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Feb 26

Buddy Wakefield "Riled Up and Wasted on Light"

By Wits End Poetry

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Thu, February 26, 2015, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST

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Independent Public Ale House Independant Public Ale House 110 Poinsette Hwy Greenville, SC 110 Poinsette Hwy Greenville, SC 29609

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Wits End Poetry is excited to bring Buddy Wakefield - Official Page back to the Upstate for a one night show as part of his "Riled Up and Wasted on Light Tour." This will be his only appearance in South Carolina!

Other stops on the tour include Iceland, Germany, the Netherlands, NY, Chicago, Michigan State University, Boston University and other prestigious venues across the country.

Doors will open at 7:00 pm for a reception with other local poets, followed by opening act Unifyed Sol Poets and other surprise guests at 8:00 pm. Buddy Wakefield will go on at 8:30 for 45 minutes followed by a Q&A session with the audience. There will be a book signing from 9:30 to 10:00pm including a chance for audience members to mingle and network.

BUDDY WAKEFIELD is the three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO's Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and most recently signed to Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals (in Greenville, SC), which launched his career. Then he successfully defended that title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch.

Since winning numerous other high-profile slams and bringing his unique style of stand-up spoken word - he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in 2000+ venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park, Zimbabwe's Shoko Festival and Scotland's Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and The Basement in Sydney, Australia.

In the spring of 2001 Buddy left his position as the executive assistant at a biomedical firm in Gig Harbor, WA, sold or gave away everything he owned, moved to the small town of Honda Civic and set out to live for a living, touring North American poetry venues through 2003. He still tours full time.

This program is funded by The Humanities Council SC; inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with literature, history, culture and heritage. Visit our Web site, www.schumanities.org.

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