Friday October 16 * doors at 6:30, show at 7 * $15-20 * TICKETS

The Blackout presents...

The Wedding Funeral
Hailing From the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Darren Deicide and Ethel Lynn Oxide make their Washington D.C. debut with their “chillingly captivating” style of gothic-americana to a world bereft of genuine darkness and raw cynicism. Like campfire tales and psychological thrillers, they unsettle, tease, and disturb their audiences. Using homemade vernacular instruments including musical saw and cigar box guitar, The Wedding Funeral “fuse deep, dark bat-cave creepiness onto their acoustic guitar picking and open-throat howls.”

RjVj
RjVj is the duo of Rob J Girardi and Veronica Jay Clay. Ethereal symphonic gaze - spawned from post-punk, goth, electronic & classical music, storytelling, films, the cosmos & nature - creating a duality of hope & pain. Rob's howling guitar drones into shimmering arpeggios, Veronica's haunting vocals & synth strings wax & wane with the pulsing bass & drums - setting an otherworldly scene.

Donna Lynch
Donna Lynch is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated, Elgin Award-nominated, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated dark fiction writer, poet, spoken word artist, and the singer and co-founder—along with her husband, artist and musician Steven Archer—of the electronic/ post-goth rock band Ego Likeness (Metropolis Records). Her written works include Isabel Burning, Red Horses, Driving Through the Desert; and the poetry collections In My Mouth, Twenty-Six, Book of Keys, Ladies & Other Vicious Creatures, Daughters of Lilith, Witches, Choking Back the Devil, and Girls From the County. Her poems and short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including Into the Forest, HOWL, and Found. In 2024, she performed in 16 cities across the US, reading and speaking on themes of horror in legend and folklore, true crime, personal experiences, and mental and physical health.