Angie Evans

It's not often one comes across a young artist/singer-songwriter with the ability to create a truly unique sound and mix it with empowering, insightful lyrics that leave you groping for more. Angie Evans combines folk, soul, jazz, and funk as if they were meant to be together. Her lyrics and voice speak of love, sex, passion, and consciousness.

Born in the suburbs of Northern California, Angie started playing guitar at seventeen and within a year wrote her first song and began performing for her friends. She earned a BA in creative writing with a minor Womyn's Studies at Cal State University Long Beach. It was there, after finding the wonders of Womyn's studies, sociology, politics and the literature of ethnic and female writers, that she began to believe in the greater good of the poetic and political word. All while discovering the beauty in conscious hip hop, soul and funk music, she began to find a voice that was the perfect fit in content and vibration.

Angie Evans has performed at countless venues ranging from coffee shops to college campuses in Long Beach and the greater Los Angeles area, at events for various feminist, LGBTQ and women-centered causes, and Angie has been a featured performer at the Michigan Womyns Music Festival (2008), Estrogen Fest (2008), Fort Wayne, Indiana Pride Festival (2008), UC Irvine Queer Fest (2008), San Diego Pride Festival (2006), Long Beach Pride Festival (2005/2006), Ladyfest San Diego (2005), Ladyfest Las Vegas (2006), Phoenix, Arizona Pride Festival (2007/2008), MODELS OF PRIDE (2006), RAISE UP & SHOUT (2007) and at Whiskey A Go Go in West Hollywood, The Mint, in LA, The Temple Bar, in Santa Monica, & BB King's, in Hollywood.

Angie has built a strong local and national fan bases. Since 2005, Angie has been regularly performing with her band: Elliot Lawrence (bass & backup vocals); Natalie Martin (drums & backup vocals); Chi Austin (sax); and Greg Rutledge (keyboards). The band recorded Angie's debut album Cycle of Fruit late 2007; it was released May 10, 2008 on the Independent Freedom Tribe label.

"My music is not just for me," Angie says. "It is for those who listen."

Angie believes in sisterhood, pride, good espresso, handmade organic bar soap, pino grigio on a cold day, green vegetables, and using the Fword as much as possible.

Say it with me: FEMINISM, FEMINISM, FEMINIST!