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Uno Lady May Shows! Cincinnati @Contemporary Arts Center + Cleveland’s Ingenuity Fest Bal
I’m excited to share a few upcoming shows.
FRIDAY, MAY 2, in Cincinnati, Ohio!
I’ll be singing there for the first time as part of the opening reception for “Ohio Now: State of Nature”
Join us in celebrating the world premiere of Ohio Now: State of Nature at Contemporary Arts Center! “Ohio Now: State of Nature brings together artists across Ohio who focus on sustainability, agriculture, food justice, and natural ecologies. Through diverse materials and perspectives, these artists reflect on humanity’s relationship with the environment. Spanning painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and community-based practice, the works in this exhibition highlight the urgency of environmental issues while inviting dialogue and response.”
7PM Opening Reception – Exclusive gallery access, small bites by Herban Vegans, a cash bar, desserts for purchase by Cookiefection,!
8 PM Conversation with the Curators from CAC and moCa followed by a performance by Uno Lady. $5 for CAC Members. $15 for Non-Members. REGISTER HERE!

SATURDAY, MAY 10, in Cleveland at Ingenuity’s annual Bal fundraiser
“The Ingenuity Bal: Rust Belt Renaissance will celebrate the beginning of Ingenuity’s 2025 season of programming with an evening of rebirth and revitalization featuring the Tesla Orchestra, flame effects, metal arts, music and dancing, hands-on demonstrations from IngenuityLabs Incubator members, hors d’oeuvres, craft cocktails and more!
Ingenuity’s annual Bal fundraiser is an affordable and slightly off-kilter gala unlike anything else in town! Once known as the Bal Ingenieux, the yearly spring event now boasts a different theme with each incarnation, featuring the region’s artists, makers, and creatives while paying homage to Cleveland’s exclusive arts club that dominated modernist arts in the city from the 1910s until the 1940s. The Kokoon Club’s annual “Bal Masque” challenged artistic norms with the most unconventional parties around.
All tickets include event entrance, hands-on demonstrations, small bites & desserts with a cash bar . . . and more. Secure your tickets asap and save! They have a limited number of “Early Bird” Tickets for only $35, and presale General Admission tickets will be available for $45. Day-of tickets will be available for $55. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!
Uno Lady Sings this Friday @ Grog Shop to Celebrate Mourning [A] BLKstar 10th Anniversary

Uno Lady
Nature Nvoke
Messiah In Glytch
Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8:30 PM
ALL AGES
$15 adv / $20 dos
+ $3 at door if under 21
I’m honored to be a part of this incredible night celebrating my favorite musicians and friends in MAB.
Mourning [A] BLKstar is a “multi-generational, gender, genre non-conforming amalgam of Black culture, Mourning [A] BLKstar, is dedicated to sharing stories and songs of America’s unfolding apocalypse. Their music melds live instrumentation with hip-hop production creating sonic frequencies that illuminate the African Diaspora. Founded in Cleveland, the US-based Afrofuturist collective continues touring their music globally across Europe and the US, playing festivals from Crossing Border in Berlin with Lonnie Holley to Big Ears Festival and Le Guess Who? in Utrecht. Founded in Cleveland, Ohio.” https://mourningablkstar.com/
Also performing is Nature Nvoke and Messiah in Glytch

Uno Lady Receives the Creative Residency at Bloedel Reserve
I am honored and ecstatic to announce I have been awarded the Creative Residency at Bloedel Reserve. Next fall I will be spending a month on Bainbridge Island, Washington, recording nature footage, gathering electronic signals from trees, and creating new compositions.
“Bloedel Reserve is a 140-acre wonder of nature, created by the imagination, vision, and a passionate love of the natural world shared by our founders, Prentice and Virginia Bloedel. Working with the rugged geography of the land, they artfully transformed a rough-hewn Northwest forest into a harmonious series of curated gardens, structural features, and distinctive landscapes, with nature as canvas and paint.
The Creative Residency program provides artists and innovative thinkers with a home on the Bloedel Reserve grounds, designed by noted Northwest architect Jim Cutler, tucked into the woods, away from the trail used by regular Bloedel Reserve visitors. Residents have unlimited access to the Reserve’s 140 acres of sculpted gardens, forests, meadows, and wildlife habitats.”

