Ron Whitehead
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010
From: Ron Whitehead
<tmopinsight@yahoo.com>
Subject: friday & saturday Ron shows + new book/cd/dvid news
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Press Notification
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From Ray Rizzo of Motherlodge Dear friends – Motherlodge kicks off this year similar to how
it did last year – humbly, quietly, and poised for the big bang. This year’s
band of artists, writers, musicians, babysitters, cooks, teachers, roadies, actors,
managers, yogis, venues and producers are spinning into alignment for our
Spring Program. There’s much to be excited about – and much work to be done. Beginning this Wednesday at 12:35 PM (EST), motherlodge.com will
be providing regular updates of Spring Motherlodge 2010. You will soon
have plenty of information about Motherlodge’s 3-city-and-counting Live Arts
Exchange, which will run March 20 to April 18. But what we want you to know
at this time is that our Motherlodge Team, our artists, and our partners are
putting shows on together because the idea of artistic convergence in
neighborhoods makes sense to us and because we see the many ways that
contributing to Motherlodge’s movable feast can encourage new dialogues in
the world of live arts. We’re committed to cultivating a program that offers
free and suggested cover events and in the case of firm ticket prices and
fundraising shows, keeping the cost low. Participants in Spring Motherlodge
are supporting these experiments and have agreed to participate for whatever
we can raise in the next 2 months from ticket prices and online
tax-deductible donations. And here’s one way we think we can do this: if
everyone on this e-mail list contributed a minimum of 10 tax-deductible
dollars to us, we would have a fund that would very nearly cover our estimated
production costs, transportation costs, administrative costs, promotional
costs, and supplement money that the artists will make from ticket sales. Your contribution will DIRECTLY benefit our
city-spanning, wildly diverse and quickly growing pool of artists and
partners which includes folks like Adam Frank, Adam Rapp, Adam
Toussaint, Arnett Hollow, Balthrop Alabama, Be Laroe, Bill
Green, Bob Bahr, Bonnie Prince Billy and The Cairo
Gang, Chef Tim Tucker, Claw!, Corporal,
Danica Novgorodoff, Dawn Landes,
Doveman, Erin Harper, The Indicators, Jacob Duncan,
J.P. Lebangood, Lady Rizo, LePetomane, Less the Band, The
Lisps, Looking For Lilith, Louisville
Leopard Percussionists, Lucky Pineapple, L.P.
Funk, The Mack, Michael
Shannon, Molly Rice, Penny Arcade,
Rachel Chavkin and the TEAM, Ronnie Dorsey, Ron
Whitehead w/Special Guests will be performing with Penny Arcade this saturday
night @ The Rud, The Saint Xavier African Drumming Group, The Salvation
Army Culinary Training Program, Taylor Mac, Tyrone
Cotton, Zach Brock, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Cherry Lane
Theater, Soho Playhouse, HERE Arts Center, Barrow Street Theater, and Judson Church. The real bang to the butt is this: even if we
don't raise this money Spring Motherlodge 2010 will still be dropping in on
4th and Oak in Louisville, Summit City in Whitesburg,
and Seventh Avenue South in Manhattan's West Village. Please make a contribution to
Motherlodge online or send contributions by check to
Motherlodge, c/o Raymond Rizzo, 1075 Greene Ave. 2B Brooklyn, NY
11221. Checks should be made payable to Fractured Atlas, with Motherlodge
in the memo line. Motherlodge is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a
non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Motherlodge
may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent
permitted by law. We know that to donate any money at this
time is generous. Thank you for any contribution you can swing. And plan to join us for some shows! Sincerely, Ray and The Motherlodge Team also Ron has
just completed writing recording mixing mastering his 20th book & 30th
cd/dvd (which will be inserted into back of his new book) and will be
presenting some of the new work at these upcoming shows. the new book/cd/dvd
is Ron's best (much of which is work unlike anything he's ever done
before) and may be his last: THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and
on parting, the wilderness poems (Holland Brown Books,
a Published in Heaven Book for The Global Literary Renaissance & The
Storm Generation). upon official release there will be a special
book/cd/dvd release signing including an evening of music and poetry at The
Green Building on East Market in Louisville, soon, 2010. more info to come.
the release will be followed by a world book/cd/dvd performance tour. after
which Ron will probably retire, with bamboo fishing pole, jug of red
wine, & hand made bow & arrow, to a tent on the banks of a
Kentucky river, Green or Kentucky or Ohio. "One
simple way, then, to re-enchant our lives is to divest ourselves somehow of
this 'busy' complex. We might do work that we love, give up the futile task
of proving ourselves to anyone, keep money within perspective, and do
whatever is necessary to enable us to walk away from our work and activities
if our soul requires it."
