Amistad Arts Collective, Inc. is having a fundraiser!
Save Our Youth Tour '09. Hip-Hop Then & Now
May 30, 2009. 8pm 'til the lights go out
Featuring Performances by the Legendary Old Skool Rap Artist Kurtis Blow and Steezo (formerly w/ EPMD) as well as Brooklyn's newest Rap phenom, K Bain, along with 5 of Hip-Hop's hottest N.Y.C. Underground Indie Arts L.O., Bang Union. Doolie-O, and N.Y.C's famous Hip-Hop street dvd Team Flava link and the Baddest Djs on the East Coast Dj Bink B and the Hip-Hop Reggae King ID voted #1 Sound System at Portland's Hottest Music Venue
Tickets available May 1st at Port City Box Office and Bull Moose Music or on line at www.amistadartscollective.org Tickets $15 in advance $18 at the door.
Special VIP tickets $40.00 which include backstage green room access, Private seating with artist, personal photographs taken with your favorite artist by a professional photographer and autograph Krush Groove dvd, cds, and pictures while supply last. limited availability
This is to benefit our newest endeavor, Amistad Arts Academy, which will be located in the scenic mountain region of central Maine. AAA will be a private boarding school that will infuse an accredited top tier high school curriculum with an international studies program that has been created with the influences of curriculum's from UNESCO, Amistad America, Fambul Tok as well as some of the most noted international scholars. The program wil include a heavy dose of Arts education with noted artist like Daniel Mentor, Dr. Derrick "D Knowledge" Gilbert, Bryonn Bain, Bill Withers, Junus Huges, Abiodune Oyewole, Amiri Barraka, Sonjia Sanchez, as well as noted intellectual achievers Lonnie Guinier, Cornel West, Dr. Reginald Mayo, Dr. Charles Williams, Dr. Ibjama Archea, just to name some of the powerful influences that have added their expertise to a curriculum designed with an educational enrichment for youth whom are achievers but exposed to high risk environments of impoverished gang communities and drug infested homes. As well as youth who have the privilege of resources but just have brought into the new generational attitude of entitlement and rude selfish behaviors. It is AAA's goal to polish the worlds must precious resource, Our Youth.
To help kick off awareness and to raise money and friends, Amistad Arts Collective, Inc will kick off its first fund raiser for Amistad Arts Academy with a Hip-Hop concert headlined by the legendary Kurtis Blow.
Info about Kurtis Blow and K. Bain below
Minister Kurtis Blow Walker
In 1979, at the age of twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first Rapper to be signed by a major label. Mercury released “Christmas Rappin,” and it sold over 400,000 copies and it became an annual classic. Its gold follow-up “The Breaks” helped ignite a still-spreading international “Rap Attack.” He released 10 Albums over 11 years -- The first entitled “Kurtis Blow”, his full length debut and his second, a Top 50 Pop Album “Deuce,” a big hit across Europe; “Party Time” which featured a pioneering fusion of Rap and Go-Go; “Ego Trip,” which includes the hits “8 Million Stories”, “AJ”, and “Basketball” and in 1985, “America.” “America’s video innovation received a MTV Monitor Award. From this album, the song “If I Ruled the World” became a top 5 hit on Billboard’s R & B chart. Columbia/Sony recording artist Nas debuted at # 1 on the Billboard’s Pop Album chart with a cover of the song in 1997.
He was honored to coordinate “King Holiday”, along with Dexter Scott King, a song to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday. The Mercury/Polygram single co-produced by Kurtis Blow includes the collaborative efforts of Whitney Houston, New Edition, Stephanie Mills, El Debarge, James “JT” Taylor of Kool & the Gang, The Fat Boys and Run DMC among others. It has become an annual Holiday Classic.
Besides his own work, Kurtis has been responsible for Rap hits by The Fat Boys and Run DMC. Run began his career billed as “The son of Kurtis Blow.” Love Bug Starski, Sweet Gee, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced or have worked with Blow in the past. Additionally former label mates Rene & Angela had their chart topping debut “Save Your Love for # 1” gift wrapped by Kurtis Blow. Here are many of the firsts credited to Kurtis Blow:
* First rapper to sign to a Major label * First certified gold record for rap (“The Breaks”) * First rapper to tour US & Europe (w/ The Commodores, 1980) * First rapper to record a national commercial (Sprite) * First rapper to use the drum machine, sample & sample loop * First rap music video (“Basketball”) * First rap producer (Rap's producer of the year in 1983-85) * First rapper featured in a soap opera (“One Life to Live”) * First rap millionaire
Kurtis Blow helped legitimize Hip Hop, and now, he intends to help redeem it.
K. BAIN
Social Entrepreneur and Hip Hop Artist. Accomplished writer, singer, actor and MC, Bain's credits include features with 60 Minutes, Fox News, The Village Voice, The Source Magazine, musical tours with Stephanie Mills, Be Be Winans, Malik Yoba, global appearances reaching Trinidad, Panama, Ghana and Germany. He has held his own on stages along side of artists such as Fabalous, Nas, Usher,The Roots, Jim Jones,.... K Bain has traverse his lyrical prowlness to other genres including R&B and Spoken Word where he has recorded with accomplished slam / spoken word poets such as the internationally acclaimed Bryonn Bain his brother and H'Allah Black
A founder of the grassroots organization Blackout Arts Collective, youth organizer for the Brooklyn college community partnership, Bain earned a B.A. in African Studies/Sociology, and a Masters in Urban Policy at Brooklyn College .
K Bain's newly released album, " City of God" has been hailed as..."future classic Brooklyn."
Social Entrepreneur and Hip Hop Artist. Accomplished writer, singer, actor and MC, Bain's credits include features with 60 Minutes, Fox News, The Village Voice, The Source Magazine, musical tours with Stephanie Mills, Be Be Winans, Malik Yoba, global appearances reaching Trinidad, Panama, Ghana and Germany. He has held his own on stages along side of artists such as Fabalous, Nas, Usher,The Roots, Jim Jones,.... K Bain has traverse his lyrical prowlness to other genres including R&B and Spoken Word where he has recorded with accomplished slam / spoken word poets such as the internationally acclaimed Bryonn Bain his brother and H'Allah Black