BOWERY BEATS

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6:30 PM Open Doors – Room Music

7 PM Marcos de la Fuente intro “The Beats now”

7:10 PM The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”… but it will be felt.

Saiban & Mr B from France invite audiences into a vibrant, immersive tribute to the legendary poet, musician, and revolutionary voice Gil Scott-Heron — the godfather of rap, the bluesologist of truth, the prophet of spoken word.

This is not a cover show. This is a resurrection of spirit.

7:40 PM Peg live band. 

Peg is an Anarcho-Impressionist music collective with two members: Rachel Swaner and Sparrow X. 

Sparrow is a longtime poet/activist of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He has published several chapbooks of poetry in collaboration with the St. Mark's Poetry Project and other poetry organizations, and he has served as the editor for the literary journal Big Fish. He gained notoriety in 1995 by picketing The New Yorker, holding a sign that read, "My poetry is as bad as yours." Since then, he has been published in that magazine as well as The Quarterly and The New York Times. In 1996, he ran for president and published the book Republican Like Me: A Diary of My Presidential Campaign about his experiences. In addition to his work as a poet, Sparrow is a member of the Unbearables (along with Ron Kolm, Richard Kostelanetz, and Rob Witz), and the founder of the East Village Militia and the One Size Fits All Movement. He is also a member of the musical group Foamola.

8 PM Foamola live band. 

Foamola is one of the longest running "aspirin rock" groups. They have appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Irving Plaza, Siné and CBGB's Gallery. Allen Ginsberg said of one of their performances: "That was cute!"

8:30 PM Truffles live band. 

Truffles is a multi-generational music collective in the spirit of the pre-digital 20th century, loosely arranged from musicians, poets, visual artists and professors aimlessly exploring the great questions of our time—such as whether Luddites can wear eyeglasses pancakes are like basset hounds—as they search for the elusive Mother Mary Synagogue in Cleveland that will let them in.