Candye Kane
December 12 @ Belly Up January 09 @ Belly Up
Recent honors include her 2008 nomination for Best Female Contemporary Blues Artist by the Blues Foundation. (Formerly known as the Handys). Candye was also honored recently by winning the 2007 Best Bisexual Vocalist award from Pride in the Arts www.prideinthearts.com Other awards include taking home the Best Blues Band award at the San Diego Music Awards 7 times including 2006. Kane also won an OUT music award in 2006 for best art design for her 7th CD, White Trash Girl. Best Blues CD of 2005 at the San Diego Music Awards, the Trophees France International Award 2004 for Best International Blues Chanteuse and Artist of the Year. She also unseated Jewel for Artist of the Year at the San Diego Music Awards and won the California Music Award for Best Swing-Cabaret Artist.
Her audience is a mixture of the disenfranchised: bikers, blues fans, fat girls, queers, porn fans, sexworkers, feminists, men who love fat girls, rockabilly kids and everyday folk flock to see Candye and hear her message of love and empowerment.
Yes, her story reads like a made for TV movie or an episode of the Jerry Springer show. But Candye Kane’s story is 100% non-fiction. She persevered in spite of the people who discouraged her and tried to force her to conform. She survived her own way, on her own terms.
2008 has been an exciting year already, for Candye. She had major abdominal surgery, has been invited to Capetown, South Africa for the World Congress for people with disabilities with her United by Music show, already toured europe earlier this year with the Blues Caravan, set a date for her stage play “The Toughest Girl Alive” to open at the Diversionary Theater in San Diego and has beaten back a rare form of pancreatic cancer! Candye is a survivor par excellence and her fighting spirit and optimism are what keeps her shows passionate and honest and her audiences coming back for more.
But don’t let any of these facts be the reason why you book a show with Candye, or choose to write an article about her. Listen to the voice that The Washington Post has described as “A natural wonder like the Grand Canyon.” Tap your toes to the infectious, sometimes humorous songs Candye writes with their messages for the lonely, hopeless, downtrodden and unloved. We think you’ll agree that Candye Kane is just what the doctor ordered. She’s a diva who is here to help us celebrate our sexuality, shatter stereotypes, live our dreams and have a damn good time on the dance floor.
