Quill IV: A Night of LGBT Literature

Vickie Spray

Vickie Spray uses writing as a way to deepen her experiences, entertain her friends, and explore her curious world.  She works as a Spiritual Mentor who helps build a bridge between religion and spirituality for those who seek a connection with their inner self.

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K. Wilder

Country music fans may have heard songs by K. Wilder.  For those who have never heard of her, K. Wilder is a country artist best known for her albums "Blue Ridge Dream" and the recently released "Caffeine and Country Music."  Several of K. Wilder's songs have reached the top five on several U.S. country music charts, surpassing artists such as Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire.  Though she came from modest beginnings and faced many hardships, Wilder eventually graduated in Radio and Television Communications Technology from Virginia Western and also attended graduate school for advertising design at Califorina State University.  Since then, Wilder has successfully worked as a freelance production artist, project manager and designer on national campaigns for Toyota, IBM, Disney and Motown Records.

Girls Rock!

Bedhead Betty

Bedhead Betty" came about over coffee one morning with messy hair and wry grins on faces. Bands have got to have a name that'll provoke images of...well, whatever one might imagine! Let us paint a picture of Betty for you; a cross between Shane on the "L Word" and Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex in the City". She is late for work again, having lost her pants in a long string of smoke-filled clothes strewn about the apartment of one more late night escapade of frolicking and...

Oh yeh, the band...

We play other people's songs. Either we are not talented enough to write our own, too lazy or we just slept too late. I kind of think it's the latter!
We play songs that we like. One of us will bring a song to the table and the rest of us just go along for the ride. So we play a variety of styles that you don't normally get from Tallahassee cover bands (read: no southern rock).
Julie likes to dance so we play dance music; old school, new school, and some cheeese.
Di likes to get melancholy to a good folk song so we play a bit of that (think Indigo Girls).
Doug loves Burt Bacharach, so we play some lounge flavors.
Dave loves to close his eyes and get his groove on, so we've been known to roll with some Al Green.

Come around and have a little listen, you never know what you might get!

To find more information please visit The Bedhead Bettys Myspace.

Pride in the Plaza

Brandy Vance

Brandy Vance is a PE teacher at Imagine School at Evening Rose here in Tallahassee.  She has been performing in front of crowds since elementary school.  Brandy was the lead singer of the former local band the_aUdience and more recently has appeared with The Rick Ott Band.  She is honored to continue to support Pride and the LGBT community of Tallahassee like she has since 2005.

The Wailing Wolves Band w/ Demian Bell

We are proud to announce that we have joined forces with International Recording/ Touring artist, Demian Bell, from Demian Bell and The Maypole, who has toured extensively for the past 28 years worldwide and the last 8 yrs in Europe. He has returned to the US to share his amazing guitar, vocals, & songwriting, as a world class rock & blues artist with his US fan base. Demian has recorded over 700 songs and has played and produced 14 albums through his musical career. He plays guitar, keyboard, harmonica, drums, and is a very gifted performer and songwriter.

Shaw From is a down home blues singer and Harp player extraordinaire. Raised in New York City, he has been around great artists from the 60's and 70's at a very influential time is his musical development.

Bert Calderon has a number of years of both pro and amateur guitar playing having shared stages with the likes of The Young Rascals, the Butterfield Blues Band, The Blues Project, Demian Bell, Randall "Big Daddy Blues" Webster,Jeff Conaway, Spirit, and numerous others. He has played at the famous Cafe Wah and Cafe Au Go Go in the village, numerous clubs in Fl and NY, and college campuses, amongst many other well known stages. He opened up for The Young Rascals in 1966 at Brooklyn Academy Of Music in NY, fas written a number of songs and plays bass, lead and rhythm guitar.

The band has a great diversity in their sound that helps create their special sound that makes the Wailin' Wolves w/ Demian Bell gain in popularity every show.

Shawn Scott is a dynamic, versatile, thumpin' percussionist playing everything from rock to reggae, from blues to soul, and gospel as well. We have a very strong bottom end keeping our fans dancing all night long.

We are able to play everything from rock to blues, and from R & B to country. We are currently setting up a US Tour promoting Demian's newest album, "Live In Germany" by Wemo Records, Germany. Every show we put in 110% and promise a high energy, rocking show!

To find more information please visit The Wailin' Wolves w/ Demian Bell Official Website.

Pride After Dark

DJ Joshua Bula

Mr./Mrs. Tallahassee PRIDEFEST Contestants