Date: Monday, June 3, 2013
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: The National Black Theater (2031-2033 5th Avenue @ 125th Street, New York, NY 10035)
Ticket: free admission
Dequi Kioni-Sadiki (Scientific Soul Sessions) and Matt Meyer (Campaign to FreeRussell Maroon Shoatz and Resistance in Brooklyn) Continue reading
Date: Thursday May 16, 2013 through June 2, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: La Mama (74A East 4th Street, btw Bowery & 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003, 212-475-7710)
Ticket: $30
Genre: music theater
A Martial Arts-Samurai Sword Fighting-Music/Theater Fantasy Action-Adventure Blockbuster homage to Lone Wolf and Cub(Kozure Ogami) in a story of imperial decline and desperation, revenge, intrigue and catharsis. Fred Ho’s super-talented team unleashes a music/theater work of dazzling spectacle and emotional power.
Music and Concept by Fred Ho / Written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff / Directed by Sonoko Kawahara
Date: May 3, 2013
Venue: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City
Text by Dawoud Kringle
“There is a war going on in America.” Thus began the book release event for Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz.
Date: April 25, 2013
Venue: Museum of Chinese In America (NY)
Event review by Dawoud Kringle and video by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
When someone lays claim to the title of “Dragon,’ it is automatically assumed that they can back it up, or else. Fred Ho backs it up.
Ho cuts a flamboyant figure; a large and powerfully built man who wears clothing of his own design, Ho is a true renaissance man. He is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist.
Date: April, 2013
Venue: Charles H. Knox Gallery (Harlem, NY)
Text and photos by Don Chow
Which award-winning baritone saxophonist is also a Chinese-American, self-proclaimed matriarchal Marxist revolutionary?
There is only one answer, of course, and he is Brooklyn’s Fred Ho– a bona fide icon of Asian-American jazz, who has been waging a ‘scorched earth’ war with cancer since 2006. I remember corresponding with Fred about possible gigs while I was living and working in China, having invited him to Vancouver a few years earlier for an Asian-Canadian music series. But Fred suddenly stopped emailing and later I found out about his illness.
