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Whether at a rally, a school, a prison or a concert hall, a Welfare Poet performance is truly an experience that is boldly defiant and urgently necessary in a time where information and the media are being more and more privatized and civil liberties continue to be systematically eroded.

Approaching 15 years together with the understanding that culture is power, the Welfare Poets continue to reach thousands upon thousands of fans throughout the world. With the 2000 release of their debut album “Project Blues,” the Welfare Poets are currently in the studio finishing up work for the heavily anticipated Rhymes for Treason album, due out this Winter.

Project Blues - the Album, was released in June of 2000. It contains 15 powerful tracks, each uniquely painting pictures connecting local struggles and hardships to a global movement towards the liberation of all humanity. The album was produced entirely by the Welfare Poets for everyone fighting for change.

Project Blues features Ray Ramirez, Hector Rivera and Dahu Ala on vocals, along with Djibril Toure on bass and Mike Angel on guitar.

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Since Project Blues, the Welfare Poets membership and sound has grown giving more diversity to the type of music they could play and the variety of venues they could be featured at.   From Hip Hop to Jazz, to the many Afro-Caribbean musical forms, the new album, Rhymes for Treason, will definitively offer something for all music lovers and all who want to uplift the oppressed and yearn revolution.
  PEFORMANCES AT YOUR EVENT  

Contact us for rates and details about performances at your school or event.
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FULL ENSEMBLE: Invite the Welfare Poets for a night of music, drumming, dancing,
improvisation and poetry.
1 – 2 Hours

SMALL ENSEMBLE: An intimate performance featuring the core Poets.
1 – 1 1/2 Hour

POETRY READING: A lyrical event with much less music but more focus on words.
1 Hour

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: An inspirational speech and question and answer session with one
of the poets relating to any workshop topic (see workshop and Education page)
20 min. – 45 minutes
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Watch the Poets perform before hundreds of thousands of peace demonstrators
New York City, February 15, 2003

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