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Thom Namaya

Namaya is the jazz poet, with his band, the jazz beat blues poetry ensemble, as a solo artist, sharing the stage with such jazz luminaries like Sheila Jordan, or in performances with jazz cats around the world. "Jazz poems are the sweet fusion of sound, images, and colors dancing with the music. My favorite performances have been where the music and the story is created on stage, a bit of Sketch of Spain from Miles, or a dash of the Bird's rift, a vivacious woman who saunters into the room, an e flat minor rifts into the memory of moonlight on the Anapurna mountains, or a theme suggested from an audience."

The best theater is the theater of imagination. Ultimately my gift to the audience is this: If in the confines of the theater we can imagine this show, then in turn, you can imagine your life as limitless possibility."

These past few years I performed GOD SEX POLITICS in Malaysia; jammed with dozens of jazz bands; wrote and produced a new musical The Beatnik Café; finished a new book of poems VERMONT MY HOME On Blue Heron Pond; created a new large installation project Laundry List of Wishes; developed a new line of art poetry www.vermontartpoetry.com ; almost completed a new CD Amerika Uber Alles; produced half a dozen new multimedia works, many new songs and poems Best of all, I’m not even manic!

I am an Irish and US citizen, more an internationalist than any one nationality, I've spent my life traveling, both physically and astrally (some of my best gigs are on the planet Andar). As a kid I lived in Seville Spain with early memories of Morocco and Tangiers. My life has been shaped by traveling and I’ve visited over 75 countries around the world, probably getting close to a 100 by now. In many places I’ve played and performed from intimate shows to coffee houses, galleries, theaters, and jazz clubs. As you will note on my rap sheet I’ve played in Morocco, New Zealand, Ephesus in Turkey, Malaysia, Ireland, Denmark, Andar, Holland, England, Ireland, through out the US and many places that I’ve forgotten. My favorite gigs were the ones I don’t remember. This is the essence of my life: playing music, telling stories, and traveling around the world.

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Namaya's God Sex Politics 2009: Melbourne

Namaya's God Sex Politics 2009: Melbourne

Source: All About Jazz

Appearing at: Cabaret Voltaire - Melbourne 14 Raglan Street, North Melbourne, Victoria 3051 Date: 29 Jan 2009 Thursday 9:30 PM Cabaret Voltaire presents the jAzz poet Namaya performing GOD SEX POLITICS a high energy fusion of spoken word, music, and stories. On the 2009 GOD SEX POLITICS tours he will be playing in Honolulu, Sydney, and Melbourne. He has performed on tour in Europe, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, throughout the US and in the ...

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Namaya's God Sex Politics 2009

Namaya's God Sex Politics 2009

Source: All About Jazz

Cabaret Voltaire presents the jAzz poet Namaya performing GOD SEX POLITICS a high energy fusion of spoken word, music, and stories. On the 2009 GOD SEX POLITICS tours he will be playing in Honolulu, Sydney, and Melbourne. thejazzpoet.com and www.vermontpoet.com. He has performed on tour in Europe, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, throughout the US and in the famed poetry clubs of the Bowery and the Nuyorican Poetry Caf. “Great show!” said the Nuyorican. Namaya is innovative and irreverent performance artist ...

Primary Instrument

Guitar, acoustic

Clinic/Workshop Information

Dr. Namaya is a homeopathic physician and family nurse practitioner. He has successfully treated thousands of patients for chronic emotional and physical conditions following classical homeopathic principles.  He consults with patients in his main Vermont clinic, as well as around the world via phone and Internet.

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