Beat icon Neal Cassady, shown pondering the songs on a jukebox, will be honored in memory at the 6th annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash in Denver. (Photo courtesy Carolyn Cassady)
Itap that time again: the birthday bash for Denver’s favorite native son, rogue version. Yes, we are talking about , the Beat icon, hero of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and muse to Allen Ginsberg who name-checks him in “Howl.”
Cassady, who grew up in a series of Larimer Street flophouses and was in and out of reform school before becoming a literary legend, would have turned 89 on Feb. 8.
The sixth annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash will honor his raucous memory on Feb. 6 at the Mercury Café at 2199 California St. As usual, itap a good lineup.
The David Amram Quartet will play (Amram collaborated with Kerouac decades ago). Members of the Cassady clan will be there, including daughters Jami and Cathy and son Robert Hyatt.
Denver poets Ed Ward and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn will also attend. Ditto for Tim Hernandez, author of “Manana Means Heaven.”
Tickets are $20. They’re available at . The all-ages event. Doors open at 7 p.m. and things get underway at 8 p.m.
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