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The Beatnik Café: Musical Revue of the Jazz Beat Generation at
Courtesy of Namaya - Jazz Poet | Posted on May 30, 2010
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Sun, June 20, 2010
8:30PM
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The Beatnik Café: Musical Revue of the Jazz Beat Generation
June 20th at 8:30 Richmond Shepard Theatre
309 E 26th St. (@ 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10010 (Last show sold out!)
http://www.beatnikcafemusical.com
The Beatnik Café by Namaya live from New York! A musical revue of the Jazz Beat Generation an off Broadway revue has played to a sold out audience in NYC with terrific reviews. The Beatnik Cafe is the scene of cool jazz music, Jack Kerouac, Lord Buckley and the culture of the 40s to the 60s that bred the baby boomers.
Beatnik Café stars living legends of the Beat Generation and an outstanding band. Lillie Bryant Howard jazz & blues singer of Swan Records fame with her hits in the l950’s; Richmond Shepard appearing as Lord Buckley who performed with Lord Buckley in the l950's, will perform the Nazz. The all star jazz ensemble led by Chris Sullivan on bass, http://www.myspace.com/christopherdeansullivan), Andrew Bemkey on piano (http://andrewbemkey.com/), Joe Rigby on saxophone Maggie Kus and Taeko Fukao are the other featured jazz vocalists. Jake Lewis portrays Jack Kerouac. Namaya, the playwright, is the Beat Poet who guides the audience through the culture and stories of the beat era. ...