Lawson Fusao Inada
October 23rd, 7:30pm
Oregon Poet Laureate
A Concert with Poetry & Jazz
Sentimental Journey will be presented by LAWSON FUSAO INADA, Oregon’s Poet Laureate, with award-winning, Portland-based jazz artists—
- Larry Nobori on alto sax and clarinet
- Rick Homer on trumpet and melophone
- Andre St. James, acoustic bass
- Nola Bogle, vocalist
- Gordon Lee, internationally acclaimed, musician / composer, pianist
Explores Internment Camp Memories of Hearing Jazz
The program explores the theme of finding new ways home for people in the internment camps of WWII, and how Inada’s memories of hearing jazz in the camps has influenced his life and writing ever since. The theme that runs throughout is about having resilience while dealing with profound loss, and finding hope for a better future.
Inspired by his love of jazz, Mr. Inada’s compelling verses, intertwined with the improvisations in the music weave a parallel, “Sentimental Journey” between the music, and lives redirected by circumstance. The program is both evocative and humorous, blending the rhythms and emotions of jazz, with Inada’s poignant, playful and memorable words.
The families of Larry Nobori and Nola Bogle were also interned during the war.
"Sentimental Journey" concerts have recently been presented in Portland, OR. at The Old Church, the First Unitarian Fellowhship, at the Planetarium at Mt. Hood Community College, Lewis & Clark College, Willamette Valley Vineyards in Turner, OR, and Willamette University in Salem, OR.
Purchase Tickets
| When | October 23rd, 7:30pm |
| Tickets | Click to PURCHASE TICKETS online General admission: $10, available online or at the Columbia Center for the Arts art gallery during gallery hours. |
| Location | Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River |