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A night with ruth weiss at Musicians Union Hall
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on November 2, 2018
Where
Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St.
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 575-0777
When
Sun, November 18, 2018
7:30 pm
Save the date
About
Hal Davis - log, Doug O'Connor - double bass, Rent Romus - saxophones/flutes, Doug Lynner - Mystery Serge Synth
Born in Germany in 1928 and escaping fascist occupation from Austria in 1939, founder of jazz beat poetry, ruth weiss began experimenting with jazz and poetry in Chicago in 1948. Later she lead the series at The Cellar in San Francisco in 1956 that would propel her contemporaries Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and others to world wide recognition. In 1996 writer Barbara Knight helped to propel ruth onto the world stage with her book "Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution"...