Alex Farkas-Worthy lives and works in Savannah, GA. He was a co-founder of the Co-Lab gallery and studio on East Broad Street. He’s contributed to Outlet Magazine and exhibited work in several galleries locally and beyond. He is a graphic designer, illustrator and photographer. You can see more of his work at www.farknessmonster.com

“Get iLL with My Art Skill”
www.hebermehl.com

Matt Hebermehl is a nationally recognized artist living in Savannah, GA. His
work has earned praise from Juxtapoz Magazine, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators (NY) and Society of Illustrators – Los Angeles. Hebermehl has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and of course sweet ol’ Savannah. Hebermehl recently had the honor of having a six month installation at the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA.

"Monk" by Def Steph

Stephen NaShaun Pender was born in 1982 in New York City. With a background in Animation, Character design, and Sequential art his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse images and gestures. Stephen’s multi-layered work illustrates an art of storytelling throughout each piece. He currently resides in Atlanta.

The people said they needed a break from the sameness. There was no creativity. They had given up hope and fallen out of love with Hip-Hop. Then, along came KidSyc@Brandywine.

In early 2010, KidSyc recieved an e-mail with the subject line, “We respect your MC abilities…”. This e-mail, sent by bassist Charles Hodge eventually ended KidSyc’s year-long search for a live band and sparked what was soon to become an artistic force to be reckoned with.

With a pair of plaid pants and an undenialby magnetic sound, KidSyc@Brandywine captivated crowds at the 2010 Savannah Urban Arts Festival and broke the monotony of Savannah’s Hip-Hop scene. Listing influences like Earth, WInd, and Fire, Radiohead, J. Dilla, Eminem, and Stevie Wonder, (to name a few), its no wonder a song like “Different” serves as a great snapshot of what these guys are all about.

If you take the thoughts, ideas, and emotions of your average misfit, sprinkle in some new-found confidence, and spread it all across a bold and adventurous soundtrack. What you will have is a KidSyc@Brandywine song…… and a new favorite rap.

Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/kidsycbrandywine

Anthony David

ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW ON iTUNES-”As Above, So Below”

As Above, So Below.” The ancient Hermetic saying from the legendary Emerald Tablet declares what is the above is from the below, and the below is from the above, and all these works of wonders are from the one (the source). Heady stuff for an R&B album title, but the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Anthony David has never been the kind of soul artist to “speak loudly, but say nothing.” WithDavid, the sage psalm aptly describes the ruminations of a seeker whose walk travels over roots, soul, blues, reggae and hip hop to unabashedly express the unexpressed in men’s souls, from the carnal and the provocative to the unsure and the vulnerable. Digging deeper with every project, David continues to peel back layers of public identity, political chutzpah, and playa propaganda to use what lies beneath as the clay for something honest and real.

Anthony David’s third original studio album and debut release on Purpose Music Group/ E1, finds David culling inspiration not only from the headlines but also from the red Savannah soils of the singer’s birth home—from tea parties to magnolia makeouts. Fans of “Georgia Peach” and “ATL Sunshine” know David’s Southern roots run deep. Georgia’s son with the famously raspy voice never dreamed of becoming a singer, not with sangin’ kin who included members of the multi-platinum singing groups Xscape and Boyz II Men. So, the practical David entered the Army straight out of high school. Quickly learning the military wasn’t his bag, at 19, David left after one stint, moved to Atlanta, and entered trade school to become a sound engineer. For four years, David was an everyman: quietly writing lyrics, singing to himself, listening and learning from behind the studio boards, and beginning to nurture the seeds of a dream. He helped form and briefly recorded with funk/rap outfit, El Pus, on their Virgin Records debut, Hoodlum Rock. Eventually, at the urging of friend India.Arie, the 23 year-old David finally picked up the guitar and…it felt like home. Local fans soon came for an invitation toDavid’s musical sanctuary and suddenly the ordinary was extraordinary. Even after David began touring the world as a background singer and co-writer for India.Arie, he never forgot the beauty of the ordinary.

As conceived through David’s pen, there’s magic in the every day, an alchemy that Brash Music heard in 2004 when they signed him to his first record deal. The interiors and exteriors of regular life were acoustically elevated to high art on his debut, 3 Chords and The Truth. A phone call in the middle of the night becomes a serenade. A loving mama’s boy grows into the father he once despised. A caller’s invitation to love becomes a standout tune on a Grammy-winning album with “Part of My Life” on India.Arie’s Acoustic Soul. With guitar, dry wit, and a voice that instantly reads sincere, David consistently toured the college and coffeehouse circuit on the strength of the universally received 3 Chords…project. Not bad for a “street taught” singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

With the Grammy-nominated duet, “Words,” David and long-time friend Arie continued their award-winning singing and songwriting partnership, this time for a radio hit that originally appeared in 2006 on his sophomore and final release for Brash, The Red Dirt Chronicles. The single received repeat business on his major label debut, the Billboard Top 30 R&B album Acey Ducey, for Universal/Republic. The Acey Ducey compilation reflected the lighter, jazzier acoustic soul of his debut and the introduction of heavier electronic music elements and moodier introspections from his sophomore indie collection, The Red Dirt Chronicles, introducingDavid’s early catalog to an international audience. While “Words” got national airplay and reached #53 on the Billboard R&B charts, searing introspections like “Better Than, the five-finger cover of Level 42’s “Something About You,” and warm hallmarks to home like “Kinfolk” and “Smoke One” from Red Dirt Chronicles got Anthony David the critical acclaim and a loyal, ever-expanding fan base.

