Athens Hip Hop Harmonic
Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center
FREE, family-friendly, no tickets required
http://www.athenshiphopharmonic.com

This special show features premieres of music co-created by four Hip Hop artists and four UGA composers, performed by four UGA ensembles. There are approximately 100 undergraduate and graduate student performers involved. Montu Miller will serve as emcee.

Supported by UGA's Arts Lab, the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, Ideas for Creative Exploration, and the Hodgson School of Music, the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic is produced by saxophone professor Connie Frigo, who developed it in collaboration with Hip Hop impresario Montu Miller and Mariah Parker (aka Linqua Franqa).  AHHH includes a team of artists, educators, students, and supporters eager to use music to build bridges - and use them - in the Athens community, stretch our creative muscles, get out of our own comfort zones, and play in each other's sandboxes! 

Hip Hop artists include recent Athens Music Walk of Fame inductee Ishues, the 2020 Vic Chestnutt Songwriter of the Year Cassie Chantel, compelling and soulful alternative R&B singer Convict Julie, and dynamic poet and spoken word performer Celest Ngeve.

UGA composers include piano and African American studies professor James Weidman, commercial music and media professor Tom Hiel, composition/music education major Ayako Pederson-Takeda, and composition/performance major Julien Berger.

The featured UGA ensembles include the African American Choral Ensemble, Jazz Combo, Wind Symphony, and Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.

The project's collaborative performances can be seen and heard on the AHHH Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXqmhqyTE8G2ke9d4-glZw

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