[Thespiritexpress] Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series, Saturday, March 29, 4-6 PM

[Ed Balldinger]

Greetings, Fellow Spirit Expressors!

I want to share with everyone how excited and honored I am to be one of two
featured readers this Saturday at the Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series:

Where:  Mendocino Art center, Stevenson Studio
When: 4-6 pm Saturday, March 29th

The series will begin with two featured poets, Ed Balldinger and David
Partch, followed by a brief break and then an open mic for anyone willing
to share their work or the work of others.  This event is free and
donations are welcome to help cover the cost of room rental.

I hope to see everyone there who can make it.

~ Ed Balldinger


*Ed Balldinger Bio*

Music has been an enormous guide in Ed's life, coming in the shape
notes of church acapella singing, songs on transistor and antique
radios, and cousins who were instrumentalists, songwriters, and singers.

Ed has co-written, co-produced, played instruments and sung on 11
musical albums with 2 groups, the WNGC and the Mood Groove, consisting
of exceptionally talented musicians in the Sacramento area over the past
45 years.  He's been recording music since 1980.

Ed self-published his only book of poetry to date in 2009 called,
"From Cavity's Kitchen to the Bone Comber's Home."  He has had poems
published in these Cold River Press anthologies: Quiet Rooms 2020;
Voices 2022: Fantasies, Demons & Lovers; Voices 2023: Dahlias, Gods &
Mermaids; and Voices 2024: Anomalies, Pathologies & Paradise, D.R.
Wagner Memorial Issue.  Ed will have more of his work included in the
upcoming anthology of Voices 2025: Mysticism, Prophecies & Marigolds.
Many of Ed's poems written over the past 20 years can be found on this
site: https://allpoetry.com/Balldinger.

Ed is currently working on a collection of his recent poetry which
will be published and available in both written and spoken form upon
completion sometime in 2025.  Last, but not least, Ed and JK Northrup (2
of the WNGC and the Mood Groove dudes) will be releasing a compilation
album of the best WNGC and Mood Groove songs from the past 28 years by
the middle of 2025.  Ed can be contacted by email at balldinger at gmail.com
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