The Night Kite Revival
Utica, Michigan, United States | SELF
Music
Press
Spokane: Empyrean Coffeehouse
-Listed in the Inlander (no longer available) http://www.inlander.com/content/music_local_listings_spokane_eastern_washington_and_north_idaho
-Spokane Poetry Slam had it as a myspace status
Boise: Reef
-write up in Boise Weekly http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/elephant-engine-high-dive-revival-tonight-reef/Content?oid=1182922
-event listed in Boise Weekly: http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/Event?oid=1160807
-Boise Weekly tweeted it http://tweetmeme.com/story/176239706/elephant-engine-high-dive-revival-tonight-reef-music-boise-weekly
-Listed with description in Bosieevents.net: http://www.boiseevents.net/index.php/ID/c8d29d8ca2b7e04186098a0388438d7d/f/true/fuseaction/events.detail.htm
-listed in Idaho Writers' Update (page 3): http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:kbL5PwUKJf4J:www.sageecosci.com/Writers/IWU/Idaho%2520Writers%27%2520Update%252016Se09.pdf+Elephant+Engine+High+Dive+Revival+spokane&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Utah
-write up in Utah State Today: http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=39224
-review in Utah Statesman: http://www.usu-tube.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Group+brings+unique+spin+to+poetry%20&id=3641512-Group+brings+unique+spin+to+poetry
-event listed in USU English Department website: http://newenglish.usu.edu/elephantengine.aspx
-interview in the College Weekly
Colorado: Western State College
-event listing with description in Western State Summit: http://westernsummit.western.edu/events/spoken-word-poetry-from
-write up in Top O' The World: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:aZ-iOUvjQWMJ:www.topotheworld.net/issue2_f09_allpgssml.pdf+Elephant+Engine+High+Dive+Revival+Colorado:+Western+State+College&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
-event listed in CMC newsletter: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:51JncSzMzwAJ:www.coloradomtn.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_2935393/File/CMC%2520Newsletter%2520Sept.pdf+University+of+Arizona+Elephant+Engine+High+Dive&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Omaha, NE: Creighton University
-Creighton Calendar -http://calendar.creighton.edu/event?id=5143
-review with quotes from Robbie Q and Buddy in Creightonian : http://www.creightonian.com/story_news.php?IssueTN=105439-09-2009-26339&NewsID=1002
-event listed on Plains Song Review Online-http://plainssongreview.blogspot.com/2009/09/elephant-engine-high-dive-revival.html
-event listed with snazzy Paul Clark quote in Omaha Weekly Reader:http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:sOmqfj4h7CsJ:www.thereader.com/8days.php%3Fsubaction%3Dshowfull%26id%3D1253312564%26archive%3D%26start_from%3D%26ucat%3D17%26+Elephant+Engine+High+Dive+Revival+creighton&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Denver, CO: Crossroads Theater
-event listed: http://community.intellicontact.com/p/crossroadstheater/newsletters/anchorproject/posts/crossroads-at-five-points-tues-sept-22-7pm-elephant-engine-high-dive-revival-10-
St. Louis: Wash U
-event listed on Wu Slam website: http://quadconnect.com/blog/2009/09/17/the-elephant-engine-high-dive-revival/
-write-up in the Pride Center's Monthly paper/newsletter
-ads placed in the local weekly entertainment paper (i did not pay for this)
-posters put in 3 GLBA centers within 100 miles
-Radio spot (played Derrick and Buddy track)
Chicago: Victory Gardens
-event listed in event calendar-NBC Chicago: http://events.nbcchicago.com/chicago-il/events/show/88694445-elephant-engine-high
-event listed in Chicago Poetry Calendar: http://www.chicagopoetrycalendar.net/2009/09/elephant-engine-high-dive-revival-at.html
-event listed on http://victorygardens.org/content/node/1487
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Ann Arbor, MI: Neutral Zone
-event listed in Ann Arbor.com--http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/the-deuce/huge-poetry-event-coming-up-monday-928/
-event mentioned in Ann Arbor.com at the very bottom of "Do the Group, Do the Group, Do the Group, Group Dance": http://www.annarbor.com/news/education/do-the-group-do-the-group-do-the-group-group-dance/
EMU Creative Writing Blog (EMU student wrote a review of the Ann Arbor show): http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=227
MLive (event listed): http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:eF3LTKWKdOgJ:www.mlive.com/events/index.ssf/events/event/134087/20090928-the-elephant-engine-high-dive-revival+Ann+Arbor+elephant+engine+high+dive&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
University of Pittsburgh
Write up/event listed on end the silence campaign website: http://www.endthesilencecampaign.org/tag/elephant-engine-high-dive-revival/
September's Harvest (Brian Francis's blog), he mentions how well the show went: http://septembersharvest.com/2009/10/wake-me-up-when-september-ends%E2%80%A6/
Keuka College
Lake Telemark Country Club.
University of Maryland
Mentioned on the Pride Alliance website as a success: http://www.pridealliance.umd.edu/updatesarchive.html
Mentioned on the Terpoets's blog: http://terpoets.blogspot.com/
Goucher College
Event listed in Goucher Digest: - dcb
Discography
All members have internationally distributed books by Write Bloody Publishing, collectively and individually.
Individual CD's:
- Buddy Wakefield
"Run on Anything" (released on Sage Francis' Strange Famous Records).
"Live at the Typer Cannon Grand" (released on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records)
- Derrick Brown
"Black Urchin" recorded with Richard Swift.
- Anis Mojgani
"Aeroplane"
Photos
Bio
The Night Kite Revival (who tour under a new Revival moniker each year) is the ultimate uplift spoken word party experience!! With rotating fourth and fifth members, the three core talent are Derrick Brown (opening artist for Cold War Kids, The Flaming Lips, and comedian David Cross), Anis Mojgani (2-time Individual National Poetry Slam Champion; HBO's Def Poetry Jam) and Buddy Wakefield (2-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion; on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records). Tested and proven, these verbal acrobats join together each year for a national tour that undeniably charges the hearts and smiles of every audience it meets.
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