"Kress songs make the ordinary sacred" - Dar Williams
Kress Cole is an Oakland-based queer Femme songstress. She has won 26 WCS awards, including winning "Song of The Year" for both San Francisco and Berkeley. She’s also had two invitations to play the annual Grand Finals for West Coast Songwriters, amogst the top 10 songs of the year for the collective West Coast. Her song "Seatbelt" earned a nomination for "Lyric of the Year", WCS, and Folk Alliance West has selected Kress for an upcoming showcase stage.
Kress is kicking off her tour for her album, "The Alchemy Show" with an album release event at premier folk venue west of the Mississippi, the classic Freight and Salvage.
Kress cares about fighting the erasure of femininity in queer spaces. She also writes under the artist alter-ego, FemmeVisible.
She has an everlasting crush on good-old tomboys. That major crush is all over her songs. She is also known for her verb-ification of nouns, noun-ification of verbs, and for strange ballads of spiritual quirk.
Five years ago, Kress took her songs public for the first time. Things got fast: Radio, branding, higher heels, bigger hair, encouragement to pass as straight. Being strategic as fuck.
The icky part of the music industry chews down unique artistic voices, trying to swallow money.
Kress lost her connection with the mystic song-source. Until now. No more.
You won't find labels here. You won't find too much of the Men, men, MEN who dominate the music world and decide which songs live or die. Kress is independent again.
Making songs, by a people (Kress), for a people (you). With no industry in between.
