Mai Khôi and the Dissidents
Thu, Mar 28
|Pittsburgh Winery @ The Cellar
Doors at 7PM | Show at 8PM | 21 and over
Time & Location
Mar 28, 2024, 8:00 PM
Pittsburgh Winery @ The Cellar, 2809 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
About the event
Mai Khôi founded Mai Khôi and the Dissidents in Vietnam in 2017 as a vehicle to perform her genre-busting songs protesting government censorship and police violence. The band performed secretly at underground shows in Hanoi until threats from the Vietnamese government forced the band to change their name, then ultimately dissolve. Following Khôi’s exile to the United States, she reformed the band with local Pittsburgh musicians while continuing the group’s radical mission. The American iteration of Mai Khôi and the Dissidents is an eclectic and experimental jazz-pop quintet that’s as likely to launch into a protest song or collective improvisation as a lullaby or love ballad. They have also toured Khôi’s multimedia stage show Bad Activist at high-profile venues in Pittsburgh, New York, and Las Vegas.