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Ok, so for the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest, I was an organizer of the event moreso than a performer. I did read one of my pieces from the book Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul , but that was a filler performance when we were having technical difficulties with one of the acts that forgot their cable cords to their keyboard. My biggest artistic display for the festival were the sign murals I created for the festival. (They are featured on this page). My first major foray in visual art, the murals were meant as welcome mantas for festival-goers to establish the nature of the event-- one of peace, love, soul and hip-hop. Check them out! Thanks to folks who came thru and photographed them. So, last night I checked out this wonderful event at Tryst located in Adams Morgan in DC. The event was one where visual art was the focus. Live art. We were watching it like it was a performance. Folks painting, drawing and just creating while we, the audience, watched. It was magnificent. The...

I will be performing at the Green Festival on Oct. 10 @ 11am as the opening act for the event. I will be performing original and cover tunes with the wonderful musician Gary Young who will perform vocally with me as well as accompany on guitar. Looking forward to this performance and will definitely have on hand copies of Liberated Muse Volume I:How I Freed My Soul on hand to sell. Hope you can make it out! I came out to the Green Festival last year and enjoyed myself with my family. I got the wonderful henna tattoo below done and may get something similar done as part of my costuming for the Oct. 10th show.

(Sharon Burton of GeminiVisions Art Studio hugging a doll made by her sister Sherry Ways-Burton) (Sherry Ways-Burton and DC Councilmember Yvette Alexander) (My business partner Maceo Thomas, writer Hadassah Ayodele and yours truly in the hot heat at the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest) (Sharon Burton & Sherry Ways-Burton) Head-Roc of GODISHEUS is was host and performer (A couple getting their hand dancing on to tunes from E the R and B Rockstar) (Writer Hadassah Ayodele) Yesterday was the 2nd annual Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest that my business partner Maceo and I produce through our partnership Liberated Muse Productions. The turn-out was well and Mother Nature held in her rain urge until the very last act, noon:30, which did not get to perform due to the impromptu rain showers that came after an all day heat temp in the upper 90's. It was hot as Hades!!!! The event's turn-out was impressive to me given the massive reconstruction that the park site is going through and the ext...

Shooting this was way fun. Holly Morris was hilarious and my Saartjie sisters were on it with their beautiful organic dance while Nia and I sang. My daughter was there and being a big girl by not calling my name out in the middle of taping which I was so afraid she would do, lol. She's five. You can imagine my fear. She wanted to dance with Binah! If you can't see the video above, click here: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/mornings/holly_live/072009_holly_morris_capital_fringe_festival http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/mornings/holly_live/072009_holly_morris_capital_fringe_festival

It's after midnight already, but I'm just waking up now. Lol. I crashed upon arriving home. Today was a long day, ending our three-show run of the show Deconstructing the Myth of the Booty in this year's Capital Fringe Fest. The house was packed and the adrenaline was pumping. So was the heat, which had me sweating buckets-- I'm sure almost literally. The audience response was very positive as it has been since the show's debut in the Capital Fringe Fest, so we were glad to go out with a bang. Loved reading this feedback from an audience member HERE. Looking forward to appearing on FOX 5 in the morning with Holly Morris to talk about our experience in the Capital Fringe Fest and show excerpts from our show. It is wonderful to have the opportunity to share with the viewing public information-- if only bits-- about the life of Saartjie Baartman, the woman known as the Hottentot Venus.

People ask me all of the time how do I find time to do it all. I have to admit that today, I have asked myself that question. There is a lot to do today given that the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest is now in less than seven days. My business partner Maceo and I literally put this festival together ourselves logistically. We have the wonderful Rod Freeman coming back as our sound liaison again, but, our team is really a party of two. We attempted to have partners come on board this year, but a lot of folks were crying broke because of the recession. We were pleased to announce on Thursday, during a radio broadcast on 89.3 WPFW that we had received a new sponsor-- the US Cenus Bureau, which was such a wonderful occurence given our difficulty this year getting folks to partner. We usually go to the grassroots and small business folks to keep the festival for the people and by the people. Maceo and I earn absolutely no money from this annual festival. The reward for us is being part of this re...

So, today, I learned of a review that was written yesterday in the Washington Post by Post writer Nelson Pressley about the Saartjie Project show "Deconstructing the Myth of the Booty" that we performed this past Wednesday. First off, let me tell you, the Wed show was incredible! The energy we felt back stage and onstage was amazing. I think we were a lot more well-rested than we were on Friday's show of last week which began at 11pm and didn't end until almost 1 am in the morning. Wed's show was fluid and the packed audience seemed to really enjoy us. The review is a favorable one in which it encourages folks to come out and positively highlights some of our favorite pieces-- Binahkaye Joy's solo piece "Bare" which is based on her work as a nude model and Farah Lawal's monologue "Exotic Beauty". Some of his negative criticisms rested heavily on the piece I penned, "Changing Muse" which depicts the four sterotypical images for...