Tribute to Steve Cannon 1935-2019

September 6, 6:30pm 
Great Poets and Musicians Perform Tributes to Steve Cannon
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Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002


Presented by Arts for Art and A Gathering of the Tribes

Purchase Tickets

Advance $15 / Door $15

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September 6 Schedule:
6:30pm Poetry 
Yuko Otomo
Lydia Cortes
Edwin Torres
Steve Dalachinsky

7:30pm What It Is
William Parker - bass / Patricia Nicholson Parker - text
James Brandon Lewis - tenor sax / Devin Brahja Waldman - alto sax                  Melanie Dyer - viola / Val Jeanty - percussion

8:30pm Poetry
Julie Ezelle Patton
Anne Waldman
Tracie Morris w/ Graham Haynes & Elliott Sharp

9:00pm Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra
Marshall Allen - director, alto sax, flute
Cecil Brooks - trumpet               
Tara Middleton - vocals
D. Hotep - guitar
Knoel Scott - vocals, saxes
James Stewart - tenor sax 
Danny Ray Thompson - baritone sax 
Robert Stringer - trombone
Vincent Chancey - french horn 
Elson Nascimento - percussion, surdo 
Tyler Mitchell - bass 
Wayne A. Smith - drums

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On September 6, Arts for Art and A Gathering of the Tribes have brought together a stellar group of musicians and poets to celebrate Steve Cannon. 

​Raised in New Orleans he came to New York to teach and write. In the late 1980s after going blind, he galvanized an artistic community on the Lower East Side. Steve was a writer, a teacher, and mentor to poets and writers of all classes. He was a supporter of artists and a lover of jazz. In the 1990s he founded, with support from his good friend David Hammons, A Gathering of the Tribes.  Steve was a Lower East Side icon as well as a friend and colleague of Arts for Art. Cannon appeared at the Vision Festival starting with its inception in 1996 and also helped curate other poets to perform.

The Tributes to Steve Cannon will continue during our InGardens series in September, with the exception of September 29 which will be a Birthday Tribute to Roy Campbell Jr.

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