Saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh accompanies renowned poets Tongo Eisen-Martin, Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and Steve Dickison, director of the poetry center at San Francisco State University, as they read in a house concert in the North Berkeley hills. This concert & reading brings together people--2 poets and 1 musician--whose artistry breaks down the boundaries between music and language. Tongo Essen-Martin is an extraordinary propulsive poet who is a captivating reader. Steve Dickison's poetry is never far from music. And Hafez Modirzadeh has developed a unique improvisatory language drawing upon the cross-cultural traditions of jazz with traditional Iranian, Arab and Turkish music.
Cost: $20