TAE PHOENIX

Singer-Songwriter • Activist • Writer

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A natural-born storyteller with the polish of an accomplished actress and the authentic edge of a seasoned blues musician.

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Music

Featured Track: “I wanna see you be brave.”

Music is the art form we turn to when we need to build bridges and make ourselves plainly understood.

In January 2020, the United States was in crisis. The president was holding vital defense support to Ukraine hostage as a means of coercing their government into investigating the son of a political rival.

My civil disobedience action inside the Senate’s Russell Rotunda – performing Sara Bareilles’ “Brave” in an area where protest is strictly forbidden – was a call on Republican Senators to join Democrats in voting to remove that corrupt president from office.

More Music

Everyone You’ll Be EP • Studio Album Release Date: Feb 2024
Home demos…

Tae Phoenix · The Girls You'll Be Demos
Deep Cuts

Tour Dates

CityDateTimeVenue
Boston8/7/23TBABerklee Performance Center*
Boston8/8/233:30pmCafe 939
New York8/14/236pmRockwood Music Hall
Washington, DC8/17/232-4pmWOWD Radio
Reston, VA8/18/236pmLake Anne Plaza
* I am a backup singer as part of a larger ensemble.

Bio / Artist Statement

My name is Tae Phoenix and my favorite party game is “two truths and a lie.” See if you can guess which is which:

The answer is in the footer of the website.

My work is about themes that everyone can relate to on some level: rejecting conformity, embracing authenticity, and finding the connections between healing ourselves and building the world we want.

Sometimes, when I’m stuck on where a musical idea belongs, I’ll write lyrics from the perspective of a fictional character and see where that takes me. I love this approach because I tend to obsess over stories: telling them, absorbing them, analyzing them. It doesn’t really matter as long as I’m immersed. I’ve written songs that started out as screenplays and the beginnings of musicals that I originally thought were novels. It all makes me ridiculously happy.

My favorite thing about using music as a storytelling vehicle is that a well-timed and well-written song can convey a tremendous amount of information just with the placement of a quarter note rest. I learned this the first time I performed in a Sondheim show. (“Into the Woods.”) I looked at the score, thought, “wow! It’s turtles all the way down, “and never looked back.

The performing arts world is a wonderful place for many reasons, but it’s also not an easy space for me to enter. As an Autistic, I get easily overwhelmed by loud, chaotic environments like music clubs. In a people-oriented business, missing a social cue, facial expression, or change in tone of voice can have implications that aren’t always obvious in the moment. One of my goals as I work in this space is to build more inclusive and accessible spaces for “neuro-spicy” artists and our supporters.

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Tour 2020

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West Coast Tour

April 10- May 1, 2020

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What We’re Up To

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We are Resistance Company and Tae Phoenix; anti-fascist musical artists who met during the January 2020 Remove Trump protests in Washington, DC. We are teaming up on a West Coast grassroots tour, moving from community to community with a message of connection, righteous anger, and hope.

Our goal with this tour is to help grassroots advocacy groups raise funds, offer entertainment and inspiration, and facilitate a community conversation about what it’s going to take to save our country this year and beyond.

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Photo Credit: David Choy

 

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Tour Dates

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Photo credit: Kristine Jones

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We are booking our tour at this time. Below is a rough approximation of our desired dates and cities / Congressional districts.

We are willing to negotiate adjustments to this timetable on a case-by-case basis so please feel free to ask.

April 10-16 • Los Angeles Metro Area

April 12 • 11am – 4pm at The Boardwalk at Clubhouse Ave in Venice, CA (https://goo.gl/maps/DX37bfYKJZnNz23KA). Bring donations for people experiencing homelessness such as tarps, tents, hoodies, blankets, coats, gloves, socks, beanies, toothpaste, over the counter pain killers, first aid kits, toothbrushes, toothpaste, chapstick, tampons, condoms, emergen-c, and art supplies.

April 18 • 12-3pm at Cafe Sandbox in Ventura, CA (https://goo.gl/maps/dmHQvbizcP37WeT5A)

April 19 •  CA-24 or CA-20

April 20 • CA 20 or CA-18

April 21 & 22 • Bay Area: Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Silicon Valley

April 23 • CA- 02  or CA-01

April 24 • Eugene, OR

April 25 • Portland, OR

April 26 & 27 • WA-03,  WA-10

April 29 – May 1 • Seattle, WA

 May 2 – 5 • WA-06 or WA-02 (tentative)

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What Do We Sound Like?

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Tae Phoenix is a folk artist with influences from Ani DiFranco to Joan Baez. Her sound is best exemplified in this adaptation of the classic protest song “We Shall Not Be Moved.”

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The Resistance Company is a punk band with influences from Rage Against the Machine to Public Enemy. Their sound is best exemplified by their song ” FU Donald Trump New York Hates U.”

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Get In Touch

We’re looking forward to hearing from you about how we can partner to bring out the musical resistance and raise funds for grassroots advocacy in your community.

It’s especially helpful if you can answer some of these questions so we can determine who we’ll want to raise funds for.

  • Is there a grassroots bond fund for undocumented people who are kidnapped by ICE in your community?
  • How is the Black Lives Matter movement manifesting in your community?
  • How does poverty manifest in your community and who is organizing to advocate for policies to alleviate poverty?
  • What are the problems facing trans and gender nonconforming people in your community and who is advocating to change them?
  • How is your community addressing the climate emergency?

It is also helpful for us to know if we should be looking for a venue (a theatre, club, or coffee shop) or if someone in your group would be willing to host a house concert for us. We prefer to keep things as grassroots as possible, so house concerts are our preference.

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