GUEST LIST
Saturday April 21st 3PM we start on time!
Mary Panza The Ugly Sister Thanks You for Not Smoking
w/ John Weiler, guitar & Monica Roach, cello
Mary has been a very visible member of the Spoken Word community since 1988. She has co-produced two CD’s, A Little Nip and Volume. She has been published in underground zines such as Rant, In Your Face,and Freedom isn't Free. Her work has appeared locally in Open Mic: The Albany Anthology, Other and Metroland. She is one of the founding members of thehiddencity.com. She is also Vice President of Albany Poets, a non-for-profit organization devoted to the local creative community. Her work can be viewed at AlbanyPoets.com and thehiddencity.com. She hosts POETS SPEAK LOUD, a spoken work open mic, the last Monday of each month at Tess’ Lark Tavern. http://www.albanypoets.com/poets/panza.asp
Thom Francis The Book of Job w/musiciens TBA
Thom Francis, an upstate New York native, has been a writer and spoken word artist since he was old enough to understand, and therefore question the nature of the world in which we all exist. His skepticism, an attribute that seems to have been instilled in Thom since birth, has only been strengthened by the struggles in which he has encountered throughout the course of his twenty-five years of survival. These various struggles have made Thom an extremely strong and empathetic person, as well as the perfect candidate to pursue a calling in which he exposes the peculiarity exhibited by the human race. His work, based upon personal experience as well as general observations, always reveals an outlook commonly overlooked by the average observer. Thom is the President of Albany Poets.
Motherjudge Vector
w/ Nicole Peyrafitte
-Alt-country-funk diva from Albany, NY playing that AMERICAN MUSIC. "kd lang with a black eye." metroland magazine. ** Hosts award-winning OPEN MIC at Tess' Lark Tavern in Albany, NY with John Brodeur (Hector on Stilts, the Suggestions, etc) every Wednesday. Stop in and see them -- full band gear & PA on tap.
-Staff member of GREYFOX BLUEGRASS (July, NY) and RHYTHM & ROOTS (Labor Day Weekend, RI) music festivals.
-Also a supporter and contributor to the JOE VAL BLUEGRASS festival (Feb, MA) hosted by our friends at the Boston Bluegrass Union and the IBMA, our International bluegrass organization which holds its annual conference and fan fest each fall in NASHVILLE, TN.
