Washashore Festival
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Provincetown’s Genre-Bending Queer Music Festival hosted by Tony Award-winner John Cameron Mitchell and starring Jake Wesley Rodgers
According to Urban Dictionary a ‘washashore’ is a newcomer to a coastal or island community, a non-native, and who can sometimes (?) be a subject of xenophobia. In Provincetown, it is however considered a badge of honor in this gay mecca at the tip of Cape Cod which has a very diverse community. The Pilgrims laid…
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Ptown’s WASHASHORE FESTIVAL : 3 day genre-bending, town-wide, multi-venue queer music Fest
Even though I have summered in PTown Massachusetts for the past 24 years the locals will always consider me a washashore. It’s a real word by the way: Meriam Webster defines it to bring (something) onto the shore by waves, then quickly adds like ‘debris!’ Provincetown was settled by the Brits back in the 17th…
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Provincetown’s first ever Washashore queer Music & Arts Festival is up next
According to the Urban Dictionary a ‘washashore’ is a newcomer to a coastal or island community, a non-native. It’s not uncommon to hear some described ‘ he’s married a local BUT he’s still a washashore’ However this potentially xenophobic insult is turned on its heels here in PTown at the very tip of Cape Cod. Over…
