Musicality of Poetry Series X: Featuring Mutabaruka and the Skool Band, Cherry Natural, and All Natural - World Music Festival
Guild Complex

The finale of this year's festival promises to deliver conscious, uplifting rhyme after rhyme, featuring the premier voice in dub poetry, the one and only Mutabaruka and the Skool Band. Joing him on this triple bill will be Cherry Natural, one of Jamaica's leading female poets and women's rights activists.


9/26/2001 - 9/26/2001

7:00pm


The finale of this year's festival promises to deliver conscious, uplifting rhyme after rhyme, featuring the premier voice in dub poetry, the one and only Mutabaruka and the Skool Band. Joing him on this triple bill will be Cherry Natural, one of Jamaica's leading female poets and women's rights activists. Rounding out the program will be celebrated Chicago hip-hop group All Natural performing tracks from their new album, Second Nature.
Muta Baruka is the author of three books of poetry, Outcry (1973), Sun and Moon (1976) and The Book: First Poems (1981). With his band Truth, he has worked to combine his words with music. His first single, Everytime I 'ear De Sound, was released in 1981, forging a style that is sparse, rootsy and uncompromising, with his voice confronting and challenging the listner. Mutabaruka has performed throughout the world, sharing the stage eith artists such as Dennis Brown, Sly Dunbar (Sly and Robbie), Marcia Griffiths, Sugar Minot, Ini Kamoze, and a litany of reggae greats.
Cherry Natural has been performiing since 1979 and is also a motivational speaker, artist, writer, producer, martial arts instructor, and Black Belt in modern Arnis. Attending school in Jamaica she was inspired heavily by Bob Marley's music and Jamaica's leading folklorist, Ms. Louise Bennett. She appears with Rita Marley and other women reggae artists on the compilation album Natty Queen Divas (1998) To those in the business of hip-hop, the team of All Natural (Tone b. Nimble and capital D), isn't a new alliance. "50 Years", their debut single, became a huge success, and is considered by many the most beautiful hip-hop song of 1997. Their first album Fresh Air, No Additives, No Preservatives was a tremendous underground success. Second Nature is the band's full length recording and shows no sign of the dreaded "sophomore jinx"
Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for their continued support of the Guild Complex Musicality and Poetry Series. World Music Festival: Chicago 2001 is a joint production of the Chicago Department of Culural Affairs and the Mayor's Office of Special Events. World Music Festival: Chicago 2001 is partially underwritten through a major grant from the Joyce Foundation; Borders Books & Music, and the American Express Company are feature corporate sponsers and the University of Chicago is providing backer support.

Performers
Mutabaruka and the Skool Band, Cherry Natural, and All Natural

Tags: Literary, Rest Of The World, 2001