Glitter Moneyyy
Growing up in the nastyyy state of Florida, Queen Trashley & TayyySlayyy moved to Chicago where they made a name for themselves as the equality demanding, pussy poppin, dildo riding, nazi punching, rap duo GLITTER MONEYYY.
Maureen SanDiego
Ms. SanDiego is Chicago's premiere female female impersonator, bagged wine drinker, and party clown. She was a contestant in Alaska Thunderfuck's Drag Queen of the year pageant and has also been a featured performer at The Paper Machete, The Laugh Factory, The House of Blues, Chicago Underground Comedy, The Lincoln Lodge, and all over Chicagoland. Check out her podcast "I C*NT EVEN" on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
Bambi Banks-Couleé
Powerhouse princess and bucking beauty, Bambi Banks-Couleé is known to shut it all the way down! From thespian to rapstress, Bambi’s versatility and stage presence are truly unmatched! Bambi is very passionate about creating new spaces for drag and queer nightlife, especially in her role as a founding member of collectives “A Queer Pride” and “Unfriendly Black Hotties”. She is also the resident host of “Black Sheep” at Berlin and “Mayhem” at Roscoe’s, as well as the Friday programming director for Hydrate.
Kitty Banks
Twirling and swirling all over Chicago, Kitty Banks is best known for her high energy performances and severe, signature stamp! A talented performer you won’t wanna miss! A Kitty Banks show never fails to impress and leave jaws on the floor!
Jessy Lanza
Jessy Lanza is an outlier whose decades-spanning inspirations range from synth pop and post-disco R&B to underground dance music such as footwork. A key Hyperdub artist, the singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer has released colorful albums of varying syntheses for the revered U.K. label.
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Jezebelly
Jezebelly, the brownest belly in burlesque, is a founding producer of Chicago's all plus size troupe, the Femme FATales. She has performed at shows and festivals such as Afrotease, Jeezy’s Juke Joint, and New Orleans Teaser Festival. Known as Iridessence on social media, her pastimes include decorating her body in vintage or antique aesthetics and preaching the gospel that is fat liberation. She is dedicated to showing the world that glamour is not exclusive to specific skin tones or body types, but for everybody.
Shea Couleé
“I didn't come to play, I came to slay!” Chicago’s very own Shea Couleé will be taking over the Aeriz stage this year! The RuPaul Drag Race All Stars 5 Winner just announced that they will be back for All Stars 7!
In the summer of 2020, Shea Coulee and Dispensary 33 did a collab on a custom rolling tray based on Shea’s Season 5 red carpet look. Proceeds from the tray benefitted Molasses, a Chicago-based collective manifested by and for Black, trans, gender-nonconforming (TGNC) artists and organizers.
She is hitting the stage at Waldos Forever Fest on 4/23 with a rare live vocal performance and lip-sync drag set.
Sudan Archives
Sudan Archives contains multitudes. She first emerged as an avant-garde violinist who channeled her playing through loop pedals. But she’s also much more than that: lovelorn songwriter, powerful vocal performer, and experimental beatmaker. She’s captivated audiences at festivals around the world with her hybrid sound, playing at Coachella, Pitchfork Midwinter, and FORM: Arcosanti, and sharing stages with St Vincent, Ibeyi, and Michael Kiwanuka while touring her trail-blazing EPs Sudan Archives (2017) and Sink (2018). Sudan’s many identities truly coalesce in her debut album, Athena: a psychedelic, magnetic take on modern R&B that’s unlike anything else you’ve heard.
Born Brittney Parks, but called Sudan from a young age, she moved around Cincinnati, Ohio many times as a child; religion and music were the most stable forces in her life. It was in church that Sudan began learning to play the violin by ear, participating in ensemble performances. “I remember begging my mom to get me a violin,” she says. “From there I just never let it go – it felt like I had a purpose.”
Junglepussy
New York rapper/vocalist/actress Junglepussy's music is bold and brazen, tying together witty and often humorous lyrics about sex, social inequities, and personal growth with funk-steeped instrumentals and vocal performances that seem effortless. Her style came into its own over a series of albums that began with 2015's Pregnant with Success and reached new depths with 2020's JP4.