Janna Levin Instagram – October 15th Pioneer Works welcomes its virtual likeness, Pioneer Works Broadcast, into the real world for the inaugural Broadcast Bash. We’ll be celebrating the artists, scientists, musicians, and writers who’ve made this digital experiment possible, as well as the readers who make the work worthwhile. Enjoy food and drink, music and performance, and surprise special guests—all live, in-person, and off our screens.
The evening will include ruminations on the cosmos by Broadcast editor-in-chief Janna Levin, prose by Elvia Wilk and Eileen Myles; a special musical act by Swamp Dogg; and DJ sets by Black Helmet and Chances With Wolves. Outside in the garden, telescopes from the Amateur Astronomers Association and other offerings will be situated alongside a bar and food catered by Eat Offbeat.
Launched in Spring 2020, the Pioneer Works Broadcast encourages radical thinking across the arts and sciences. Through narrative journalism, essays, criticism, and original video and audio, The Broadcast extends the spirit of Pioneer Works beyond its physical walls. Noted contributors include astrophysicists Adam Becker and Joe Patterson, cultural critics Gary Indiana and Sasha Frere-Jones, autofiction pioneer Chris Kraus, New York Times bestselling authors Lauren Groff and Naomi Klein, and poets Kaveh Akbar and Eileen Myles.
Jerry Williams––aka Swamp Dogg––began his professional singing career as Little Jerry Williams back in the ’50s before working as an A&R man for Atlantic Records in the late ’60s. Following 2018’s critically acclaimed Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune—his first LP to debut on 11 Billboard charts and his first chart ink since his 1970 song “Mama’s Baby – Daddy’s Maybe”—Sorry You Couldn’t Make It allows Swamp to finally dive into the sound he grew up playing. With the support of Pioneer Works Press, they recorded the album at Nashville’s Sound Emporium with Ryan Olson as producer, and backed by a crack studio band led by Derick Lee, a keyboard virtuoso who worked as the musical director of BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel Show for nearly four decades. https://pioneerworks.org/programs/broadcast-bash | Posted on 04/Oct/2022 00:55:25
