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The
Luminous Animal
The
Luminous Animal is a jazz ensemble integrating rhythm and language
in performance.
Rabbit
and Annie formed The
Luminous Animal in 1983 to raise funds for the
2nd Taos Poetry Circus, and are the core of the poetry section
which often involves additional voices. That first gig at Roy
Johnson’s Deviant Gallery off the northwest corner of
Taos Plaza, featured Taoseño poets Bill Gersh and Melinda
Woodell and Coloradoan Tony Moffeit along with Rabbit and Annie.
Poets who have participated over the decades include well-known
New Mexicans Renee Gregorio, Miriam Sagan and Amalio Madueño
as well as Chicago poet Terry Jacobus. TLA’s
musical director is master drummer Pete Amahl who brings in
a rhythm section and an occasional saxophone player.
Peter
Rabbit's work has appeared in City Lights
Journal, Olympia Reader, and Thus Spake the Corpse
among others. He studied poetry with Charles Olson at Black
Mountain College and performed at the legendary Five Spot in
New York. He continues a poetry/jazz tradition that began and
flourished during the Beat era.
Anne
MacNaughton’s poems have been anthologized
in In Company: New Mexico Poets after 1960, The Rag and
Bone Shop of the Heart, The Best Poetry of 1989, and Thus
Spake the Corpse. As project director for the annual Taos
Poetry Circus, she founded the Poetry Education Project teaching
creative writing and performance in area schools and universities.
Pete
Amahl heads the rhythm section of TLA.
A veteran percussionist, he specializes in jazz, funk and rhythm
and blues. A native of the Boston area, and an integral part
of the Santa Fe / Albuquerque music scene for over 30 years,
he is highly regarded from coast to coast. Amahl has played
with some of America's finest talents such as Eddie Harris,
Natalie Cole, Frank Morgan, Mose Allison, Herb Ellis, Eddie
"Lockjaw" Davis, Doug Lawrence, Greg Abate, Richie
Cole and Junior Brown.
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Sample
List of Appearances in New Mexico:
1996
Season
| January |
Santa
Fe |
Copeland-Rutherford
Gallery, 1/18, "All Fuckt Up / We Can Fix It" |
February |
Madrid |
Mineshaft Tavern: Neal Cassidy Annual Birthday Celebration,
2/13, "On the Road" |
March |
Silver City |
Buffalo Bar, 3/21, "All Fuckt Up/We Can Fix It" |
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Las Cruces |
Border
Book Fair, 3/23, "It Aint Safe" Performance
Workshop |
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Albuquerque |
Dingo
Bar, 3/25, "All Fuckt Up/We Can Fix It" |
April |
Santa Fe |
Greer Garson Theatre, College of Santa Fe, 4/25,
"NM Jazz Awareness" with Pete Amahl & the Night
Visitors,
featuring Kanoa Kaluhiwa,"Trane Tribute" |
May |
Taos |
Brewed Awakenings Coffeeshop, 5/18, "Fire Poems" |
June |
Taos |
Zuni Lounge, Kachina Lodge, 6/13, with Pete Amahl & the
Night Visitors, featuring Richie Cole, "All Fuckt Up" |
July |
Santa Fe |
Shidoni Foundry: 25th Anniversary Celebration, 7/6, "Space" |
August |
Albuquerque |
Albuquerque Museum: NM Jazz Workshop,
25th Anniversary Summer Season, 8/3, with Pete Amahl
& the Night Visitors, featuring Kanoa Kaluhiwa, "Trane
Tribute" |
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1997
Season
| February |
Madrid |
Mineshaft
Tavern: Neal Cassidy Birthday Celebration, 2/13,
"Voice of God" and "Trane Tribute |
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Albuquerque |
Albuquerque
Poetry Festival, 2/19, "Voice of God" |
October |
Albuquerque |
Outpost Performance Space, with Pete Amahl & the
Night Visitors, "Trane Tribute/Voice of God" |
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1998
Season
| February |
Santa
Fe |
Drama
Club, Joe Ray Sandoval's Poetry night, 2/10 |
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Cerrillos |
Railhouse
Café, Neal Cassidy Annual Birthday Celebration,
2/12, "Voice
of God" and "Hot Lips" |
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Albuquerque |
Albuquerque
Poetry Festival, 2/18, Erotic Night, "Hot Lips" |
March |
Albuquerque |
Live performance on KUNM-FM: “Sex,”
“Lyric, Drugs & Crime” and “God”
[recorded Raw CD) |
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2009
Season
| June |
Taos |
Verse
/ Converse Festival, Anglada, 6/6 , “Wordstorming” |
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