Antony Hegarty Finds the 'Light' on New Album
Posted May 5th 2008 2:00PM by Denise Sheppard
http://www.spinner.com/2008/05/05/antony-hegarty-finds-the-light-on-new-album/Singer-songwriter Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons was in Vancouver this past weekend to attend and perform at a three-day academic conference designed to gather together leaders in the world of transgender and intersex research. While Hegarty's been hard at work in the studio, he told Spinner that he came "out of a cave to get to this event. We flew out for this. Other than that, I'm in a kind of sequestered phase."
Performing a half-hour musical set for the enthusiastic audience, the songs chosen were primarily culled from his 2005 album, 'I Am a Bird Now,' and included 'For Today I Am a Boy' -- a track documenting conflicting gender emotions -- and 'Hope There's Someone,' a moving ballad about isolation that had many conference members in tears. Hegarty -- a longtime gender bender and trans advocate -- contributed his time to participate in the event and explained that he was delighted to be in attendance. "Everyone here is donating their time to come here and to learn," he said. "That's why I'm here -- to hear the myriad of experiences and to hear the voices of the transgender experience."
