{"id":3335,"date":"2024-05-29T13:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2024-05-29T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:30:47","slug":"pride-and-black-music-month-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/pride-and-black-music-month-2024","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Pride and Black Music Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June is here, and with it, Pride and Black Music Months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To celebrate, we\u2019re throwing a variety of Sofar shows around the world, featuring our incredible community of LGBTQ+ and Black voices. Get a preview with some playlists we\u2019ve put together for you below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrate Pride<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s no question that LGBTQ+ artists\u2019 influence is felt everywhere in popular music and culture: from musical theater and disco, to drag and glam rock \u2013 not to mention more contemporary expression in historically heterosexual genres like rap and country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/lists\/pride\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pride shows around the world<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will feature a similar breadth of styles, while showcasing the LGBTQ+ voices in our community. We\u2019ve also added new songs to our LGBTQ+ Voices playlist on Spotify:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Sofar | LGBTQ+ Voices\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/1MVlNlaLqk1BwrPIX634YX?go=1&#038;sp_cid=0f63a2a23267b3b6d77fcf0aa5e241b5&#038;utm_source=oembed&#038;utm_medium=desktop&#038;nd=1&#038;dlsi=ca36a562531149d7\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrate Black Music Month<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s Black Music Month in the US, where Black musical expression has shaped many of the genres we know and love today: blues, jazz, hip hop, gospel, R&amp;B, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s also Juneteenth, where we celebrate Black liberation and commit ourselves to the justice, possibility and change this historic moment signifies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve got <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/lists\/black-voices\">tons of upcoming concerts celebrating Black artists<\/a>, a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/lists\/juneteenth\">Juneteenth-specific shows as well<\/a>. Plus, you can check out our Black Voices playlist, which highlights amazing Sofar musicians:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Sofar | Black Voices\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/4qcuAfHj8FSA0ahNuN6OWk?go=1&#038;sp_cid=0f63a2a23267b3b6d77fcf0aa5e241b5&#038;utm_source=oembed&#038;utm_medium=desktop&#038;nd=1&#038;dlsi=7a572b29ccdd4b56\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June is here, and with it, Pride and Black Music Months.\u00a0 To celebrate, we\u2019re throwing a variety of Sofar shows around the world, featuring our incredible community of LGBTQ+ and Black voices. Get a preview with some playlists we\u2019ve put together for you below.\u00a0 Celebrate Pride It\u2019s no question that LGBTQ+ artists\u2019 influence is felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,28],"tags":[631,632,625],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-playlists","tag-black-music-month","tag-juneteenth","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}