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Lowell Celebrates
Kerouac & UMass Lowell presents
March 13: Jack Kerouac's
88th Birthday Celebration |
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Dharma Buns, 26A Market
St. |
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Photo
by George DeLuca |
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"Amram Jam" open mic
readings |
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David Amram plays behind the readings. |
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Moderator Roger Brunelle |
Host Mary/John Capriole
"On the Road" The Art of Mary Capriole
John Capriole: The Origin of "Dharma Buns" |
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"Paradise Road" web video (4 min., 2:30-2:40pm) |
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Caffe Paradiso, 45
Palmer St. |
SCHEDULE |
Photo
by
Tom Palumbo circa 1956 |
7pm show
SOLD OUT!
RSVP for
waiting list!
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Tonight we
celebrate Jack's own definition of "Beat"
focusing
on Jack's musical journey
from Lowell's Moody St. to
Harlem, as jazz became a major influence on the mid-20th
Century art scene. |
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9:30pm-2am
"This Song's for You, Jack!" |
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Singer/Songwriter
Bob
Martin |
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Celtic: Nolwenn Monjarret
(of The Chieftains) |
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Singer/Songwriter Alan
Crane |
Amy Black & The Red Clay Rascals
The Jonathan Edwards Band with
Taylor Armerding, Stuart Shulman, Charlie Rose |
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"This is BEAT!"
an evening with David Amram & friends |
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words, music and improv with David Amram, Kerouac's first musical
collaborator, and guest readers and musicians of the Lowell
area.
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Join us for this celebration of
the Kerouac and Amram collaborations at the Brata Art Gallery
involving NYC's first-ever public jazz/poetry readings, and
the classic music of the jazz artists of the 40s and 50s who
influenced Kerouac's writing. |
Readings:
Tony Sampas,
Paul Marion,
Steve Edington, Nancy Herbstman, Lawrence Carradini, Richard Rourke,
David Perry and
Jerry Bisantz.
Jazz:
David Amram and Adam Amram with:
Lowell Jazz Day Camp:
Allyssa Jones,
Stanley Swann, Paul Combs and John Harrington; featuring guest
vocalist Lura Smith of Middlesex Comm. College in Lowell.
Lowell Moonglow Entertainment:
Mike Payette and
Charles Langford
Classical:
The UMass Lowell Classical String Trio
Kristin Chartier, Tim Nunes,
Adam Nunes |
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A NOTE from David Amram
February 13, 2010 - Jack Kerouac grew up in Lowell hearing the
jazz masters performing on Moody Street, where all the major
artists played during the heyday of jazz in Lowell.
When Kerouac went to New York City to attend Horace Mann and
then Columbia University, he began frequenting Harlem and went
to Mintons to hear Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie
Parker. Because of his Lowell boyhood and exposure to many
cultural traditions, he was already tuned in to this new music
and its polycultural sophisticated nature.
Kerouac was one of the first writers to understand the
relationship of Formality and Spontaneity, and how the
treasures of the Old World, (the classics of Europe) had a
relationship to the treasures of the New World (USA jazz, blues,
Native and Latin American and Immigrant American musical forms
that combined tradition with improvising).
Growing up in Lowell, he had a sense of community, family, the
church, the beauty of everyday life and respect for every person
who crossed his path; especially people that entered the
gyroscope of his life, wherever he went in his endless travels.
He never lost his hometown roots or relinquished his values in
order to attempt to be cutting edge or trendy. Like all great
artists, he followed his heart and remained true to himself.
Tonight's program celebrates that enduring yea-saying spirit
that fills the pages of Jack's books.
The evening also honors today's artists from the greater Lowell
area who are all blazing trails of their own, inspired by the
same indefinable essence that makes Lowell such a special place
today.
It is a pleasure to collaborate with them in Lowell in the same
way that I did with Jack in NYC over 50 years ago.
David Amram
Putnam Valley NY |
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A
ComeToLowell.com
Production |
also see
March 11 and 12 activities |
George DeLuca,
Producer/Director
Cliff Whalen & David Cleaves, Audio |
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Special Thanks To:
The Lowell Historical National Park, Dharma Buns, Caffe Paradiso,
Brew’d
Awakenings, The Old Court, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, UMass Lowell, Middlesex Community College, the
performers, readers and crew. |
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