Howdy all -- Andrew Chaikin here, aka Kid Beyond.

My sincerest apologies for the short notice, but...
I'm coming to NYC this weekend, to do a bunch
of small performances -- the World Beatboxing
Convention, and the Collegiate A Cappella Finals.
Currently confirmed appearances are:

FRI, APR 23 -- 10pm-4am
   World Beatboxing Convention: Beatbox Jam Session
   Bowery Poetry Club -- 308 Bowery at 1st
   60 Beatboxers x 10 minutes each = 6 hours! Yikes!
   10 of those minutes will be mine. I have no idea
   when. I'll probably just beatbox, not live-loop.

SAT, APR 24
   World Beatboxing Convention: Panels
   CBGB 313 Gallery -- 313 Bowery
   I'm speaking on two panels: Beatboxing with Effects
   at 4pm, and Organizing a Live Show at 6pm. I'll be
   doing one or two songs of live-looping at the 4pm.

SUN, APR 25 -- 2pm
   Int'l Championship of Collegiate A Cappella: Finals
   Town Hall -- 123 W. 43rd
   I'll be doing 10 minutes (beatboxing + live-looping)
   towards the end of the show.

MON, APR 26 -- Wanna get me a gig?
   My Monday night gig fell through, so I'm looking for
   a place where I can do 20 to 40 minutes of my
   live-looping. Some NYC industry folks wanna see it,
   and I wanna show 'em. I'm not picky -- tiny cafe,
   poetry slam, dimly-lit bar, opening act at Madison
   Square Garden -- I'll take anything. Wanna book me?
   Call me on my cel phone ASAP at (415) 929-8822.

For more info on the above shows, see my Website:
http://www.biggerbread.com

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What is this live-looping thing? Basically, I use a
smattering of onstage machinery to record, loop, and
multitrack my voice live -- singing, throat singing,
beatboxing, scratching, vocal guitarsviolinsharmonicas,
etc. As the East Bay Express (a newspaper out here
in the San Francisco area) wrote:

   Watching him one-man-vocal-percussionist-band
   his way through Portishead's "Wandering Star" is
   truly mesmerizing. "That's the best live thing I've
   ever seen," the dude behind me pants when it's over.

Or you can just take my word for it -- it kicks butt.

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See you in NYC!


Peace,

Andrew Chaikin, aka Kid Beyond
andrew@...
(415) 929-8822

http://biggerbread.com | http://kidbeyond.com