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aja monet Tour Dates and Upcoming Concerts

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On tour Yes
Followers 2,106
Category Jazz, Spoken Word, Blues, Poetry
Concerts
Jan
09
aja monet plus Sophye Soliveau and Fay Victor
New York
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Jan
13
Strata East Rising
New York
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About aja monet
aja monet’s poems are a work of gravity. They are a fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon and enacted towards. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, allowing them to exist in converse. In her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy. As a community organizer, surrealist blues poet and teacher aja monet moves between mediums, each one an element to her writing. Here, organizing and activism aren’t the point, they’re the process. The endgame is liberation and the poems, the music, and the art serve as the scribe of the time. Building off a tradition rooted in oratorical facility aja is the conduit for her predecessors to channel through. At any given time you’ll find the revolutionary spirit of Audre Lorde and the Last Poets, you’ll feel June Jordan, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez and even the expressive ephemerality of a passing blue note. All appearing as generational trees from which these poems fruit. aja monet has been a poet in name since before birth. In her 2017 debut collection of poems my mother was a freedom fighter, she outlines in give my regards to Brooklyn, “i owe my life/to the woman/who stopped my mother/on the b56/on her way/to the abortion clinic/and told her/ you have a poet coming.” She has been a poet in verb since youth, “I started writing when I was 8 or 9 — [but] I think I was a poet before I wrote my first poem.” She matriculated in writing upon enrolling in Baruch College Campus High School and then in joining Urban World NYC. She cut her teeth within the walls of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café, where she won the title of Grand Slam Champion in 2007 at age 19, making her the youngest Grand Slam Champion in the venue’s history. She grew up in Brooklyn, where the incessant harassment of the Black community by way of the police was an untenable growing pain. Here in between the raucous and propulsive insistence of rap and the predetermined experience of Black people in America she learned to navigate language. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and living briefly in Paris, aja monet co-edited Chorus: A Literary Mixtape alongside poet-actor-director Saul Williams and released two chapbooks of poetry The Black Unicorn Sings and Inner-City Cyborgs and Ciphers. Throughout her journeys, her poems always have a way of pointing back to home – aware and paying homage to from whence she came.
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Genres
Jazz, Spoken Word, Blues, Poetry
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aja monet Tour Cities
New York, NY

Frequently Asked Questions About aja monet

Concerts & Tour Date Information

Is aja monet on tour?

Yes, aja monet is currently on tour. If you’re interested in attending an upcoming aja monet concert, make sure to grab your tickets in advance. The aja monet tour is scheduled for 2 dates across 1 cities. Get information on all upcoming tour dates and tickets for 2024-2025 with Hypebot.

How many upcoming tour dates is aja monet scheduled to play?

aja monet is scheduled to play 2 shows between 2024-2025. Buy concert tickets to a nearby show through Hypebot.

When does the aja monet tour start?

aja monet’s tour starts Jan 09, 2025 and ends on Jan 13, 2025. They will play 1 cities; their most recent concert was held in New York at Le Poisson Rouge and their next upcoming concert will be in New York at Le Poisson Rouge.

What venues is aja monet performing at?

As part of the aja monet tour, aja monet is scheduled to play across the following venues and cities:

2025 Tour Dates:

Jan 09 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
Jan 13 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
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