West Village Word: Puma Perl & Friends, Lindsey Wilson & The Human Hearts at Cafe Bohemia

West Village Word is a monthly curation by poet and jazz journalist John Pietaro at the legendary Cafe Bohemia NYC. The series features integrated poetry and music conjuring downtown's creative past and exploring the spoken word sounds of today. JazzPoetry, Neo-Beat and Post-Punk verse SPOKEN HERE!

Schedule:

8pm: Opening number by SHADOWS (poet John Pietaro and bassist Laurie Towers)

8:05 pm: PUMA PERL & FRIENDS:
Puma Perl is a poet and writer, with five solo collections in print. The most recent is Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books, 2019.) She is the producer/creator of Puma’s Pandemonium, which brings spoken word together with rock and roll. Her band, Puma Perl and Friends, is a group of musicians who are truly friends and who paint musical pictures behind the words. Joff Wilson, guitarist, Walter Steding, violinist, and Danny Ray, saxophonist, began performing regularly together in 2012 and are the heartbeat of the band. Over the last few years the rhythm section of Joe Sztabnik on bass and Dave Donen on drums added a cohesive backbeat. The band has been known to rehearse once. As Danny Ray once put it, “We speak in tongues.”...

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West Village Word is a monthly curation by poet and jazz journalist John Pietaro at the legendary Cafe Bohemia NYC. The series features integrated poetry and music conjuring downtown's creative past and exploring the spoken word sounds of today. JazzPoetry, Neo-Beat and Post-Punk verse SPOKEN HERE!

Schedule:

8pm: Opening number by SHADOWS (poet John Pietaro and bassist Laurie Towers)

8:05 pm: PUMA PERL & FRIENDS:
Puma Perl is a poet and writer, with five solo collections in print. The most recent is Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books, 2019.) She is the producer/creator of Puma’s Pandemonium, which brings spoken word together with rock and roll. Her band, Puma Perl and Friends, is a group of musicians who are truly friends and who paint musical pictures behind the words. Joff Wilson, guitarist, Walter Steding, violinist, and Danny Ray, saxophonist, began performing regularly together in 2012 and are the heartbeat of the band. Over the last few years the rhythm section of Joe Sztabnik on bass and Dave Donen on drums added a cohesive backbeat. The band has been known to rehearse once. As Danny Ray once put it, “We speak in tongues.”

10pm: opening number by SHADOWS (poet John Pietaro and bassist Laurie Towers)

10:05pm: LINDSEY WILSON & THE HUMAN HEARTS:

Lindsey Wilson & the Human Heart are Singer Songwriter, Lindsey Wilson on vocals & guitar, Reggie Sylvester on drums, Michael Trotman on bass! Lindsey is a performer steeped in story-telling, social justice and the liberation of creativity. The ensemble is honored to bring its original consciously driven music to Cafe Bohemia. “The music is that of conviction. The lyrics are that of consciousness”

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