After singer Michelle Shocked went on an anti-gay tirade during a show in San Francisco on Sunday, almost every venue canceled her tour dates – including the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
The Harmony Bar & Grill in Madison is the only venue that has not canceled on Shocked.
I called tonight and asked an employee if The Harmony was planning to cancel Shocked’s show, scheduled for May 4.
"The owner is out of the country. He has no idea what’s going on. I really think he’ll cancel the show, but it’s not my place to make the call until he returns," he says.
Some of what Shocked said has been taken out of context by the media, perhaps, but it is undeniably homophobic.
"I was at a prayer meeting yesterday, and you gotta appreciate how scared folks on that side of the equation are. I mean, from their vantage point, and I really shouldn't say 'their' because it's mine too, we are nearly at the end of time. And from our vantage point we're gonna be, uh … once Prop 8 gets instated, and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, then I'm pretty sure that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back."
She later told a perplexingly offensive story about a trip to Guatemala.
C’mon, Harmony. Track down the owner. Pull the plug on Shocked.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
