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This will be a spellbinding evening with many friends & guests and we intend to leave each of you fed and full in heart, spirit, and mind. As the last show in the US of the ‘let’s be offline together’ Tour, this will be a powerful celebration of poetry and music in service to all attendees hearts and minds. In light of all that people are grappling right now emotionally and mentally, we plan to feed folks soul enriching blues poems. There will be some special guests that I think people will be stoked to see share the stage with me live for the first time. Every show is unique and never quite the same so we plan to be fully present with one another and leave everyone better off than they came. All we have is now together. This show will be an ode to now. It is also a thrill to announce that the incredible Annahstasia will be joining me at our special Homecoming show on Oct 16th, with a beautiful opening set. She is a deep, melodic, powerhouse songwriter with an incredible enchanting tone and timbre to her voice. I can’t wait for the world to experience her new album and witnessing her perform is mesmerizing. Full Band: Justin Brown - DrumsLogan Richardson - SaxJavier Santiago - KeysJermaine Paul - Bass
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aja monet is a Grammy-nominated surrealist blues poet. Her poems are a work of gravity. They are a fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon and enacted towards. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, allowing them to exist in converse. On her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy. The songs throughout are insistent and unrelenting, with some reminiscent of jazz club virtuosity and melee while others act as a healing balm in gilead, moving like that of the call to intercessory prayer.
As a poet and community organizer aja monet moves between mediums, each one an element to her writing. Organizing and activism manifest as part of a process toward liberation, with the poems, the music, and the art serving as the scribe of the time. Building off oratorical traditions, aja is the conduit for her predecessors to channel through. At any given time you’ll find the revolutionary spirit of Audre Lorde and the Last Poets, you’ll feel June Jordan, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez and even the expressive ephemerality of a passing blue note.
