THIS SATURDAY: THE URBAN SOUL AFFAIR

It's easy...
The band plays...
You Dance...
Boston's Best Live Soul-Funk - Jazz show of the Year!!!


THE URBAN SOUL AFFAIR
A Pre-Thanksgiving Cabaret

Sat, Nov. 21, 2009

Hosted by: Naheem Garcia

Featuring Live Soul & Jazz by Liberation Music - MGM Recording Artists:

The Bass Mint Bros 

 -With Special Guests-

Allyssa Jones (Mine Recording Artist)

Phillip Aaron (Liberation Music Recording Artist)

Mwalim *7) (Liberation Music Recording Artist)

William E Reed Auditorium - Prince Hall Grand Lodge
24 Washington Street - Dorchester, MA 02121
Doors Open @ 8:30 PM
Show Starts @ 10:30 PM

Tickets: $15

Info: 617-445-1145

Also Check-out Our Radio Spot, running on Touch-FM (www.touchfm.org)
http://www.mediafire.com/?bjy4dxgydzy


Co-sponsored by:
Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F&AM, Jurisdiction of Massachusetts
LORE Music Group
New England Urban Music Awards

Film Series Still Seeking Submissions

The RaNdOm CuTs Film Series is a bi-monthly screening of short films (5 – 45 mins in length) shot and edited in digital formats.

RaNdOm CuTs is accepting short digital films, including:

- narratives
- documentaries
- animation
- experimental films

Independent, established, amateur filmmakers as well as  Digital Media and Digital Film students are encouraged to submit.

To be considered, simply send a DVD of your project with a letter of introduction.

The letter of Introduction must include the name of the project, a one paragraph description of the piece, the name of the central filmmaker(s), year the film was made, as well as contact info (Name, address, phone, e-mail, website, etc.).

Selected filmmakers will have a release form e-mailed to them. We will begin accepting submission on November 5, 2009.

Packages should be mailed to:

Prof. MJ Peters
English Dept
UMass Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747

Each installment of the series will have a screening in New Bedford at Gallery X, and a screening on Cape Cod. We will be launching the series in March of 2010. For more information, contact Prof. MJ Peters at mpeters[at]umassd[dot]edu or 508-999-8304.

Mwalim in Concert @ Cultural Center of Cape Cod

Soul - Funk - Jazz Artist with New CD to perform at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod

YARMOUTH, MA - Liberation Music - MGM recording artist, Mwalim will be performing a soul-funk-jazz concert at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod on Thursday, December 3, 2008. Doors open at 6:30PM for a 7PM show. Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main St, South Yarmouth, MA 02664 - (508) 394-7100

Mwalim's new CD, The Liberation Sessions is due for release early in December. The first single from the project, DEM BIG GIRLS is a rising hit among club and mixtape DJs, with the recently released music video for the song pulling in audiences on youtube, myspace, facebook and blackplanet. 

Mwalim (Morgan James Peters I) is sited on Wikipedia a subcultural icon and highly influential author, playwright, pianist, composer, conductor, director, producer, editor, and essayist. He is also a tenured associate professor of English and African/African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, specializing in drama, creative writing, digital media production, and oral traditions. Influenced by the cultures of his West Indian American (Barbados) mother and Mashpee Wampanoag father, Mwalim's music is a blend of soul, funk, and jazz.

He has shared the stage with The Four Tops, King Britt, The Last Poets, KRS -ONE, and Angie Stone. $12, $10 for members. Please join us for what promises to be a wonderful performance as Mwalim makes his Cultural Center debut. Tickets are $12 general and $10 for CC members. Visit: facebook.com/mwalim7, myspace.com/mwalim7 or mwalim.com for more information.

FINALLY!!! The DEM BIG GIRLS Music Video!!!

Requiem for an Elder: The Passing of Brother Blue

May the winds, rain and sunshine
raise his spirits to the place
where he will be among the ancestors
May he be recognized and welcomed
among the keepers of lore
and the warriors
for one of their own has come home
- A Prayer for Brother Blue
Mwalim *7)

Yesterday morning (11/3/09), the New World Griot, as well as the storytelling world in general lost a foundation elder with the passing of Brother Blue (aka Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill). To be a spoken-word artist or storyteller in New England and to have not been blessed to be an audience to or have in your audience Brother Blue means to have missed a true blessing from the spirits.

To have known him means that as storytellers and keepers of oral tradition it is up to us to keep the tradition alive, and keep telling our stories. That is the way to truly honor him.

Peace,

Bro. Mwalim *7)

Visiting hours are on Sunday, November 8, 2009 from 2-4pm and 6-8pm at Keefe Funeral Home, 2175 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA. The internment will be on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 1pm at the Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield MA. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling (www.lanes.org) and the National Association of Black Storytellers (www.nabsinc.org). For obituary, directions or to send a condolence visit www.keefefuneralhome.com