Hip Hop Howl Recap
Hip-Hop Howl: A NY Minute featured a bevy of performances by artists- some raw and others refined-as part of The Howl Festival. The Howl Festival is a three-day affair named after Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl.” The event celebrates the East Village and Lower East Side’s contribution to the arts in various aspects, including music, dance, poetry and more, with live painting, vendors, puppet shows and a lot of performances.
On 9.5.09, Crosby & Miz Metro presented Hip Hop Howl as a two part event, with the day event featuring one song performances and the night event featuring more artists from the “A NY Minute” mixtape. Overall, there were a few polished performances (namely Shinobi Ninja, Circa 95, Sciryl, Wordspit and Joya Bravo) that showed they have blessed a stage or two with their presence in the past as seen in their stage performance and the delivery of their art. Other talents had that niche following feeling that can’t be explained but one needs to know that it is there (I enjoyed Spills but can’t explain why). Overall, the event had a great vibe as you saw all the artists entering the audience and jamming to their peers. See the photos below and click more to see video of Spills and Joya Bravo.
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