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The Spirit of Detroit: An Evening of Poetry & Live Music

  • The Alluvion 414 East Eighth Street Traverse City, MI, 49686 United States (map)

Doors at 7pm - Show at 7:30 - Advance tickets $25

Featuring: Live Poetry by Joel Fluent Greene. Live music by Detroit's own, Evening Star Trio, and a special opening performance by Poet, Peace Bell. The Alluvion is so excited to host yet another creative, art-filled night to remember.

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Watch an incredible performance from Joel Fluent Greene + Evening Star:

About the artists:

Joel Fluent Greene is a 2022 Kresge Arts in Detroit/Gilda Award winning Poet,  Detroiter, Author and Event Curator. A Spirit Of Detroit Award winner, Joel was the long running host of Detroit’s iconic Cafe Mahogany poetry nights and has shared the stage with acts as diverse as The Roots, Pharrell Williams, Ledisi, Big Sean, Saul Williams, and The Detroit Red Wings. He has also acted as Master of Ceremony at events for Fiat Chrysler Corporation, United Way, 100 Black Men of America, Inside-Out Detroit, Partnership for a Drug Free Detroit, United Way, and Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. As former director of Music Hall Center’s Words and Rhythms of the D outreach program, he has held workshops and performances in over 60 schools in the Metro Detroit area. Author of five collections of poetry, Joel is currently creative writing instructor at Mariner’s Inn, a shelter and treatment center located in Detroit. 

Peace Bell has been writing poetry since the age of 10, evolving to conscious rap,slam poetry and music. She accepted a challenge and stepped out to participate in her first poetry slam in 2008 and won 1st place. Shortly after, entered into the “Detroit Bring It" talent competition, collecting another win in the category of Spoken Word, Rap and Comedy. This competitive momentum prompted PEACE to take her writing and performance to the national stage and writing for established artists. PEACE is a two-time Recording Artist, two-time Grand Slam Champion,Rust Belt team finalist and National Poetry Slam Inc. group finalist, who continues to move crowds with her energetic wordplay. Her current projects include writing in preparation for publishing her book entitled "If I Were a Writer," facilitating resident workshops and touring throughout the country.

Evening Star is a group of long time peers and friends from the Detroit Music Community. The group merges the roots traditions of jazz with the modern sounds of neo-soul, hip-hop, and R&B. Group Leader Tariq Gardner channels rhythms from the vast African Diaspora including Gospel, Rhumba, Samba, Swing, and many many more to make the bands textures go from smooth to rough to velvety. This group has played many venues within the state as well as out of state including Jazzin’ at the Vanity, Third Place Music Festival, Cliff Bells, Blue Llama Jazz Club, and Detroit Jazz Festival. The band has an afro-futuristic aesthetic with the mission that simply makes music the forefront of positive outlets with original compositions as well as arrangements on popular songs from the Black American Canon.

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