BERTHA, the celebrated all-drag Grateful Dead tribute ensemble, have announced their debut live album, Slayin’ in the Band Vol. 1. After three years of earning acclaim for their top-tier ...

Bertha Barbee McNeal, who co-founded Motown’s Velvelettes, known for their songs “Needle in a Haystack” and “(He Was) Really Saying Something,” died Thursday, in hospice, in Kalamazoo. She was 82.

When Melody Walker and her friend Caitlin Doyle first envisioned the Grateful Dead tribute band Bertha, Tennessee’s legislature hadn’t yet introduced legislation limiting drag performance. The ...

*As we come to the close of the year, we have lost yet another Motown alum – Bertha Barbee-McNeal (“Barbee Doll”) of The Velvelettes passed away December 15 th at age 82. You may recall the group’s ...

The world's first Grateful Drag band, BERTHA is an all-star collective of queer and allied East Nashville talent coming together in wigs and full face for a good cause. Fronted by a harmony trio of ...