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HANIF ABDURRAQIB
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. His book, A Little Devil in America, was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named one of the books of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Publishers Weekly writes his latest book, "There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension," is "a triumphant meditation on basketball and belonging... the narrative works as if by alchemy, forging personal anecdotes, sports history, and cultural analysis into a bracing contemplation of the relationship between sports teams and their communities. This is another slam dunk for Abdurraqib.”
NAOMI FITTER & JON THE ROBOT
Naomi Fitter escaped from Ohio at the age of 22. She has opened for Bil Dwyer, Laurie Kilmartin, and Whitney Cummings and performed in the All Jane Comedy Festival. Nerds take note - her Singu-hilarity and Naughty but Nerdy shows run regularly at the Corvallis Majestic Theater, as well as on tour all around the country. When she's not telling jokes, she spends her time studying robots as an assistant professor of robotics at Oregon State University.
Jon the Robot is Naomi's autonomous joke-telling machine. He has not learned to pass captcha challenges, but he hopes to captcha your heart.
BRITTANY DAVIS
For Brittany Davis, "Sound is the way I've always seen my world.” A Seattle native and born blind, this soulful, genre-breaking musician and producer began recording music at age thirteen while homeless. Davis was signed to Loosegroove Records in 2022, the Seattle label co-founded by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, and received rave reviews on their debut EP I Choose To Live. Now with their new March 2024 full length release, Image Issues, Davis harnesses the energy of something quite divine and delivers it thoughtfully.
Y LA BAMBA
Y La Bamba is an indie alternative/experimental band lead by Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos. Their music has been called "an unsparing work of sonic catharsis” by Rolling Stone Magazine and have appeared on NPR’s Top 50 Albums. On the map since 2008, they’ve released seven albums, their latest being, “Lucha.” The album reflects on their Mexican heritage and subjects of love, queerness, intimacy, personal struggles, and the growth that ensued. For this album to be completed as a singular piece of art, multiple stories had to be layered and pieced together. Mendoza Ramos states, “I’ve been wanting to let whatever feels natural—with rhythm and musical instruments like congas and singing—to just let it be, in the way that I'm trying to invoke in myself.”