My friend Jake Wilkenfeld-Mongillo recently left Rock-Ridge Music and got in touch to ask us to mention a fundraiser to help the children of Haiti,. Sure, i’ve been cynical about these fundraisers before but not savethechildren.org so not everyone and certainly not anything good guy Jake has anything to do with, also note the guarantee. here is the press release
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The Kids Helping Kids / Performing Artists 4 Haiti charity event
organized to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake will take
place at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, Jan, 31st, 1-6pm.
$5 minimum suggested donation
100% goes directly to orphanages in Haiti.
1:30 – 4:00 PM KIDS HELPING KIDS
Family / Kids Programming: Hayes Greenfield & Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, Niall
‘Leary Dancers, Louise Rogers Band & children’s chorus
4:00 – 6 PM PERFORMING ARTISTS FOR HAITI (see below)
The New York Neo-Futurists Theater ensemble
The award wining independent theater ensemble have performed hundreds
of plays for downtown audiences, like Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go
Blind –visceral and experimental, embracing chance, change, and
chaos! www.nynf.org
Music: For the Artists 4 Haiti portion of this event, NYC-based
vintage reggae band The Hard Times will play their own short set,
accompanied by some of NYC’s most prominent world music percussionists
including Salieu Suso and Papa Suso on kora, and Frank Marino.
Following that, the band will serve as the house band for the rest of
the event, backing notable New York poets and spoken word artists.
Poetry Producers Round
Hosts and producers of some of the most popular NYC poetry series
bring their poetic energy and voices to the stage for what will surely
be an electric experience with the spoken word.
Poets include: Bob Holman, Nick Power (NYC College Slam), Evie Ivy
(Green Pavilion), Angelo Verga (Cornelia Street Café), George Wallace
(The Beat Series) Lee Kostrinsky (Smalls Jazz Club), Mike Graves and
Susan Scutti (New Phoenix), Kyle Spencer
Featured New Phoenix poets: Michael Graves received a grant from the
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for 2004 and is the author of Adam and
Cain (Black Buzzard 2006). Sally-Ann Hard’s work has been published
in places like The Gwendolyn Brooks Journal of Black Thought &
Literature; Turning Wheel, and Salamander. Joe Fritsch’s work explores
the etymological sense of poet as “maker.”
& OPEN MIC
Producer poets tag team hosting, bring your poetry! Hit the stage!
Support the children of Haiti!
For more information on the benefit:
Contact: Christine Timm bowerykids@yahoo.com
Or Bob Timm / The Hard Times
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