After a long wait it is finally here!
Valerie Troutt's A Soulful Holiday is happening TONIGHT! We are very excited to have you join us for this amazing event that will uplift your spirit, fill you with holiday cheer and set your toes tapping. We have a fantastic lineup for you this evening
with a little bit of everything just for you. Musical performances by
MoonCandy,
Charlene Moore and
The Legendary O'Town Passions, dance performance by the
Embodiment Project and dancing into the night with DJs
Capital A and
Nina Sol. This is a night of love, light, community, faith and healing. Come be uplifted with us.
*This event is a collection spot for the
One Warm Coat Project.
We know if you clean out your closet, check the utility room, rummage through your storage you will find a warm coat that you haven't used in years. Pull it out, clean it up (dry clean if possible) and bring it to us! Make sure no one goes without a coat this season!And now for the details:
Where: Geoffrey's Inner Circle * 410 14th St * Oakland
When: Tonight! Saturday, December 15th 2012
Doors Open at 7pm * Show at 8pm * Dance at 10pm
Price: $15-$20 Sliding Scale * First Come, First Sit
All Door Proceeds go to the performers (support our local community of outstanding artists!)
You can still purchase tickets online at
http://asoulfulholiday.eventbrite.comFeaturing:
We are a spoonful of sugar...
MoonCandy Started in 2010 and is the brainchild of singer songwriter Valerie Troutt. The Debut on Oakland Pride's Main Stage with a follow up standing room only concert at Oakland's Disco Volante. Since then Mooncandy has toured with Nicole Klaymoon's Embodiment Project and is currently working on their first album.
MoonCandy is a live soulful house ensemble that features the inspirational voices & composition of some of the EastBays most understated jazz, soul, blues and gospel Singers. MoonCandy is a church without walls... soulful, uplifting and fabulous!
http://www.facebook.com/MoonCandyLiveHouseEnsembleProject
The Metropolitan Bay Area has been inspired and blessed by a God-given talent. Charlene's talent was discovered at the age of 2 years by her parents. She experienced playing for her first choir at the age of 4 years. Her father, the late Rev. Charlie Moore was the pastor of the Calvary Hill Baptist Church for 14 years - (now known as the Calvary Hill Community Church under the leadership of Rev. Joseph Bryant, Jr.).
The Legendary O'TownPassions (LOTP) is to Oakland what those upstart Motown acts were to Detroit homegrown talent, honed on street corners, that left recording studios and stages brimming with talent and hits. In the glory days of Motown. In Oakland, Defermery Park was an incubator for raw talent. Kids would hang out in the recreation center or outside - singing, harmonizing and putting together groups in assorted let-me-lead rivalries. Since 1967, the O'TownPassions recording group has gone through four name changes dozens of artists, ups and downs, hit songs, broken deals and promises that come with life in the recording industry. Now, their story is about to be told on the silver screen. Mindseed Records, Reynard Thomas (Prime USA Records) in East Oakland, the top notch video and recording production studio that has worked with BET and MTV and operated by Edwin and Joann Anderson, has teamed with Ayyub Nasir, the O'TownPassions new manager. The trio are executive producers for The O'Town Stop The Violence Movie Story featuring several tunes off their sound track Not The Father, Fed- Up, Baby Dumplin, I'm So Lonely, Love Is, Do The Best U can, Thru The Eyes, and Ballin.
http://www.facebook.com/otown.passions
Embodiment Project is an urban dance theater company that uses live song, poetry, personal narrative to articulate subconscious stories that arise from distinct senses of "embodiment."
www.embodimentproject.org EP performed the first incarnation of their evening-length work, Bloodline, at the Left Coast Leaning Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) and at the 2009 Crucible Fire Arts Festival (Oakland). Bloodline was presented as a complete work at Dance Mission Theater (San Francisco), La Peņa Cultural Center (Berkeley), and Shotwell Theater (San Francisco). EP premiered Of Her Rib at the de Young Museum (San Francisco) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Green Show (Ashland) in 2011 and 2012. Klaymoon collaborated with Sean San Jose and Valerie Troutt's live band MoonCandy, for EP's third home season production, House of Matter, at the Dance Mission Theater (San Francisco).
DJ Capitol A aka Antoine Green from the UK & Philadelphia, currently residing in SF is a Producer/Musician, DJ and MC. He has worked with the likes of King Britt , 4Hero , Jazzanova, The Roots and Digable Planets.
Check out his sound, music and remixes here: https://soundcloud.com/capitolAThe quintessential "musichead," Nina Sol is taking her audience higher-- where music transcends sound and becomes VIBE! Combining an old school sensibility and new school intuition, Nina Sol breaks through genre-constraints and elevates the common denominator-SOUL. Musical flavors from hiphop to bebop, afrobeat to broken beat, cosmic jazz'n' funk, future soul and spiritual house brewing a treat for your ears & soul.
http://www.facebook.com/djninasol/