I am overwhelmed with joy and gratitude for this opportunity. I plan to visit nearby old growth forests before my trip and record electronic signals from trees and write songs with the woods. Thanks for all your support. If you want to donate to my trip (no pressure) paypal Unoladymusic@gmail.com and venmo at @theunolady
Uno Lady Show, THUR 9/26 @ Waterloo Arts with Tatsuya Nakatani, & Hohenfeld + Hyde-Perry
Thursday 9/26/24 7pm door/8pm show $15 OBO
Waterloo Arts Cafe 15605 Waterloo Rd Cleveland, OH 44110
Tatsuya Nakatani (1970, Osaka) is a Japanese avant-garde sound artist and master percussionist who creates sound with bowed gongs, drums, cymbals, and singing bowls! Based in the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico; he has released over 80 recordings and tours internationally. Performing solo, in collaboration, and with his Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) project he plays over 100 concerts a year.
With his adapted Gong and handcrafted Kobo bow, Nakatani has developed his own unique instrumentation. A master of new sounds and extended technique; he sculpts a transformative, intense, expressive sound that engages improvised and experimental music while resisting genre. Central to his philosophy of sound is the concept of MA 間, which can be understood as the space or interval between perceptual events. Also performing is local duo Hohenfeld + Hyde-Perry playing a short improvised set with flutes and bass. See you there! Here is the event page

15th Anniversary of Uno Lady’s First Release – Now Streaming!
Today is the 15th anniversary of the first Uno Lady release, “I Really Like Genetics but I’d Rather Have a Good Time.”
To celebrate, I have released the album for the first time on all streaming sites. Listen on Apple Music, Bandcamp, Spotify, or wherever else you like to listen.
It was originally released as a tape. Here’s a photo of what she looked like. They have been sold out for a long time. If you’re lucky to have one, know I don’t even have one.
All songs were written and recorded by Christa (Uno Lady) Ebert, 2009. Recordings were mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio in 2014 and edited and remastered by Jeff France again in 2024.

Upcoming shows
I have a show next week!
Thursday 9/26/24 – 7pm door/8pm show $15 OBO
@ Waterloo Arts Cafe 15605 Waterloo Rd Cleveland, OH 44110
Tatsuya Nakatani (1970, Osaka) is a Japanese avant-garde sound artist and master percussionist. Based in the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico; he has released over 80 recordings and tours internationally. Performing solo, in collaboration, and with his Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) project he plays over 100 concerts a year.
With his adapted Gong and handcrafted Kobo bow, Nakatani has developed his own unique instrumentation. A master of new sounds and extended technique; he sculpts a transformative, intense, expressive sound that engages improvised and experimental music while resisting genre. Central to his philosophy of sound is the concept of MA 間, which can be understood as the space or interval between perceptual events. Also performing is local duo Hohenfeld + Hyde-Perry playing a short improvised set with flutes and bass.
See you then!

Uno Lady shows in April and May: Boston, Rhode Island, and Cleveland!
Hey friends, I’m happy to share some upcoming performances. I’ll be serenading Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the first time ever! Show details below. Tell your pals! See you there!
Thursday, April 25 at Deep Cuts | 21 Main St Medford, MA with Autopolitan and Landowner | Doors 7pm, music at 8pm / 18+ / $12 cover GET TICKETS HERE
Saturday, April 27 at News Cafe | 43 Broad St, Pawtucket, RI with Autopolitan , Video Shoppe, and Twin Foxes | Doors at 8, Music at 8:30 / 21+
Saturday, May 4 at Little Rose Tavern, Cleveland, OH Cuatro De Mayo celebration with Aloha Daze pop-up! Hodgepodge Lodge is Djing and delicious food by Black Market Meats 9pm



New Uno Lady Video- Lake Clark Alaska Improv
This piece was written and recorded in real-time and is a sonic expression of experiencing the incredible environment of Lake Clark. It was composed while sitting on a log on the beach of Lake Clark with a zoom recorder at Chultina Wilderness Lodge. In my yurt studio, delay and a few additional layers were added.
The video is time-lapse footage I took over the 6-week fellowship and shows the spot I recorded at.
Thanks for watching. Listen to the album and watch the other videos in the links below.

