Name: Asher Skeen @ Arcana
Start: 2025-04-27T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Arcana

This is a FREE show, but please buy some drinks and tip your bartender :)
21+ event
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Asher Skeen (he/they) is a transmasculine-nonbinary folk-rock singer/songwriter out of Durham, NC. Growing up surrounded by a roaring local music scene, Asher transitioned from performing in concert bands to coffee shops when he was 15 and quickly became addicted to the thrill of solo performance. Heavily inspired by artists such as Green Day, Hozier, and Noah Kahan, Asher's music seems to take an obscure combination of styles in a direction that is totally his own.
Coming out as transgender just days after the passage of North Carolina's extremely controversial House Bill 2, Asher has been using his music to voice his experiences and interactions with the world from the perspective of a transgender person for almost his entire career. While Asher's first album, Dark Sheep, was released in January 2015 under his given name, Asher remedies this in his second album, an homage to his transgender identity that documents his vocal transition during his first year on testosterone. Asher released this album, Man-Made Man, on May 2, 2019. As the political landscape becomes even more hellacious for trans people, Asher's music reflects an authentic experience of self by uplifting individuality, change, connection, self-reflection, and queer joy.
When Asher is not busy writing, recording, performing, or managing his own music, he can often be found watching horror movies, caring for his two cats and snake, mixing up new cocktails, or supporting queer and trans movement work.