This Week at Blue Dahlia: Lizzy Greenhood

Wednesday, September 27th the feature will be: Lizzy Greenhood

(a.k.a. DJ Jazzy Jizzy for no other reason than I made it up one night and think it's funny - speaking of funny, I didn't have a performance pic of Lizzy so instead you get this silly candid of Lizzy & I squishin' Jerry - she looks pretty cute - but I'm looking rather maniacal)



Blue Dahlia Open Mic
@ 7:30ish til 10 pm
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY

And Pure Kona's Feature for Thursday, September 28th will be Old Soul, who I have no pics of but I have heard and he's worth checking out.

Pure Kona Open Mic
8 - 10 pm
Daily Perks
369 Gregory Street
Rochester, NY

Ed Downey at Pure Kona

Hello all ... just wanted to let you know there will be no Blue Dahlia this Wednesday, Spetember 20. I have an Open House to go to at my daughter's school.

But Thursday, September 21: Don't Miss Ed Downey at Pure Kona Open Mic!

Look, he's smiling!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

Well, we did it! We pulled it off!

Never did I imagine, when Don suggested we do a Poetry Festival in Canandaigua, that it would get so big. But here we are, after a full day of poetry that segued nicely into a whole night of music and I couldn't be happier with the outcome!

A tremendous thank you to all the poets and musicians who came out to read and all of you who came out to listen or stayed to listen. I have never heard of large events such as this going off without so much as a glitch, but this one did. Not once did I have to resort to a Plan B ... everyone was there, on time, ready to go ... it was beyond my expectations, which makes me all the more grateful.

My one regret was that I didn't get to photograph everyone ... I felt a bit like a jumping bean most of the day flitting back up to the stage every fifteen minutes to announce the next poet. Maybe next year we should have everyone introduce themselves ... it's a thought I had ... what do you think? I think it would it make it flow better.

Scott and Don have heard nothing but good comments from the community & businesses in the area. There's even talk of moving the poetry festival up next year so we are less likely to run into the chilly evening we encountered last Saturday. Of course we don't want to run into steaming hot weather either, so it's a balance we'll have to work out. There's also talk of having a poetry stage at the Art Festival in Canandaigua to give people a preview.

Thanks so much to Don & Scott for all their hard work on the festival and to all the businesses and vendors who supported this event. Thanks to the city of Canandaigua for hosting this event. And thanks again to all the readers & musicians who put their time and energy into making this festival a smashing success!

I truly enjoyed getting to see this veritable smorgasbord of talent and passion. It was wonderful to be able to see and hear those of you I don't see very much, as well as those of you I see quite often. I feel like one of my main goals for the festival was to get poets together who don't always get to hear each other's work and I think that goal was accomplished beautifully.

Here's to next year!

Some Pics of the Poetry Festival

Pat

Sherry

Ayden

Maureen (from a distance)

Norm

More Pics from the Poetry Festival

Justice

Ethic

Wanda

Shawnee & Emily Dancin'

Nick & Brendan

Kitty

Arianna

Bob

BADEA

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

It's finally here! The Canandaigua Poetry Festival!
Tomorrow, Septemeber 9th, beginning at 12 noon and lasting till 9pm ... woohoo! It's going to be absolutely fabulous ... I so hope you can come!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival Schedule:

Poetry

12:00 – 12:30
12:15 - 12:30 Dee Hogan
12:30 – 12:45 Matt Shackelford
12:45 – 1:00 Todd Vail
1:00 – 1:15 Anthony Church
1:15 – 1:30 Merle Heath
1:30 – 1:45 Dwain Wilder
1:45 – 2:00 Sherry
2:00 – 2:15 Ethic
2:15 – 2:30 Justice Peace
2:30 – 2:45 Norm Davis
2:45 – 3:00 David White
3:00 – 3:30 Nick Hogan & Brendan Giusti
3:30 – 3:45 Wanda Schubmehl
3:45 – 4:00 Colleen Powderly
4:00 – 4:15 Maureen Owens
4:15 – 4:30 Kitty Jospe
4:30 – 4:45 Patricia Roth Schwartz
4:45 – 5:00 Arianna Barry
5:00 – 5:15 Kaeri Carroll
5:15 – 5:30 Bob Carroll
5:30 – 5:45 MJ Iuppa
5:45 – 6:00 Marie Starr
6:00 – 6:30 BADEA (Bill & Djed)

Music

6:30 – 7:00 Ed Downey
7:00 – 7:30 CHEA
7:30 – 8:00 Josh Knapp
8:00 – 8:30 Gregory Paul
8:30 – 9:00 Shawnee Boyeee

This week's features: Two of my favorite people!

