Sunday, May 21st 7:00 pm
Humboldt poet Jerry Martien re-unites with four local musicians on Sunday, May 21.
Fred Neighbor, Gary Davidson, and Mike LaBolle, who performed with Martien to a full house
at the Playhouse last fall, will be joined by returning keyboardist Mike Emerson, who last
backed up Martien’s reading in a 1999 performance recorded as Jerry Martien & the Band of
Angels.
The evening’s first set will be dedicated to the memory of Thad Beckman, another long-time
Arcata musician, who passed away at his home in Portland this winter. It will include poems
that re-surfaced in a cassette recording of Martien reading with Beckman at the Jambalaya Club
in 1992. In rehearsals for that event they developed “porch blues”, which became the basis of
three decades of music and spoken word.