(Now available for download on Bandcamp: https://fureigh.bandcamp.com/track/mourners-kaddish-live-at-the-ivy-room-2019)

This is a love letter to my friends and community. Please stay. You matter.

Recorded live at the Ivy Room on July 28th, 2019, part of a benefit for RAICES.

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Lyrics:
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I’m never not standing at mourner’s kaddish
Everybody stares at me
Never not standing at mourner’s kaddish
My whole community
So you, my friend, oh you, my friend
I hope you know you’re dear
I’d rather celebrate you while you’re here

All my friends have lots of stories
Most of them we don’t tell
We’re scared we’ll set each other off
That may be just as well
But you, my friend, oh you, my friend
Please know I held you dear
I’ve been sayin’ your name every year

Oh, I know you tried
Oh, I know you tried

Hey, old friend, it’s good to see you but
It’s always at a wake
We show up strong… still I wonder
How many we can take
So you, my friend, oh you, my friend
Let’s keep our focus clear
Try to be for blessing while we’re here

Oh, I know you tried
Oh, I hope we tried

I’m never not standing at mourner’s kaddish
Go ahead and stare at me
Never not standing at mourner’s kaddish
My whole community
So you, my friend, oh you, my friend
Let’s make a pact right here
Gonna hang on through another year
I won’t make you stand for me this year

(copyright Fureigh 2019. soundsLikeFury.com)

Mourners’ Kaddish (live at the Ivy Room)

Fureigh (they/them) picks up a guitar and “shreds melodically,” according to Rolling Stone. After five years in the critically acclaimed Brooklyn-based queer rock band the Shondes (“the next Sleater-Kinney?” –VH1), Fureigh started the Homobiles ("the Bay's mainstay queer party punk supergroup" –East Bay Express; “songs about cars and babes” — plus bathhouses, street harassment and San Francisco glory days), featured in Mx. Justin Vivian Bond’s curation of the New York Live Arts Festival. Fureigh has shared the stage with Margaret Cho, Jody Bleyle (of Team Dresch), and more, and played guitar in the trans superhero rock opera the Red Shades. They're currently working on their debut solo album.

Fureigh (they/them)

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