Po'Jazz
...at the Center

 


Spring 2002

Po'Jazz is an innovative partnership of poetry and jazz, now beginning its fourth year at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center. Founder, creator, poet and project director Golda Solomon has combined her two passions to create an energetic program that features established and emerging poets sharing the stage with a small group of jazz musicians, blending the spoken word and improvised instrumentation.


Sunday, April 21, 2002
3:15-6:15 pm
(doors open at 2:45 )
at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center
Featuring poets:

Sarah Cortez
author of How to Undress a Cop

Stephen Coleman
"Bodacious Cowgirls"

book cover: How to Undress a Cop
Musicians:

photo: Tony Jefferson

Tony Jefferson, drums

John Hart, guitar

Nicki Parrott, bass


Po'Jazz
Sunday, May 19, 2002
3:15-6:15 pm (doors open at 2:45 )
at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center

featuring poets:

Janet Aalfs

Gha'il Rhodes Benjamin

with
Poppy
Tamara Magnitsky

Musicians:

 

The Tom Aalfs Trio

Tom Aalfs, violin
Ron Jackson, guitar
Joe Exley, tuba
Kinny Landrum
, keyboard
Linda Ciofalo, vocals
Belden Bullock, bass

with special guest Ingrid Jensen on trumpet


also featuring promising young poets and musicians:

James Landrum, saxophone
Ila Cantor, guitar
David Ciofalo, trumpet

Amnah Poppy Bashier, poet
Teresa Agulles, poet
Anthony Costantini, poet


Light refreshments will be available at a reasonable cost.
Writing, jazz-related crafts, poetry books and CDs also available for sale.


Admission: $12 ($10 for HVWC members, students with ID, and seniors)
Children under 12: free


For biographies of Po'Jazz artists appearing this year, click here.


Order your Po'Jazz 2000 T-Shirts here:

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Purchase a Po'Jazz subscription (Spring & Fall) and come to one event as our guest - for details e-mail or call the HVWC office (914) 332-5953
or Golda Solomon (914) 478-2975

Programs and events of The Hudson Valley Writers' Center are made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. Additional funding provided by the Gannett Foundation and the Bydale Foundation.

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