FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Summer Festival and Record Release
EVENT TITLE?
– Youth Against Violence
Thursday,
July 2nd, 2009 (5-9PM)($2)
Bank of America City Center
Two Kennedy Plaza
Providence,
RI 02903
This
July 2nd 2009, local hip-hop artist Inkwell, in collaboration with
AS220 and the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, presents an
all day event at the open-air Bank of America City Center. This celebration
falls just two days after the official release of “Inkubator”, Inkwell’s second
full-length album, and will serve as the record release party for this mixtape
featuring original and remixed beats united with Inkwell’s characteristically
“real” and hopeful lyrics. The
album, entirely mixed and mastered by the artist, will no doubt be received
enthusiastically; Inkwell’s first full-length album, released in August 2008,
was downloaded a thousand times in just one week.
In
addition to celebrating the release of
“Inkubator”, Inkwell hopes that through positive music and presenting
creative alternatives, this all-day event will help to promote non-violence
among Providence’s struggling youth. Homicide figures from 1999–2002 showed a
rate among 15-24 year olds double the overall rate in Rhode Island (WISQARS,
2005). In 2009, rumors and heart-rending incidents of gang violence are on
everyone’s mind; at this event, those most affected will make their voices
heard presenting forthright speeches and spoken word pieces about how violence
has affected them.
Confirmed
performers at the daytime event will include: Rhapdody, Araab Muzik, K.I.T.,
RIP, Drty Money, and GuttaFly, with DJ Ghost providing beats for the
event. There will also be a break
dancing battle with a cash prize of $250 for the top performer. An after party
will also follow later in the evening from 10-1AM at Firehouse No. 13 located at 41 Central St, Providence, RI (Behind McDonalds on Broad St.)
Born in
Boston and raised in Atlanta, Inkwell’s music is heavily influenced by old
school hip-hop and soul as well as current hip-hop, but his main inspiration,
however, is his own father, a well-known trumpet player in Atlanta who passed
away when Inkwell was still a young boy. After moving to Providence, Inkwell
was motivated to follow in the footsteps of his father and started recording
his own music on a tape recorder at home. At only 15 Inkwell laid down his
first tracks at a professional recording studio. Presently, Inkwell is the host
of the only Hip-Hop Open Mic Night at AS220 in downtown Providence and the
in-house engineer for other young artists at AS220’s Broad Street Studio. To
date, the seventeen-year old has performed at several Rhode Island venues
including The Living Room, AS220, and The Providence Black Repertory Company
and been featured in such publications as The Providence Journal, Rhode Island
Monthly, and The Providence Phoenix.
For
more information about this event, please contact:
or
Cheryl
Kaminsky
401-831-9327
(x116)
Thanks
to NU Companie, Nice Slice and Extreme Pizza & Wings for their financial
and/or in kind contributions to these efforts.