Events

Since their arrival on the music scene in 1993 in a legendary residency at Los Angeles’ Brown Derby nightclub, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s irresistible live show and aggressive, musically perceptive approach has proven them over time to be the singular standout among the numerous bands that launched the Nineties swing revival.

Dancer/choreographer Brooke Broussard and video artist Benton-C Bainbridge will present a lecture demonstration with a live dancing element.

Michael Waters’ ten books of poetry include Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001—finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize)—these titles from BOA Editions—Bountiful (1992); The Burden Lifters (1989); and Anniversary of the Air (1985)—these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. In 2011, Shoestring Press (UK) published Selected Poems.

The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959;recaptures the sound, and the historical and cultural context of this critical period of American history through the lens of jazz music and its most iconic innovator, Miles Davis