NINA MOFFITT QUINTET Play Tonight At Cornelia Street Cafe

Tonight At Cornelia Street Cafe, Wed Jul 7th 9:00PM NINA MOFFITT QUINTET 

(Nina Moffitt, vocals; Kyle Wilson, tenor saxophone; Rafiq Bhatia, guitar, loops; Aidan Carroll, bass; Kassa Overall, drums)

Vocalist NINA MOFFITT uses an instrumental approach to interpret music from a distinctive, genre-bending perspective. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Nina learned to integrate diverse musical influences at an early age through collaborations with her father, pianist Peter Moffitt, and through studying the music of masters such as Sarah Vaughan, Joni Mitchell, and Wayne Shorter. These influences led Nina to develop herself as both a storyteller and an instrumentalist alike, bridging the gap between lyrical delivery and collective improvisation. Nina recently received her B.A. with honors in cultural anthropology at Oberlin College, where she studied at the world-renowned Oberlin Conservatory with mezzo soprano Lorraine Manz and jazz professors Wendell Logan, Marcus Belgrave, Robert Ferazza, Peter Dominguez and Paul Samuels. This past January of 2010, Nina released her new EP Where I Have Been (now available on iTunes), a collection of her arrangements by composers ranging from Ravi Coltrane to Joanna Newsom. Visit Nina on the web at www.myspace.com/ninamoffitt, become a fan on Facebook, or follow her on Twitter.
http://www.myspace.com/ninamoffitt

Spoken Word

Wed Jul 7th 6:00PM
FREE RANGE READINGS
(A.B. MEYER; SUZANNE GUILLETTE; TEDDY WAYNE)

Founder Mira Ptacin hosts Freerange Nonfiction, a monthly nonfiction reading series that brings together up-and-coming and established writers to share their work with the rest of the world. Freerange practices the method of literary husbandry where the authors are permitted to write, read, and roam freely instead of being constrained by traditional categories or labels of their genre. This principle is to allow the writers as much freedom as possible, to live out their instinctual behaviors in a reasonably natural way, regardless of whether or not they are eventually killed for meat.
Readings by up-and-coming writers DAN LOPEZ and Nicole Miller.

Featured authors include:

A.B. MEYER, the pseudonym of the author of two books, one fiction and one nonfiction, which were published under another name. Her writing has often appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times.a Manhattan-based

SUZANNE GUILLETTE, a Manhattan-based writer whose first book, Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment, was released on March 10, 2009 by Simon and Schuster.

TEDDY WAYNE, author of the novel Kapitoil (Harper Perennial). He is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. The recipient of a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney's, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. -- Pablo Picasso
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