Poetry Is LIVE! with BLAIR AND THE BOYFRIENDS
Saturday Feb 20 10:30PM
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WMNF Broadcast Studios
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Advance on-line ticket sales have ended, as of 4:30pm, Friday ~ They will be $20 at the door & we have # 28 more available...
BLAIR - ACOUSTIC GUITAR/VOCALS
KEN COMSTOCK - UPRIGHT BASS
CHRISTOPHER WINTER - DRUMS
"Blair paints another picture of Detroit... Pretty brilliant." - TIME Magazine / CNN Detroit Blog - Reporter Karyn Dybis
"...raw, uncompromising emotion." - Performing Songwriter Magazine
"Folk music... with pavement and concrete." - The Detroit News
"Blair's is a powerful voice. The voice of Detroit." - Mike Doughty (ATO Records, Soul Coughing)
"No one mines their own life and turns it into poetry and song with quite the power and grace of Blair. He rewrites the rules that govern what can be done and sings out the new ones in a voice that you crave to hear. Over and over again." - Taylor Mali (Four Time National Poetry Slam Champion)
"Blair and The Boyfriends is a musical act that strikes that rare balance between artistry and message. The end result is an emotional experience that is melodic, enriching and wholly authentic." - Jamaal "Versiz" May, (Dear Friend, Award Winning Performer, Author of The God Engine)
BLAIR is an award winning Urban Folk, Afro-Punk, Poet, Singer, Songwriter from Detroit, who has just been signed to the new start-up label, Repeatable Silence Records.
In the words of Metro Times journalist Melissa Giannini, BLAIR focuses his work on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair.
BLAIR is a National Poetry Slam Champion. He's been nominated for 7 Detroit Music Awards, including a 2007 nod for Outstanding Acoustic Artist. He's been named Real Detroit Weekly Readers Poll's Best Solo Artist and The Metro Times Best Urban Folk Poet. In 2007 He won Seattle, WA based BENT Writing Institute Mentor Award.
Blair teaches poetry and music classes in Detroit Public Schools, Hannan House Senior Center, the YMCA and lectures at universities, colleges and high schools across the country.
BLAIR has performed on bills with Stevie Wonder, Oscar winner Michael Moore, Mike Doughty, Bitch and Animal, Justin Bond, members of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Richie Havens, The Butchies, Tribe 8, Wilco, Cat Power and others.
BLAIR was the January 2005 HBO Def Poetry Jam Website Featured Poet. He currently studies privately with a poetry instructor as part of the writer's collective Write Word / Write Now.
BLAIR has toured the United States and Europe extensively and performed in South Africa both solo and as part of Walk & Squawk's The Walking Project of which he is a co-writer and cast member. He's performed at New York's historic CBGBs and The Knitting Factory, The San Francisco Public Library, at Miyagi's on L.A.s famed Sunset Strip, Detroit's Hart Plaza and Magic Stick and with a string section at the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
His new CD, The Line, was released in June 2009 on Repeatable Silence Records.
Tickets are $20, purchase above or at the door, if any remain!!
Advanced sales by phone or web until 2-19-10 at 4pm ~ There are only # 30 seats available...
