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Press Release: 01/18/07 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/OPPORTUNITY FOR COVERAGE TO: All News Directors Press Contacts: February 3, 2007  |
Anniversary Gala featuring the world premiere performance of the New Syracuse Quintet The Community Folk Art Center’s 35th anniversary Gala Celebration will take place on Saturday, February 3 from 7:00 to 11:00 PM at 805 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, New York. The Gala will feature a spoken word performance by Cedric Bolton and the world premiere performance of the New Syracuse Quintet, with Bill Cole, Billy Bang, Harrison Bankhead, Atticus Cole and Warren Smith. Patrons will view Pride & Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer, dine on hors d’oeuvres and enjoy and eclectic mix of jazz and spoken word. A cash bar will be available. Gala tickets are $75.00 and are available at the Center Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 – 4:00 PM. You can also mail a check or money order to our location, and your ticket(s) will be held for you at the door. Proceeds from the gala will benefit educational programming at the Center. For more information call (315) 442-2230. Click Here to download RSVP for Gala. The New Syracuse Quintet features Billy Bang, violin, Bill Cole on Asian double reed horns, Harrison Bankhead, double bass, Warren Smith and Atticus Cole, percussion. This is the first time all five musicians have the opportunity to play together. These musicians are exceptionally experienced players and the Syracuse community will get the opportunity to see the Quintet in its first performance. The pieces that the Quintet will be performing were composed by Cole and Bang. It will be a most exciting evening of music. Cedric Bolton is a published poet with a book of poems and a CD both entitled, The State of the Ghetto Address. Bolton, the poet who's known as Blackman Preach unleashes power packed messages that grab listeners by the collar and proclaim, "LISTEN TO ME." C.T. Bolton (Blackman Preach) is a visionary who has produced and arranged his first album and has been compared to The Last Poets, Haki Madhubuti, Gil Scott-Heron, and Amiri Baraka. The State of the Ghetto Address is a spoken word album that fuses Hip-Hop sensibilities with the Black Arts/ Black Power Movement legacies. Cedric values and understands the importance of active community involvement through the arts and created the community organization, Poetic Black Fusion, as a way of connecting published and unpublished poets to literary resources. His works have been published in the Minnesota Spokesman Recorder and the Minnesota Saint Cloud Times. Bolton is currently producing his second CD Bumpy Times, which will be released in February 2007. The Community Folk Art Center, Inc. is a vibrant cultural and artistic hub committed to the promotion and development of artists of the African Diaspora. The mission of the Center is to exalt cultural and artistic pluralism by collecting, exhibiting, teaching and interpreting the visual and expressive arts. Public programming includes exhibitions, film screenings, gallery talks, workshops and courses in the studio and performing arts. A proud unit of the African American Studies Department at Syracuse University, CFAC is a beacon of artistry, creativity and cultural expression engaging the Syracuse community, the region and the world. |
The Community Folk Art Center is a program of the African American Studies Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University and |
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