JAMS
Saturday 26th Nov.
8:00 - 11:00pm
FREE entry
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Keeping alive the tradition of the Beats, Fay Roberts will be leading a poetry and jazz slam with a three piece rhythm section that will be open to all comers, both poets and musicians, at the Burliegh Arms.
It will be following a similar vibe to the Beats Poets, whether your jazz poetry inspiration comes from Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka or the founding father of rap, Gil Scott-Heron: bring some poetry or your own, your voice, charts, instrument or just come along and watch - should be a really special evening and one not to be missed! She is a well-known figure around the Cambridge arts scene, because as well as curating the Spoken Word stage at Cambridge’s Strawberry Fair again, this year she somehow found herself agreeing to be Artistic Director for the Spoken Word section of PBH’s Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Fay is a classically-trained singer from Cardiff who has been getting on stages since the early 80s. She was finally bitten by the performance poetry bug in Spring 2006 after a favour to a friend turned into a place in the final of a poetry slam. These days she describes herself as “a performance poet and peripatetic percussionist who by day pokes projects and by night projects across a microphone...” She has been involved with the Cambridge chapter of Hammer & Tongue since 2010, organising and hosting it since 2012, frequently performs across the Central and South-East England, and is part of a Cambridge arts collective calling themselves Marmalade Panic (she hasn’t asked why yet). She set up her own poetry label Allographic in 2011, hosting live events and producing poetry anthologies, pamphlets, and books.
