Jazz Hybrid Presents: An Evening of Poetry & Music.
Poets. Musicians. One memorable night.
This event is postponed.
Stay tuned for the rescheduled date, to be announced soon.
It goes without saying that musicians collaborate with one another. It’s baked into the process. Poetry is often in conversations with music, as well. Poets turn to music for inspiration, recite their work with musical accompaniment, or take music as their subject; likewise, musicians write lyrics, embrace spoken word collaboration, and turn to literary works for inspiration. In honor of these complex and revitalizing truths, Jazz Hybrid Presents an Evening Conversation of Poetry & Music will serve as a showcase for regional and national poets and musicians, encouraging collaboration and hybrid forms and the relationships that sustain and nurture creative communities.
FEATURING…
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Minorcan is a basement arena rock band currently based in Asheville, NC. After releasing music under his own name on Bi-Fi Records and Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, Ryan Anderson founded Minorcan in 2010 while living in Austin, TX.
Originally born in North Florida, Anderson chose the band name as a call back to the swampy, coastal area where he grew up. Minorcan have self-released three albums since 2010 and recently released three singles (with videos)- ”Empire’s Fall,” “Cat Videos (I’m Just Here For The)" and “Keep Your Body Close.” An album is forthcoming featuring eight new songs.
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Kevin Evans began writing poetry as a teenager at which time he was mentored by Glenis Redmond via an afterschool program. He has locally been a part of the Poetry Cabaret, Asheville Slam team, and Black Diamond Collective with Penny Meacham. Most recently Kevin Evans attended The New Orleans Poetry Festival in April and sat on a Filipino/African-American panel related to cross-pollination between different marginalized communities. On June 19th at The Getaway he was able to debut a brand new special poem about family, grief, history and the significance of Juneteenth.
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With her stirring voice, rowdy sense of humor, & unique finger picking guitar style Momma Molasses has been likened by listeners to female greats such as; Patsy Cline, “Mother” Maybelle Carter, Loretta Lynn, and has also been deemed by fans as “The Postmodern Minnie Pearl”. A survivor of Domestic Violence, Momma Molasses sings about the real problems women face & hopes her songs work to support those healing from trauma.
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Caleb Beissert is a poet, editor, event organizer, and musician from Washington, D.C., who resides in Asheville, NC. He is translator of BEAUTIFUL: Translations from the Spanish, English-language adaptations of Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda. Beissert is West Region Chair of the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series. Beissert is host of Poetry Open Mic Asheville, Artistic Director of Poetry Cabaret Collective, and performs regularly with his band the Lactones. His poems or translations have appeared in numerous publications, including Asheville Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. He is currently at work on a book of original poetry.