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WATCH: The World Premiere of Legendary Ferron's Video for 'The Pledge!'
Ferron is a legend, and everyone should know her work (in our humble opinion).
We are proud to premiere the first video of legendary Ferron’s latest project with the iconoclastic musician and producer Bitch!
Singer/songwriter Ferron, often referred to as “the lesbian Johnny Cash,” has been churning out impassioned folk music -- that is pretty much the best road music on the planet -- since the late ‘70s. Her 1984 release Shadows on a Dime is essential to a canon of not only women’s music, but of folk music at large, and she has influenced the likes of The Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco.
Ferron and Bitch first collaborated on 2008’s Boulder, and now they’ve joined forces with visual/video artist Billie Jo Cavallaro for Thunder and Lighten-ing, a chronicle of Ferron’s career that is presented in both a visual documentary and with some of Ferron’s poetry re-imagined in song.
Thunder and Lighten-ing came to fruition through Kickstarter, and was made available to sponsors last summer. The following video for “The Pledge” marks the project’s public debut, and we are happy to share it.
Discover more about the project here.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
