Buddy Wakefield with special guests Whitney Chitwood & Davon Clark

Busted Mouth welcomes Buddy Wakefield back to Chicago to headline a one night only celebration of poetry, comedy, and music. Joining Wakefield are comedian Whitney Chitwood and performance poet Davon Clark. Busted Mouth host and founder, J.W. Basilo, sitting in as one-man house band. Tim Stafford will serve as emcee. Tickets are limited. Copies of Buddy's new book, "A Choir of Honest Killers," will be available for purchase. --- BUDDY WAKEFIELD is a three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and has been signed to both Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records as well as Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the first Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear, then went on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in over 2000 venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park, Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and The Basement in Sydney, Australia.

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