Linda Tillery

The Freight’s first curated Pride concert in years features Freight favorites Skip the Needle as the backing band, with a variety of celebratory musical collaborations happening throughout the night. Special guests include Linda Tillery, Pangaea Colter, B DeVeaux, Genesis Fermin, Diana Alvarez, Black Gold Sun, and members of the iconic group Tribe 8. Along with the June 28th Wailin’ Jennys show, this concert is part of our Pride at the Freight weekend. Curated by vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Vicki Randle. Vicki Randle was born into a musical family; her father a jazz pianist and her brother a world-renowned opera singer. A guitarist, bassist, percussionist, composer and singer, Vicki has a 50 year long career recording, touring and composing in multiple genres: folk, jazz, rock, pop and others. Vicki has toured with Narada Michael Walden, Laura Nyro, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Wayne Shorter, and Kenny Loggins, and has recorded with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Todd Rundgren, Branford Marsalis, and many more. She was a percussionist and singer in the Tonight Show with Jay Leno band from 1992 to 2010. She toured with Mavis Staples for 8 years, appearing on 3 records, and her HBO documentary Mavis! Her rock and funk band Skip The Needle has released their 3rd album on Little Village records and she most recently recorded and toured as a member of the iconic rock quintet MC5.