Sounds of the Songbird (A Night of Music and Words)
April 2, 2009
Metro Gallery 1700 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD
Doors: 7:00 pm Show: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $5 Available in Advance
Local Writers Join Band, Red Sammy, for Night of Music and Words Baltimore, MD —
On Thursday, April 2nd @ Metro Gallery, local musicians, Red Sammy, will once again join writers for a call and response between the band’s songs and literary works read aloud by Baltimore writers Kate Wyer and Chris Toll. A spring-time version of “Night of the Blackbird” a music/poetry dialogue event hosted back in November at Baltimore Theatre Project, Sounds of the Songbird will be another great chance for lovers of both writing and music to get together while supporting local music, writing, and art.
Red Sammy, who take their name from Flannery O'Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” draws upon a variety of both literary and musical influences. Regarded for their “graveyard country rock” style, their music is like a Jackson Pollack black pouring, or a Robert Motherwell elegy. It is imbued with Garcia Lorca’s duende: “black sounds are the mystery.” Gritty, stark storytelling; sparse, but accessible.
Kate Wyer won the 2002 Women Writing about Women contest open to the Mid-Atlantic. She is also the recipient of the Elisabeth Woodworth Reese award for most promising creative writing portfolio, issued from Goucher College. Her chapbook, From Spools of Thin Wire, was released in October 2008 by Publishing Genius. There are cicadas sucking at the roots of her 100 year old holly.
Chris Toll lives and writes in Baltimore, Maryland. Publishing Genius posted online his eChap, I’ll Be the Invisible Girl Till the Day I Die! Rock Heals published his minichap, I’m Having Some Shape-Shifting Problems. He recently began co-hosting a reading series called the Upward Spiral.
LINKS:
Red Sammy www.redsammy.com
Kate Wyer movingsidewalks.blogspot.com
Chris Toll www.myspace.com/iamchristoll
ADVANCE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE: EMAIL redsammy@gmail.com
Red Sammy's Sophomore Record, Dog Hang Low, Available Now at Beechfields Record Label and CDBaby.com
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