Big Beat Dance: Retro Futuristic DJ Mash Ups with Four Innovative Drummers

On September 28th from 9pm-12am Apple Juice Kid will kick off the inaugural Big Beat Dance (BBD) party at The Haw River Ballroom. BBD is not your typical dance party; it’s an innovative musical journey complete with Apple Juice Kid Dj’ing retro futuristic tribal electronic mash ups featuring four innovative drummers, and Yahzarah as a guest vocalist. This is a certified Art of Cool Project event.

Featuring Apple Juice Kid (DJ), Beverly Botsford (Percussion- Nnenna Freelon), Atiba Rorie (Djembe-ADF), Scott Crews (Drumset- hoopdrum) and Larry Q Draughn (Drumset- Joey Calderazzo). The featured guest vocalist is YahZarah who has featured with The Roots, her song "Sincere" voted BBC song of the year with The Foreign Exchange, and has arranged and sung background for grammy winner Erykah Badu. Opening act is The George Tisdale Band, whose high energy Indie Funk Soul features a tuba player and is not to be missed.

Apple Juice Kid is a producer, drummer and DJ who has created singles for Wale, MC Lyte, Camp Lo and Mos Def. He is a winner of 8 beat battles, collaborated with Mark Ronson and Jerry Wonda (The Fugees) and most recently came back from Africa this summer creating a Beat Making Lab in the Congo with Pierce Freelon of the Beast (who will also be a guest vocalist during the night).

The Art of Cool Project (TheArtofCoolProject.com) is a jazz advocacy project dedicated to promoting the local vibrant, varied and surprisingly under-appreciated jazz scene. The live jazz performances showcase and stimulate the forward-focused creative thought that is occurring on the local jazz scene.

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