Poetic Sacramento
Frank Dixon Graham of the Sacramento Poetry Center invites the interested to an artistic evening at Time-Tested Books on Monday, June 2, 7:30 pm. 1114 21st Street Sacramento.
Come listen to Theresa McCourt (Poet), Sasha Tkacheff (Violinist)
& C-Sus Vocal Jazz Group (including Sacramento Poetry Center president Bob Stanley)
Theresa McCourt
On May 14 this year, she was awarded the Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship in poetry through the University of California, Davis, creative writing program for the 2008 Tomales Bay Workshops. In both 2007 and currently in 2008, she has been part of the Artist Residency Institute, through the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. In January 2007, her poetry won a 1st place recognition in the Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Contest and in fall 2006 she won a 1st in the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest. In 2005, she won a 3rd in the 79th Annual Berkeley Poets' Contest. In March 2007, she received an honorable mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center's poetry contest. Credits include mamazine.com, Brevities, Poetry Now, Song of the San Joaquin, Rattlesnake Review, Toyon, and Night and Day.
Theresa is a transplant from Manchester, England, with a BA in English Literature and Drama from Birmingham, England, and a MA in English Literature (with an emphasis on teaching writing) from CSU Sacramento. While in business for herself, Theresa provided writing seminars and wrote freelance articles for national and local magazines and newspapers, including an eight-year run as a biweekly columnist for The Sacramento Bee.
Sasha Tkacheff
Born in Woodland, California of Ukranian-Russian heritage, violinist and songwriter Sasha Tkacheff began studying the violin at age eight with Ingrid Peters at the Pease Conservatory of Music. Her first performance as a soloist was at her sixth grade graduation from Foulks Ranch Elementary School. Over the past seven years, Sasha has performed numerous times, participated in chamber music workshops, Sacramento Youth Symphony concerts, and served as concert mistress with the Sacramento Youth Symphony Junior Orchestra. Sasha is a junior at Franklin High School and is an honor student. “My music is lyrical, but modern. It is romantic, passionate, jazzy.” Influenced by Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Sting and Regina Carter, Sasha’s goal is “to get my ideas out to people so they can be inspired just like I was by the people before me. Musically, my goal is to become a great performer and play with an abandon that no one has seen before.”
C-Sus
C-Sus is an award-winning vocal jazz group from Sacramento State. This octet, consisting of four women and four men, includes Kristen Poirier and Caitlin Clarke, sopranos; Kate Janzen and Gaw Vang, altos; Ramsey Kouri and Tim Weiss, tenors; Steve Bingen, baritone, and Bob Stanley, bass.
Come listen to Theresa McCourt (Poet), Sasha Tkacheff (Violinist)
& C-Sus Vocal Jazz Group (including Sacramento Poetry Center president Bob Stanley)
Theresa McCourt
On May 14 this year, she was awarded the Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship in poetry through the University of California, Davis, creative writing program for the 2008 Tomales Bay Workshops. In both 2007 and currently in 2008, she has been part of the Artist Residency Institute, through the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. In January 2007, her poetry won a 1st place recognition in the Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Contest and in fall 2006 she won a 1st in the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest. In 2005, she won a 3rd in the 79th Annual Berkeley Poets' Contest. In March 2007, she received an honorable mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center's poetry contest. Credits include mamazine.com, Brevities, Poetry Now, Song of the San Joaquin, Rattlesnake Review, Toyon, and Night and Day.
Theresa is a transplant from Manchester, England, with a BA in English Literature and Drama from Birmingham, England, and a MA in English Literature (with an emphasis on teaching writing) from CSU Sacramento. While in business for herself, Theresa provided writing seminars and wrote freelance articles for national and local magazines and newspapers, including an eight-year run as a biweekly columnist for The Sacramento Bee.
Sasha Tkacheff
Born in Woodland, California of Ukranian-Russian heritage, violinist and songwriter Sasha Tkacheff began studying the violin at age eight with Ingrid Peters at the Pease Conservatory of Music. Her first performance as a soloist was at her sixth grade graduation from Foulks Ranch Elementary School. Over the past seven years, Sasha has performed numerous times, participated in chamber music workshops, Sacramento Youth Symphony concerts, and served as concert mistress with the Sacramento Youth Symphony Junior Orchestra. Sasha is a junior at Franklin High School and is an honor student. “My music is lyrical, but modern. It is romantic, passionate, jazzy.” Influenced by Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Sting and Regina Carter, Sasha’s goal is “to get my ideas out to people so they can be inspired just like I was by the people before me. Musically, my goal is to become a great performer and play with an abandon that no one has seen before.”
C-Sus
C-Sus is an award-winning vocal jazz group from Sacramento State. This octet, consisting of four women and four men, includes Kristen Poirier and Caitlin Clarke, sopranos; Kate Janzen and Gaw Vang, altos; Ramsey Kouri and Tim Weiss, tenors; Steve Bingen, baritone, and Bob Stanley, bass.
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