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     Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 6815 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
I sure wish you all could get to this one! INFO: st.louis--bag event featuring poet k. curtis lyle ============ ========= ========= ========= ==== BAG Presents: Warrior Poet K. Curtis Lyle BAG presents warrior poet K. Curtis Lyle with David A.N. Jackson, Zimbabwe Nkenya and other musicians on Sunday, May 18 from 7 – 9 PM at Scott Joplin House, 2658 Delmar Blvd. This free evening of music and poetry will feature Zimbabwe on upright bass and the poetry of K. Curtis Lyle. Lyle came to St. Louis in the late 1960’s from Los Angeles, where he was a prominent member of the Watts Writers Workshop. In his early years in St. Louis Lyle worked with many original members of the Black Artists Group (BAG). A respected educator and performance poet, his work has been included in numerous anthologies. In 2003 Lyle’s Electric Church (Beyond Baroque Press) was published and Ikef Records re-released "The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson," one of Curtis' collaborations with the late Julius Hemphill, of BAG and the World Saxophone Quartet. The American’s own Chris King edited Lyle’s The Epileptic Came Driver Speaks to a Refugee Death and his most recent book is Nailed Saraphim. Known for his long narrative poems and riveting performance style, Lyle will collaborate with multidisciplinary performance artist David A. N. Jackson and musician Zimbabwe Nkenya for this BAG presentation. David A.N. Jackson has performed with Haki Matubuti, Shirley LeFlore, and K. Curtis Lyle and has also played percussion with the legendary R&B music group Kool & The Gang, with composer Hannibal Peterson – African Portraits, and with Cedric the Entertainer in My Father's House-Strands. He is currently the featured percussionist and music director at Legacy Books & Café's Friday Night – Spoken Word Groove, and he is a founding member of The Band With No Name.   Zimbabwe Nkenya returned to the St. Louis area after 20 years in New York and the southwest a little more than a year ago and has already made his mark on the St. Louis scene. He has been responsible for the re-emergence of BAG II in space donated by Scott Joplin House State Historic site, presenting an ambitious series of free events featuring Papa Glenn Wright, “Baba” Mike Nelson, Gary Sykes, Shirley LeFlore, Michael Castro, Aaron “Strayhorn” Parker, Jerome “Scrooge” Harris, a special appearance by Oliver Lake, and many other notable poets and musicians who were members of the original BAG or whose work has been influenced by that distinctive and internationally renowned St. Louis legacy. Known for many years as one of New Mexico’s foremost creative musicians, Nkenya’s work on the St. Louis scene has already included “Jazz at the Holmes,” concerts at the Gramophone, presentations for the Nu-Arts Series, Better Family Life, the African Arts Festival, the St. Louis County Library, the Kemper Art Museum, public schools, and multiple collaborations with poets Eugene B. Redmond, Michael Castro, Daveed Nelson, Shirley LeFlore, Marsha Cann, Ruth Miriam Garnett, and K Curtis Lyle.  Later this month Nkenya’s work on solo mbira will be featured at the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, the African Arts Festival and KDHX’s upcoming “Midwest Mayhem” at the City Museum. BAG II events are always free and family friendly. For more information email blackartistgroup@ yahoo.com or call Scott Joplin House State Historic Site at 314-340-5790. Information about BAG is available on the web at: www.myspace. com/blackartistg roup |
