Nitty Gritty Slam is the official poetry slam of Albany, NY, certified by Poetry Slam, Inc. and takes place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each and every month at The Low Beat (335 Central Ave., Albany, NY).
NGS is sponsored by Albany Poets, Urban Guerilla Theatre, and The Frequency North Reading Series.
On Wednesday, September 5, just one day after we kick off the new season of the Nitty Gritty Slam, the team will be traveling up to the historic Caffe Lena
We made it to the end of our first year of poetry slams last Tuesday night at Valentine’s. Nitty Gritty Slam #24 celebrated a great year of poetry and spoken word.
So with a little help from arithmetic one could determine that, if this event is held twice a month, #24 would mark the end of a year of slams, & indeed it was, & it also marked the (not quite triumphant, but undaunted) return of the Nitty Grit…
On Tuesday, September 4, we will begin Season Two of the Nitty Gritty Slam, Albany’s only poetry slam series. Believe it or not, it was a year ago that Albany
The Nitty Gritty Slam is celebrating its one year anniversary at NGS #21 at Valentine’s on Tuesday, August 24 and we are inviting all of our previous winners to come
Last week we released the brand new, five track, album featuring the Team Nitty Gritty members titled”Ten Point Zero” for just $5.00. Well, we just sweetened the deal by putting the finishing touches on a chapbook featuring
Just because Team Nitty Gritty is going to be in Charlotte for the National Poetry Slam that doesn’t mean that we are suspending NGS at Valentine’s. Join us on August
Yesterday we released the brand new, five track, album featuring the Team Nitty Gritty members D. Colin, Elizag, Alorhythm, and ILLiptical titled”Ten Point Zero“. This album is available as a digital download
It was another hot night in Albany, but we were back downstairs, in cooler air, for another edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam at Valentine’s on July 17. This evening
This past Saturday Team Nitty Gritty headed south on the NYS Thruway to Rockland County to compete in the first ever hud,SON! river regional slam (‘ cause poetry flows both ways) at
Fresh off of two regional slams in the past week where the Nitty Gritty Slam and Albany poetry made a big impact, we are storming back into Valentine’s next Tuesday,
What an incredible night of poetry in the not too hot and suprisingly haze-free second floor of Valentine’s. We even had almost enough seating for everyone who came in for
