Category: Detroit

  • Earthday Evening Celebration With John Sinclair

    You are invited to this memorable event at the Ralston Building (FB Link) on Sat. April 22, 2023 at 7pm featuring John Sinclair with Harmonica Shah and Howard Glazer and Steve Glazer. The $10 to $20 donation supports the Ralston Village Community Association (RVCA) and the Artists. Light refreshments, 313 Brand Detroit-made Tortilla Chips, BYOB, Ice available, water.

    The activities and interests of the RVCA include education, healthy lifestyle, historic preservation, the arts (music, visual, performing arts) community discussion panels, land use planning, and positive economic impact. This event welcomes John Sinclair again to the Ralston, and will help to establish Mr Sinclair as Poet/Artist in Residence in the near future. Your attendance helps to set the stage for this to happen, so thanks for considering attending this event!

    Michael Prent, Earth Community Co-Producer
  • John Sinclair Radio Show 883 – Rawer Than Raw

    John Sinclair Radio Show 883 – Rawer Than Raw

    Hi, due to technical difficulties beyond my control at RFA, I’ve hosted this show at my site, love, steve. (Radio Free Amsterdam)

    “John Sinclair Radio Show 883 – Rawer Than Raw”

    Episode 883 is coming once more from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor where I’m featuring the music and wisdom of the great bluesman Bobby Rush, playing sides from his new album Rawer Than Raw interspersed with segments of his substantial conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents:

    RAWER THAN RAW

    JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 883

    Cass Corridor, Detroit, October 6, 2020 [20621]

    Yusef Lateef: Happyology

    Bobby Rush: Hard Times

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Don’t Start Me To Talking

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Down In Mississippi 

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Sometimes I Wonder

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Smokestack Lightning

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Let Me In Your House

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Honey Bee

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Shake It For Me

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Garbage Man

    Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae

    Bobby Rush: Dust My Broom

    A JOINT PRODUCTION

    Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam

    Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair

    Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

    Special thanks to Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine

    © 2020 The John Sinclair Foundation