Hello, and welcome back to CGI! Here's what's going on:

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Cordial Gig Invites is on Google Calendar! We’ll do our best to keep this updated with new shows in between editions.

NYC gigs in the next month

• [today] Saturday 5/11: 3rd Annual Dave’s Lesbian Bar Battle of The bands @ Bohemian Hall Beer Garden deets, tix

• Tuesday 5/14: Claire Ozmun Band @ Purgatory tix

• Tuesday 5/14: THEMME @ Heaven Can Wait tix

• [new] Thursday 5/16: Raising Daughters @ Pete’s Candy Store deets

• [new] Thursday 5/16: Cinemartyr @ Mercury Lounge tix

• [new] Friday 5/17: Wickburn ft. Eddy Marshall @ Rockwood, 7pm deets

• [new] Saturday 5/18: Sorry Darling @ Unruly Collective deets

• Tuesday 5/21: Palestine Benefit Event (with screenings + tattoos) ft. Helenor @ Purgatory tix

• [new] Thursday 5/23: Open Blue @ Our Wicked Lady tix

• Thursday 5/23: Fleur Geurl @ The Owl deets

• [new] Friday 5/24: partygirl @ The Broadway tix

• [new] Saturday 5/25: Gemma Laurence, Camp Bedford @ Arlene’s Grocery tix

• [new] Wednesday 5/29: Taylor Pearlstein, Leche Malo, Zir Indigo @ Purgatory tix

• [new] Thursday 5/30: Claire Ozmun Band @ Mercury Lounge tix

Plays, poems, and other artforms

• 5/17-5/25: The One With Violets In Her Lap from Patrice Bell and Olivia Ragan @ The Flea tix, broadway world write-up

Out of town shows

• [today + more] 5/8-5/24: Leche Malo on the West Coast tix, deets

• [today] 5/11: Bandits on the Run @ Caffe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY tix, livestream

• [tomorrow] 5/12: Bandits on the Run @ The Music Hall Lounge - Portsmouth, NH tix

• 5/23-6/21: Gemma Laurence on the East Coast tix

• 5/24: Divine Sweater @ Boston Calling tix

• 6/1: Daisy Grenade @ So What fest in Texas tix

Releases to pre-save

• 5/24: Stranger EP from Kailey Prior pre-save

What's been happening

• 5/1: Daniel Emond released an except video from the latest performance of Kill the Whale watch

• 5/2: Bandits on the Run were featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Top Shelf series watch

• 5/3: Guts from Daisy Grenade was featured in the trailer for new comic Dying Inside watch

• 5/7: Austen Danielle Bohmer joined the touring cast of Wicked playbill

• 5/7: Divine Sweater released single Deep Side w/ music video youtube

• 5/10: Kailey Prior released single Early spotify

• 5/10: Youbet released new album Way to Be spotify

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  • [today] 5/11: Nakba day protest at Barclays, 2pm deets

  • 5/16: Palestinian Youth Movement fundraiser dinner @ Widdi Hall tix

  • Campus bail funds donate

Find a band for a bill, sublet your apartment, share a fundraiser, etc; let us know what you'd like to pin to the board.

That's all for now! We'll be back in 2 weeks 🤘

Lotus + Beth

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