Goddess Party In Hudson On November 1: Who Run The World?

“If we really want to help this world, we have to uplift women,” says Shana Falana. “That alone would heal the planet.” The Leeds-based psych-rock musician manifests this intention with The Goddess Party—a 40-person art choir who stage one-off, glam-rock performances twice a year.

Falana first made waves in the late 1990s San Francisco experimental pop-rock scene before relocating to Brooklyn where she honed her craft—and her addictions.

“I wanted to get my ass kicked,” she says.

In 2008, she moved Upstate, got sober and began working at a women’s jail and rehabilitation center. She now describes her hypnotic, shimmery work as “druggy music for sober people.”

With “Parting of the Veils” at Basilica Hudson on November 1, four days ahead of the election, The Goddess Party will invite the audience to cast a spell to put women in power as they rock out on songs by PJ Harvey, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bulgarian field songs.

“By the end of the night, something in that room will have shifted,” Falana says. “There’s just no way around it. The Goddess Party is a creative tipping point towards putting more women in power, even if we’re just empowering ourselves.”

For tickets and information, go to basilicahudson.org/events/the-goddess-party-the-parting-of-the-veils