Thomas Moore, from THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE
"relieved
excited. completed new book & cd/dvd for what may be my last (20th) book
& cd (30th). THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the
wilderness poems. so happy that Gill Scott Holland and Stephanie Brothers,
Holland Brown Books, bringing book with cd/dvd insert out. just listened to
finished cd. whew. wow. soon as dvd completed (this week?) we'll have private
showing/listening party. when book/cd/dvd completed we'll have special
release evening of music and poetry at The Green Builing then world tour then
i'll probably get bamboo pole and make bow and arrow and retire to tent by
river and become ferryman and never heard from again." Ron
Whitehead, zen hillbilly outlaw poet we are
The Storm Generation |
Date: Tue, 30
Mar 2010
From:
Ron Whitehead tmopinsight@yahoo.com
Subject: Tommy Gaffney (new book), Tyrone Cotton, Ron
Whitehead, & more
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Tommy Gaffney 760 SW
Vista, Apt. 32
Kentucky Native Tommy Gaffney returns home to drink real bourbon and
read from his newest collection of poetry and prose, Whiskey Days. Louisville, KY – April 29, 2010 –
Left Coaster and Kentucky native Tommy Gaffney will be reading from
his newest collection of poetry and prose Thursday April 29, 2010 at The
Rudyard Kipling, 422
West Oak Street, between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30. Joining
Gaffney that night will be Ron Whitehead, Tyrone Cotton, Michael Guimond, and
Jonathan Treadway. Admission is free
and open to the public. 21 and over. Gaffney lives in Portland, Oregon, but let no mistakes be made; he is
from Kentucky. And while the topics
in his poetry go down more like Evan Williams than Maker's Mark, there is
serious beauty in the burn of his straightforward delivery. Gaffney is not a poet that fusses over
word sounds, nor does he need to concoct the most heart-wracking metaphors to
get his point across; his poignancy lies in the fearlessness of his
storytelling and his verse's unwavering ability to make you feel the
truth. Whiskey Days is the second book of
poems and stories from Gaffney, a five-year veteran of the Portland writing
community and long-time host of the reading at Tony’s Tavern. Gaffney begins where his first book, Three Beers from Oblivion left off,
bridging the distance between his old roots and new home. The work is lit
with the same bourbon tint and bluegrass drawl as always, though Whiskey
Days shows the growing acumen of a more seasoned poet and storyteller. "Underneath the whiskey there’s
a great poet here. ‘Grass Stains’ and ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ alone are
worth the ride." - Willy Vlautin, author of Motel Life and Northline “[A]
masterpiece. Tommy Gaffney is a poet,
and a storyteller, to be reckoned with.” - Ron Whitehead, Kentucky outlaw
poet Ron Whitehead is _____________________. Tyrone Cotton is
__________________________. Michigan
native Michael Guimond burst fist-first from the womb, ready to conquer. He can often be found wandering the
streets of Portland, Oregon, writing, performing, and partying all the time. Buy
him a shot of bourbon and he'll tell you all
about it. Guimond is the author of Feral Verses: Notes from an Open
Mike. Jonathan Treadway was born
a preacher’s son in Kentucky, but failed at the family business. A poet, painter and musician, Treadway
current resides in Bowling Green, in an attic loft of a former church rectory
that saw both sides of the civil war walk in front of it. He is the author of Dirty Clay on Sunday Shoes and
Blue Life Sketches. ### If you'd like more information about
this event, or to schedule an interview with Tommy Gaffney, please call Tommy
at 503-891-7673 or e-mail Tommy at whiskeybreathpress@yahoo.com "relieved excited. completed new book
& cd/dvd for what may be my last (20th) book & cd (30th). THE STORM
GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems. so happy that Gill
Scott Holland and Stephanie Brothers, Holland Brown Books, bringing book with
cd/dvd insert out. just listened to finished cd. whew. wow. soon as dvd
completed (this week?) we'll have private showing/listening party. when
book/cd/dvd completed we'll have special release evening of music and poetry
at The Green Builing then world tour then i'll probably get bamboo pole and
make bow and arrow and retire to tent by river and become ferryman and never
heard from again." Ron Whitehead, zen hillbilly outlaw poet we are The
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