Sun Ra July 1973, San Francisco |
July 1973, San Francisco |
Sun Ra at the One World Family Berkeley, November 1974 |
Berkeley, November 1974 |
Sun Ra at The Bayou, DC, November 3, 1978 |
Washington, DC, 1978 |
Washington, DC, 1978 |
Sun Ra & the Arkestra at the Kool Jazz Festival, June 5, 1983, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC |
| Old Post Office Pavilion, DC, Halloween, October 28, 1984 |
| Old Post Office Pavilion, DC, Halloween, October 28, 1984 |
| October 11, 1986 Marshall Allen, Ronald Wilson, Tyrone Hill, John Gilmore |
| October 11, 1986 |
April 21, 1990 |
June 22, 1991 |
First Congregational Church, April 11, 1992 | |
Poet Trudy Morse, John Gilmore with the Arkestra, | |
Billy Bang with the Arkestra, | |
John Gilmore with tstarry skyhe Arkestra, |
Arkestra at the DC World Jazz Festival, | |
John Gilmore and Marshall Allen with the Arkestra |
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, in the Philadelphia on October 16, 1993 Fred Adams, Michael Ray, John Gilmore, Ahmed Abdullah, and Marshall Allen |
Washington, D.C., March 15, 1996 |
Sun Ra Tribute at the 1998 Chicago Jazz Festival |
The Arkestra at the 1999 Vision Festival |
March 11, 2000 |
at the State Theater, Falls Church, VA |
The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen at the 2009 Vision Festival
Along Came Ra was a 3-day celebration Of all things Sun Ra on the 30th anniversary of the 1984 Halloween Cosmic Costume Ball at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, DC. I photographed the 1984 costume contest winner then and it was incorporated into the ads and flyers for the weekend. The weekend featured the Sun Ra Arkestra concert Halloween night, with special guest Bernie Worrell. There was a street parade with costumes and musicians, and Januwa Moja's fashion show with the Arkestra jamming Space Is The Place while the ladies strutted across the stage. My photos were be exhibited at the Pop-Up Museum, where Marshall Allen, Danny Thompson, Januwa, and Bill Warrell delivered the artist's talk, moderated by Dr. Thomas Stanley. Sunday night, a group from the Burnt Sugar Arkestra presented an entire program of Sun Ra's music at Liv, upstairs from the Bohemian Caverns. |
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