Homegrown Hip-Hop Hits the Three Rivers Arts Festival
Pittsburgh's own Formula412 brings real hip-hop to the Three Rivers Arts Festival Main Stage at 7:30 pm, Monday, June 16, 2008. All Three Rivers Arts Festival Main Stage performances are free and open to the public.
With Pittsburgh artists like Wiz Khalifa gaining national notoriety, Pittsburgh's hip-hop scene is growing more successful. Led by emcee Masai Turner, an elder statesman of Pittsburgh's ever-expanding hip-hop scene, Formula412 strives to foster community through music and keep hip-hop grounded. Doing away with the materialism and arrogance sometimes associated with the genre, Formula412 gets back to the roots of hip-hop.
With sound and lyrics that hearken back to classic hip-hop groups like Run-DMC and Eric B. & Rakim, Formula412 is simultaneously fresh and vintage, pushing the limits of the genre with live instrumentation in the style of seminal hip-hop act The Roots. The group includes a live DJ with musicians on guitar, bass, keyboard and drums.
"The Three Rivers Arts Festival has a tradition of presenting live music," said Festival Executive Director Elizabeth Reiss. "Formula412's fusion of classic hip-hop style with real musicianship means that we add hip-hop to the mix of genres you'll see this year."
Calendar Listing
The Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Formula412 at 7:30 pm, Monday, June 16, 2008. Three Rivers Arts Festival Main Stage. Free.
About the Three Rivers Arts Festival
The mission of the Three Rivers Arts Festival is to connect the community to the arts. The 49th annual Three Rivers Arts Festival runs from June 6-22, 2008. For more information, call the Festival at 412.281.8723 or visit our website www.artsfestival.net.
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With Pittsburgh artists like Wiz Khalifa gaining national notoriety, Pittsburgh's hip-hop scene is growing more successful. Led by emcee Masai Turner, an elder statesman of Pittsburgh's ever-expanding hip-hop scene, Formula412 strives to foster community through music and keep hip-hop grounded. Doing away with the materialism and arrogance sometimes associated with the genre, Formula412 gets back to the roots of hip-hop.
With sound and lyrics that hearken back to classic hip-hop groups like Run-DMC and Eric B. & Rakim, Formula412 is simultaneously fresh and vintage, pushing the limits of the genre with live instrumentation in the style of seminal hip-hop act The Roots. The group includes a live DJ with musicians on guitar, bass, keyboard and drums.
"The Three Rivers Arts Festival has a tradition of presenting live music," said Festival Executive Director Elizabeth Reiss. "Formula412's fusion of classic hip-hop style with real musicianship means that we add hip-hop to the mix of genres you'll see this year."
Calendar Listing
The Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Formula412 at 7:30 pm, Monday, June 16, 2008. Three Rivers Arts Festival Main Stage. Free.
About the Three Rivers Arts Festival
The mission of the Three Rivers Arts Festival is to connect the community to the arts. The 49th annual Three Rivers Arts Festival runs from June 6-22, 2008. For more information, call the Festival at 412.281.8723 or visit our website www.artsfestival.net.
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