Vancouver / 1st.Black Music Month Closing show / June 2009

Still coming down from our opening event that saw a packed house (standing room only) with awesome performances. Nuff respect.

Well were here doing it again topping it...with more live performance from an array of Vancouver Urban Artists getting together closing out the Month with a BANG!!!

Again we big up generas of African, Caribbean & North American music, past/present/future of the Black diaspora and their contribution in music as we hear it today. also...
the importance of such an event is unifying our cultural diversity and rhythms, spoken in song & beats for the humanity of our community. 1LuV, 1Heart!

This time around we have...
Recording artist ZENOBIA SALIK

ANDRE BENJAMIN (not the rapper) but a contemporary Jazz/ Soul artist living in the 604...and ripping it up!

Back again to drop her nu-jazz & RnB styles... soul sistha
Patrica Raye with a groove concept of flipping the old... like bran new...

back'n them all up is bassist... Michael Alleyne and keyboardist Lawrence Santos Plus+
Surprise guest from the film & soundtrack "Fade to Black"
BLU MANKUMA dropping the spoken-word lyrics entitled "BloodChild" by the duo Chris Guy a.ka Clev & and the man who makes this all possible Lincoln Thorne a.ka 'Rebelinx'
they will also be dropping songs from there album DOPE NEW SOUL CATS. and Linx début solo album FISTULA released earlier this year
+Special Guest:

Ezeadi Onukwulu [Afro Beat/High Life & traditional]
Clifton Pierre and his crew [SteelPan/calypso],
Anand Greenwell [sax] + others

...mc that night will be Carlos Joe Costa...continuing on Black music history and supporting inaugurating June as an official Black Music month here in Vancouver, BC..

The performance videographed compliments of I-Chieng w/ Chemical Key Films & Horace Thorne (HRimaging)

Event Promo by DRENCH ENTERTAINMENT / James Wanyee
and...
Fade to Black Productions

Category:

Music

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• lincolnthorne
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[lincolnthorne]

i loved all the colour on stage - really beautiful. and clifton pierre, zenobia and you + blu on bloodchild were really highlights in the video. that bloodchild man, a sweet sweet piece that needs its own videopoem.

Love t

tanya evanson

[Delisle4]

Hi Lincoln,

Thank you for sending me this!!! I will be in Vancouver from August 3rd to August 7th. Hope we might have time to catch up.

Khoba!

[Sakkiuh]

Go Uncle!