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* * * * *TEDxWDC – October 15th
Free Jazz with Butch Warren & Freddie Redd and new art by Gustavo Diaz Sosa & NBC’s Antoine Sanfuentes
Honfleur reopens this Friday, September 30th, at 7pm with new works by Gustavo Díaz Sosa.
Gustavo Díaz Sosa graduated in Cuba with the golden title in 2002. He has since moved to Spain, exhibiting widely, invited as a resident artist at Arteleku in San Sebastian, and settled in the outskirts of Madrid, where he lives and works today. More recently Gustavo returned to Habana, Cuba for a solo exhibition at the Gallery, Kingdom of This World. Honfleur Gallery has been working with Gustavo since 2009 and is pleased to present never before seem mixed media works on canvas and six new charcoal works on paper.
 photo by Antoine Sanfuentes
Starting at 8pm, THE CONNECTION, a free jazz performance by Butch Warren & Freddie Redd accompanied by a photographic slide show by Antoine Sanfuentes. A poetry reading by local DC poet, Fred Joiner, will also happen in between sets.
An evening of jazz and art with two legendary jazz musicians, Freddie Redd pairs up with Butch Warren to play hard bop jazz…known for his piece “The Connection,” these two connect an era and an art form. Born in 1939, Butch Warren began his career as a jazz bassist at the ripe age of 14. Early on, the bassist worked locally in the Washington, DC, area, most notably with Stuff Smith. Warren was in great demand for club work and appeared on many recordings, particularly dates for the Blue Note label led by Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Stanley Turrentine, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, and Dorham. He was a member of Thelonious Monk’s quartet from 1963-1964 and then moved back to Washington, DC, where he worked on a television show from 1965-1966. Antoine Sanfuentes is the Washington DC Bureau Chief for NBC news that has been documenting Butch Warren’s recent life history. His photographs chronicle Butch Warren’s come back. After four legendary years recording for blue note records in New York (1960-1964), Butch Warren spent decades off the music scene only re appearing briefly to disappear again. These photographs document his struggle as a jazz musician and an artist.
This performance is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts
Both events are free and open to the public.
For more details: 202.580.597 and www.honfleurgallery.com
1241 Good Hope Road SE Washington DC 20020
Honfleur Gallery, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab, Blank Space SE & The Hive are all projects of ARCH Development Corp.
www.honfleurgallery.com | www.archdevelopment.org | www.vividsolutionsdc.com www.blankSPACEse.com | www.thedchive.com
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Happy Birthday Trane (Repost from Sept 23, 2008)
Anyone who knows me how important John Coltrane is to me. On his birthday I am always pushed to think about what it means to be an artist and how to “be a force for good”.
Rather than try to wax further poetic about it I am going to link you to a little blog i wrote and to a website that published one of my poems about Trane.
I hope it is inspiring….
DC:POETRY: Gunpowder + A Match by Ernesto Mercer
I hate to be posting this in such a drive-by impersonal way, but the the information is more important than my musings about it…I will at some later point tell you how import Ernesto has been to me and to DC.POETRY.MUSIC.CULTURE.LIFE.ETC….
If you know like I know, in these austere economic times you (we) will all need some Gunpowder + A Match… see info below…get on it!!!
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Gunpowder + A Match, poems by Ernesto Mercer
It’s a limited run from outbackintheshack + Carolina Jones Ink
It’s a nice sized plate of poems: $10 if I see ya. (+ $2 s&h if not)
Pre-ordering begins today.
Paypal for Carolina Jones Ink : kitamaldicion@gmail.com.
I’m very excited about this & thank you all for your support. All the good to yall.
I’ll have something nifty w/ some pictures closer to 09-01-11.
Malembe + Peace
ernesto
DC:ART:HISTORY:CULTURE: Wash Post Features the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum’s Grand Opening Celebration
Grand Opening Celebration!
The African American Civil War Museum is back in the business of telling the stories of slaves’ and freed blacks’ participation in that conflict. The museum, which first opened in 1999 with about 700 square feet, has moved across Vermont Avenue to 5,000 square feet in a former school building. The $5 million move and renovation, funded by the city, will be celebrated with three days of activities, ending with a ribbon-cutting July 18.
The museum now fits into the school gymnasium, which gives it high ceilings and a gleaming wooden stage. Arranged in one room are thematically organized panels with reproductions of illustrations and documents and some original objects that are used to tell stories from the war.
In addition to its exhibits, the museum provides space for other cultural activities.
Read the rest of the Washington Post article!
Register now for the Grand Opening Celebration (Saturday, July 16 – Monday, July 18, 2011)!
DC:ART: Aug 5th – Oct 7th 2011, (Un)Lock It: the Percussive People in the Go-Go Pocket by Thomas Sayers Ellis
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DC:JAZZ:Around My Way: East River Jazz presents Carl Grubbs Ensemble
East River Jazz
presents
Carl Grubbs Ensemble in concert
Sunday June 26 2011 | 4 PM
Anacostia Art Gallery & Boutique
$25 day of event | Online $20 advance sales and a limited number of $15 “Early Bird” tickets available.
Catered Lite-Fare Included
Carl Grubbs, saxophones
Steve Novosel, bass
Eric Allen, drums
Carl Grubbs
A 2009 Recipient of the Maryland Sawyers Baker Award, Baltimore Magazine voted “2009 Best Musician – Jazz” and the Rosa Pryor Scholarship Fund 2009 Award, Carl Grubbs performs on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones. He is also a composer, educator and recording artist. A native of Philadelphia, he received early extensive training from John Coltrane.
Carl Grubbs is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Contemporary Arts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization. The organization’s programs Summer Activity Extraordinaire (SAX):Music and Dance Camp and Summer Arts Academy, provides music and dance education to youth ages 4 – 17 in the Baltimore metropolitan area. A member of the MSAC Artist in Education program, Carl has twice been the recipient of the MSAC/Maryland Traditions award as a jazz master, working with an apprentice to pass on the traditions of improvised jazz music.
Steve Novosel
Bassist Steve Novosel, who began his jazz career in 1961 while stationed in the Washington DC area, has performed with just about every major jazz artist playing and recording with Andrew White, Roland Kirk, Stanley Cowell, David “Fathead” Newman and Eddie Harris. He has performed with Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner, Hank Jones, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Harry “Sweets” Edison, James Moody, Archie Shepp and Blue Mitchell. Steve is also in great demand as an accompanist for singers; he has played with everyone from Billy Eckstine, Joe Williams and Donny Hathaway to Anita O’Day, Roberta Flack, Betty Carter and Shirley Horn.
DC:JAZZ:ART: Thinking About Jazz – John Coltrane – June 25th, 1-3pm
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DC:ART:Around My Way:Photography: Saturday June 11, “3 by 6” Opening/Talk @ Corner Store
Gallery Opening Party for
“3 by 6”
Corner Store
900 South Carolina Ave, SE
Washington DC 20003
Six area photographers pick three.
Scott Speck, Jo Ann Tooley, Shirley Fiske,
Jonathan French, Geoff Ault, and Rosina Teri Memolo.
Artists’ talk at 7 PM.
Opening reception tunes by
Alan Brody and the Jazz trIAD.
Show runs through July 9th.
DC:ART:Around My Way: Two New Exhibits Open This Friday (6/10/2011) @ Honfleur Gallery & The Gallery at Vivid
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