…Oakland-based hip hop act to perform Saturday, August 26th,
2006 at the Calgary Corral as part of the Slam City Jam festival of
skateboarding, music and lifestyle
CALGARY (Thursday, August 3rd, 2006) –Blackalicious,
one of the hottest acts in California hip hop, will be featured as part
of the concert line-up at the Slam City Jam North American Skateboard
Championships, a three-day festival of skateboarding, music and
lifestyle to be held August 25-27 at Stampede Park.
Blackalicious
will perform Saturday, August 26th, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the evening
session at Slam City that begins at 4 p.m. and also features World Cup
pro qualifying events in Street and Vert skateboarding. The
Oakland-based hip hop artists will be joined by more than 100 of the
world’s top professional skateboarders.
The California
group is receiving props the world over for their expansive worldview
and state of the art hip hop. Blackalicious features rapper Gift of
Gab, a group of musicians from around the world and producer Chief Xcel.
“On
behalf of all of their fans in Canada, we’re excited to welcome
Blackalicious to Slam City 2006,” said Kleo Landucci, President of Slam
City Jam. “They are a perfect fit for Slam City and we know they’ll be
a real treat for our fans in Calgary. We’re pleased to be their only
Canadian date of the summer.”
Blackalicious is this week
in Chicago for two concerts and then in Los Angeles for a show held in
conjunction with X Games 12. Their other remaining performance before
their set at Slam City will be LA’s Little Tokyo-Tofu Festival Saturday
night, August 12th.
Hot off the release of their fifth
CD, The Craft, Blackalicious is riding high in collaboration with
Grammy Award-winning engineer Russ Elevado, who helped mix their recent
record after working with Alycia Keys on Songs in a Minor, with Erykah
Badu on Mama’s Gun and with D’Angelo’s Voodoo.
Three-day SERIES Tickets are available now on line and by phone at www.ticketmaster.ca
and at (403) 777-0833. Single-day passes go on sale Friday, Aug. 11th,
at all Ticketmaster outlets. The latest event information is available
at www.slamcityjam.com
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