s3e30 – Bev Grant, Charlie Rosario, Henry Grimes
Living an Artist’s life
s3e30
October 9, 2025
Bev Grant, speaks about her life as a songwriter, photographer and activist. We hear more of Charlie Rosario’s experiences making record cover art, new music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra and some poetry by Henry Grimes.
CREDITS– HOST: Martha Cinader, Jay Rodriguez Sierra. FEATURED GUESTS: Bev Grant, Charlie Rosario. FEATURED SPOKEN WORD:Henry Grimes read by Jay ROdriguez. MUSIC: Bev Grant- We Were There, Mama’s Leaving Home, Jay Rodriguez Sierra. ORIGNAL SOUNDTRACK, MIXING, MASTERING, SOUND DESIGN: Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
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Bev Grant – social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, photographer, filmmaker
Read more: Bev Grant – social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, photographer, filmmakerBev Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, “cultural worker” from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 40 years. She is the co-creator of a women’s labor history multi-media presentation entitled “We Were There!” has recorded six albums, including a companion cd for the show, called “We Were There!”, a…
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Charlie Rosario
Read more: Charlie RosarioCharlie Rosario is a graphic designer, visual artist, drummer and poet of Puerto Rican parentage who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. In the late 1960s he began his career in Latin album cover art with a psychedelic painting for Tito Puente (The King Tito Puente / El Rey Tito Puente, Tico Records, 1969),…
FEATURED BOOKS
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Pablo Yglesias – Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art
Read more: Pablo Yglesias – Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover ArtDriving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling record covers that present this music to the world. Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art draws together the most…
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Henry Grimes – Signs along the Road
Read more: Henry Grimes – Signs along the RoadThere is a fine line between self-emancipation and existential oblivion, as the life of Henry Grimes and the poems of SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD clearly illustrate. A master bassist who played with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, he also sent tremors through the free-jazz world with the definitive style of…
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