7th Annual DC Poetry Fest 2011 in Honor of Gil Scott-Heron @ Carter Barron August 20, 2011

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Carter  Barron Amphitheater 16th & Colorado Ave., NW Washington, DC

 

 

2011 Annual DC Poetry Festival

In Honor of Gil Scott-Heron

August 20, 2011

7:00 pm

Charlotte Fox

Executive Producer
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Free Yvette Benjamin,

Rod-zilla the Blackademic,

Brother Earl,

 

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George V. Johnson, Jr.,

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CeLilliane Green,

Kyndall Brown,

Noah & Nigel Williams,

Luis Rumbaut

VOTE GIL SCOTT - HERON INTO THE GRAMMYS

 

GIL SCOTT HERON

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2011 Annual DC Poetry Festival at the Carter Barron Amphitheater

 

Charlotte Fox is an entrepreneur, for the past ten years she has produced the Annual DC Poetry Festival. This Annual Event brings together artist from every Ward in the District of Columbia and world reknowned artist, as well. This Festival is held every August at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre, in Rock Creek Park.

Ms. Fox,  co-wrote the Winning Proposal for the Restoration of the Historic Howard Theatre. In her role as Executive Director of the Howard Theatre, Ms. Fox wrote and won the Save America’s Treasures Grant from the National Park Service.

As a Community Leader she built a student bank in a District of Columbia Public School and created a $150,000 Endowment for 15^thStreet Presbyterian Church, in Washington, D.C.  She was a Volunteer for the Congressional Balck Cacus Foundation, a Volunteer for a Presidental Inaugration and co-wrote language in the National Education Bill that states “children must be taught how to save an invest their money.”

She has a passion for music and poetry and is also the President of Genesis Poets LLC and Genesis Poets Music, Inc., an Independent Record Label in Washington, D.C. She is also a Voting Member of The Grammys.

Under her leadership Genesis Poets, was responsible for the creation, production and innovative digital distribution of Spoken Word Music/Poetry to a nationwide audience. This program featured artist from “U” Street in Washington, D.C., and Spoken Word artist from around the Country.

In 2005, Spoken Word Music made its début on Music Choice, the premier, multi-platform music network, this show aired three times weekly to over 44,000,000 households nationwide. It could be heard on Comcast, Direct TV, Time Warner and Cablevision.

Ms. Fox, also signed a worldwide Pressing and Distribution deal with Malaco Music Group of Jackson, Mississippi. In 2005 she released,  “Fusion: A Blend Of Poetry and Music. This CD features 18 of the countries “hottest” Spoken Word Artist, including poet/actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Tony Award winner, Poetry.

Ms. Fox was one of the many students trained at the renowned radio workshop in Washington, D.C., on Public Radio, “Spirits Know an Unknown.”

In 2006 Ms. Fox released a second CD "

 

 

 

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KUSH ABADEY

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Kush Abadey is an accomplished drummer & bandleader .  He currently attends Berklee College of Music and for the past few years the young Abadey performed and toured with Wallace Roney.  As a leader has also performed with his band Gyroscope at the Kennedy Center, East Coast and Duke Ellington Jazz Festivals and the Smithsonian Museum among others.

 

 

 

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Aisha Kahlil

CD Release Party

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Ms. Kahlil was voted best soloist by the Contemporary Acapella Society for her work on her own composition Fulani Chant, and also for her work on the classic See See Rider; as a member of the Grammy award winning ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. She was also a finalist with her own band in the annual contest “Battle of the Bands”, sponsored by Discmakers, and is a winner in the International Song Competition’s (ISC) performance category with her original composition “The Jewel Light”, a featured song on her first solo recording project Journey to My- Ka.

Aisha Kahlil possesses a dynamic, innate power and range in the forms of jazz and world music. Her rich, fluid vocal style encompasses traditional, contemporary, and original vocal styles and techniques.
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Armand Ntep is both a unique vocalist and a prolific, innovative composer. His vocal talent is broad in terms of octave and style from silky baritone croon to pygmy-inspired syncopation to tender tenor ballads. His compositions run the gamut from salsa Jazz to reggae to traditional "lihongo" from his native Cameroon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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