The Revolution Vol. 20
Chandanie, Looms, and Shareef Keyes and The Groove
Saturday, October 21st @ 10 pm
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About the Show
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THE REVOLUTION is a performance series highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists + musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre.
This local musical movement empowers community, change, and activism through performance and unity amongst the arts. Once a month, three different artists showcasing three different genres have a chance to spread love, light, and awareness through their music and their stories. This series supports revolutionary artistry and how important music is to healing, in all aspects of life.
As a part of VOL. 20, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from local artists:
Chandanie, Looms, and Shareef Keyes and The Groove.
Chandanie
Chandanie ( pronounced – Shon – Duh– Nay )
Songstress of the No9to5 Music collective, Chandanie, has performed on stages across NYC including The Shrine, Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, and SOBs. Originally from Maryland, she is a vocalist, songwriter and producer influenced by the fusion of jazz, soul and go-go, known as Soul Liberation Music.
After independently releasing her debut is that a crime? Acoustic EP, her cover of Van Hunt’s “down here in hell (with you)” was featured on New York’s YouKnowIGotSoul New Artist Spotlight. Chandanie is currently performing along the East Coast and recording her upcoming 2017 sophomore release.
Follow her journey at imchandanie.com and follow @imchandanie.
Looms
Formed in the winter of 2012, Looms consists of Sharif Mekawy (vocals, keys, guitar), Harry Morris Jr. (guitar), A. Hammond Murray (bass) and Louis Cozza (drums). The group’s music is written around vocals and melodic instrumental arrangements with an evolving catalogue that runs the gamut of song construction. Rock, pop, jazz, electronic, folk, and more are dissected and deconstructed down to their basic components, and then reimagined. Their Sophomore LP, How It Has To Be was released August 4, 2017 on Little Dickman Records.
Shareef Keyes and The Groove
Shareef Keyes is a Brooklyn raised funk artist drawing inspiration from a mix of legends like Parliament-Funkadelic, James Brown, and Wu-Tang. Together with his band The Groove, Shareef has built a buzz around New York for his high energy, crowd captivating live performances.
Keyes’ forthcoming LP, Cooking Something, features a nostalgic sonic climate curated by the artist himself and his older brother, Glo’. The sibling duo spent countless hours at their private family-owned studio in midtown Manhattan, honing a distinctive sound that fuses ‘70s jazz-funk influences with a modern hip-hop undertone.
The twenty-five year old crooner has hand selected a team of NYC’s finest young artists, assembling a twelve-piece band made up of musicians from Juilliard, The New School and Berklee College of Music. Known together as Shareef Keyes & The Groove, the band has played memorable performances for crowds at Harlem Arts Festival, Pianos, Bowery Electric, Public Factory, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Webster Hall. In February 2017, Shareef Keyes & The Groove opened for jazz-funk pioneer and musical legend Roy Ayers in front of a sold-out crowd at Brooklyn’s BRIC House.
Cooking Something is scheduled for release in Summer 2017 and will feature the iTunes singles “Potato Salad”, “Macaroni and Cheese”, and “Cornbread”. Keyes will release his fourth single, “Spaghetti Fettucine” featuring Ghostface Killah ahead of the album’s release, introducing the world to his inimitable opus with an animated music video fit for audiences of all ages.
