NOW in its seventh year the Make A Move Festival of Hip Hop happens in various venues across the city this weekend celebrating street generated culture from Hip-Hop, Grime and Spoken Word backgrounds.
From October 4 to October 7 expect live performances, discussions and workshops.
Music Generation and Make a Move are working together to highlight the high quality of rap culture developing in the mid-west, festival organiser Shane Curtin explained.
“Music takes centre stage at the Cross County Cypher on the Saturday afternoon bringing the very best young rappers from all over Munster to Limerick.
“The world’s attention has been on Irish rap in the last 12 months with features in the Guardian, Pitchfork and the New York Times.
“Absent from that narrative is the extraordinary ongoing work done through workshops around the country in developing this new generation of Irish voices.
“In Limerick and Cork, Music Generation have been to the fore in this regard and Make a Move is once again delighted to collaborate with them in providing a key platform for this young talent at our Saturday afternoon gig in The Record Room from 4pm”
This event will be preceded by a number of panel discussions on progressing in terms of artistic development in the music industry at Music Generation Creative Centre, Cecil Street from 2pm.
More Highlights:
Thursday 4
Make a Move DJ Workshop for Women
This is a free, informal workshop and suitable for beginners with no experience but you have to register your interest at www.eventbrite.ie. DJs Aoife Nic Canna and Maedbh O’Connor will introduce some djing techniques for vinyl and digital on CDJ. It will also cover music business and marketing and artist promotion.
Friday 5
DJ Mek
Five times Irish DJ Mixing Champion, Mek (ScaryEire, Ian Brown, Monkey Mafia) will share the stage with DJ duo Pressure Drop for a night of dancehall reggae, the sounds of Super Cat and Cutty Ranks, of Bounty Killer and Vadim. All kicking off at 10pm at The Record Room.
Saturday 6
Poetry Jam
A spoken word event at Wickham Tap with Sasha Terfous, Wilzee and others from 7pm.
Beat Club
Hosted by acclaimed producer/DJ Mathman and promoters Prescription this live producer showcase and battle will raise the profile of Limerick’s beat producers at Pharmacia from 10pm. Before lyrics, before videos, before the live shows, the foundation of any good track is the producer’s beatmaking, the heartbeat of urban sounds.
Sunday 7
Hosted at Narrative 4 from 4pm, ‘Joined Hands in Freedom’ celebrates and explores links between Ireland and African American freedom struggles. This free event is presented by artists, speakers, and performers including Libyan-born Irish-raised singer songwriter Farah Elle, Chicago-born, Dublin based slam poet Clara Rose Thornton, Limerick born poet Maighread Meadbh and Denise Chaila.
Later that evening, DJ & Producer MynameisjOhn will spin a New York-tinged DJ set at The Record Room which will close out the Make A Move Festival and launch I.NY for 2018
