Tony-Award Musical FELA! Partners With Hush Tours

Tony Award winning Broadway Musical FELA! and Hush Tours announced an ongoing partnership on Thursday, August 12th where legendary Hip-Hop pioneers Rakim, Grandmaster Caz, Roxanne Shante attended FELA! The Broadway Musical.

The aforementioned Hip-Hop legends as well as artists like Melle Mel, Rahzel, Rahiem, Reggie Reg, Ralph McDaniels, Jeru The Damaja came together for the 8pm FELA! performance on August 12th in order to meet with FELA! cast members to discuss the upcoming partnership between FELA! and Hush Tours. These artists currently work with Hush Tours providing entertaining educational tours on Hip-Hop throughout its birthplace of New York City.

Come September, this new partnership will allow guests the option to take a Hush Tour that will conclude with a FELA! performance and Q&A with its cast members. Guests will experience and learn the connection between Hip-Hop music and Fela Kuti’s afrobeat influence. Your celebrity tour guide will play familiar Hip-Hop hits followed by the original Fela Kuti song from which the sample is derived. Guests will also be provided with study guide materials and other learning tools prior to the tours that will further the connection between the musical genres.

After the FELA! performance on August 12th, an after party took place at The Aspen Social Club which  featured pioneer DJ Grandmaster Caz and FELA! cast member Kevin Mambo DJing.

About FELA! the Broadway Musical:

FELA! is a triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, featuring Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award® winner Bill T. Jones.

www.felaonbroadway.com

About Hush Tours:

Hush Tours bring the world’s only Hip-Hop tour experience that use celebrity Hip-Hop pioneers as your guides telling the story of Hip-Hop on educational tours stopping at significant destinations throughout it’s birthplace New York City. The New York Times and New York Daily News have called the tours “A Rolling Shout-Out to hip hop history…Nothing like it.” and “A Must-See Experience.”

www.hushtours.com

The event was produced by Amy B of www.souldeepproductions.com

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