Soul Release "Capricorn Celebration" featuring Taalam Acey (Sundance Film Festival, Essence, BET) January 16, 2010

1/16: Royal Blue Lounge - Soul Release "Capricorn Celebration" featuring Taalam Acey (Sundance Film Festival, Essence, BET)

Saturday, January 16, 2010 8:00p

open mic for poets, comedians, singers
hip hop and R&B by DJ Al Pete
featuring featuring Taalam Acey (Sundance Film Festival, Essence, BET)

35th Birthday celebration of Tiffany Duhart, Managing Director http://www.nokturnalescape.com

Admission: $5 artists/$10 audience

Taalam's work has been featured on BET, TV One and in Essence Magazine. Acey was the first person ever selected as "the 1 thing you need to know about" on BET's countdown show, "The 5ive." Acey sat on the Congressional Black Caucus' 2007 & 2008"Young Gifted and Black" panels. He has been a frequent guest at dozens of colleges and Universities and has lectured on contemporary Spoken Word at the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Acey has twice been featured at the Essence Music Festival. He's been quoted in several newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Weekly and the New Jersey Star Ledger. In addition, Acey's work has been associated with films that have garnered an Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Taalam is also an accomplished slam poet who has won slams throughout the United States as well as in Germany and England. He was featured in an acclaimed Radio-One London documentary on slam and Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used Acey's work as an example of slam poetry in his definitive book.

http://www.taalamacey.com/
http://www.myspace.com/officialtaalamacey

Soul Release,established 2000, is the longest running spoken word poetry and live soul music event in northeast Florida. For more information, visit http://www.nokturnalescape.com