BERTHA: Grateful Drag
About This Event
Bertha, a rock/pop group active in New York City rooms, presents "BERTHA: Grateful Drag" at Brooklyn Bowl. The project acknowledges the lineage of the 1950s tune "Bertha Lou" and folds classic-rock reference points into a drag-forward performance frame, favoring tight ensemble playing and clear song structure over spectacle.
About Grateful Drag
“Grateful Drag” lands at Brooklyn Bowl as Bertha threads rock and pop through a drag-forward performance frame. The title nods to “Bertha Lou,” a 1957 rockabilly number written by Johnny Burnette and John Marascalco and recorded by artists including Johnny Faire, Dorsey Burnette, and Clint Miller, placing the show in a lineage of American song history rather than parody. In New York City, it reads as part of an ongoing downtown tradition: drag as a working method for live music, not a separate category. The result is a set that treats citation as structure, and identity as arrangement.
About the Artist
Bertha
Bertha is a rock/pop group heard in New York City rooms like Brooklyn Bowl, where they present “BERTHA: Grateful Drag.” The name nods to “Bertha Lou,” a 1950s rockabilly tune that moved through multiple recordings and later rewrites, and the project treats that lineage as usable material rather than trivia.