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Blair

D. BLAIR is a poet / singer-songwriter / performer and spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times "focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair." Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times. His new one man show Burying the Evidence is new ground for Blair. The new and rewritten material for the theater piece is already receiving great reviews at previews in Detroit and Chicago and being written about in Detroit's Between the Lines Newspaper and Northwest Airlines World Traveler Magazine.

BLAIR's poetry has been published in a myriad of journals and newspapers around the country including Alabama State University's Punch and in the forthcoming Black Rennaissance Noire (NYU Press). In 2005 he was the featured artist on the HBO Def Poetry Jam website. In 2004, Blair was an artist in residence with Inside Out Literary Arts Project, an organization that brings poets, writers and artists into Detroit Public Schools. As both a performer and a writer Blair toured to KwaZulu Natal in South Africa with the experimental theater piece, The Walking Project. The Project put together by Walk & Squawk Theater Co. was a multi-media project centered around the politics, purpose and occupation of the simple act of walking.

BLAIR and/or his band Urban Folk Collective has shared bills with Stevie Wonder, Academy Award winner Michael Moore, Mike Doughty, Bitch and Animal (Righteous Babe Records), The Butchies, Wilco, Evelyn Harris (Sweet Honey in the Rock), Richie Havens, Cat Power and more...

In 2006, besides performing Burying the Evidence in various venues, Blair will also rejoin Inside Out as a writer in residence and facilitate classes on The History of Black America as told through Music at Hannan House, a senior center in Detroit.