Pride and Joy Anthology book cover

Pride & Joy by Kathleen Archambeau

Published in 2017, Pride & Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons, and Everyday Heroes by Kathleen Archambeau is a celebration of queer lives as she writes biographies, profiles, and stories of queer folx.

One of the artists she writes about is Thea Farhadian, a composer, professional violinist, and co-founder of the Armenian Film Festival, NYC and San Francisco.

Photo by Heike Liss

Musicians attaching objects to instruments to create a different sound started in the 1960s and opens up and expands the vocabulary of contemporary music. I would characterize my music as primarily abstract, very sound-based material that integrates tonality and micro tonality.

Thea Farhadian, Pride & Joy

Thea Farhadian at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

The mission of Pride & Joy is to inspire Queer folx, to see the vast possibility of what life can be and could be for a Queer person.

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ISBN: 978-1-63353-550-3. Published by Mango Publishing Group.