Love Music Hate Racism

Grassroots Festival presents a night of live roots dance music featuring Kava Kava, DJ Redlocz, Baby Jinx and Kurdish music and arts collective, Nvar.

The gig marks the final night of ‘Propaganda: Hull Rock Against Racism Posters ‘79 – ‘82’ exhibition which was launched at Hull’s first Winterlude Festival. For More info click HERE

Tickets are £4 on the door and proceeds from the gig will be donated to Love Music Hate Racism who state, “Our music is living testimony to the fact that cultures can and do mix. It unites us and gives us strength, and offers a vibrant celebration of our multicultural and multiracial society.”

Grassroots organiser Dave Okwesia explained, “The Full Flava collective will be releasing five albums this summer, so this gig will provide a taste of things to come, by previewing tracks and live cuts, at the Lamp.”

Kava Kava
Explosive Huddersfield live act Kava Kava have played festivals and clubs all over Europe including Glastonbury. Ultra experienced they fuse rock, soul and electronica with ease. The band’s highly rated album ‘Maui’ is released on singer Pat Fulgoni’s Chocolate Fireguard label casually kicking out a load of cool releases from French hip hop to Rock to Trip Hop.

Recently the band have been spun a good few times on highly influential DJ Nic Harcourt’s ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ radio show on KCRW, Los Angeles. Music from the band has also been featured in the first episode of Golden Globe award winning TV series ‘Weeds’

FUTURE MUSIC (UK) “The future of dance … you can hear why they are an essential live experience….”

DJ Redlocz
A mixture of up-tempo dub reggae and hip-hop, plus special guest MCs. DJ Redlocz is founder and member of Full Flava, Young Flava and Streetlife. The leading light of the Hull hip-hop scene, recently and regularly promoting UK and international artists such as Blak Twang, Skinnyman, Rodney P from BBC1 Extra, the Mixologists UK and World DMC finalists alongside emerging local hip-hop talent. Redlocz also delivers DJ, breakdance, graffiti and computer music workshops in Hull and throughout the North of England. After the release of the highly acclaimed “TotalConfunktion” DJ Redlocz presents live cuts taken from his eagerly awaited second album released out of the Full Flava Hip-Hop Lab.

Baby Jinx
Following debut album on Lowlife Records Label London, Baby Jinx - rapper from Malawi, Africa, living in Hull will perform tracks from his new EP. Last appearance at Grassroots supporting the Mad Professor, with his own brand of up-beat, party hip-hop.

Baby Jinx was born and brought up in African savannah lands of Malawi. With a lot of interest in music Jinx’s life was a radio to him. By the age of eight, Jinx’s interest in hip-hop music had grown and he attempted recording his first ever-composed song, which was only famous within his tiny bedroom. In 1999, Jinx together with long time friend formed a group known as “The Blind Vision family.”

It wasn’t until the year 2000 that Jinx’s voice was heard over Malawian airwaves under a Blind Vision release called “H.I.V.”, an AIDS song.

A year later as the duo prepared to drop an album, they released a double play with two songs; “As The World Turns” which was to the name of the album and “Battle of Rhymes” both of which enjoyed massive airplay on the airwaves of Malawi. In August 2002, the duo, Blind Vision, released their first album titled “As The World Turns” whose sales were quite satisfactory. That very month, Jinx travelled to UK to pursue further education. To-date, he is based in the city of Hull where he is studying and working on an underground album entitled “The Rapture” which he hopes to help him strike a deal in the UK hip-hop world.

Nvar Kurdish Music and Art Collective
Nvar present the recently acclaimed live music theatrical performance and art exhibition ‘Halabja’. It features paintings films and photographs with dance and live music from Gul Naz playing an irresistible mix of traditional and contemporary Kurdish music. Gul Naz’s infectious rhythms and choppy dance are performed on keys, dumbek, electric saz and violin.

Web links:
www.myspace.com/kavakavamusic
http://www.chocolatefireguard.com/artists_kava2.php
http://www.myspace.com/kavakavamusic
http://www.lovemusichateracism.com
http://www.hullrockagainstracism.co.uk
http://www.streetlifeworkshops.com
http://www.thelamp.net
http://www.ukhh.com/bhh/demos/babyjinx.htm

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