May 2010

May 17th, 2010

NEW MUSIC! - Pure Delite CD Now Available

Last year’s Musical Mentoring Project was a rousing success, engaging 5 young artists from YMR’s cache of All-Stars to produce a smash compilation entitled, Pure Delite. Pure Delite showcased live in a sold-out concert at the Fox Theater’s Black Box Theater. You can purchase this compilation of professional recordings of 4 of YMR’s best and brightest young people TODAY!

On Pure Delite you will find the following hit tracks produced in collaboration with Grammy Musical Directors, Larry Batiste and Claytoven Richardson:
1 – My Radio by Princeton
2 – Like My Father by Andrea President
3 – That’s Why (My Angel) by Anais Kane
4 – When Push Comes to Shove by Reyna Rose and Common Ground

We are thankful to the East Bay Fund for Artists, Tom & Marla Williams, Kevin Gay and Bob Kliger for making the Musical Mentoring Project and Pure Delite possible.

Visit: www.youthmovementrecords.org/store to place your orders now for Pure Delite! Download via cdbaby.com/cd/puredelite . Available on iTunes June 2010!

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May 14th, 2010

Musicplus: Skill Building for Musicians (5/16)

Join us at the East Bay Community Foundation in Oakland on Sunday, May 16 for Musicplus – a free seminar to sharpen your skills and network with other musicians and composers. The event is being presented by East Bay Community Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, and Future of Music Coalition, a nonprofit musician advocacy organization. This program is made possible with the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity), The James Irvine Foundation, and The Wallace Foundation.

This event is SOLD OUT, but you can still participate. Tune into the live webcast from 12 noon - 6 pm PT (3 PM - 9 PM ET), Sunday, May 16 where you can watch all the main room programming, participate in an online chat, even ask questions! RYSE Media Arts Coordinator and Youth Movement Records' Protools Instructor Fred Thomas will be a featured panelist.

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May 11th, 2010

All Oakland Talent Show

As writer James Baldwin said, “The time is now”. And so, in its 10th anniversary year, the All Oakland Youth Talent Showcase is calling on your support now. Entitled, “Oakland State of Mind”, this showcase is a space where youth ranging from 5 to 19 year olds from all over Oakland audition to be able to share the same stage in solidarity for the Bay Area to see that we, in “the Town”, are more than the negative images that are constantly used to portray us. Come stand in solidarity with us on Friday May 14, 2010.


SHOW DATE: Friday, May 14, 2010 (doors opening at 6:30pm | show starting at 7pm)

LOCATION: Scottish Rite Center at 1520 Lakeside Drive alongside Oakland’s beautiful Lake Merritt

ADVANCE TICKETS:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/104664
$10 – general audience
$3 – youth ages 2-19

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May 07th, 2010

YMR Presents Ise Lyfe's "Pistols & Prayers" May 21st-23rd in the Black Box Theater at the Fox

Lyfe Productives (LP) and Hot Water Cornbread (HWC), in association with Youth Movement Records (YMR), have channeled their artistic resources to present “Pistols and Prayers,” a profound performance piece interweaving Spoken Word, African-American Folk Spirituals, Classical Music and Hip-Hop onto one stage at the Historic Fox Theater in celebration of the African Diaspora!



Written and directed by nationally renowned Spoken Word Hip-Hop Theater Artist Ise Lyfe, "Pistols and Prayers" is a powerful poetic collage of sociopolitical commentary, blended with a glimpse into his coming of age as a man, artist, and advocate for social change. A stage piece based on the newly published self-titled book by one of the nation's greatest young writers, “Pistols and Prayers” is an impressive production accompanied musically by the African-American folk spirituals of internationally renowned artist Melanie Demore, young Master Cellist, Michael Fecskes and radio personality/deejay DC Coleman from KMEL’s 106.1FM.

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