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Sid The Cat Presents Loren Kramar (Night 2) W/ Mercedes Kilmer 11/30/2023 at Genghis Cohen What makes Loren Kramar’s music beautiful is his voice: warm and confident , all glamor and ease and big, dramatic melody. What makes Loren Kramar great, though, is his sense of love and spectacle. Like Father John Misty or Lana Del Rey, Loren Kramar celebrates and indicts the complex mess that is fame, performance, passion, and art. He arrives to Secretly Canadian as the spotlit star of his Hollywood story, ascendant and armed with his best and most generous music to date. “Hollywood Blvd” begins this new chapter. It is Kramar’s thesis statement, embodying his dreams and squaring up against his doubts. “It is a spell,” says Kramar, “an incantation to make what’s real in my mind real in the world. In some ways it has nothing to do with Hollywood or show business. Hollywood is just the costume the song wears to tell a story about wanting to believe that what you do has value.” Still, “Hollywood Blvd” seems to land like a perfect audition because it is, simultaneously, the attempt and the success all at once. He describes it as “What if, what if, what if?” crashing into “It is! It is! It is!” “What if this happened,” says Kramar, “and also, it’s happening right now. “It’s a song about aspiration in all its ridiculousness,” he continues, “there’s almost a self-created fanfic that comes with imagining oneself as a star. It’s a coping mechanism,” he says, “against insecurity and shame– that I am enough, that I have value as a person outside of being an artist, that I can make art freed from superficial feelings of value and affirmation.” That tangle of celebration and validation – who gets it, who gives it, who feels it and why – is on full display here. It is matched with horns, bells, and Kramar’s gorgeous voice singing crowd work to the front and double-dog dares to the very back row. Presented by Sid The Cat. This is an All Ages event.