Lady Hatchet Quartet w/ Cowboy Princess Brigade and Rubix Groove

Saturday, November 15 Lady Hatchet Quartet w/ Cowboy Princess Brigade and Rubix Groove at Grog Shop Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8:30 PM ALL AGES $12 advance / $15 day of show + $3 at door if under 21 For over fifteen years, Kristin Forbes has worn her nom de guerre, Lady Hatchet, like a suit of armor, fearlessly following her muse and love of Jamaican music into the many musical projects and places it has taken her. She is a multi-instrumentalist, as well as a singer/song-writer and band leader, who has played guitar, bass, and even keyboards for some of the most renowned American ska bands (The Slackers, The Toasters, The Pietasteres, Stubborn All-Stars). For fourteen years, she led The Scotch Bonnets, a punky-reggae crew out of Baltimore, as they toured the United States extensively, released two albums of her songs (an infectious blend of Jamaican-inspired grooves mixed with American rock and R&B stylings) on Jump Up Records: 2019’s Come On Over and 2023’s re-release of the Bonnets’ 2013 debut Live Ya Life, as well as numerous singles and the 2014 Quest EP in collaboration with HR of Bad Brains. Kristin, who started playing ska in Boston in the late 1990s and self-released her first solo EP in 2002, spent a month on the Vans Warped Tour in 2011, playing with Fishbone’s legendary frontman Angelo Moore; that collaboration became the 2015 album, Ska Do Au Ska Don’t (released on Japanese label, Ska In The World). Around the same time she became Lady Hatchet, Kristin started playing in Baltimore’s premiere ska-reggae band The Players Band when she moved to Charm City in 2008 and is now their full-time bass player. In 2019, she became the lead guitar player in an all-female lineup of Strykers Posse, a foundational roots-reggae crew that began in Baltimore in the 1980s.