Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers got their start as a band in the late 1980s performing at The Blue Lamp, a long running Tenderloin dive bar that catered to the theater crowd and a hard crowd of local regulars. SF, CA 94102 (next door to the Tenderloin Museum) Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers opens a second season of TLM’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series with a extended set & ensemble for a very special Concert at the Cadillac, the long-running concert series geared to the residents of the historic hotel that is also the physical home of the Tenderloin Museum!Īt the Cadillac Hotel | 380 Eddy St. Made possible with support from Hospitality House.įree! All Welcome! Register via Eventbrite A special Saturday afternoon program!įeaturing Shavonne Allen, Howard Jennings Jr., Greg Pond, Sylvester Guard Jr., Sawyer Arkilic, Barbara Saunders, and Charles Curtis Blackwell. Join us for this special reading of this original work at the Tenderloin Museum, featuring several familiar faces from the neighborhood in the cast. Other parts of the play are interwoven in fictional poetic lines to present the mood of the jazz idiom. It captures historical events with short lines related to episodes in history. It is a play about jazz music in relationship to the African American socio-political and socio-cultural events of the 1950’s and 1960s. “When Struggle Gave Improvisation the Blues” is a two act theater-poetry-performance play by the artist, poet, and playwright Charles Blackwell.
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