Join Us TONIGHT!

Mother's Day Radio Benefit Jam!
@ Zanzibar in Santa Monica
Doors Open @ 7pm

Featuring live performances by:

Thea Monyee: 8pm
Thea Monyee has rapidly become a respected and highly requested poet. Besides being a regular at LA's Poetry Lounge, Thea has performed on HBO's Peabody Award winning "Def Poetry Jam" series twice, BET's "Lyric Cafe", and on BET's "The Way We Do It. Thea speaks from her heart with emotion and passion that touches everyone within the sound of her voice. Listen and feel it.

Tracie Thoms: 8:30pm
Thoms made her Broadway debut in Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow. She has also appeared in several off-Broadway and regional productions, including Up Against the Wind (New York Theater Workshop), The Oedipus Plays (The Shakespeare Theater), A Raisin in the Sun (Baltimore CenterStage) Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Missouri Rep), The Exonerated (Off Broadway's The Culture Project) and The Antigone Project (The Women's Project). In 2008, she joined the final cast of Rent starting July 26, 2008, reprising the character of Joanne.

MiLO: 9pm

With the writing team of Swedish Composer Mikael Sandgren and Jamaican/American Singer Lola Gayle, the outcome is much different than even they had originally thought. Theirs is a kind of music blending Nordic melancholy progressions with pop melodies, unique odd meter beats, vintage Blue Note era vocals and gritty arrangements. Their sound can be described as "dirty-pretty". Both were classically trained starting at an early age and Ghana's Obilie Koffie also mentored Mikael at 14.

Kelley Nicole: 9:30pm
Born and raised in Northern New Jersey, Ms. Kelley Nicole has been singing since the age of nine when a music teacher discovered the sweet vocal tonality of a young girl that had already begun a love affair with music through her study of the piano and French horn. This dynamic singer/songwriter writes and performs an eclectic range of music, beginning with a vulnerable acoustic R&B sensibility that channels the likes of India.Arie and Sade.

London Street: 10pm
London Street is bringing live instrumentation and creative songwriting back to Soul and R&B. You won't find redundant ballads or robotic beats in their music. London Street is an actual band that writes songs from the heart. A refreshing take on Neo-soul, these ladies are an amazingly tight and sweet unit.

DJ JEDI:
JEDI is an Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles-based DJ, admired for his eclectic style of mixing, song-selection, and turntablism. Over the past decade, he has toured the globe as the resident music maestro for Russell Simmons' Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam, and later, with Grammy Award-winning hip hop pioneers, DIGABLE PLANETS.

Produced by Joshua Silverstein Presents.

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