An Evening of Poetry & Music benefitting Asheville artists and art organizations after Helene.
Brought to you by Jazz Hybrid Presents and Mad Hat Productions.
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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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.
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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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Each song is different and stands on its own, but can be generally categorized as funny and quirky, complex, emotional, and reflective. There is wonderful imagery in her poetry that stimulates one's imagination and it can be very moving in a positive sense.
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O•VAD•YA has been playing before extremely diverse audiences for over 15 years... From opening for Eric Burdon and the Animals, to Piamenta (the “Israeli Jimi Hendrix”) and benefits, to clubs to live radio, from festivals to synagogues to intimate coffeehouses. Their music has been featured on radio nationally and locally in both Chicago and Asheville (WXRT, WNUR, WBEZ,
WNUR, WLUP, WPVM and many more nationally), charting in CMJ & grabbing major (Polygram) label interest & indie label offers.