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JANUARY 14th, 2012 - Pardon Our Analysis: Gathering for Gil Scott-Heron

IT WAS A MAGICAL NIGHT! MUSIC, POETRY AND MEMORIES OF GIL SCOTT HERON @ SYMPHONY HALL, WITH VERNON REID, SANDRA ST. VICTOR, MARTHA REDBONE, CARL H. RUX, FELIPE FELICIANO, ADUWOL AND MANY OTHER BRC SUPPORTERS.

                

11. 16 to 21 - COPENHAGEN 

11. 2 to 7 - KAZAKHSTAN - ALMATY

I’ll perform, ‘White Rabbit’, ‘Women Who Fly’ from my Skindiver CD & ‘Let’s Give Love A Try’ from my new CD ‘Mutatis Mutandis’ both nights.

10.16 - RIDGEFIELD, CT. W/JEFFERSON STARSHIP 

  Jefferson Starship

10.15 - BB KINGS W/JEFFERSON STARSHIP: A PAUL KANTER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

PAST EVENTS:

9.27/28 

 ‘MOSAIC’ *CHECK THIS PAGE FOR A SEPTEMBER SPECIAL PERFORMANCE in NEW YORK! TO BE ANNOUNCED

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-mosaic-project/id449060635

 9.20 Celebrated the release of Terri Lyne Carrington’s ‘Mosaic’ CD project @ Berklee’s Cafe 939 in Boston!

9.17 Funknology!  

Nona Hendryx & Band @ Harlem Stage ‘The Gatehouse’ Saturday, September 17th (Doors at 7:00) Show 7:30 

http://harlemstage.org/calendar/details/133-wedapeoples-cabaret-special-edition

A WeDaPeoples Cabaret Curated by Carl Hancock Rux

FEATURED ARTISTS: Nona Hendryx, Reno & Nelson George

http://harlemstage.org/visit

Ronny Drayton - guitar
Warren Mc Rae - bass
Trevor Gale - drums
Etienne Standwick - keyboards
Keith Fluitt - backing vocals
Kiki Hawkins - backing vocals

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Felicia Collins (Letterman Band)

Shea Rose (Transformation cover ‘Sister’s On The Rise’ w/Nona Henryx)

 PROGRAM:

Join us as Nona Hendryx, Reno and Nelson George examine the nature of identity pushed to the margins. They’ll question the world out loud with a profound sense of love and friendship, call for recognition, hold the world accountable for its actions, and celebrate the regenerative spirit of humanity.

In the spirit of two fisted singer songwriters such as Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Betty Davis, Odetta, Nikki Giovanni, and others, Carl Hancock Rux presents a rare performance by legendary singer/songwriter, Nona Hendryx. With a career spanning six decades of sound & style evolution paralleling the changing times, from bluebelle doo-wop to brill building revolutionary rock poetics to space age new wave goddess, Hendryx morphs into yet another incarnation.

Writer/filmmaker Nelson George pays tribute to poet Gil Scott-Heron and introduces a short film by Rux focusing on the impact of Scott-Heron’s radical political vision and his transformative contribution to activism, connecting social movements rooted deeply in civil rights struggles from integration to the exploitation of mine workers, anti-nuclear war and apartheid protests as well as Scott-Heron’s own political disillusionment and return to freedom struggles, all while impacting poets, musicians and the community at large, decrying a true America for real Americans.

Brutally honest comedian, political monologist Citizen Reno tackles America with an incendiary wit and a machine-gun delivery in a rant that expands from the neighborhood to the nation, reflecting on the ruins of 9/11, and the Ground-Zero guerrilla puzzle of voodoo patriotism, with scalding assessments of everyone from George W. Bush to Larry King to Donald Trump and the Obama/Osama drama.

9.9.2011 - Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass 

They’re baaaaack!  To school that is.  I will be giving the keynote speech and performing in my ‘Audio Tutu’ persona; ‘Untethered’ for Berklee’s ‘Opening Day’ Presentation.

http://www.berklee.edu/about/

NONA @ British Library - ‘OUT OF THIS WORLD’ Event - June 18 w/Da Funkay Pres. George Clinton & Space Child - Jannelle Monae

Betta check yo blast off time & make sure you bring your tin foil helmet, oh and bring a lunch, we’ll be gone for awhile! ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee as Sly Stone would say!

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event121922.html

Funkay President George Clinton for British Library ‘Out Of This World’ event

NONA ON: Captain Beefheart Tribute show - June 4th

Come out!  The music will be Dangerous, Wild and Bluesy!  I’ll be on ‘Upon The My Oh MY’ and others!  I remember seeing/hearing Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa & Tangerine Dream in NY in the same year, so now you know part of why my music is like is is!

NONA @ MELTDOWN FESTIVAL W/RAY DAVIS & MANY OTHERS!   LONDON ENGLAND, JUNE 11, 2011

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 

http://meltdown.southbankcentre.co.uk/

RAY DAVIS BAND @ ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL’S MELTDOWN FESTIVAL

http://eventful.com/newyorkcity/events/best-batch-yet-tribute-captain-beefheart-/E0-001-039346652-

Captain Beefheart Tribute flyer

News & New News!

Nona Fall & Winter Dates:

9.13 - Washington D.C, Arena Stage - Private Event

9. 21, 22, 23, 24 - ‘Skindiver’ Mini workshop, vocal clinic @ Berklee 

9. 25 - Beantown jazz fest. Performing with Ronny Drayton, Terri Lyne Carrington, John Batiste and Berklee student musicians.  http://www.beantownjazz.org/schedule.html

*SkinDiver coming to Washington D.C  for Arena Stage.  Arena Stage is helping to develop a new musical, written by Nona Hendryx (Blue, Labelle) and Charles Randolph-Wright (Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, Blue, Porgy and Bess & Through the Night). Fusing explosive rock music with science fiction and suspense, Skindiver explores a world where technology reins supreme and leads humans and machines to manipulation, masquerade and murder. When Makeeda, the acclaimed “Queen Of The Web” an internet ‘Oprah,’ is imprisoned with accusations of killing her co workers with a computer code, psychologist Marta must travel down the rabbit hole to learn the true story about the woman behind the infamous web persona. What she discovers is a terrifying realization into her own world as she fights to bring Makeeda to justice.  Stay tuned for the Arrival and Opening of Skindiver in the future.  For questions about this project, e-mail, Nona Hendryx at nonahendryx.com or nonahendryx@yahoo.com or Amrita Mangus at amangus@arenastage.org.  

CORRECTION! Skindiver is in workshop mode for now and not ready for my discerning music fans!  When we’re ready my fans will get an early heads up!  Stay tuned!