Debby Friday

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When
Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2023
8 p.m.
Cost: $15
Where
3939 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

The usual boom-and-bust cycles of growing up — breaking down, gathering the strength to get up, fumbling hard, doing it all over again – can feel unmooring, to say the least, but, according to DEBBY FRIDAY, its tragedies and glories need savoring. Losing illusions, gaining expectations; getting deep into the private, soupy kaleidoscope of what’s possible and futile — GOOD LUCK, her debut and supernovic, full-length album, is built on welcoming the journey’s complicated drops and mountain highs with something more like grace.

Nigerian-born, then an emigré to bits of Canada – from Montreal to Vancouver to Toronto – DEBBY FRIDAY’s roamings through space and time began when the sun fell. The nightlife was her emancipation from the toughness of home life, and she fell into it, body and soul, totally seduced. Raves til sunrise; house music in unknown basements and warehouses — the lure of the party was the perfect escape. “I was like a little club rat,” she laughs. Her adoration of the world that it opened for her came in “almost in a sensual way.”