Revels Fringe

All Revels programs celebrate traditional music – but music has a habit of jumping fences. We created Revels FRINGE to introduce you to artists who create genre-bending music without borders: jazz-inflected traditional tunes, folk and classical instruments from around the world, exotic and invented instruments, familiar songs in unfamiliar settings… all living on the musical fringes!

Revels Fringe is produced in collaboration with Club Passim in Harvard Square.

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Revels Fringe at Passim: Stan Strickland and Regie Gibson

Celebrate National Poetry Month with music and poetry from acclaimed artists Stan Strickland and Regie Gibson! Held in Harvard Square’s legendary Club Passim, this program will infuse jazz with spoken word to create a captivating evening celebrating the power of words.

Revels is thrilled to welcome both Stan Strickland and Regie Gibson back to the Revels stage. Audiences may remember Regie’s performance in the 2021 Christmas Revels – The George and Dragon Inn, where Regie performed as the “Officer of the Revels” and wrote and starred in our rap battle mummers play. Stan Strickland is a long-time friend and collaborator of Revels, and has joined us for many Christmas Revels, RiverSings, Spring Sings, and more for over 40 years!

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Meet the Artists
Stan Strickland
Saxophone, Flute, Voice
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Stan Strickland
Saxophone, Flute, Voice

Singer, saxophonist, flutist, and actor, Stan Strickland has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Village People, Aretha Franklin, and jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw, and opened for Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Natalie Cole and The Bare Naked Ladies.

Stan is an associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music and executive co-director of Express Yourself, a multi-cultural arts organization that serves mentally ill youth through the Department of Mental Health. He received a MA degree from Lesley University in Expressive Arts Therapy with a major in dance therapy.

He has performed and worked with many modern dance companies including members of the Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon, and Bill T Jones companies and Dance Collective of Boston.

His one-man show “Coming Up For Air, An Auto-Jazzography”, tells the story of his near-death experience swimming in Hawaii and received the prestigious Eliot Norton Award in theatre for best solo performance.

Regie Gibson
Poet, Actor
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Regie Gibson
Poet, Actor

Regie Gibson has lectured & performed in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. Representing the U.S. in Italy,  he competed for & received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone & The Europa in Versi Award in LaGuardia di Como. Himself & his work appear in “love  jones”: a film based on events in his life. He has served as consultant for the NEA, has featured on HBO, several TED X events, & various NPR programs including On Point & Radio Boston. Regie has performed with & composed texts for The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale, & the Handel+Haydn Society. He is a Brother Thomas Fellow & has received two Live Arts Boston Grants for his first play, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae in which he uses the Euripidean tragedy to explore African-American history, culture, and spirituality. He appeared in “Black Odyssey Boston, (Underground Railway Theater & The Front Porch Arts Collective) & performs with Atlas Soul: a world music ensemble. He is Artistic Director of Shakespeare to Hiphop’s Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy: A multi-media performance focusing on the influence of William Shakespeare. He teaches at Clark University.

Revels Fringe at Passim: Stan Strickland and Regie Gibson
$25 /per ticket

$23 for Club Passim Members

April 18, 2025 8:00 pm ET

Doors open at 7 PM
Concert begins at 8 PM

Location

Club Passim
47 Palmer Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Learn more about parking and public transit options around Club Passim here.

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