Synth pop queen Space Lady comes to A4!
You can meet them on the streets of big cities surrounded by tourists – buskers, street artists and musicians or circus performers. Space Lady is one of those who brought busking to another level wearing her famous silver viking helmet with wings and a flickering light and her shining personality. She’s no public transport weirdo – she’s THE Space Lady. This unforgettable seventy-three year old lady will play a collection of rock hits covers in A4 already on 28th of April with just her synthesizer. Come to enjoy a bizarre evening with us!
The story of Susan Dietrich Schneider’s life is a proof that nothing really has to end when you turn seventy. The determined busker and a street musician had been playing on the streets of Boston and San Francisco for more than twenty years. In 2000 she quit music, leaving one CD behind. With a little help of luck and coincidence, the album got to the right hands and eventually one of the songs had appeared on a collection album of outsider music. The enthusiasm and interest in Space Lady was resurrected unexpectedly. Susan turned on her synthesizer again and released the album The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits and shortly after took herself on a world tour.
Exactly as the beatniks were traveling the world with just a guitar, the Space Lady brings along her battery charged synthesizer branded Casiotone MT-40 (and the helmet) only. Its sound will remind you of old synth-pop bands like Sucide or Bruce Haack. Synthesizer enthusiast can look forward to a sound feast and the others to something anti-trendy, anti-style but very honest, happy and sincere.
Space Lady and her cosmic, psychedelic pop can be categorized as outsider music. Outsider music is a genre of naive music played by amateur musicians who have no official music education – similar to naive art forms of different mediums. It exists outside the waters of any other music movements and genres. For musical theorists and intellectuals Space Lady is a remarkable artist and she had already performed in London’s Cafe OTO and other reputable venues.
For those who are not keen on outsider music Space Lady will be a joy to watch and listen to anyway. She is so far away from anything you have heard before you won’t be able to help but find it heartwarming and real. You’ll hear futuristic covers of Beatles, Johnny Cash and some of the truest guilty pleasures of the last centuries that are hard to put a name on but still so nostalgic. We promise you a little spooky, entertaining and full of joy performance. Aluminum foil helmets are allowed (those you have hidden in your closet since the last chemtrail attack).
The Saturday night in A4 will also be the night of the EVS meeting of interns and young people who came to Slovakia to take part in the program for volunteers. You can meet them all at the concert of Space Lady.
The supporting act of this night will be taken care of by Czech artist and musician Kateřina Zochová. Prague based visual and sound artist makes her own musical instruments, plays the harp, samples and sings. On Saturday she will also lead a children’ sound and music workshop and in the evening she will introduce her songs that came to life during her last year’s residency in A4. Synth pop queen Space Lady comes to A4!
You can meet them on the streets of big cities surrounded by tourists – buskers, street artists and musicians or circus performers. Space Lady is one of those who brought busking to another level wearing her famous silver viking helmet with wings and a flickering light and her shining personality. She’s no public transport weirdo – she’s THE Space Lady. This unforgettable seventy-three year old lady will play a collection of rock hits covers in A4 already on 28th of April with just her synthesizer. Come to enjoy a bizarre evening with us!
The story of Susan Dietrich Schneider’s life is a proof that nothing really has to end when you turn seventy. The determined busker and a street musician had been playing on the streets of Boston and San Francisco for more than twenty years. In 2000 she quit music, leaving one CD behind. With a little help of luck and coincidence, the album got to the right hands and eventually one of the songs had appeared on a collection album of outsider music. The enthusiasm and interest in Space Lady was resurrected unexpectedly. Susan turned on her synthesizer again and released the album The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits and shortly after took herself on a world tour.
Exactly as the beatniks were traveling the world with just a guitar, the Space Lady brings along her battery charged synthesizer branded Casiotone MT-40 (and the helmet) only. Its sound will remind you of old synth-pop bands like Sucide or Bruce Haack. Synthesizer enthusiast can look forward to a sound feast and the others to something anti-trendy, anti-style but very honest, happy and sincere.
Space Lady and her cosmic, psychedelic pop can be categorized as outsider music. Outsider music is a genre of naive music played by amateur musicians who have no official music education – similar to naive art forms of different mediums. It exists outside the waters of any other music movements and genres. For musical theorists and intellectuals Space Lady is a remarkable artist and she had already performed in London’s Cafe OTO and other reputable venues.
For those who are not keen on outsider music Space Lady will be a joy to watch and listen to anyway. She is so far away from anything you have heard before you won’t be able to help but find it heartwarming and real. You’ll hear futuristic covers of Beatles, Johnny Cash and some of the truest guilty pleasures of the last centuries that are hard to put a name on but still so nostalgic. We promise you a little spooky, entertaining and full of joy performance. Aluminum foil helmets are allowed (those you have hidden in your closet since the last chemtrail attack).
The Saturday night in A4 will also be the night of the EVS meeting of interns and young people who came to Slovakia to take part in the program for volunteers. You can meet them all at the concert of Space Lady.
The supporting act of this night will be taken care of by the Czech artist and musician Kateřina Zochová. Prague based visual and sound artist makes her own musical instruments, plays the harp, samples and sings. On Saturday she will also lead a children’ sound and music workshop and in the evening she will introduce her songs that came to life during her last year’s residency in A4.