Open Secret’s 2 year B-Day is this evening! That intimate community open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais in the Latin Quarter. At 8pm, nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9’s your show…Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).
Our theme for this Wednesday is “Make a joyful noise!” Jalil Belbekri is a master of the Moroccan gembri, & truly knows how to engage an audience…Here’s a listen to Jalil’s music…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZX2frOUKAk
Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/295205030881794/
Kristina Vaughan is a Parisian songwriter. She learnt classical piano in French conservatoires, honed the craft of singing and songwriting with coach Jessica Saraf (Sanseverino, Calogero) and started giving concerts in 2013, first as a soloist, then in duo and trio setups. Her music is a blend of Anglo-Saxon and European sounds, as she draws inspiration both from her Czech and Italian origins and from important figures of English songwriting (Sinead O’Connor, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morissette, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice…). In impressionistic tunes reminiscent of broken cliffs, running water and angry skies, the pianist-singer spins yarns about love, hope and engagement with the world, accompanied by cellist-backup singer Marie Potosniak and, successively, drummer Guillaume Valette, beatboxer Skysoul, and drummer Raphaël Meyrier.
Raluca Petrescu was born in 1990 in Iași, Romania. She integrated the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2012, and finished a MA in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne, working on Shakespeare, Fernando Pessoa, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. She writes in and translates to and from romanian, french and english. She published poems in The Bastille and the Belleville Park Pages, and literary criticism Rimbaud vivant.
Filippa is a 24-year-old native Swede who currently resides in Montmartre. She spent recent years in London earning a degree in English Lit and Creative Writing. Her poems have featured in magazines as well as an anthology, and she is the winner of a South-East London poetry prize.
Anna Polonyi is a Franco-American-Hungarian poet and writer. Her first collection of poems, Wayword, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press in February 2017. She is the former recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in Germany and the 2015 Sylvia Beach Short Fiction Prize, awarded by Paris Lit Up. She works as a journalist in Paris – most recently for the International New York Times. 
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