Week six of ArtOrg’s the twelve-week Winter Concert Series features Neo-Beat/Dada poet and performance artist TED KING, word-smith and frontman for Opiate of the Masses and Dada Chacha, cult favorites in the Minneapolis jazz and hipster scene for many years, hooks up with some of the Cities’ best players to create this new show: “Part Charles Bukowski, part Carl Jung, and a whole lot of something else. It’s music, poetry, stand-up comedy, high risk over the line smart-ass stuff”. Outside, original, fresh, jazzy and raw! Ted will be joined by the Medusahead Cabaret featuring Susan Thurston Hamerski, JoAnne Makela, Glen Bourdot, and Lucy Sweitzer and many others. Ted’s Dada Chacha features Clint Hoover on harmonica and theremin, Bobby E. Ekstrand on guitar, and Stuart DeVaan (of Savage Aural Hotbed) on drums.

MEDUSAHEAD CABARETis a theater and word-arts performance production company in the Twin Cities. Poetry of MedusaHead mavens Susan Thurston Hamerski and JoAnne Makela is included in this special evening. Member of the Northfield Women Poets group, the newly released anthology “Penchant,” published by Heywood Press (2007) will be available. Lucy Sweitzer and Glenn Bourdot will be providing the music. MedusaHead’s MySpace page.

Ted’s Dada Chacha features Clint Hoover on harmonica and theremin. Recently, Clint and Papa John Kolstad played a SRO concert at the Riverview Cafe in Minneapolis. Clint’s latest album, The Clint Hoover Trio; “On This Day”, is getting airplay on jazz stations all over the country. Also, Bobby E. Ekstrand will be backing Ted on the guitar. Bobby is a virtuoso band leader and sought after session player, and his latest CD, “The Guitar”, is getting rave revues from around the country. Lastly, Stuart DeVaan will be on drums, and is a member of internationally known Savage Aural Hotbed, an industrial/taiko percussion group.