Mama Alto
MPavilion 2018 Summer Program
Musical Collaborator: William Elm
Guest Performer: Ali McGregor
MC: Davey Thompson
To launch the Jewel Box Performances project, Mama Alto performed songs from her four live-to-tape albums at MPavilion.
Mama Alto is a gender transcendent diva, cabaret artiste, jazz singer & community activist. She is a non-binary trans femme person of colour who works with the radical potential of storytelling, strength in softness & power in vulnerability. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers & her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal & visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting & discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. By embracing perceived difference she reclaims narratives of othering, defies the normative & rejoices in the sublime.
Mama Alto at MPavilion was presented by Jewel Box Performances.