Poetry Rodeo starts at 7:30 TONIGHT!
*Remember you are welcome to bring your own work and sign up to read with the Ellyn’s band!
See our Event Featured on RentFoodBroke!
Thanks to Ann Cohen for her beautiful renderings!
Baba Alade performed songs off his album Unified and One
Ellyn Maybe introduced us to a Poetry Rodeo. Many thanks to the incredible band and the rest of the poets!
In Gwendolines words the show goes:
From nerd to beauty queen…
Encounters with the cane to the first time my father said ‘I love you’…
You are invited to join me on a very personal journey.
Without hesitation, I can safely tell you that Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open is the proudest artistic achievement of my career. Even more so than my Emmy submission for Desperate Housewives, or Robert Duvall teaching me to tango on set in the snow, or hearing my Chinese Zithering on KCRW. (more…)
Video by: Jacob Mendel
***Don’t forget! Hen House is curating an awesome lineup of poets and musicians this Friday at Beyond Baroque 7:30pm! We will have wine and samosas from Samosa House! The night will feature collaborations, improvisations and new material from Michael C Ford, Rich Ferguson, Baba Alade, Yvonne del la Vega, Ellyn Maybe, Jaimes Palacio, Eve Brandstein and Rex Weiner as well as many more special guests.
Read more about the event from:
— By Michael Mechanic Mon Oct. 18, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
Excerpt from article:
MJ: What about something totally outside your genre?
GM: I like to think there’s no outside; that I can hear whatever has a claim to make, but if you’d asked me if I were interested in poetry set to music, I’d probably say no. When I heard Ellyn Maybe’s “City Streets” on KALX in Berkeley I had no idea what it was, just that I was transfixed. I called up the DJ, went to Amoeba Records, couldn’t find it, wrote away—and after listening to Maybe’s album Rodeo for the Sheepish (Hen House) half a dozen times, I had no idea who the people behind it were—a poet, and a musician/singer who sounds like many of himself, or for that matter her-himself. But there’s a pathos cut with self-lacerating humor that makes this the most surprising and painful music I’ve come across.
Video by: Nisey Jay and Riccardo Spinotti