UNO LADY opening for ALEX CAMERON & ROY MOLLOY @ SPACE – Portland, Maine on 9/14
Hello friends, I’ll be serenading you on Thursday, September 14, 2023 at SPACE!
SPACE is located at 538 Congress St, Portland, ME 04101
TICKETS: $20 advance /$25 day of show/ $2 off for SPACE members
8:00pm\ doors at 7:30pm
Alex Cameron is an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney. Cameron is joined by saxophonist and business partner, Roy Molloy. I’m excited to serenade you and experience Alex’s music in person. Here’s a song to get you stoked.
What a dream. I am honored to share the stage and songs with you all. Please join me as I make my debut at SPACE. Read more and get tickets here!
Warm regards,
Christa
Side project, Rangeley, album release (Tape Hex) + new video
Hey pals, my friends and I have released an album today, Tape Hex! The new project, Rangeley, is musical explorations with my sweetheart, Matt Brown of Leaf Peeper, and our pal, Brian Topf of Skymall (plus a revolving cast of noisemakers.) I sing, play the musical saw, and share field recordings of nature sounds.
A limited run tapes can be bought through Bandcamp (40)
Listen on Bandcamp and Spotify.
Here’s a playlist too 🙂
I also want to share a new Uno Lady music video from the Alaska album. Here is “The Voice is an Instrument”
New Uno Lady Video plus Portland Phoenix Press Writes About Alaska
Here’s a new video for you! “Acappella Instrumental” is on the new album Alaska. The synth-like sounds are actually psychedelic layers of phased vocals.
I recorded the footage at Tanalian Falls, in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. The audio was written and recorded at Chulitna Lodge. A bird sampled throughout the album is Swainson’s Thrush. The males defend their breeding grounds by singing a series of spiraling notes inflected upward, which to me sounds like a flute through phaser pedals.
A heartfelt appreciation to Sam Pfeifle at Portland Phoenix, for this incredible article, “Authentically Manufactured: New Maine releases by Uno Lady & Waxfed are artfully constructed” Thanks for taking the time to get to know my music and share. Here are some clips from the article.
… “Take Uno Lady, for example, and her newly released “Alaska,” the result of a residency at the off-the-grid solar-powered Chulitna Lodge, a wilderness retreat in Lake Clark National Park & Preserve. Here, Cleveland transplant Christa Ebert has captured field recordings of herself doing things like banging on a log out in the forest, or birds swooping past her tent at night, and remixed them digitally into background atmospheres, over which she layers what sometimes sounds like dozens of her own vocal tracks. Maybe there’s a bit of keyboard once in a while.
The results are warm and organic, sometimes even catchy, as on “Today’s the Day,” which wouldn’t sound out of place on a Magnetic Fields album. Ebert’s lead vocal is lower register and resonant — “I’ll conjure up some urgency and mend all of the emergencies” — while a chorus of angelic vocals shimmer in the background, accompanied by bugs and birdsong, like Snow White wending her way slowly through the forest. Her vocal range is sorta bonkers.
Her “Venn Diagram,” too, from the “Osmosis” album three years ago, is a delicious bit of indie pop, and she even covered Tom Petty in her early releases. But there’s always something subversive, something new and interesting in the way she constructs her recordings and releases. Her previous release, “Le Flux,” recorded largely in Switzerland and then edited here in Maine, features vocals that are lyricless, and more found sounds turned into beats. Only possible, really, with today’s digital recording techniques, it still manages to transmit an intimacy that should tickle that desire for authenticity….
Maybe you can’t picture them in the room, but you can understand what they’re feeling, and that’s something no machine will ever authentically do.”
Thanks again, Sam. I appreciate your kind words.
The new album Alaska is on UNO LADY’s Bandcamp & Softseed Music’s Bandcamp
Here’s a link to all the streaming sites.
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