Thursday 6 April 2017, 7.30pm
8:30PM: Devin Brahja Waldman
9:30PM: CA Conrad
10:30PM: CA Conrad & Devin Brahja Waldman
Devin Brahja Waldman is a New York saxophonist, drummer, synthesizer player and composer. He has performed with Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Daniel Carter and Sam Shalabi. He has accompanied his aunt, the poet Anne Waldman, since the age of ten. He leads a NYC/Montreal-based band, B R A H J A, performs in Heroes Are Gang Leaders (started by poet Thomas Sayers Ellis and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis) and is a member of Artists For A Free World Marching Band, led by Patricia and William Parker. Along with Anne Waldman and his cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman co-directs Fast Speaking Music—a music and poetry label which has released the works of Amiri Baraka, Meredith Monk, CA Conrad, Clark Coolidge, Eileen Myles and many others.
(photo credit: Isaac Rosenthal)
CA Conrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They have been described as the ‘shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry’ and is the author of numerous collections of poetry including Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books, 2024), You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis (Penguin UK, 2023) and most recently Advanced Elvis Course (Peninsula Press, 2024).
