MASTER GRIOT ARTISTS:
The Master Griot ProjectTM (MGP) is a movement with the pure intent to harness the growing popularity of Spoken Word/ Performance Poetry into a blend of altruism and marketing that will help build effective African American communities via the artistry of master-level performance poets:

Tommy Bottoms (HBO Def Jam Poet - ATL), Queen (ATL), Shyster (PHL), Infinite Life (PHL), Just Greg (PHL), Brotha’s Keepa (Memphis), Quiet Rage (PHL), RhapsodE (PHL), & Amun Miraaj (Chicago)

The Master Griot Artists have traveled and performed nationally and internationally. The are multi-talented artists with unlimited ways to bring words alive and leave you on your feet. Every emotion each artist emulates and provokes, demands you to use it with the same intensity they delivered it. From laughter to tears from anger to determination to erotic fantasies dancing in your head, you, the audience are guaranteed to leave MGP artists’ presence renewed, revived, and determined to be the change that you are looking for.

For performance and booking inquiries, please contact Jacqueline Taylor-Adams (CMO) at 1.888.846.9811 or info@mastergriot.net.

GOT VIDEO?: If you are a dancer, filmmaker, and/or spoken word artist AND have a performance video under 6 minutes -- there is still time to enter FAMECAST's 4th Season.
www.famecast.com/promo/?promo_code=215733

The Open Round ends for all categories by Sat. Feb. 2, 2008 12 noon EST. So, enter Famecast today by simply uploading your video and get...

1. Free artist page and fan management toolkit

2. $10,000 cash prize for winner of each stage!

3. Exposure to worldwide audience

4. Feedback from Industry Heavyweights

5. Networking within the FameCast entertainment community

6. Finalists receive Free trip to Austin TX to perform live and be broadcast!

7. Opportunity to earn...

Radio Interview w/Love One Records a subdivision of London-based...: Share your day with MGP on Master Griot Radio, www.mastergriotradio.com, as you surf the net .
(click the forward button 4 times to get to the interview)

MASTER GRIOT RADIO kicks off its INDUSTRY SERIES KICK-OFF with an interview w/IKE LOVE, President and CEO of LOVE ONE RECORDS & ENTERTAINMENT, a division of London based Jet Star Records
(just click the fast forward button 4times to move to this great interview that opens up with Upreciation by Amun Miraaj - www.mastergriotradio.com)

Our lively interview also includes conversations with
**RUSSELL GORE, JR, Head of Artist Development for Love One Records and former member of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
**GEORGE BUFFY, Producer...

Is There A Future For Spoken Word: The following article is a reprint from www.dropmagazine.com
Is There A Future For Spoken Word?

Contributed by Rami K on 6/18/07

What is Spoken Word? Is it really hip hop??? One thing that's certain is that more and more hip hop fans are allowing Spoken Word into their cribs. Does Spoken Word have what it takes to make it mainstream?

Poetry slam; ideas of dimly lit cafes, mahogany tables, free spirited individuals of all colors, dreadlocked hair humbly standing on a stage in front of others like them, speaking of oppression, struggle, history, and truth - Not exactly the image that record labels try to market within the rap and hip hop genre, huh? But despite not being the most kn...

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