Out superstar DJ Tracy Young will heat things up for Spring Awakening March 30 at bi at Sundown, the new bi-weekly dance party produced by Bruce Yelk and George Lopez at Lit Ultrabar.
Young admits she hasn’t been to the City of Brotherly Love in many a moon but said she’s excited to return.
“I haven’t been to Philly in a while. I honestly can’t remember the last time,” she said. “I’m a New York DJ and I have a residency at Viva so being there, it’s so close to Philly. But the business has changed so much. But I’m excited to be back in Philly.”
Young, a longtime vet of DJ booths and dance floors all over the world who has done remixes for pop royalty like Madonna, Britney Spears and Cher, said she’s noticed the dance clubs aren’t the nerve center for LGBT socializing that they used to be.
“I find it a gay-acceptance thing,” she explained. “In the 1990s and early 2000s it was where gay people came together to be amongst ‘our kind,’ so to speak. Now that gays can get married and we’ve made so much headway with the political side of things, the younger generation doesn’t know what we’ve been through. It was where we all came to socialize. But now gay people can go and hold hands and they date each other in high school. We’ve made such great social movement that it had kind of changed the gay business for the more mature. That’s how I fit in the gay clubs as I knew it. It’s kind of changed and gotten a lot smaller. Younger kids can go anywhere. They can go the straight clubs and festivals and that is great, but it has changed our social setting.”
But Young will fire things up for Philly’s club scene where she takes over the DJ booth at 7:18 p.m. (when the sun goes down) March 30 at Lit Ultrabar, 420 N. Second St. For more information, visit www.djtracyyoung.com or www.biatsundown.com.