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Livingston’s Blue Slipper Theatre hosts an evening of live poetry and songs, “Words & Music, Vol. II,” featuring singer/songwriter Sean Devine, poets Henrietta Goodman and Marc Beaudin and jazz percussionist Adam Greenberg. The event takes place on Friday, May 30, and features original songs, poems and improv pieces as solo, duet and group performances.
Montana native Sean Devine has traveled extensively around the U.S. and abroad in a music career spanning three decades, releasing four full albums of original music, an EP and several singles, as well as contributing music to two independent films. His fourth album, Here For It All, was recorded at Sonic Ranch in southwest Texas with Cody Jinks’ producer and stage band, The Tone Deaf Hippies. The album spent 23 weeks in the Top 50 at Alt Country radio, peaking at #12 in the summer of 2021. His newest album, Die Happy, was recorded with local musicians on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, with mixing by Grammy-winning engineer Doc Wiley.
Henrietta Goodman is the author of four books of poetry: Antillia, All That Held Us, Hungry Moon, and Take What You Want. Her poems and essays have been published in The New England Review, New Ohio Review, Terrain, Bennington Review, River Teeth, Cleaver, and more. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Montana Arts Council, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Fishtrap, and other organizations. She teaches in the English department of Rocky Mountain College in Billings.
Marc Beaudin is a poet, theatre artist and bookseller based in Livingston. He is the author of These Creatures of a Day, Life List: Poems, and Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals. His spoken word album, From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite, features music by members of the band Morph*ne, and he has performed and recorded with numerous jazz, rock and blues musicians including Bill Payne of Little Feat and the highly acclaimed, experimental jazz collective, The Northwoods Improvisers. His poetry has appeared in Orion, Cutthroat, Whitefish Review, Deep Wild Journal, and numerous other journals.
Adam Greenberg is a drummer, percussionist, and instructor who studied at the Cleveland Music School Settlement and Berklee College of Music and played jazz professionally in the Cincinnati area for ten years in several groups, including Rich Uncle Skeleton and the 20th Century Big Band. Since moving to Bozeman in 2002, he has had the privilege to collaborate with some of the best talent around including Jeni Fleming, Pinky and the Floyd, Six Strings Down, the String Jumpers, the Montana Mandolin Society, the Craig Hall Trio, the Mike Myers Trio, the Glen Johnston Big Band, Andrew Gromiller and the Organically Grown, as well as his own group, the Bridger Mountain Big Band.
Doors for this special event open at 7:30 pm, show at 8. Tickets are $15 in advance, available at blueslipper.org (
https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/blue-slipper-theatre/words-and-music-2), or $20 at the door.
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