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Mood Area 52 and Poet Jorah LaFleur, with Cellist Nisha Calkins: An Evening of Intimate Listening
Mood Area 52 and Poet Jorah LaFleur, with Cellist Nisha Calkins: An Evening of Intimate Listening
Saturday, June 7, 7:30 Show (7 door): Mood Area 52 and Poet Jorah Lafleur, with Cellist Nisha Calkins: An Evening of Intimate Listening
Tickets $20 Now on Sale; drop by the store or call 541-345-8986 to reserrve, or click on this link to go to our web store.
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Folks, Mood Area 52 and Tsunami Books share a history going all the way back to 2003, when they first performed background music at the Bookstore for the silent film Nosferatu before one of the biggest crowds ever in the store. This time through they will be sharing the stage with Poet Jorah LaFleur, who the Eugene Weekly Poll recently picked as the Best Writer in Eugene
Mood Area 52 is a Eugene, Oregon musical collective that performs original vocal and instrumental music featuring some of Eugene’s best musicians. Mood Area 52’s styles range from cinematic instrumentals to blues inflected Americana. Mood Area 52 is Michael Roderick on vocals and accordion, Amy Danziger on Cello, Billy Barnett on guitar, Julia Frantz on violin, Dan Schmid on bass, Don Elkington on drums, and Kee Zublin on saxophone. For 25 years Mood Area 52 has toured endlessly thoughout Lane County.
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Jorah LaFleur: Idea Wrangler, Word Slinger, Professional Sayer of Stuff
Jorah LaFleur is a writer/performer who enjoys wearing many different hats. She finds herself on stage as a spoken word poet, event emcee, and actor. Offstage, she works with youth as a teaching artist. Each role engages her relentless curiosity about cultivating connection through creative communication.
Jorah is currently serving as the lead Writer in Residence at the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Wordcrafters in Eugene. She is committed to helping others experience the power of being seen/heard, and to promoting the arts as tools of social change, and community building.
For over a decade (2006 to 2019), she ran the Eugene Poetry Slam (ten of those years at Tsunami Books), which gifted her with a wealth of stage hosting experience, and a front row seat to the recitation of thousands of original poems. She is left forever convinced that: 1) Live performance is, literally, magical. 2) Being vulnerably honest with willing strangers is medicinal for everyone involved. 3) Pain tastes best when it is cut with humor, as dark as need be.
Jorah has been writing and performing for 25 years. Her newest book release, Words for Gratitude: a quartet of spoken word poems, is now available at in person events and print on demand.
