Name: Queer Choir Benefit Concert for Black Trans Travel Fund: featuring zurray! & Shireen Amini
Start: 2025-03-14T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Whirled Pies

Queer Choir Benefit Concert for Black Trans Travel Fund: featuring zurray! & Shireen Amini

Queer Choir is thrilled to share the stage with two QT powerhouse artists: Eugene-based rapper, neo-soul and drag artist zurray! and Portland-based singer-songwriter, rhythm-maker and community songleader Shireen Amini.
PROCEEDS BENEFIT BLACK TRANS TRAVEL FUND:
"a grassroots, Black Trans led Collective, providing Black Transgender Women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and accessing safer travel options."
zurray! - (The artist formerly known as Ziree Sun) is one of the many names for local rapper and neo-soul and drag artist, Dez, based in Eugene. Writing from their perspective as a black trans and queer artist in a world that wasn't built for them, they express a lot of their own emotions and struggles in their music, while celebrating the beauty and joy of creating as a full time "local celebrity". zurray! is a best of eugene winner, winning top 3 best singer-songwriter for 2023!
Shireen Amini (non-binary using she/her) is a queer Puerto Rican-Iranian American, earth-loving song creator, rhythm maker, and community facilitator based in Portland, Oregon. As a human, she carries a deep commitment to her own liberation path and vision of a more just world. As an artist, she believes strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution. Shireen blends pop, rock, hip hop, latin, and roots sensibilities with socially-conscious themes as a singer-songwriter and creates modern medicine music for community singing.
Queer Choir is a re-humanizing, liberatory and intergenerational singing community for queer, trans + gender nonconforming humans of varying musical backgrounds. Queering the traditional choir model, QC practices interdependence, somatic awareness, non-gendered voicing, emergence, collective care and radical joy. At the helm of Queer Choir is elias wolf (they/she/he) - singer-songwriter, teacher, abolitionist, community-cultivator and change-maker.