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The Mercury Lounge upcoming shows

Early Show

Breez Evahflowin / Rabbi Darkside

Caits Meissner / Eagle Nebula

Venue:
The Mercury Lounge
Date:
Fri 7/30
Notes:
21+
Doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
$10
Tickets
Breez Evahflowin
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Rabbi Darkside
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RABBI DARKSIDE is a Buffalo-born Brooklyn-based Hip Hop Artist/Educator and NYC freestyle legend, known for rocking mics and crowds around the globe with a vigor and poetic tact rare in this age of water-downed pop rap. He has won a substantial number of prestigious battles and MC challenges in the new millennium (12-time "Sin Sin Off the Head Challenge" winner, 2-time "A to Z Emcee" winner, "Whose Rhyme is it Anyway" champ, 2004 NYC Kool Mixx Finalist), all while touring the U.S. and Europe with NYC trio 3rd Party. From the subways to school halls to stages, Rabbi D has sought and spread positive Hip Hop, and laid the foundation for “Building the Better Bomb,” his solo debut LP, released in the U.S. in July 2008 and Europe in September 2008. The new album is right on the heels of his national TV feature on MTV’s “MADE,” starring as the Hip Hop Head Coach, and on the wings of a European Summer Tour and Album Release Party in Prague, CZ.

Rabbi D is also a highly regarded DJ and beatboxer, holding down weekly residencies on the turntables in Manhattan and Brooklyn while performing as part of Beatboxer Entertainment. He is the lone American MC featured on the first human beatbox album from Czech Republic, “Beat Apetit,” which has produced a large following in Central Europe and a music video in heavy rotation in the Czech. On his global journey filled with teaching, DJing and crowd rocking, he has appeared alongside Talib Kweli, Slick Rick, The Last Poets, Wordsworth, Pigeon John, Common, Kanye West, Weldon Irvine, The Roots, DJ JS-1, Rahzel, Michael Winslow, and Kenny Mohammad.

In addition to his artistry, Rabbi D is one of the pre-eminent Hip Hop arts educators in New York City, with over 8 years of teaching experience in the public schools. Following 4 years of full-time work at MS 88 in Brooklyn, he made the shift to Arts Education. Currently he works as a Teaching Artist for Urban Arts Partnership, writing curriculum, delivering professional development and instructing courses in Performance Poetry, Songwriting, Music Production and Turntablism.
Caits Meissner
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Multi-disciplinary storyteller Caits Meissner uses an exciting blend of poetry, music, performance and visual art to deliver poignant testaments to the complexities of the human spirit. Caits has moved audiences from street corners to Columbia University, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe to Rikers Island. Winner of the OneWorld Poetry Contest, Caits attended the 2008 inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum in Accra, Ghana where she studied under Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa and other luminaries from the literary African diaspora. In addition to her own self-released work, she has been published in various literary journals and has shared sets with musicians such as Immortal Technique, Grandmaster Caz, Boot Camp Clik and many others.
Eagle Nebula
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Eagle Nebula is the ghetto sage. The emcee and songwriter is among the avant guarde of hip-hop! A mind blowing creative force, Eagle forges high poetics and out of the box boom bap to make a sound all her own. www.eaglenebula.blogspot.com
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