Berklee College of Music and ACT Roxbury Present Hip-Hop Empowerment Summit: Making Your Music Heard Saturday, February 4, Noon Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall
BOSTON, MA, January 19 , 2006 — Berklee College of Music and ACT Roxbury are presenting Hip-Hop Empowerment Summit: Making Your Music Heard, a free event, on Saturday, February 4, 2006, from noon to 2:30 p.m., at Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall, 186 Dudley St., Roxbury, MA. The summit, which opens with a keynote address by Bill Banfield, Professor of Africana Studies/Music and Society at Berklee, will focus on empowering young underground hip-hop artists to make their music heard and feature a panel discussion with members of the local hip-hop community and media. The event will also include a live freestyle showcase for new hip-hop artists ages 13-21. For more information, or to sign up for the showcase, please call 617-541-3900 x2321 or visit www.actroxbury.org.
Noon – Bill Banfield, Professor of Africana Studies/Music and Society at Berklee College of Music, delivers the keynote address "Take Back the Music."
12:30 p.m. – Make Your Music Heard panel discussion, moderated by Bill Banfield.
Panelists include:
Renee Graham, a Boston Globe correspondent writing about hip-hop, and a pop culture correspondent for NPR (WBUR).
Raydar Ellis, Brick Records artist and 2005 Berklee graduate in Music Business/Management and Music Synthesis, will release his debut album Late Pass, featuring Ed O.G. and Esoteric, and produced by Ellis, Hezakiah, 7L, and Beyonder, in 2006.
Darcie-Nicole Wicknick, co-founder of the Boston Hip-Hop Alliance and founder of Ask Darcie music business consulting, is a 2001 Berklee graduate in Music Business/Management.
DJ Nomadik, founder of Soulkore Productions, a hip-hop/r&b radio DJ on WMBR 88.1 FM, and Malika of the Boston Chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation.
1:30 p.m. – Freestyle Showcase – A Berklee rhythm section backs local rappers and turntablists for a live set of local hip-hop, directed by David Cowan, Percussion Instructor at Berklee. Please sign up in advance at www.actroxbury.org, ages 13-21 only please.
Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principal that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For 60 years, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. With over a dozen performance and nonperformance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing over 70 countries, and a music industry "who's who" of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today — and tomorrow.
ACT Roxbury is the cultural economic development program of Madison Park Development Corporation. ACT (Arts, Culture & Trade) Roxbury celebrates culture and the arts and uses these assets to foster the physical, economic, and social revitalization of Roxbury. The organization hosts the Roxbury Arts Series; catalogues and publicizes Roxbury's artistic and cultural resources; hosts the Danette Jones Business of Culture Series; publishes an annual Roxbury Is Rich Holiday Shopping Guide; and hosts art shopping tours with Discover Roxbury. They also manage the Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall, a grand multipurpose two-story ballroom. ACT Roxbury is taking decisive action to reflect, preserve, and nurture arts, culture, and trade for the benefit of Boston's residents.
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