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Sunday, February 9th – 2pm
Poets James Yeary, Chris Ashby
& Julien Poirier
James Yeary makes poems, art objects, performances, readings, books and the like. For the last couple years he has worked in a surgery-adjacent laboratory turning human tissue into colorful pictograms, very occult and ethically suspicious but presumably for a good cause. He will eventually do something else but presumably still will make poems. Chris…
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Saturday, February 8th – 7:30pm
Sukhawat Ali Khan Ensemble
Traditional Music from India and Pakistan
Sukhawat Ali Khan – Vocal and Harmonium Swapan Gandhi – Bansuri Flute Ferhan Qureshi – Tabla $20 cover charge; byob. For reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Sukhawat Ali Khan is the son and disciple of the legendary vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan of the Shaam Chaurasi Gharana. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Sukhawat is…
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Friday, February 7th – 8:30pm
Vernaculars
Wong/Evangelista/Trinidad/Biala
Francis Wong, saxophone. Karl Evangelista, guitar. Chris Trinidad, bass. Jimmy Biala, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Modern jazz with a Filipino folk inflection. Top players all, collectively engaged in the music at this juncture in our urgent historical moment.
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Friday, February 7th – 6pm
Jazz, Joy & Justice
The Doug Goodkin Trio
Doug Goodkin – piano. Marty Wehner – trombone. Sam Heminger – bass. $20 suggested donation per adult; byob. Teens and students – $10 suggested. Kids, free. Celebrating Doug’s new book Jazz, Joy and Justice. Doug Goodkin, as well as being a wonderful musician himself, is a celebrated educator, loved for his work by generations of…
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Thursday, February 6th – 7pm
Spoken Duets:
Poets Susan Dambroff and Chris Kammler
open mic follows
In Spoken Duets, Chris Kammler and Susan Dambroff collage words into a riff, a rumble, and a rant, and speak them in syncopated and unsyncopated time. They surf through the day-to-day of these tsunami times with poetic and improvisational collaborations. They attempt to untwist and untangle language weaving in and out of the personal and…
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Wednesday, February 5th – 7pm
Poet Michelle Matz reads from
Acoustic Shadow
Come out and join the friends and neighbors of Glen Park’s own Michelle Matz, to hear her read & celebrate her new poetry collection, Acoustic Shadow. A fine Wednesday evening in Glen Park at its own little bookshop is guaranteed. “Michelle Matz’s Acoustic Shadow treads the solitary space between love and grief with…
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