Black Sabbitch, an all-female Black Sabbath tribute band, hits Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe on Jan. 14, 2022
From a press release:
It was announced today that Black Sabbitch, an all-female Black Sabbath tribute band from Los Angeles, will play classic Ozzy-era Sabbath songs “with incredible authenticity” at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.
The concert will be part of a 50th anniversary celebration tour of two classic albums, “Master of Reality” and “Vol. 4.” Doors at Penn’s Peak (325 Maury Rd., Jim Thorpe) open at 7 p.m., and the music starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets, which are $20 in advance or $25 the day of the show, go on sale this Friday, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster, the Penn’s Peak box office, and at Roadies Restaurant and Bar (325 Maury Rd., Jim Thorpe). Box office and Roadies Restaurant ticket sales are walk-up only; no phone orders.
Since 2011, Black Sabbitch has been selling out shows and wowing even the most difficult to please Sabbath worshipers, gaining a rabid fan base and the respect of critics, fans, and musicians alike. They have become festival favorites, consistently performing with some of the world’s biggest acts on a path seldom traveled by your typical “tribute” band.
They were handpicked by Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne to open the inaugural Ozzfiesta and by Dave Grohl to play Cal Jam with Foo Fighters and Iggy Pop, after which the Foo Fighters shared photos of Black Sabbitch, saying, “We were spellbound.”
This year, they played Psycho Las Vegas with The Flaming Lips, Danzig, Ty Segall, and Mercyful Fate. Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs chose Black Sabbitch to headline his curated festival Bedrocktoberfest, and legendary street artist Shepard Fairey had them open his Black Sabbath retrospective “Never Say Die” in 2018. Electroclash superstar Peaches even sat in as lead vocalist with Black Sabbitch for a special two-night run in Los Angeles.
LA Weekly wrote, “Finally, Black Sabbitch took the stage and pretty much melted everyone’s faces. The all-female Black Sabbath … were not only talented – nailing every note of the legendary group’s familiar repertoire – but were captivating to an almost distracting level. Looking up at them from the crowd (which had erupted into a mosh pit), I couldn’t help but wonder what these women’s stories were. They emanated the effortless cool of rock and roll, but with about 10 extra ounces of sexy confidence.”
Black Sabbitch is Alice Austin (vocals), Emily Burton (guitar), Melanie Makaiwi (bass), and Angie Scarpa (drums).
Formed in Birmingham, England in 1968 by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, and singer Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath is often cited as the pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as “Black Sabbath” (1970), “Paranoid” (1970), and “Master of Reality” (1971).
Selling over 70 million records worldwide, Black Sabbath was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. They won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance and, in 2019, the band was presented a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Black Sabbath embarked on their final tour, The End, from January of 2016 through February of 2017 in venues all over the world, ending at the Genting Arena in Birmingham, where it all started.
