Washashore Festival
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…
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…
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…