Now, with As Above, So Below, David is looking to marry his collection of disparate fans, those who discovered him as a college circuit acoustic singer, those who loved his electrosoul meets hip hop hipster fare from Red Dirt…, and those who celebrated the spiffed up blue-collar boy’s new Hollywood styling and full band productions on his last promo tours for Acey Ducey. It’s time to solidify his fans for a career of longevity, with his own imprint (Rolling Mojo—named after his first car), a new label partnership between E1 Entertainment and Purpose Music Group, and a new producing partner in Nashville songwriter/producer Shannon Sanders (Heather Headley, India.Arie), David is looking to make an artistic and commercial statement with his third original studio release. A known humorist and fresh bachelor to whom much is projected, David reveals more of his worldview, his character, to fill in the blanks for fans. From the gospel-rock political tome, “God Said,” to his duet cover of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule The World, featuring A.D.’s cousin, Shawn Stockman, David gives you A.D. unvarnished. There’s even an acoustic seven-minute dough boy tale for the street-lifers, and, of course, even more of David’s rare brand of honest unburdening that tells his listeners they aren’t alone in their thoughts.

Often considered the heir-apparent to troubadour Bill Withers, with As Above, So Below, David is elbowing a space for intelligent lyrics and a grown man’s voice in a scene that’s in a race to be young. A student of Wither’s lyricism; the masculine rhythms of Beres Hammond and Frankie Beverly; the storytelling of Slick Rick, T.I., and Jay-Z; and the blues of Lightning Hopkins, Howling Wolf, and T-bone Walker, David is ushering back the kind of masculine soul that men can identify with and that ladies can nestle up to. With As Above, the thinker extends nourishment for the mind. With As Below, the lover provides nourishment for the flesh. And, with his latest release, Anthony David ever remains nourishment for the soul.

For tour and updates follow Anthony David on Facebook, MySpace, Reverb Nation or on his website: http://www.rollingmojo.com. For bookings and inquiries: contact unllimitedwealthent@gmail.com.

National Slam Champion, Marc B. Joseph

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, GOLDIE award winner, and inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship which annually recognizes 50 of the country’s “greatest living artists.”Smithsonian Magazinenamed him, in 2007, one of the Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences.

Originally from New York City and currently living in Oakland, California, this acclaimed performer and arts activist has toured nationally and internationally including a performance at the 1st International Spoken Word Festival in Tokyo and in Santiago de Cuba where he joined the legendary Katherine Dunham as a part of the CubaNola Collective.

Bamuthi entered the world of literary performance after crossing the sands of “traditional” theater, most notably on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning “The Tap Dance Kid” and “Stand-Up Tragedy.”

His most recent work, the break/s has been acclaimed as a new level of hip-hop theatre. A mixtape for the stage, the break/s is a multimedia infused theatrical journey and international travel diary across planet hip-hop, based on Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang. Bamuthi developed this piece while completing the prestigious Arts Institute Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and it premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays

In 2007, Bamuthi’s work, Scourge, was presented internationally in Belgium, Italy and Netherlands. The performance reflects

Special Guest, Marc Bamuthi Joseph

on the plight of Haiti in the post-colonial New World and was developed while Bamuthi was a Phillis Wattis Artist-in-Residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Collaborators for Scourge include renowned choreographer Rennie Harris, Grammy-nominated composer John Santos, dramaturg Roberta Uno, and director Kamilah Forbes of the New York City Hip Hop Theater Festival.

His other evening-length works include Word Becomes Flesh,De/Cipher and No Man’s Land. Bamuthi’s works, which have been performed on stages from New York’s Lincoln Center to the Contemporary Theater in Seattle, have been described as everything from “electrifying” (The Houston Chronicle), to “ever-elegant” (The Washington Post) and has compelled The Seattle Times to name him their “cutting edge performer of the year” for 2003. In their review of Word Becomes Flesh, the New York Times declared his work to be “eloquent…seamless…and remarkable.”

