About

Pamela Means, Easthampton, MA

Pamela Means is an Easthampton MA-based, multiple award-winning, singer-songwriter and jazz musician, known for penning protest anthems. She is also a Biracial, Queer, Artist-Activist and, “one of the fiercest guitar players and politically-rooted musicians in the industry today," (Curve Magazine) - who's worn a hole in two of her guitars - with her "insanely brilliant" (Press Herald, Portland ME) and “stark, defiant songs.” (New York Times)

"When Pamela Means picks up her guitar and begins to sing, a listener doesn't forget her. She possesses musical attitude and purpose." 
- WSHU Connecticut Public Radio

“If…Audre Lorde had taken up folk singing, she might have attacked her guitar and wrapped her lyrics around it the way Pamela Means does.”
- Valley Advocate, Northampton MA

"So what sets [Pamela Means] apart from other Martin-armed songwriters who are pretty convinced they have a way with poetry and angst? For starters, Means plays a snarling, energetic guitar. She's got chops - more than the other gentle pickers of her ilk will ever have. Means' voice is hard-wired to her heart: emotional, raw, angry when it needs to be, yet supple and warm as an embrace. The truth may not always be pretty, but Means is a stunningly effective messenger."
- Oregon Live, Portland OR