Wednesday the 30th

at Blue Dahlia Open Mic: Shawnee Boyeee will feature ...

catch him now, before he begins wandering again.

92 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
7:30 - 10 pm



And Thursday August 31, Arianna Barry will become the youngest feature ever at Pure Kona Open Mic!

in her 11 years, she has amassed a great amount of wisdom, a punchy sense of humor, and an impressive stage presence ...


Daily Perks Coffee House at 369 Gregory Street, Rochester, NY
8-10pm

Sherry & Laughing Larry

This week at Blue Dahlia: Sherry :D
Wednesday, August 23 at 7:30(ish) pm

And Thursday at Pure Kona is Laughing Larry Berger!

Features for Pure Kona & Blue Dahlia

This week at Blue Dahlia Open Mic:
Brendan Giusti & Nick Hogan, who will be our half-time duet
at the Canandaigua Poetry Festival on Saturday, September 9th,
will be our feature for this week --> Wednesday, August 16.
7:30 -10 pm
Blue Dahlia Coffe House
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY


And Thursday, August 17th, the Pure Kona Feature
will be me, Marie Starr … 8pm at Daily Perks Coffee House,
on the corner of Gregory & Cayuga Streets in Rochester
for more info, go to … www.dailyperkscoffeehouse.com

Art Show Opening & Open Mic

Art Show Opening: Tuesday, August 8
"The Rochester Landscape" by Plein Air Pastellist, Colette Savage.

Colette tries to search out the beauty in the ordinary scenes of Rochester through her award-winning pastel paintings. All work is done on location and the whole sensory experience of painting outside is translated onto paper. Come and experience the wonderful scenes found here in the Rochester area, as seen through the eyes of life-long Rochesterian and artist, Colette Savage.



Reception with Artist’s Talk from 7 – 8: 30 pm,
followed by an Open Mic: Hosted this week by Shannon
& held every Tuesday from 8:30 – 10 pm.



Where: Flat Iron Café, 561 State Street, Rochester
(corner of Lyell & State): 454 –4830.


Hope to see you there!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

All right! This is really coming along ... we have our full line up for the first annual Canandaigua Poetry Festival, which begins at noon with Acoustic Soul and features the talents of Matt Shackelford, Todd Vail, Anthony Church, Merle Heath, Dwain Wilder, Sherry, Ethic, Justice Peace, David White, Nick Hogan & Brendan Giusti, Wanda Schubmehl, Colleen Powderly, Maureen Owens, Kitty Jospe, Pat Schwartz, Nanette Hiller, Kaeri Carroll, Bob Carroll, MJ Iuppa, Marie Starr, BEDEA, Ed Downey, CHEA, Josh Knapp, Gregory Paul, & Shawnee Boyeee ... so much talent and vitality packed into one day - you don't want to miss this!

Poetry runs from Noon - 6:30, followed by Music from 6:30 - 9pm.
Held at The Commons on Main Street Canandaigua, this will be an outdoor festival with food & craft vendors and words, words, words!

Please feel free to contact me for information: serendipity3.marie@gmail.com.

This Week at Blue Dahlia: Gavin

Gavin will be our feature this week at Blue Dahlia Open Mic

(And as an added extra bonus it is Arianna's Birthday!!
She'll be eleven - which I can hardly believe - and most of you know how she went out of her way to make my birthday fun, fabulous, and slightly embarrassing - so we must do the same for her)

Wednesday, August 9th
Blue Dahlia Coffee House
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua
7:30 - 10 pm

Kitty Jospe: This Week at Blue Dahlia

Kitty Jospé -- reading from her work

Sound in - form


"This title plays on much I try to put into my poetry : sound, form,

How sound informs the shape... How the form "informs" itself from idea,

to word, to sound." (Kitty)




I love this woman’s writing. She has such a way with words and with finding words to work with art and her perceptions about art and music. Truly beautiful! Come check her out!



