Prometheus 6   

daughters of yam

These is my homies, and I got no shame in promoting them relentlessly.

devorah major and Opal Adisa Palmer perform individually and as daughters of yam; intelligent, spirited and spiritual and mad talent as poets and performance artists. I wrote of them before but I'm not linking back to that post because they updated their site.

You need to check them. They got Quicktime examples of their stuff, so you don't have to guess or wonder if I'm just gassing them up. I'm not, neither the poetry nor the performances-I don't do that. They my girls and I'd link to them anyway, but I wouldn't say they were that good if they weren't.

Anybody on the left coast ('cause that's where they're at), you get early notice: come Saturday, August 30, they'll be performing at Berkeley Community Theater commemorating Black August. Proceeds to benefit Haiti. Other featured artists include Amandla Poets, Avotcja, Kreative Dwellah, Martin Luther, E. W. Wainwright & the African Roots of Jazz, Company of Prophets, Prophets of Rage, Chrystos, Kumasi, Free Jack Ray love, and (lil)Kumasi, Boots & the Coup.

Opal will be at the Hotel Cosmo on April 23, 2003 7-9 pm as part of the Visual Voice show presented by ArtworksSF. I don't know who else is on the bill.

devorah and some other people get inducted into the SFSU Alumni Hall of Fame on Friday May 23. The ceremony is at the Seven Hills Conference Center, SFSU at 5:30 p.m. and performs Sunday, June 8th, 1:00 - 4:00pm at City Lights!, 261 Columbus Avenue, North Beach with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nancy J. Peters, Elaine Katzenberger, Andrei Codrescu, Kevin Starr, Dave Eggers, and Emcee James Kass, Director of Youth Speaks.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/12/2003 12:25:55 AM |