…World-record holder to perform Friday, Aug. 25th and Saturday,
Aug. 26th, 2006 at the Calgary Corral as part of the Slam City Jam
festival of skateboarding, music and lifestyle
CALGARY (Wednesday, August 9th, 2006) –
Hot off his world record-setting performance at Rock the Bells in San
Bernardino, California, last weekend, M.C. Supernatural has confirmed
that he will be bringing his freestyle hip hop to the 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.
M.C. Supernatural will
perform Friday, August 25th and Saturday, August 26th, as part of the
evening sessions at Slam City, a World Cup of Skateboarding pro tour
event that will feature more than 100 of the world’s top skateboarders
in Street and Vert competitions.
The native of Indiana and current New Yorker is in the news throughout
the hip hop world after setting a new Guinness World Record for
longest-freestyle rhyme at Rock the Bells, clocking in at nine (9)
hours, on Saturday, August 5th in San Bernardino. Known as “Supernat”
by his loyal fans and made famous in the documentary Freestyle: The Art
of Rhyme, M.C. Supernatural has two albums – S.P.I.T. released in
November of 2005 and his debut, The Lost Freestyle Files, released in
2003. He has been featured on “MTV Cribs” and is one of the
highest-profile MCs in the world.
“Supernat is a great addition to our music line up at Slam City and
we’re very pleased to have him add to the great mix for our fans in
Calgary,” said Kleo Landucci, President of Slam City Jam. “With
Blackalicious announced last Thursday, our line up is taking shape in a
way that’s bound to create a buzz among our fans.”
After performing in Los Angeles in conjunction with last weekend’s X
Games 12, Blackalicious has one more show left -- LA’s Little
Tokyo-Tofu Festival Saturday night, August 12th. – before playing Slam
City.
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.
“We’ll be making at least one more major concert announcement in the
weeks leading up to Slam City 2006,” said Landucci, who noted that all
concerts are included in the price of admission for the professional
skateboarding event.
Three-day SERIES Tickets are available now on line and by phone at www.ticketmaster.ca
and at (403) 777-0633. 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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