Join us on February 16th for our second annual Valentine's event, this year in collaboration with PoemTown Randolph, featuring music and poetry by Partridge Boswell and Nat Williams of Los Lorcas as well as our audience! Oum Kamar will start the show off with a 30 minute set. Then Partridge and Nat will take the stage and entertain with peotry and music, as well as invite you up to share your favorite love poems. Please sign up for the open mic component when purchasing your ticket.
You will receive a complementary cupcake from Randolph's own Windy Lane Bakehouse at the box office.
Los Lorcas:
Troubadouring widely in the US and abroad (Ireland, Canada and Slovenia), Los Lorcas have performed everywhere from farmhouse kitchens to pubs, coffeehouses, schools, theaters and 1,000+ book festival crowds [e.g. Poetry Center San Jose, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Burlington Book Festival, Tucson Book Festival, Bookstock Literary Festival (w/ Robert Pinsky's PoemJazz), Chandler Music Hall, Fingal Poetry Festival (Ireland), Vermont College of Fine Arts, KGB Reading Series, Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poetry Café and Caffe Lena], attesting to the broad appeal of their lyrical tapestries and innovative vision of how poetry and music are two sides of the same spinning coin and together can attain a mesmerizing symbiosis. "Los Lorcas in unity is a marvel that would silence any creative individual to awe, inspiring the quietest observer to reach for each word as if they were Federico Lorca himself, meditating on song and poetry mid-stage, arms outstretched."—Bianca Viñas
Partridge Boswell:
Author of the Grolier Poetry Prize-winning collection Some Far Country, Partridge Boswell is co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival and teaches at Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters in Montreal. He lives with his family in Vermont and troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas, whose debut release Last Night in America is available on Thunder Ridge Records. His Saguaro Prize-winning chapbook Not Yet a Jedi is also now a thing.
Oum Kamar:
Jennifer Grout shot to fame in the Arab world in 2013 when she was a finalist on Arabs Got Talent television contest in the 2013 competition. She grew up locally and attended the Longly School of Music, and recently has returned to the area and is a singer songwriter creating focusing on the creation of her own music under the name Oum Kamar.
Advance: $17 (+fees) // Day of show: $20 (+fees)
Tickets: https://sevendaystickets.com/events/147321
Tickets include a complementary cupcake from Windy Lane Bakehouse
Doors: 7:00 // Show: 7:30
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