Join us for a special opening celebration for the opening of LENI: Looking Through the Lens, showcasing the work of a photographer who captured Detroit’s cultural revolution from the inside.
The evening will be hosted by WDET’s Ann Delisi who will lead an engaging conversation with the artist, exploring Sinclair’s life, artistic vision, and enduring impact on Detroit’s music and cultural landscape. There will also be a musical guest.
Each ticket includes one complimentary drink.
Guests will also receive a copy of Sinclair’s 2016 Kresge Eminent Artist’s Monograph, sponsored by the Kresge Foundation, as a parting gift.
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!
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
DEEP SCRATCH 