I’ll be playing a couple songs in Pasadena on Tuesday. I’m looking forward to being back with Monica Lee Copeland at her Indelible Ink series. It’s a very nice and eclectic evening focusing on words, mostly in poetry, but including other settings. I haven’t been to the new location, but Monica always finds lovely places for her artists to gather!
Tuesday, May 21, 7-9pm
Indelible Ink @ Café Bizou
91 N Raymond Ave
Pasadena, CA
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An intimate evening of words & musicSaturday, May 18, 2013, 7pm
Live Arts Los Angeles
4210 Panamint Street
(on the corner of Eagle Rock Blvd.)
Los Angeles, CA 90065
323-739-0804
Advance Tickets Via Brown Paper Tickets
$15 General / $12 Students & Seniors
jasonluckettlala.brownpapertickets.com
$20 at the door
Jason Luckett is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and essayist based in Los Angeles. Supporting six albums and three independently released EPs, Jason regularly tours the United States and Europe. He’s performed at South by Southwest in Austin, TX and Glastonbury Festival (UK), and has shared the stage or recorded with Tracy Chapman, the Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Jeff Buckley, jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell and members of Bauhaus and Red Hot Chili Peppers. His latest disc, The Second Half of the Bet (Hope Again), moves organically through folk, jazz, rock and world influences, while retaining the strong personality of what Jason calls “groovy acoustic soul.” His essays and poetry have been published in the anthologies The Black Body and Voices from Leimert Park.
“He uses his guitar as an accompaniment to his stellar, expressive voice as well as his intriguing love songs and mesmerizing essays…. He’s a little Sam Cooke, a little Lenny Kravitz, and a little Neil Young.” – Music Connection
“Luckett is a charismatic, romantic poet who wields lyrical dexterity in his heartbreaking yet inspirational narratives.” – HITS Magazine
I’ll have some friends along and will do three sets. It’s a sweet relaxed environment with great food and wine. All ages are welcome and there’s only a $10 minimum for food or drink required … and you can tip the musicians!
It’s right across from the Americana in Glendale, off Brand. 117 Harvard St.
Please make a reservation to insure seating. (818) 507-7011. Show starts at 8:30
I’ll have some friends along and will do three sets. It’s a sweet relaxed environment with great food and wine. All ages are welcome and there’s only a $10 minimum for food or drink required … and you can tip the musicians!
It’s right across from the Americana in Glendale, off Brand. 117 Harvard St.
Please make a reservation to insure seating. (818) 507-7011. Show starts at 8:30
Looking forward to this return! Hope you’ll make it.
I’ll have some friends along and will do three sets. It’s a sweet relaxed environment with great food and wine. All ages are welcome and there’s only a $10 minimum for food or drink required … and you can tip the musicians!
It’s right across from the Americana in Glendale, off Brand. 117 Harvard St.
Please make a reservation to insure seating. (818) 507-7011. Show starts at 8:30
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…at the last Left Coast Wine Bar show in January. (Thanks Charles Covington!)
Looking forward to sharing a half a dozen songs over two sets with top notch singer-songwriters in South Pasadena. Please share and RSVP on Facebook
Hope you’ll join the friends and welcome my mother to California for her annual visit. Family shows are sometimes the best. She harmonizes silently with a smile, but makes the music richer. Please RSVP and share on Facebook.
THE PICTURE:
My family was in Atlanta, GA for the holidays and on Sunday before Christmas we went to church around the corner from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s childhood home. We were a little early so my sister and I walked over to take a look. I’d been there the year before with my girlfriend and was moved to tears confronting the humanity and hope in the mischievous boy who’d become one of the greatest leaders in history. This time, too, I welled up imagining that little hand turning the doorknob, the running on the porch and how those adult hands reached out to so many good people, those adult feet marched through streets nonviolently asserting that all should be treated as equals. So much accomplished and such hope left behind even after his violent death.
As we remember the children taken at Newtown, as we watch a biracial son of a Kenyan African and a Kansan of English descent take the oath of office at the top of the mall where Dr. King said America had defaulted on it’s promissory note guaranteeing all men the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it’s easy to see how relevant King’s life and work is to us as a united people. It’s the beginning of the year and I’m feeling hopeful so I’ll leave you with an image that will hopefully transcend politics. It’s the image of a little boy running up the stairs to a door, turning the knob to reach the TV in time to watch the president take his oath, his parents beaming with the knowledge that it wasn’t a fluke, that a skinny kid with a funny name who didn’t fit the image of the national leaders from his youth could reach the pinnacle of success in this country. Slowly, but surely, despite ugly counter-imagery, more hope is being deposited in that bank. As the bank becomes abundant in that hope, it will rest at the edge of that moral arc of the universe and bend it towards the justice of which King spoke, a justice where life and liberty are cherished and the pursuit of happiness, not power, returns to the center of the American Dream.
