Donate to help Queer Country make their first record!

“Bring along your feelings… Leave behind your assumptions… All are welcome in Queer Country!”

 

Since 2022, Queer Country has been growing on the Mendocino Coast. We craft our alt-country sound around our rich vocal harmonies, featuring them among a landscape that includes pedal steel, electric, and acoustic guitars; keys; banjo; drums; and bass. Our work goes beyond our music: we are dedicated to advocating for and cultivating our LGBTQIA2S+ communities while bringing all people together through Understanding, Love, Awareness, Inclusivity, and Solidarity.

 

Since starting this project, we’ve been honored to play numerous local venues, a couple local music festivals, and even a gig down in the Bay Area! Whether you’ve been with us since our first show as Abraham & Quinn, saw us first as the trio Queer Country after Matt joined, or started following along more recently since we realized our full sound after Reyna Cinnamon joined us in June of last year, we are so grateful for your loving support. It is and has always been our honor and pleasure to work to create a new and unique sound & space for you.

 

At shows and in the community, many of you have asked us where you can find our music recorded. We have dreamed of having an answer to this call, of finding the right opportunity to make a record that will really be from Queer Country—reflecting both the breadth of our sound and the social spirit that drives us.

 

To this end, we are beyond excited to announce that we will be making our first record in May 2025! Collaborating with Executive Producer Jah Work, we have been given the incredible opportunity to work with Grammy-winning sound engineer and all-around fascinating human Oz Fritz (Tom Waits' Alice & The Mule Variations, Iggy Pop, The Ramones) at Ancient Wave Studios in the Sierra Foothills over Memorial Day weekend. Oz will be recording, engineering, and co-producing the project. We plan to lock in and work hard to produce an EP of four to five of your favorite original QC songs to be released later in Summer 2025!

Oz and Jah Work have collaborated for over 20 years to record music from many spectacular artists including Sgt Splendor feat. Eric McFadden and Kate Vargas, Eric McFadden, Wally Ingram, Keb Mo, Les Claypool, Pete Sears, Juan Nelson, Dave Schools, and Bravo, Max! They are both honored and thrilled to be going into Ancient Wave to capture Queer Country's first record.

 

This opportunity feels like something out of our wildest dreams, and we need your help to make it a reality! While our goal of $15,000.00 may seem like a pie in the sky, we want you to understand something about the kind of costs associated with making an album. Your donations will help to cover the costs of:

 

• Recording/Mixing

• Studio & Sound Engineer Time

• Mastering

• Album Artwork / CD & Record Design

• CD & Vinyl Pressing

• Touring Costs, including travel, lodging, booking agents, etc.

• Promotion

 

We are so excited to share our recorded work with you later this year and to see you at our upcoming shows! All donations $10 and above will receive a very special “Thank You!” card from the band, either in the mail or by email--you let us know what you prefer.

Cover photo by Clara Shook Photography