Tickets here. Sliding Scale Suggested Ticket Price ($15-30), youth and caregiver are free
Live at the Phoenix Music Hall, on November 2nd, in direct defiance of fascism: poet, bass clarinetist, composer, author, educator Toussaint St. Negritude is launching The Fabulous Fugitive Freedom Tour, bringing his artistry to the people, from sea to shining sea, blazing the freely-voiced light of liberation, for "as far as your soul can see." As many of us have heard, Toussaint's award winning collection of poems, Mountain Spells, aptly serves as a compendium of light against fascism. And now is absolutely the time, for art-in-action! And, along with summoning his horn and poems, Toussaint will be premiering his recent composition, The Fabulous Fugitive Freedom Suite, an indomitable incantation of collective affirmations! Come help launch Toussaint's light to the world!
Author and winner of the 2025 Firebird Award for the collection of poems "Mountain Spells" [Rootstock Publishing 2024], former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, and 2024 Nominee for Poet Laureate of Vermont, poet, bass clarinetist, and composer Toussaint St. Negritude conjures whole liberations in full tempo. US Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks described his work as "full of sweet sounds and surprises." Originally from San Francisco, Toussaint has lived and broadly thrived across the African Diaspora, from the sacred mountains of Haiti to the Coltrane District of North Philadelphia. He, along with bassist Gahlord Dewald, is the leader of the band Jaguar Stereo!, a free-form ensemble of his own poetry and improvisational jazz, and his works have been widely published and recorded for over 40 years. On an alpine sanctuary facing east, Toussaint St. Negritude continues to thrive in the farthest elevations of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.
https://www.rootstockpublishing.com/rootstock-books/p/mountain-spells