Check out an excerpt from Marc performance of “the break/s” at the National Endowment for the Arts

Click here: “the break/s”, Written and Performed by Marc B. Joseph at the Walker Arts Center, April 2008

Bamuthi’s performance schedule has carried him from dance apprenticeships in Senegal to teaching fellowships in Bosnia. His proudest work has been with the organization Youth Speaks where he is Artistic Director and curator of  the Living Word Festival for Literary Arts. He recently served as an IDA resident artist in Stanford University’s Drama Department, teaching Spoken Word and Community Action.

Since beginning a career in performance poetry in 1998, Bamuthi has been San Francisco’s Poetry Grand Slam winner three times, winner of the 1999 National Poetry Slam with Team San Francisco, and founded “Second Sundays,” the nation’s first monthly spoken word gathering to generate audiences of 500+. His local work earned him a GOLDIE award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Nationally, has been a featured lecturer and performance artist at over one hundred colleges and universities including UC Berkeley, NYU, Brown University, the University of Michigan, Bates College, Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

He has shared the stage with the current stars of the Spoken Word and music scene including Ben Harper, De La Soul, The Roots, Bonnie Raitt, Saul Williams, Cody Chestnutt, Beau Sia, Blackalicious, Will Power, Jill Scott, Mos Def, Sarah Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, Roger Bonair-Agard, Ishle Yi Park, Danny Hoch and many others.

Bamuthi has been a featured artist on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry on HBO and was the Artistic Director of the 7-part HBO documentary Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices.

In addition, Bamuthi’s released a spoken word CD, “Seeking,” worked with Linkin Park’s Joe Hahn for MTV, and performs on the CD “185 Progress Drive” (Alternative Tentacles Records: 2000) with Assata Shakur, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bob Marley, Michael Franti, I was Born with Two Tongues and other hip hop and spoken word artists.

Bamuthi’s critical writing is currently featured in Jeff Chang’sTotal Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. His first non-fiction book, Line Breaks: A Source Guide to Hip Hop Theater, is forthcoming The University of Wisconsin Press.

P.Blackk

P. Blackk has came to the rap game to change a lot of misconceptions. The art of females that do more with their vocal abilities than their sexual appeal is fading away fast. P. Blackk strives to bring the “female rapper” back to the forefront. Blessed with a unique voice and lyrics that can match most male rappers, P. Blackk is releasing her debut album, “My Own Reality Show”.The album is 15 tracks of pure energy complimented with insightful lyrics. P, Blackk is able to go from playful teenager to serious poet easily.Lead by her first single, “Goin 2 Da Party”, which showcases P. Blackk’s ability to have fun on a record, this album is all original production with pounding bass lines mixed with soulful samples. Songs like “Serious”, “You Wanna Fight”, and “I Run This” showcase P. Blackk’s ability to transition from a teenager to skillful rapper. “Angel”, “Turn Around”, and “My Life” shows P. Blackk in a more poetic form.P. Blackk’s goal is simple…”I don’t want to be the best FEMALE rapper. I want to be the best RAPPER…PERIOD!”

Artist Track: Listen and Love It: Goin to the Party by P.Blackk

Artist Myspace URL: http://www.myspace.com/darealpblackk

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Mahogany, Personal Trainer and Professional Dancer

Mahogany has performed on almost every stage in New York City.  She cultivated her craft at Savannah Arts Academy where she graduated with honors in Dance Theater.  Mahogany also has two degrees in Marketing Management, and Business Management from Savannah Technical College.

She is a well-received performer in many aspects of the visual arts including dance, poetry, theater, and fashion.  Mahogany has been teaching dance since 1998 and has performed with the world-renowned Sankofa Dance Theatre for over ten years.  She has traveled to Ghana, West Africa and performed in the PANA-FEST festival.  She has received rave reviews in the New York Times and has worked with many famous artists including Steven Devines, Beyonce Knowles, Jermaine Dupree, Missy Eliot, and Juvenile.  Mahogany began modeling with the Ford Modeling Agency, Wilhelmina, N.Y. after she graduated high school.  Her modeling career has included runways for top designers such as Calvin Klein, Vera Wang, and Christen Dior.

MSB, Inc. students at work

Mahogany Shades of Beauty, Inc.

Mahogany now owns and operates Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc. (MSB) MSB Inc. is a well respected modeling and talent agency in Savannah, Ga where Mahogany teaches dance, modeling, theatre, poetry, and job etiquette. Mahogany is also the vice-president of Universal Women of Savannah, a nonprofit organization grounded in community outreach and sister hood and she also works very closely with Tony Jordon of All Walks Of Life Inc.(AWOL Inc.) In addition to dance, Mahogany’s second love is her community.  One of her great loves is the social work she does at a runaway shelter, and her outreach at the various homeless shelters in the Savannah area and the work she does with the youth at the Boys & Girls Club, The Crusader Center, and St. Pius Resource Center.  Her passion for community, children, and dance are the driving force in her life.  Her mission is to continue her career in dance and teaching while helping to cultivate the minds, bodies, and spirits of the next generation and help them understand that the sky is only the limit.