Sekou Sundiata in Brooklyn

Sekou Sundiata will be performing with his band on June 14th for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival at the Bandshell in Prospect Park. The band includes:

Marc Cary on keyboards and piano
Damon DueWhite on drums
Jeff Haynes on percussion
Calvin Jones on bass
Bill Toles on guitar
Gina Breedlove on vocal

Celebrate Brooklyn: SEKOU SUNDIATA
DATE: 6/14/03
TIME: 7:30 pm
ADMISSION: Free Event
DETAILS: SEKOU SUNDIATA/ BLACKALICIOUS
Blackalicious, one of the most furiously articulate, soulful, and eclectic rap duos on the planet, brings its progressive West Coast flavor to the Big Apple.

FOR MORE INFO: 718 855-7882 ext 33
http://www.bcat.tv/celebrate/schedule.asp

Here's what some artists and writers have said about Sundiata:

...Sundiata is serious as light overhead in darkness...
*Amiri Baraka

Sekou Sundiata taught me everything I know about poetry
* Ani DiFranco

... the spectacular poet Sekou Sundiata lifts and carries you a visionary way away on the wings of his utterly distinctive, new and furthering-the-tradition gifts of beautiful poems landing on holy ground.
* June Jordan

Sekou is a griot, a mentor, an icon...
* Vernon Reid

...Sundiata is to modern poetry what Marvin Gaye was to modern soul... If Homer were a black man born in the project, he would be this... poet
* Greg Tate, The Village Voice

Sundiata has been exploring the crossroads of spoken words and song for 20 years... he is steeped in African American music. On the page, Sundiata can surprise with the fierce purity. His poem "Mandela in Harlem" has lines that resonate with the classical grace of Horace.
* Mona Marlarsky, The Nation

His music comes from so many place it is impossible to name them all. But I will wager that if we could trace their common origin, we'd arrive at the head waters of the soul...
* Bill Moyers

posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/1/2003 01:30:37 AM |