This Wednesday: August 2nd
7:30 pm at Blue Dahlia Coffee
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY

Visions of Africa

EXHIBIT DETAILS:

VISIONS OF AFRICA
July 29th - August 6th 2006
At the Baobab Cultural Center, 315 Gregory St. Rochester
Gallery Hours: Sat/Sun 10-5pm, Mon-Thur 6-10pm
Tel: (585) 546-4790
www.thebaobab.org


Artist Lecture- "The Spirit of Africa; life in the bush"
When: Friday, July 28th 7-9pm
Where: The Baobab Cultural Center
Info: Come here me talk about my experiences in Africa, including living in the Zambian VIllage of Monze working with deaf children and adventures traveling through the desert country of Namibia. Guitarist Brendan Guisti will be performing as well, mixing his wonderful sounds with poetry I wrote about my journeys.


Opening Reception
When: Saturday, July 29th 2-5pm
Where: The Baobab Cultural Center
Info: View the official opening of the show and listen to the intoxicating sounds of Chea.


Invitational Mixer
When: Saturday, July 29th 8pm
Where: The Baobab Cultural Center
Info: Taste the flavors of Africa with the Baobab's own chef from Cameroon. Entertainment to follow. Tickets are $15/pp or $25 for two.

This is an exhibit featuring photos taken in Zambia and Namibia by Rigel Klingman. There will be an Artist's Lecture on July 28th, accompanied by guitarist Brendan Giusti. The official opening will then take place that Saturday with a performance by Chea. An invitational mixer will be held after the Opening Reception at 8pm. You can contact Rigel at rigelsorion@gmail.com for an invite & rsvp.

Also, of any work sold, half of the proceeds will be contributed back to Deaf Education & Arts for African Families: www.deaaf.org. This is the organization Rigel worked with while in Zambia.

Truly, go check this girl out! She is an absolute goddess and not to be missed! Hope to see you there!

Rick Petrie

This week at Blue Dahlia Open Mic: Rick Petrie



Wednesday, July 19
7:30ish - 10 pm

Blue Dahlia Coffee House
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY

Art Show Opening

Opening:
Wind, Windows and Soul:
Assemblage/Collage by Sue Schickler



Tuesday July 18th
Reception 7 – 8 pm



Followed by the Words of Fire Open Mic 8 – 10 pm

Flatiron Café
561 State Street
Rochester, NY
454 – 4830


Hope to see you there!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

Lots of fabulous poets will be taking part in this festival: BEDEA, Acoustic Soul, MJ Iuppa, Colleen Powderly, Matt Shackelford, Pat Schwartz, Rigel Klingman, David White, Wanda Schubmehl, Maureen Owens, Anthony Church, Kitty Jospe, Merle Heath, Bob Carroll, Kaeri Carroll, Nicholas Hogan & Brendan Giusti ... and more! As well as some local musicians: Ed Downey, Kalu James, maybe Shawnee Boyeee (if he's still around).

I will be adding names as I recieve confirmations. We hope to have about a dozen more poets to add to this list! So, save the date ... Don's working on getting vendors and putting a lot into making this a successful event.

And don't forget to check out the September/October issue of Poets & Writer's Magazine which will have an article on Poetry Marathons including ours!

Urknee & Bjurton: this week at Blue Dahlia

Don't miss the sesquipedalian stylin's of Urknee & Bjurton Russell this Wednesday at the Blue Dahlia Open Mic! You can check them out at: http://www.myspace.com/urkenzeebjurtonian.

Wednesday, June 28 at 7:30ish pm
Blue Dahlia Coffee, 92 South Main Street, Canandaigua

Hope to see you there!

It's me!

Ed Downey at Blue Dahlia

Don't miss:

Ed Downey

Featuring:

Wednesday

June 14th

at the

Blue Dahlia

Open Mic

7:30 - 10 pm

Blue Dahlia Coffee House

92 South Main St.

Canandaigua

Hope to see you there!