Radio23 Launch Party, featuring Tiny Toones
Thursday April 23rd, 8pm - 1am
The Bellhouse (off the Gowanas Canal near Park Slope, Brooklyn)
149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Tickets:$10
Grade 13
Grade 13 is a group of teenage girls from New York who - through the viBeSongMakers program and under the direction of Young People's Katie Eastburn - met last August to write and record a collection of original songs in collaboration with professional musicians. The resulting album, "Sidewalk Chalk," released with the girls, ranging in age from 15 to 18. tackles themes of self-acceptance, poverty, sexual identity, broken families and the pain and confusion of young love with insight and playfulness, unflinching honesty and at times a surprising sense of maturity.
Nine 11 Thesaurus is a group of middle schoolers who broadcast every week on R23 from IS 291 in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Tiny Toones (1st NYC appearance) from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Blast Off!!!
Blast Off!!! improvises music for brain melting and feet dancing.
GOD
GOD could be compared to folks like AMM or the Improvised Music From Japan crew, due to the meticulous attention paid to the construction of even the most minute sounds in their pieces.
Alexis O'Hara
Alexis O'Hara is a trilingual performance artist with a penchant for experimentation: Producing street theatre in Toronto, making dirty movies in Vancouver, frying her ass for the art-hungry hordes in Geneva, and singing in a myriad of musical projects from jazz combos, to all-girl punk outfits and improv electronic jam collectives
Roberto C. Lange + David Ellis
Over the past couple of years, Roberto has teamed up with visual and sound artist David Ellis to compose his kinetic sculpture creations - the most recent, a 25-foot catfish with paint cans for teeth and fly swatters for taste buds. The catfish is skinned with 12" LP records and beat boxes. Currently, Roberto is working with prolific music producer Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73), helping to produce and create a new palate of sounds for the forthcoming Prefuse 73 album.
Prefuse 73
Hip-hop and avant-rock band
DJ Marty McSorley
The Metasynergistics Evaluative Media Experience
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Tiny Toones Rocks New York Benefit
Friday April 24th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Bob Rock Studio
873 Broadway (@ 18th Street above Union Square)
Suite 302 (Intercom - 0013)
NY, NY 10003
Tickets: $50 minimum donation
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Video Skype greeting from Tiny Toones founder in Phnom Penh;
Live performances by five b-boys, b-girl, and mc of Tiny Toones;
MC performance by Tame One
Known for both his vocal presence on the mic and his trademark graffiti, Tame One brings a classical element of style and grace to the rap music scene, and the hip-hop culture in general, that few artists can rival.
MC performance by Silent Knight
Emerging from the New Jersey underground Urban performance circuit comes Silent Knight, a recording artist who brings a new glimmer of hope to Hip-Hop culture. This Brooklyn born - Tri State raised performer is an emcee whose electric stage presence and poignant lyrical abilities are smartly matched by his tastefully scathing social and political views.
Music by DJ Chris Robinson and DJ Ings
Three-piece funk and soul performance by PVD
B-Boy Performance by Breaks Kru
Breaks Kru is one of the few Hip-Hop crews representing all elements of Hip-Hop in its truest and most original form.. This is a tight knit family of Hip-Hop artists from New York City, with members representing all across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Florida, California, and even Canada. Est. since 1996 and still running strong, each member expresses himself through a variety of different styles and personalities, making Breaks Kru one of the most recognized Hip-Hop groups in the world. They continue to compete, perform, and teach workshops, while always representing New York City to the fullest.
For more info as well as booking information, visit BREAKSKRU.COM for its future site.
tinytoonescambodia.com
globalfundforchildren.org
bobrockstudio.com
radio23.com
Fundraiser contact: Michael 908-399-7477
Radio23 contact: Jeff Simmons
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Many children in Cambodia struggle daily, coming from broken families and living in the urban poverty of Phnom Penh. Through hip-hop music, breakdancing, and education, Tiny Toones provides an oasis for thousands of street kids, keeping them away from gangs, drugs, sexual and labor exploitation. Tiny Toones provides the children of cambodia with a place to dance, room to study, positive role models to follow, and a reason to believe in a better tomorrow.
