Catch Joy Harjo and her band in a rare Tulsa appearance on Friday, October 25. Joy will present an unforgettable evening of jazz, Native rock, and poetic expression.
The band includes Joy Harjo (saxophone, flute, poetry), Nathan Eicher (bass), Josh Westbrook (guitar), and George Toumayan (drums).
Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 8 p.m.
Ages 21+ (Must provide a valid I.D. at the door)
ABOUT JOY HARJO
Joy Harjo served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022. She is the author of several books of poetry, plays, children's books, and memoirs, and has edited anthologies of Native poetry. She has also produced several music recordings of original music, including her most recent, I PRAY FOR MY ENEMIES. She is at work on a musical, WE WERE THERE WHEN JAZZ WAS INVENTED, and is the co-creator with Doug Miller for an upcoming show at the Bob Dylan Center NATURAL ANTHEM, honoring the guitarist JESSE ED DAVIS. , She has been honored with the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award among many others, and has honorary doctorates from many universities, including Harvard University, the University of St. Andrews and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the first Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa's Bob Dylan Center. She is a Muscogee Nation enrolled citizen and lives in the Muscogee Creek Reservation in Oklahoma.