Kate Bush tribute benefiting Free Lunch ATX w/ Sabrina Ellis, Kalu James, Carrie Fussell, Buffalo Hunt, Jonathan Hortsmann, KVN, Nnedi Agbaroji, Anastasia Wright, Pelvis Wrestley, BlipSwitch (dance performance)
Netflix’s Stranger Things has been providing quite a service to Eighties pop hitmakers – if certain oldies find play on the popular streaming thriller’s soundtrack, a turbo-boost in their fortunes is possible. “Running up That Hill,” the 1985 single with which ethereal British pop thrush Kate Bush is most identified, is a surprise summer hit after featuring a few weeks back as ST character Max Mayfield’s favorite song. It currently sits at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, after peaking at 30 on that U.S. chart in 1985, earning Bush an estimated $2.3 million, 29 million U.S. streams, and surreal glory of pop culture omnipresence. Austin celebrates with a Kate hootnight writ large featuring such notable local acolytes as Sabrina Ellis, Kalu James, Golden Dawn Arkestra and Trouble in the Streets vocalist Nnedi Agbaroji, Urban Heat’s Jonathan Horstmann, Benjamin Violet of Pelvis Wrestley, and KVN to pump up the coffers of food insecurity relief program Free Lunch.
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