Artistic Soul in the Heart of the Boot Saturday nights in Baton Rouge can be a drag when you 're an artist looking to get your five minutes of shine and turn-up all under one roof. A group of eclectic artists were inspired by random weekly hangouts, that originally began as discussions on love, debates about race and intense games of beer-pong. These nights would turn into full turn-up sessions and tear fest, where we ignored life and jam out like no other but, no one was ever watching. Nights like this we would record, replay later and marvel at the pure improv genius of all the local undiscovered talent. Melodic music and beautiful harmony aren 't the only things ringing the ears of listeners at these gatherings. Poets and scribes take the
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The night consisted of food, drinks, live entertainment, art vendors of all types, and a live DJ. Baton Rouge is a fertile place for the idea because its profitable and a step towards the growth of the art culture here. Giving local artist of all kinds an opportunity to share their art with people of all shapes and sizes is the main goal of this movement. The phrase "jam session" came from a period of time where white and black musicians would congregate after their regular paying gigs, to play the jazz they couldn 't play in the "Paul Whiteman" style bands. Thus, the birth of “jam sessions.”(Mezzrow) Diversity at these gatherings tend to be a 100% reoccurrence, because of the pureness of art everyone feels accepted and given the chance to speak and …show more content…
It empowers them to be more authentic and deliberately uninhibited in their expression of art. Random times and places sporadically chosen builds the improvability of each individual artist, and or group that participates. Now that you’ve gotten an idea of what this movement looks like and how this idea came about dating back to the 1920’s, i’d like to invite every reader to find an event or jam session to attend as soon as you can, to experience a different culture in Baton Rouge that not many people know exist. Small sub-cultures have great potential to grow in cities largely populated by college students because of the need of acceptance and expression. However, this is not a sub-culture its a movement of love that I hope artists around the globe embrace more to become more fluent in “truality” versus perception in
The night consisted of food, drinks, live entertainment, art vendors of all types, and a live DJ. Baton Rouge is a fertile place for the idea because its profitable and a step towards the growth of the art culture here. Giving local artist of all kinds an opportunity to share their art with people of all shapes and sizes is the main goal of this movement. The phrase "jam session" came from a period of time where white and black musicians would congregate after their regular paying gigs, to play the jazz they couldn 't play in the "Paul Whiteman" style bands. Thus, the birth of “jam sessions.”(Mezzrow) Diversity at these gatherings tend to be a 100% reoccurrence, because of the pureness of art everyone feels accepted and given the chance to speak and …show more content…
It empowers them to be more authentic and deliberately uninhibited in their expression of art. Random times and places sporadically chosen builds the improvability of each individual artist, and or group that participates. Now that you’ve gotten an idea of what this movement looks like and how this idea came about dating back to the 1920’s, i’d like to invite every reader to find an event or jam session to attend as soon as you can, to experience a different culture in Baton Rouge that not many people know exist. Small sub-cultures have great potential to grow in cities largely populated by college students because of the need of acceptance and expression. However, this is not a sub-culture its a movement of love that I hope artists around the globe embrace more to become more fluent in “truality” versus perception in