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Kamau Daaood, Live at Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles

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Kamau Daaood
Legendary Los Angeles poet Kamau Daaood will be performing live at Morono Kiang Gallery on Saturday October 8, 2011 at 7:00 pm sharp! Mr. Daaood will be accompanied by Bassist Mr. Trevor Ware

Kamau Daaood's performance is part of Listen With Your Eyes, A Celebration of Jazz in L.A. Special thanks to Alden Kimbrough for his help and support.

Admission to this event is FREE
RSVP REQUIRED: [email protected]

218 West 3rd Street, Bradbury Building
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213.628.8208

About Kamau Daaood

Poet and community arts activist Kamau Daaood is the author of The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daaood, City lights Publishers, a 2005 Southern California Book Award Finalist and winner of the 2006 National Black Writer's Book Award for Poetry.

He founded The World Stage Performance Gallery in Los Angeles, a non-profit arts organization along with Master Drummer Billy Higgins in 1989. He served as its Artistic Director for sixteen years. Kamau's career as a poet began as a young member of the Watts Writers Workshop and the Pan African Peoples Arkestra under the direction of pianist, Horace Tapscott in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He spent over a dozen years as an instructor and curator for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department at the Watts Towers Arts Center and William Grant Stills Arts Center in the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1980's he taught African-American Music class at California University at Northridge and Otis College of Art and Design, as well as teaching in the Poetry in the Schools program in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

In 1997 Kamau recorded the critically acclaimed CD Leimert Park, M.A.M.A. Records, winner of the Josephine Miles Pen Oakland Award. He has also performed on numerous CDs as a guest artist.

Amid Daaood's numerous honors and awards he has received the Visionary Mid Level Career Grant, 2007 from Asian Improv Arts thru Ford Foundation, Association of Jazz Journalist Award for a Lifetime of Service, 2006; the Charles Mingus Award, presented by Watts Towers Community Action Council Cultural Affairs Department and Community Redevelopment Agency, 2005; a California Artist Fellowship, 2002; a Durfee Artist Fellowship, 2000; a Cave Canem Fellowship, 2000; the L.A. Artcore 10th Annual Award for Lifetime Contribution, 1998; and the Charles R. Drew University Jazz at Drew Lifetime Achievement Award in1997.

Kamau has been the subject and featured poet in several award-winning documentaries, including Life is a Saxophone produced by S. Pearl Sharp, 1984; Leimert Park: The Story of a Village in South Central L.A. by Jeannette Lindsay, 2005; and the PBS documentary Race is the Place, Paradigm Productions, 2005.

Kamau has performed his work at countless venues that include the Dunya and North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland; Earshot Jazz and Bumbershoot Festivals in Seattle; the Steppenwolf Theater and Guild Complex in Chicago; the Getty and MOCA Museums in Los Angeles; the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta; and the Schomburg Center in Harlem.

Kamau Daaood has spent over forty years performing, curating, teaching, producing, coordinating, organizing and creating art in schools, churches, prisons, storefronts, arts venues, libraries, festivals, conferences, radio, television, museums, and galleries locally, nationally, and internationally. He is a native of Los Angeles.

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