Contact: Golda Solomon, 877-529-9528, or gs@goldajazz.com

Bowery Poetry Club: 212-614-0505 mamapalooz@aol.com

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Golda Solomon at MAMAPALOOZA – 2004

Celebrating Moms Who Rock.
The third annual festival of music & more, showcasing wild creative artists who also raise kids. An event for all ages and every mother lover.

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 7 – 9:30 p.m.

$12.00

Golda Solomon, poet, and Professor Mom

Kicking off ‘May is Mother’s Month’, Mamapalooza will be hosting an evening of spoken word, prose, poetry, theater and jazz at the Bowery Poetry Club on May 19th in downtown Manhattan. This evening’s host will be author Jamie Callan. Jamie will offer up a wide array of avant garde talent sure to provoke and inspire.

Mamapalooza 2004, will be the third annual music and arts festival celebrating ‘Mom’s who Rock’. It stars musicians, artists, comics, dancers and poets who also happen to be mothers. It is the first cultural event of its kind.

Golda Solomon the one-of-a-kind “Medicine Woman of Jazz” and host of Po’Jazz joins the many other women of New York (Po’Jazz regular Christina Lewis is also on the program) at The Bowery Poetry Club.

Golda will also be part of a compilation CD that will be released by Mamapalooza. Amongst the women who will be on the CD are: Devah Fontana, BETTY, Liz Queler, MotherLode, Jean Bratman, Housewives on Prozac, Tina Devaron, Pilley.

Golda Solomon is a professor of communications, speech, and theater arts; a poet, performer, producer, and docent; a supporter of women musicians as well as young musicians, poets, and performers.  She was project director of Po’Jazz at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center for four years, and co-founded the brooklyn poetry choir. Golda has pioneered several unique businesses including JazzJaunts, a personalized jazz service, and ICAAN (Interactive Communication and Arts Network), which provides innovative, on-site, organization-specific arts programming to workplaces, schools, and other organizations.  Golda’s collection of poetry, Flatbush Cowgirl, published in 1999 and companion CD’s, First Set and Po’Jazz: Takin’ It To The Hollow, which includes over 20 poets and musicians, are available for purchase by contacting www.jazzjaunts.com.

The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 212.614.0505. Foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker across the street from CBGB’s, F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker

DON’T FORGET: the monthly Po’Jazz series, the one-of-a-kind celebration of Jazz & Poetry at The Cornelia Street Café in its third Thursday evening of the month slot, in the downstairs room, on May 20^th at 6 pm. Doors open at 5:30 for early dinner and refreshment.