on The Frame, July 9, 2019
ANDREA GUTIERREZ
Tuesday Night Café is the longest-running Asian American performance series in the United States. For more than twenty years the series has provided a stage in L.A.’s Little Tokyo for musicians, singers, poets and other performers to try new material. But TNC is more than just another venue for a gig — it’s also deeply rooted in community, collaboration, and a sense of history. The Frame’s Andrea Gutierrez has the story.
The sky had begun to darken, but warmth still abounded as we watched performers bathed in yellow-stage lights bring an outdoor space surrounded by business towers and busy streets come to life. The wailing of a distant siren, car horns, and the sound of tires against rough pavement found harmony with the voices of slam poets, singers, and other Asian American performers.
The sky had begun to darken, but warmth still abounded as we watched performers bathed in yellow-stage lights bring an outdoor space surrounded by business towers and busy streets come to life. The wailing of a distant siren, car horns, and the sound of tires against rough pavement found harmony with the voices of slam poets, singers, and other Asian American performers.
The sky had begun to darken, but warmth still abounded as we watched performers bathed in yellow-stage lights bring an outdoor space surrounded by business towers and busy streets come to life. The wailing of a distant siren, car horns, and the sound of tires against rough pavement found harmony with the voices of slam poets, singers, and other Asian American performers.
