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Eli Conley and Hip for Squares featured in the Eugene Register-Guard

7/29/2011

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Just in time to kick off our pacific northwest tour, check out this great feature about our show in Eugene, OR. I'm really looking forward to getting to play with local singer/songwriter Melissa Ruth and see the pacific northwest for the first time.

Trio tries to suspendboy-girl conundrum

Eli Conley has a proposal: “Let’s crack up this geode they call boy and girl.”

Conley’s song “Pinocchio” lays out his hope for a world that is less rigidly based on gender. In other songs, he writes about exploited workers, racial equity and other issues of social justice.

Fans of Girlyman, a more established feminist band with gender-queer membership, also should like Conley’s trio, which is playing Saturday at the Granary. On recordings posted online, Eli Conley and the Hip for Squares demonstrate a country-tinged folk style with pleasant vocal harmonies.

Conley, according to his biography, has a “choirboy croon” and writes with sincerity. “His well-crafted songs draw from the raw material of his life as a gay, transgender man with Virginia roots,” the bio says.

The group’s other two members are hip-hop MC Maia “Papaya” Wiitala on stand-up bass and feminist songwriter Talia Cooper on vocals.

The San Francisco Bay Area trio will play at 7 p.m., followed by locals Melissa Ruth and the Likely Stories. Admission for the dinner-time show is free.

The Granary Pizza Company is at 259 E. Fifth Ave in Eugene, OR.
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