Tika Simone Presents:
Intimate & Interactive Open Mic
With ERIK FLOWCHILD
Live Performance & Artist/Audience Q&A
Toronto's only AUDITION-ONLY OPEN MIC with a HEADLINER each and every FRIDAY!
A night specifically designed for music lovers and music appreciators.
Official Kick-Off: Lambadina Lounge
875 Ossington Ave. (2nd floor.) TTC accessible (right across from Ossington Station)
FRIDAY, JULY 2nd
Hosted by: MTV's Tika Simone
With: DJ OMADA
$10 before 12am/ $15 after
Doors Open @ 10pm
Photographs & Creative by: Ishmil Waterman
http://www.twitter.com/iiopenmic
Intimate & Interactive Open Mic was created to bring a sense of awareness around not only performance art but the art of media training in artists as well. Every headliner has been hand-selected to perform and answer questions from the audience in regards to their push and struggle to the top.
Intimate & Interactive proves that everyone has a story and Toronto has many unknown diamonds in the rough ready to take form.
I've put my all into this night and I hope to see all of you there.
--Tika Simone
***For Open Mic or Headliner Auditions please email: intimateandinteractive@gmail.com***
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It’s obvious. Canadian hip-hop needs a facelift. There’s something about it that makes it much weaker than hip-hop across the border. And it’s not the market. It’s the artists. “If we had the artists we would have the market.”
Says who?
Erik Flowchild. Equipped with a witty flow, evident potential, and fresh approach to the craft of rhyme writing, he is held in high regard by his peers who see him as talented, determined, and resourceful.
Flowchild (Born Eric Asante) was born to be different. Deemed a ‘miracle baby’ by his uncle, he is destined to make things happen for himself and for his world around him. It is no surprise why Erik Flowchild prides himself as one of Canada’s top young lyricists: He’s been writing lyrics since the 2nd grade.
“I wasn’t messing with producers when I was seven. I was writing to music I would find while playing video games. I’d look for anything that caught my ear while I was playing a certain level by going into the sound menu. Game Gear and my N64 were my producers.”
At 19 he has pursued and garnered industry attention, collaborated with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D Music family (via Big Sean), and received major co-signs from the likes of DJ Jaguar Skills and Grammy award winning Chrisette Michele.
Currently he is working on The Delivery Boy, a mixtape that will serve the purpose of proving his musical skill set, especially in the area of his delivery – an area that many industry insiders could once easily critique. Nowadays, it’s a little more challenging to do that.
That’s what happens when you listen to constructive criticism. Flowchild's 'Over Here' serves as the intro to the new and improved artist. “They say a little nigga can’t step to the pros,” he admits on the unique record produced by Mike Schembri and Miguel Culajay of Da Funky Situation. But he immediately follows with the question: “Is that so?" If you’re really listening, you’ll know that question is nothing short of rhetorical.
The Delivery Boy is due mid 2010.
Intimate & Interactive Proudly Welcomes ERIK FLOWCHILD!
http://www.erikflowchildmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/flowchildmusic
http://www.twitter.com/erikflowchild
