Neko Case in Tacoma

Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter who plays alt-country, folk and indie rock. Her solo catalogue includes the albums Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Middle Cyclone, and songs such as “I Wish I Was the Moon,” “Hold On, Hold On” and “People Got a Lotta Nerve.” She is also a longtime vocalist in the Canadian indie-rock band The New Pornographers. In 2014, Neko Case joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for dates on their North American tour. Two years later, she toured with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs behind their collaborative album case/lang/veirs, including a performance at the Newport Folk Festival. Her own Hell-On dates followed in 2018, while the Wild Creatures Tour drew on songs from across her solo catalogue.

Team Dresch is an American queercore punk band formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1993. Their direct songs about queer identity, relationships and exclusion are collected on the albums Personal Best and Captain My Captain; “Fagetarian and Dyke” and “She’s Amazing” are among their best-known tracks. Team Dresch toured punk clubs in North America and Europe behind those records during the 1990s. After a period apart, the band reunited for intermittent concerts in the 2000s, then toured again in 2019 around the retrospective collection Choices, Chances, Changes. That reunion run included a concert in Portland.