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.
Well Tuesday, Mary Panza and Daniel Nester (that’s me) flyered up the SUNY-Albany–er, University at Albany–campus real good. We posted stuff around the fountain area, the English Department, some dorm called the Indian. As I write this at the beginning of slam #4, we have three people who came because of the flyers! Yay! If […]
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Tonight is the night for Nitty Gritty Slam #4. Two weeks ago we had Rain Dan take first place with Victorio Reyes in second and Shannon Shoemaker in third. What will happen tonight when we go back upstairs at Valentines? Dan Wilcox posted a rundown of NGS #3 on his blog a couple of days
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Nitty Gritty Slam #4 is this coming Tuesday, October 18 at Valentines. This time around we are upstairs at the club for the slam as the American Music Club with Dan Johnson and John Scarpulla will be meeting under the spoken word. What will Slam Master Brammage and Mojavi have in store for us this
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Good evening everyone and welcome to the live results coverage of the third installment of Nitty Gritty Slam at Valentines. We will be updating the scores through out the night on the NGS Results Page. We will be starting the open mic and slam in just a few minutes. Round One: Dan Wilcox – 21.1
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In case you missed the last Nitty Gritty Slam two weeks ago at Valentines, Dan Wilcox has a run-down of the night’s events on his website. This was the second gathering of this new Slam event, tonight upstairs at Valentines because some bands were scheduled downstairs. But this posed no problem for Slam poets who
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Urban Guerilla Theatre, Albany Poets, and The Frequency North Reading Series are bringing slam poetry back to Albany again this coming Tuesday night, October 4, only at Valentines! Our first two slams have featured great spoken word in front of a full and energetic audience and hopefully Tuesday will be no different. We have had
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Welcome back to the Nitty Gritty Slam Live Results. We are upstairs at Valentines tonight and the poetry is rising above the rock music going on downstairs. Round One: Kate Romolder – 22.4 Shannon Shoemaker – 25.5 Elizag – 27.0 Kevin Peterson – 23.6 L-Majesty – 23.9 Sleepy Brent Simpson – 13.2 Dan Wilcox –
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This is Dan. I tend to repeat this all through the beginning of the evening, and Dain knows it by heart, so I figured I would post it here. 1. We draw for the 8 for the slam from the Poetry Slam Gladware container. 2. We pick for the Sacrificial Goat from those not selected.
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Yes, you read that correctly: the wonderful folks at AllOverAlbany interview Dain Brammage about all things slam and the Nitty Gritty Slam. Danielle Furfaro, a former Times Union staff writer who just finished graduate studied down in New York. Like a beacon in the poetry wasteland, the Nitty Gritty Poetry Slam has arrived. It’s been
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Urban Guerilla Theatre, Albany Poets, and The Frequency North Reading Series are proud to be bringing slam back to Albany! The Nitty Gritty Slam is back for Round Two tomorrow night at Valentines (17 New Scotland Ave., Albany). We had a great night of poetry and spoken word two weeks ago and we are ready
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Welcome to the live coverage of the first Nitty Gritty Slam at Valentines. Be sure to refresh often as we will be updating this page with the results and winners of the slam all night. Round One: Algorhythm – 23.9 Jessica Layton – 16.0 Tammy Lopez – 27.0 Emily Epstein – 21.2 Shannon Shoemaker –
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Poetry slam is coming back to the Capital Region. For the first time in more over 10 years, the Albany region will have its own poetry slam venue. Called the NITTY GRITTY SLAM and hosted by poets Dain Brammage and Mojavi, the first slam will take place on Tuesday, September 6, at 8pm at Valentines
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