the drag performance community, with over twenty years in the industry. She’s a multi-award winner, a dancer since the age of thirteen (with a five year career as a dancer for Princess Cruises in the USA) and is the Entertainment Manager for Connections Nightclub in Perth.

If that’s not enough, BarbieQ is also a regular Fringe Festival performer in Perth, which shows such as The Madonna Circus: ReInvention and Drag Diva Spectacular.

It’s always an absolute delight to welcome BarbieQ back to Albany, who amazes our audiences with her artistry, moves, sharp wit, and delightfully vulgar language!

Alexas Armstrong is Drag Queen Royalty in Boorloo/Perth: but she’s also royalty down here in Albany/Kinjarling having been a regular performer at our Pride Festivals for many years.

Veronica Jean Jones is an Albany Pride Festival, coming down to Albany/Kinjarling many times over the past few years.

With a caustic wit and a filthy mouth, Veronica Jean Jones is a Drag Bingo and Trivia Night favourite during Pride Festival.

Abbe May spent her late teens and early twenties performing in Australia’s most notorious rock venues and busted up studios, touring relentlessly in unreliable tour vans in various solo and band incarnations. With sly humour, Abbe graduated from her critically acclaimed early explorations of rock and blues to become a guitar-slinging, beat-driven, iconic performer with an atmospheric cocktail of sexy, indie riff-rock, gospel, soul, and electronica.

A champion of the LGBTQIA+ community, Abbe is a multi award-winning artist, having been nominated for over 40 ARIA, WAM, AIR, AMP awards and so far winning 27, she is one of the strong women of the Australian music industry with much respect across radio, blogs and venues around the country. Her impressive career as an independent, original artist boasts many highlights including touring extensively as the hand-picked guitarist for Peter Garrett’s Alter Egos. A constantly evolving artist, she has performed at myriad summer music festivals including Big Day Out, Meredith, and Pyramid, and supported Neneh Cherry, The Preatures, The Black Keys, Midnight Oil, The Motels, Art Vs Science, Tim Rogers, Adalita, Magic Dirt, Emiliana Torrini, Killing Heidi, You Am I,Peter Garrett, Bob Log III, Kim Salmon, Dave Graney and Claire Moore.

Abbe has had vast commercial success with albums ‘Design Desire’ in 2012, and ‘Kiss My Apocalypse’ in 2013. Associated singles Mammalian Locomotion, Taurus Chorus,Design Desire, Karmageddon, and T.R.O.U.B.L.E. were all added to high rotation on Triple J. Her Like A Version of Ginuwine’s Pony is widely considered a classic.

Several of her songs have been used in worldwide marketing campaigns for Jagermeisteras well as featuring as the closing scene song for the season in HBO’s Entourage and Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake.

Her fifth studio album “FRUIT”, released in 2018, is her most succinct and powerful declaration of identity yet. A melodic, upbeat and soulful collection of songs made to honour the lives of those who are different, the album was honoured with a shortlisting in the 2019 Australian Music Prize and added to high rotation on Double J and RTRfm.

LUXURY CAT RECORDS
PO Box 427
FLOREAT
WA 6014

EMAIL:INFO@ABBEMAY.COM
PH: 0450926904

DJ Emma is a Pride Festival regular, who has been delighting our audiences at our Fair Days and parties for a number of years now, and always delivers on delivering a delightfully Queer playlist full of classics.

Along with DJing and MCing, DJ Emma is also The Lil’ Gay Celebrant for civil marriages!

Kinetica is a performing arts company and circus school established in 2012 by a collective of circus, visual and performing artists, and based in Perth, Western Australia.

Kinetica are regular performers at the Perth Fringe Festival, regularly bringing in rave reviews – and their visits to Albany for the Pride Festival have been met with universal acclaim by all who attend!