Ralph Alfonso

Ralph Alfonso is a Vancouver-based beat poet/jazz musician. He is the author of Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry (Water Row Books, 1997) and Ralph: This is For The Night People (Madrigal Books, 2001). His compact discs include Ralph, Coffee, Jazz and Poetry (1995), Ralph, Olympia '66 (1996), Ralph, Sophisticated Boom Boom (1997), and Ralph, This Is For The Night People (2001). He is currently working on a fifth album, All Directions Home. He has made television appearances on CBC, MuchMusic and Bravo! He has performed in Canada as well as the United Kingdom, Italy and the USA. He owns and operates the record label, Bongo Beat Records. In 2004, after the AICW conference in Udine, Ralph visited his ancestral town of Morrone del Sannio, in the Molise region, and sang at the Kalenarte Festival in Casacalenda.