Time to Build DMV Town Hall Meeting

Set for Sunday in Response to DMV Music Awards Incident

WHAT: EMERGENCY Town Hall Meeting to discuss the future of the DMV music community
WHEN: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
WHO: DMV music community

Hip the jump for plenty more info. Quite possibly not one to be missed. We’ll see.

Moderated by Comedian Eddie Bryant
Artists and residents

Time to Build DMV Panel:
Rev. Tony Lee of Community of Hope AME Church
Tony Lewis Jr., Advocate for Ex-Offenders and Children with Incarcerated Parents
Dreams Work, Inc.
Brother Victorious, Educator and Youth Speaker
Dre Hopson, Co-founder of 368 Music Group
Ricky Parker, General Manager of Studio 43
Greg Harrison, CEO of The Board Administration
Mike Johnson, CEO of Midieast Corporation
P-Stew, CEO of Beam Up Entertainment and GM of Krossover Entertainment, former host of the One Nation Hip-Hop Show on 93.9 WKYS FM
Marcus J. Moore, Music Journalist Washington City Paper
DJ Heat, The Big Tigger Morning Show on WPGC 95.5 FM and dcmumbosauce.com
Permiss, On-Air Personality of WOLB Baltimore’s Politic with Permiss show
Judah, Music Producer
Kenneth KAS Flanagan, Celebrity Fashion Designer and Motivational Speaker
Candice Nicole Mackel, Publicist/Owner of Candice Nicole Public Relations
Maurice McClanahan, Washington, DC Rapper/Songwriter and Peacemaker
Sonny Brown, Baltimore Rapper and Activist

Program partner is EZ Street of The EZ Street show on 93.9 WKYS and Trending with EZ on 1450 WOL AM.
2011 DMV Music Award winners can also get their awards at this event.

WHERE: Community of Hope A.M.E. Church
3701 Branch Avenue
Temple Hills, MD 20748

DETAILS: Influential power players and decision makers from the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas music and nonprofit communities will meet with artists and residents in response to the unprecedented violence at Saturday’s DMV Music Awards ceremony. The event is free, and open to the public. Participants will discuss solutions and ways to unite different groups. Kyonte’, DMV Music Award Winner for Best DC Male R & B Singer, and Gods’Illa, DMV Music Award Winner for Best Rap Group, Album of the Year and Best Open Mic will perform.

A live broadcast will air on www.hiphopenation.com. Register online here.

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