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Pride Festival, Sunday, June 2
Pride Parade
The Pride Parade begins in the same location as last year, West Temple and Second South, heading east on Second South to Fourth East. 10am / Free, Second South downtown
Pride Festival Opens
Gates are open, vendors are eager to meet you, food is cooking, and let the entertainment begin! 11am–7pm at the Festival Grounds $8 at UtahPrideCenter.org/festival/ or $10 at the gates
Drawing on rich Brazilian culture and mythology,SAMBA FOGO ignites the stageas they weave traditional and contemporary dance, fire spinning, pounding drums, and diverse live music. Samba Fogo brings passion, fire and pure joy to their performance, as they bring Brazilian Carnival traditions to life on stage.
Raffi and Ischa are MiNX and they infuse their performance with campy and vaudevillian visual elements, costumes and stage-props taking their show over the top.
PROVO UNITED brings together two queer performance scenes in Utah County: the youth performers of Glamatuer Hour and Provo’s Divine Sister-Misters. Among their ranks are Provo’s reigning queen of horror, Miss Fortune, Righteous Miss Provo 2017, Brigitte Kiss, Provo’s current titleholder Melanie Fox, and the youngest youth titleholder in Provo’s history, Pandora Fox. Together, these performers have entertained hundreds of people, raised thousands of dollars for local queer causes, and made herstory again and again as they fight to make Provo a better place to be queer.
PHOBIA THE GREATEST is Salt Lake’s very own rising artist bringing new sound to the music industry with her single “Blue Band$”.
TALIA KEYS is a genre crossing multi-instrumental “musical powerhouse” bringing you her brand of Soul-Funk-Rock n’ Roll, with unique vocal stylings and a storytelling flow. THE LOVE formed with the release of Talia’s first full length solo album, Fool’s Gold (July 2015). Tracking a majority of the album herself she invited some of Salt Lake area’s finest to recreate it live. Including Dave Brogan (ALO) on drums and Ryan Conger (Joe McQueen Quartet) on keys, shortly after adding Josh Olsen on bass and Lisa Giacoletto on backing vocals.
CHEER SALT LAKE is an adult cheerleading group of all ages, body types, races, religions, genders and sexual orientations who serve and raise money for people with life-threatening conditions.
Those Bitches @ Club Try-Angles Drag queens, kings, and non-binary performers creating a safe place to express queer culture and queer diversity through performance art.
Those Bitches show their talents through lip syncing, dancing, spoken word, live singing, comedy, and so much more! If you haven’t seen them in action you are missing out on Utah’s best drag secret!
Salt Lake County Council member Shireen Ghorbani is also known as DJ LEGS and she knows how to deliver what’s best for people — whether that is shaking it all on the dance floor or accessing affordable healthcare.
SALT LAKE MEN’S CHOIR is “Utah’s Other Choir” — one of the state’s oldest member-supported arts organizations. Started by 13 men in 1983, it is now 90 members strong, under the Artistic Direction of Dennis McCracken, accompanied by Aaron Flood. This year they will perform songs from Disney concert as they head to Anaheim to sing during Gay Days at Disney.