Mid Winter's Poetry Night
Venue: Odd Fellows Building Lodge #20 (Wilson Avenue, Blacksburg), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Spectral Arts, T. Byron Kelly
Date: Saturday, February 29, 2020
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
Studio Appalachia presents the annual Mid Winter's Poetry Night on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at Odd Fellows Building Lodge #20 on Wilson Avenue in Blacksburg, VA.

Enjoy an evening of poetry with T. Byron K. and guests along with music by Spectral Arts and Project Rainbow. Poetry by Dark Horse Poets and bring your own poems to share.

Poet, Painter and Musician T. Byron Kelly has been working as an active performance artist in the South Western Virginia area (Appalachia) for over two decades and has generations of family from West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. Live, spontaneous lyric poetry performances and gallery exhibits have been at the heart of the poet's work.

As an Undergraduate and Graduate student, Byron studied with poets Nikki Giovanni, Lucinda Roy, Grace Bauer and Anne Bromley, as well as novelist Don Secreast and painter Janet Niewald. Byron received private art instruction during that time and was also a member of Tri-M (Modern Music Masters honor society). Byron studied the relationships between poetry, painting and music and soon began to illustrate his own poems with paintings and put them to music as well.

Byron has also taught creative writing and composition on the college level (currently at Solitude of Virginia Tech) and is a member of the Ghost House Studio-Appalachia, Spectral Arts, East Virginia Poets, the United Artists of the Virginias, the Appalachian Writers Association (A.W.A.), the Appalachian Authors' Guild (A.A.G.), West Virginia Writers, the Virginia Writers Club, the XYZ Gallery (Blacksburg, VA.), Glencoe Museum (Radford, VA.), and the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center (Christiansburg, VA).

Links:

• https://sites.google.com/view/tbyronkelly/
• https://www.facebook.com/tbyronkellyva

Spectral Arts formed in the winter of 2007 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and combines live acoustic music with poetry that is both spoken and sung. The Appalachian band features regular band members as well as local guests. The music and poetry have been described as transcendental and embodying a beautiful, as well as an ethereal, visionary quality.

Links:

• https://www.studioappalachia.com/spectral-arts.html
• http://spectralva.weebly.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/spectralartsva

For more information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/midwinterspoetry and https://www.facebook.com/events/616761092135556/ or contact studioappal@gmail.com.

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