Queer’d Ear

Wednesday, August 7 | 7:30–midnight

AN OFFICIAL 2024 WINDSOR-ESSEX PRIDE FEST EVENT

Celebrate Windsor-Essex Pride Fest with a DJ workshop and cross-border dance party featuring Detroit-based DJs Duck Trash and Garrison XR.

Dive into the beats and learn fundamental DJing skills at our interactive workshop from 7:30-9:30pm, followed immediately by a high-energy dance party from 9:30–midnight!

This event is free and all ages!

Workshop: 7:30–9:30pm

Dance Party: 9:30pm–12am

B2B + individual sets

All ages

Free

DUCK TRASH is a queer techno & electro selector based in Detroit. Utilizing a cutting-edge style of long blend composite mixing as their artistic signature, Duck Trash aims to make new tracks remixed in real time for your heavy momentum dance pleasure.

Duck Groves is a DJ and cellist born & raised in the Midwest. They were born in Flint MI, grew up in Indianapolis IN, and now live in Detroit MI. Growing up an outcast for their gender nonconformity and queer relationships in a hyper-conservative state like Indiana, making music provided an escape from the pains that came with queer youth.

Now they illustrate this metaphor of a cute alien attempting escape to somewhere better by combining Midwest Techno & Extraterrestrial Electro. With a cutting-edge style of long blend composite mixing as their artistic signature, Duck Trash aims to make new tracks remixed in real time for your heavy momentum dance pleasure. Juxtaposition is always the aim in this unique new school approach:hard against soft, hi-fi against lo-fi, classic & seasoned against brand new & raw.

GARRISON XR, Detroit’s It Girl, a multifaceted creative dynamo.

From DJing to producing, event promoting, modeling, and designing fashion and graphics; Garrison is a force to be reckoned with in today’s underground culture scene. Founder and curator of XOXR, Garrison has carved out a distinctive niche in Detroit’s vibrant culture, that Metro Times calls a movement.

Equipped with an eclectic collection of music, you can identify Garrison’s selections from their innate ability to lock you into an irresistible groove. When asked to encapsulate their sound in three words, Garrison chose “energetic, nostalgic, and gay,” reflecting both their infectious energy and their commitment to self-expression.