September 26 @ 6 PM, at MOTR Pub 1345 Main Street
Proof of vax or negative test 72 hours prior to the event required for entrance
POETS & PLAYERS
Featuring Ralph LaCharity
Musicians of the Underworld Jazz Festival
with special guest, Curtis Fowlkes
& the poets of Word of Mouth
RALPH LACHARITY is a lapsed road warrior of the volunteer persuasion, a poet of many miles & years, currently billing himself as a poet “in private practice,” which means, in the best of all possible worlds, he’s kept his syllabic powder dry & is ready to fire at a moment’s notice, Always. Throughout his travels, texts have emerged, among them Monkey Opera, Glass Ass Runaround, and more recently, three titles from Dos Madres Press: Farewellia a la Aralee, Litanies Said-Handedly, and Blood Vertigo.
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CURTIS FOWLKES is an internationally known trombonist. In 1987, he founded The Jazz Passengers with saxophonist Roy Nathanson. He has also been a member of The Lounge Lizards, the Kansas City All-Stars, and a quartet led by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He has toured with Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra when it was led by drummer Louis Bellson. Fowlkes released his debut solo album in 1999. Since then, he has maintained an active and diverse career, moving between the spheres of rock, jazz and pop. In addition to playing with the Jazz Passengers, his collaborators include artists like Don Byron, John Zorn, Harry Shearer, Marc Ribot, Jeb Loy Nichols, Sheryl Crow and Cibo Matto.
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MUSICIANS from the Underground Jazz Festival (Cincinnati September 19-26), include members of Napoleon Maddox’s band ISWHAT?! and the festival’s Nasty Natti Brass Band. Maddox, festival organizer, writes this in the 2o21 Underground Jazz Festival Statement:
“While searching for a meaningful theme for the 2021 edition of the Underworld Jazz Festival, I was listening to a banger by one of the artists we decided to welcome. Her name is Sa-Roc…The song I was rocking to is entitled “Forever” and has a powerfully soulful chorus, “you betta shine on’em baby, you a star / you betterrrr, be exactly who you are forever.“ I thought that’s it! That’s the theme, "SHINE: The New Paradigm! Not to say we don’t see the darkness, the pandemic, the hate, the lies, the greed and pollution etc etc etc. We see it and we gonna decide to shine, in-spite of it and brighter because of it all….We don’t have to force it, it’s who we are. Our light wants to shine, we just have to be brave enough to let it."
The 2018 Underworld Jazz Festival, at MOTR Pub
Word of Mouth was founded in 2014 by poets Mark Flanigan and Jim Palmarini, inspired by the late poet and co-conspirator Aralee Strange. Word of Mouth asks poets of all persuasion to show up, mouth off, and listen
“While searching for a meaningful theme for the 2021 edition of the Underworld Jazz Festival, I was listening to a banger by one of the artists we decided to welcome. Her name is Sa-Roc…The song I was rocking to is entitled “Forever” and has a powerfully soulful chorus, “you betta shine on’em baby, you a star / you betterrrr, be exactly who you are forever.“ I thought that’s it! That’s the theme, "SHINE: The New Paradigm! Not to say we don’t see the darkness, the pandemic, the hate, the lies, the greed and pollution etc etc etc. We see it and we gonna decide to shine, in-spite of it and brighter because of it all….We don’t have to force it, it’s who we are. Our light wants to shine, we just have to be brave enough to let it."
The 2018 Underworld Jazz Festival, at MOTR Pub
Word of Mouth was founded in 2014 by poets Mark Flanigan and Jim Palmarini, inspired by the late poet and co-conspirator Aralee Strange. Word of Mouth asks poets of all persuasion to show up, mouth off, and listen