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Maggie holding out for the money! BigMouthGirl 75 views We're doing a Bark for Life walk to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. To help us in our efforts, click on the link below! http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/Rel...
David being David BigMouthGirl 217 views David hanging out with Liz in July 2004. It's David being David... kind of documentary style talking... laughing... reflecting...
David doing The Wizard of Oz on Howard Stern BigMouthGirl 327 views Somehow this is the only video we have of David doing the Wizard of Oz. They were doing a play on "You Bet Your Life" and had all these wigs for David to switch to for each...
David Johnson - God Bless the Child with Billy Shepard BigMouthGirl 185 views David Johnson singing with Billy Shepard... unfortunately the first 15 seconds or so are blank... fast forward it ahead!
NJ4 - New Jersey 4 BigMouthGirl 155 views On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-ha...
Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - "Any Way You N BigMouthGirl 2,999 views Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - performing "Any Way You Need Her" live at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The Fat Bottom Girls are made up of 4 (sometimes 5!) t...
Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - "Big Alice" BigMouthGirl 9,838 views Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - performing "Big Alice" live at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The Fat Bottom Girls are made up of 4 (sometimes 5!) tubas and a ...
Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - "Ahha (It's A BigMouthGirl 3,645 views Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - performing "Ahha (It's A Good Thing)" live at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Featuring: Velvet Brown (tuba), Jen Stephen (tuba), Su...
Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - "Sweet Mama Janisse" BigMouthGirl 1,670 views Nedra Johnson's Fat Bottom Girls - performing "Sweet Mama Janisse" live at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Featuring: Velvet Brown (tuba), Jen Stephen (tuba), Susan Wh...
Alligator Food BigMouthGirl 355 views Solo acoustic performance of "Alligator Food" live at the Black Women's Art Festival in Philadelphia, PA.

About Nedra Johnson

"It's not just Nedra's soulful, powerful voice that make "Nedra" stand out, although those who may have seen her at an Open Mic know that her stripped-down guitar-and-vocals performances can stand on their own. Just as vital as her voice are her selection of musicians, her impeccable production values, and her lyrics that boldly and smartly explore feminism, sexuality, religion, tolerance, and her own life experiences.

Nedra Johnson is truly a genre-buster, vision-wise and music-wise. I'm going to be so bold as to say that the self-titled "Nedra" is, hands-down, the finest album-- queer or otherwise-- to come out this season. Her impact is powerful whether she's on stage armed with just her guitar, or playing with her five-piece band."

- Jed Ryan, PM Entertainment Magazine

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Nedra Johnson is a singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalist born & living in New York City. Her unique style of guitar playing is unmistakably informed by her many years as a professional bassist and keeps her live solo acoustic performances more on an R&B tip then what one might expect of a "girl with a guitar."

Nedra's self-titled sophomore release is a
2006 OUTMUSIC Award (OUTSTANDING NEW RECORDING - FEMALE) winning, joyful mix of R&B, funk, rock and gospel. Honest in integrity to the music as well as the lyrical content, each song is a testimony of her experience as a black openly lesbian woman in love, spirituality, community and or politics. From the first song "Ahha (It's A Good Thing)" on through to the Maxine Feldman tribute version of "Amazon," this is proudly womyn's music and a great example of how Nedra has grown as a writer, arranger, producer and musician. Featuring lush background vocals and danceable grooves, Nedra makes the personal political and the erotic downright spiritual.

Nedra has performed internationally at jazz, blues, pride & women's music festivals as a solo artist and a tuba player/vocalist with her father Howard Johnson & his group, Gravity. She surprised and impressed jazz audiences in Paris, Nime, Berlin, Vienna, Kassel, Macedonia, Muchen, Leverkusen, Los Angeles, New York & New Orleans when she put down her tuba and sang original songs with Gravity garnering such praises as from The Orange County Register, "A little thing [an original from the CD Testify ] called Working Hard for the Joneses had the crowd on its feet and whooping." As a soloistshe has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Cleveland, Madison, Chicago, New Caledonia and more!

Whether in front of an intimate audience such as at New York City's Rockwood Music Hall or a large festival audience of 7000 like Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Nedra has the ability to perform with both a strength and a vulnerability that makes each listener feel like they are getting to know her on a personal level. Her thoughtful choice of words reflect not only who she is, but speak to the heart in a way that mirrors emotions many find difficult to express, allowing her a fan base diverse in ethnic, cultural and spiritual background.

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New York

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United States

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