Greensboro Bound After Hours

Not only is Greensboro Bound bringing you over 50 programs and over 80 authors in three days, we’ve scheduled exciting and stimulating after hours events on both Friday and Saturday nights beginning at 8:30 pm. Here’s a taste of what you can find at downtown venues after the last speaker of the day. All events are free. Because that’s how we roll.

 

Friday Night, 8:30 pm 

Scuppernong Books

 

Lorena Guillen/Alejandro Rutty

Lorena and Alejandro will be playing City of Webs, music composed by Rutty in collaboration with Michael Basinski based on his poem of the same title.

The set will include pre-recorded sounds, keyboards and voice.

 

The Difficulties

The Difficulties are our hometown favorite ‘anti-meta, neo-beat, electronic garage gospel trio’ comprised of Mark Engebretson, Brian Lampkin and Rachel York.

 

Triad Upstage Cabaret

An Engaging Evening of Words with Josephus III

As a performance artist, Josephus displays his talents in a variety of venues including museums, galleries, universities, corporate settings and stage productions. He has performed for Oprah, opened for Kanye West and Floetry, shared stages with The Last Poets, traveled to Australia, London, Seoul, and South Africa as well as back and forth across the United States.

 

 

Saturday Night, 8:30 pm

Scuppernong Books

 

The Cloud Diary Music Project

Prior to publication of his novel, Cloud Diary, Steve Mitchell put out a call for musicians to respond to short scenes from the book. Nineteen musicians responded with twenty five original pieces of music. Laurent Estoppey and many others will be on hand to perform, with occasional short readings by Mitchell between songs.

 

Triad UpStage Cabaret

From Page to Stage, Ashley Lumpkin and Friends

Ashley Lumpkin is a Georgia-raised, Carolina-based writer, editor, actor, and educator. She is the author of three chapbooks, {}, At First Sight, Second Glance, and Terrorism and Other Topics for Tea, and one full-length collection,#AshleyLumpkin. She’ll be joined by Angelo ‘Eyeambic’ Geter, Monifa (SelahthePoet) Lemons, Morgan Renae Myers, and Jay Ward, to deliver some of the best performance poetry in the country.

 

Greensboro Project Space

 

Chris Stamey is a singer, songwriter, and record producer, as well as a founding member of the dB’s and the author of A Spy in the House of Loud.

He’ll have a conversation with music writer Eddie Huffman, followed by a short performance.

 

9:30 pm

The music of John Prine and Bars and Blues music played by a number of musicians, in conjunction with Eddie Huffman’s biography of John Prine, John Prine: In Spite of Himself, and Emily Edwards’ book Bars, Blues, and Booze: Stories from the Drink House.

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