Join us at The Kite for an evening with Adele Bertei, Gail Ann Dorsey, and Female Genius, and spin-mistress DJ Dany Johnson! Adele Bertei presents a solo set of music and readings from her memoirs. New music, nuns, little girl gangsters, the Cleveland punk scene... be prepared for radical tales and truths! Gail Ann Dorsey performs a solo set of original material, slated to be recorded for her next LP. Both Adele and Gail's NYC solo appearances are rare. Not to be missed! The band Female Genius will do a scorching set of originals to heat up the night. And legendary DJ Dany Johnson will set our bodies into motion on the dance floor! Adele Bertei&nbsp;tells stories in song, sound design, images, and books. A founding member of musical insurrectionists the Contortions and personal assistant to Brian Eno in 1977/'78, Bertei was lead singer for the Bloods, the first out, queer, all women-rock band. Bertei&nbsp;played a lead character in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, and films of Bertei reading her poetry, The Ragazzi Manifesto, and The Offenders were acquired by MOMA for their permanent collection. As vocalist, performer, and songwriter, she has worked with Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby, Culture Club, Scritti Politti, Whitney Houston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Sheena Easton, Oleta Adams, Ann Magnuson, Lydia Lunch, John Lurie, and Sophie B. Hawkins. Published works include the compilation The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading by editor Eileen Myles, Peter and the Wolves (memoir, Smog Veil), Why Labelle Matters (University of Texas Press). and Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood (memoir, ZE Books). Upcoming titles are Sinead O'Connor's Universal Mother (Bloomsbury, 33 1/3), and No New York (Faber &amp; Faber). Gail Ann Dorsey&nbsp;is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and recording artist. Dorsey&nbsp;occupied the bass guitar/vocalist chair in David Bowie’s touring bands from 1995 to 2004, also contributing to Bowie albums ‘Earthling’, ‘Reality’ and ‘The Next Day’, ‘Toy’, ‘Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001), and Bowie live at ‘Glastonbury 2000’. Her duet with Bowie on "Under Pressure" is the stuff of legend. Dorsey&nbsp;has recorded and toured the world with an eclectic variety of artists including Dar Williams, Seal, Joan Osborne,Gwen Stefani, Gang Of Four, Tears For Fears, The National, Olivia Newton-John, and Lenny Kravitz. Recently Dorsey&nbsp;toured France as singer and bassist with -M-; alter-ego of French superstar Matthieu Chedid. She is currently appearing on stage in a two-person theater piece with French actress Audrey Tatou of Amélie fame. Dorsey&nbsp;has released three solo albums: ‘The Corporate World’ (WEA Records 1988), ‘Rude Blue’ (Island Records 1993), and the independently released ‘I Used To Be…’ in 2004, now on Spotify.&nbsp; She is currently writing and recording new music for a much-anticipated new solo album release. An outsider artist practicing for decades, Julie Hair explores personal and political issues such as mental illness, addiction and the military industrial complex through varied mediums ranging from silk-screened wallpaper to metal work, and video. In her first year in New Yorkshe created an installation for the pivotal Times Square Show, which was featured in Artforum. She later collaborated with David Wojnarowicz on street art including a guerrilla installation made up of stencils and bloody cow bones in the stairwell of the Leo Castelli gallery. She is currently serving on the board of ABC No Rio, a center for art and activism in New York’s Lower East Side, as it navigates the construction of a new facility. Julie began experimenting with music in the 1980s with the art rock band 3 TEENS KILL 4 and decided that this form of expression would work for her, having the added benefit of not filling up her tiny East Village apartment. Marnie Jaffe (nee Greenholz) has been involved in the New York City and Brooklyn art community since 1978, when she moved to attend graduate film school at NYU. She collaborated with dancers and musicians designing multi-projector slide installations at clubs and art venues including the Kitchen, The Collective for Living Cinema, Danceteria, The Pyramid Club and Limelight. From 1980 until 1988 she played bass and sang with the alternative (noise) band Live Skull.She co-wrote songs for the band and released albums on the labels Homestead and Caroline Records. Live Skull performed in venues in Europe and the United States, as well as playing all over New York City throughout the 1980’s. In 1993 she moved to Cincinnati and had her daughter Noa. She also became the founding member/bass player of The Fairmount Girls, and put out the record “Seven seconds from anywhere”, as well as winning best local band for 2 years in a row from the Cincinnati Enquirer. Nikki D'Agostino An award-winning "wildly creative" composer, musician, conductor, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist, Nikki D'Agostino has both performed and had her works performed nationally and internationally. She received her B.A. from The University of North Texas in 2004 after studying with Joseph Klein, Phil Winsor, and Joseph "Butch" Rovan, before pursuing her M.M. in Music Composition (2008) at CUNY Brooklyn College to study with Amnon Wolman and George Brunner. Currently, Ms. D'Agostino is focused on publishing a book of scores and recording an album of works using a notation system she developed to allow both performer and composer/conductor creative control. As a "beautifully brash" saxophonist, synthesizer enthusiast, and sound artist, Ms. D'Agostino performs actively in the NYC music scene in several groups ranging in style from indie pop to harsh noise. Janice Sloane is a multimedia artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work explores themes of the body and its impermanence, transgression and transformation. She has exhibited extensively in the US, Europe and Mexico and is a 2022 Pollock Krasner Foundation grant recipient. Janice has played in downtown NY punk/rock /experimental bands since her late teens. Groups include the no wave band The Verge, King of Culture and Kilpig, mid 80's with Missing Foundation, the mid 2000's with the Wharton Tiers Ensemble and now playing minimalist guitar with Female Genius. She contributed a solo work to Harvestworks' historic audio cassette magazine TELLUS 10 “All Guitars”.Images: photo of Adele by Natalie Hill; photo of Gail by Lindsay Morano.