Verbs & VibesSouleyes XIII
Guild Complex

Spring slides into Summer and everyone?s hear tunes into Love. Some people enjoy le pursuit. Others search an entire lifetime in vain, hoping to walk in the light of it. This edition of souleyes will celebrate the undaunted and time tested ?Love Poem.? We?ll examine the different genre?s of Love Poetry and hear love via verse from our performers Erica Mingo, and Maggie Brown with a surprise of two along the way in this celebration of a new love movement. Maggie Brown is an actor/singer/educator who has toured her one woman show. LEGACY: Our Wealth of Music, around the City of Chicago and at various colleges and Universities across the United States.


6/9/1999 - 6/9/1999


Spring slides into Summer and everyone?s hear tunes into Love. Some people enjoy le pursuit. Others search an entire lifetime in vain, hoping to walk in the light of it. This edition of souleyes will celebrate the undaunted and time tested ?Love Poem.?

We?ll examine the different genre?s of Love Poetry and hear love via verse from our performers Erica Mingo, and Maggie Brown with a surprise of two along the way in this celebration of a new love movement.

Maggie Brown is an actor/singer/educator who has toured her one woman show. LEGACY: Our Wealth of Music, around the City of Chicago and at various colleges and Universities across the United States. In 1997 Maggie was called on by the Chicago House of Blues to use her edutainment expertise to develop their ?Blues Schoolhouse? student outreach program. Maggie also has a self-produced solo recording: From My Window, released on her own label Mag/Pie Records.

Mario has been performing poetry in the Chicago area for the past seven years, appearing at venues such as Spices, Another Level @Lit-X, Mad Bar, Steppenwolf, Chicago Cultural Center, Taste of Chicago, Field Museum, MCA and House of Blues. He has also been featured on Chicago?s WGCI and WBEZ. He has taught creative writing with the City of Chicago?s Gallery 37 program, and conducted workshops with Chicago Youth Centers and at Robert Taylor Homes? Black on Black Love Center. Mario is also the creator of souleyes-an exercise in words and rhythm, part of the Guild Complex?s Verbs and Vibes series Pure Energy.

That phrase best describes 84124, a new band conceived by Chicago poet/educator Mario, ?The idea was to combine the most underused aspects of modern communication-writing and the uiversal languages of music to bring the message of peace and harmony to the masses.? The members of 84124 have traveled around the world and performed with legendary artists such as Pharaoh Sanders, Pat Metheny, John T?chai, Samana, Kurt Elling, the Roots; as well as fronting their own projects and picking up to Grammys along the way. 84124?s membeship includes: Hamid Drake, Jeff Parker, Paul Wertico, Nikki Mitchell, George Blaise, Josh Abrams, Mario, Sherrille Lamb, Daniel Givens, and CoolOut Chris. 84124 embraces a philosophy of a Soul Family designed to honor ancestral teachings and modern cultures at large.

Performers
Erica Mingo and Maggie Brown; music by 84124

Tags: Literary, Music, American, 1999