| Friday Jun 14, 2013 8:00 PM - Friday Jun 14, 2013 11:00 PM | $10.00 |
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Femi the DriFish, Sahffi & Poet Christopher KP Brown
Femi the DriFish - www.reverbnation.com/thedrifish
Femi the Drifish is British born Nigerian Native, Baltimore City Resident lyricist, song writer, & spoken word poetry's answer to Fela Kuti, Old Dirty Bastard & Freddie Mercury. In front of audiences he is passionate, animated & ferocious on the microphone, backed The Out of Water eXperience band that goes beyond rocking stages, more like avalanche places with their musical performing talents. Pulling from various genres for the most energetic meaningful display of showmanship they dub themselves, Soul-Lyrical-HipHop-Funk-Rock.
The Dri Fish has been a professional performance artist for over twelve years, honing his audacious lyrical skills and intense stage presence at venues across the country, ranging from private parties and nightclubs to college campuses. The Dri Fish's journey as a performer has included serving as one the lead lyricists for the hip hop-meets-spoken word duo THE 5th L. As part of THE 5th L, he has performed on BET's Lyric Cafe' and shared stages with artists such as Musiq Soulchild, Saul Williams, Fertile Ground, Ursula Rucker, Raheem DeVaughn, Bill Cosby, and KRS One. Femi The DriFish & The Out of Water eXperience was also 98 Rocks (97.9fm Baltimore) band of the month for the month of July 2012.
Sahffi - www.sahffi.com
Spreading Light & Love,
One Song at a Time.
Sahffi spreads her message of "Light, Love & Peace through Self-Awareness" with her spontaneous blend of folk, rock and blues, all stemming from her early training in classical music.
Sahffi is not only an accomplished musician and vocalist as well as a popular private teacher (see "Lessons" page), she is also accomplished performer. Sahffi & Her Band were featured artists at CenterStage's cabaret in Baltimore, Md, in March, 2012 and performed at Artscape in 2010, America's largest open-air art festival. As a member of the international acoustic duo, "goatFISH," she's opened for national acts Carbon Leaf and Rusted Root, and her calendar stays full throughout the year (see "Calendar" page).
As an international singer/songwriter, Sahffi claims a recent #1 hit entitled "Summer Breeze" in South Africa with producer N'Dinga Gaba, plus a #1 download "Live 4 Now" on Traxsource as a member of the international house group "t3N." Sahffi was also awarded a 2010 Individual Artist Grant awarded by The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts and The Maryland State Arts Council.
Christopher KP Brown - www.reverbnation.com/ChristopherKP
Christopher released his latest CD, POETRY: a hip hop album in September of 2007, just a few months after graduating from Mercer University with a degree in African American Studies. The first half of POETRY: a hip hop album focuses on Black male identity with poems such as Losing Isaiah and Rhyme Scheme while the second half serves as a tribute to Black women with poems like Mahagony, SGA (Sanchez, Giovanni, Angelou), and A Poem 4 My Mother. In the summer of 2008, Christopher embarked upon a ten show tour known as the Straight No Chaser tour. Motivated by the acquittal of the police officers who killed young African American male, Sean Bell, the tour expanded the 2 Pens & Lint support base and improved the sells of POETRY: a hip hop album. He created a buzz for the tour by producing his own mixtape, The Straight, No Chaser mixtape. After sending out 500 free copies of the mixtape to those who supported his career over the years, he headed to Atlanta, Macon, Little Rock, Baltimore, and Washington DC to do shows. Now that he has graduated and is focused on doing poetry full time, Christopher is working everyday to establish 2 Pens & Lint as a well known and respected company that concentrates on building poetry as an industry in which poets are able to pay their bills and feed their families with money made from the works they create. When 2 Pens & Lint was created simply as a website back in 2003, Christopher was only 18 years old. Since then he's studied the poetry industry; he's had successes and failures in poetry; but most importantly he feels that he's still young enough to live up to the 2 Pens & Lint motto of moving towards "A New Direction In Poetry".
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LocationIndie Adams Morgan The Venue (View)
2325 18th Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20009
United States
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