Grandmaster Flash // Chalk

Beat Down Promotions presents
GRANDMASTER FLASH
(Hip Hop People Place & Things - The Visual Experience)
CHALK // BTN
Wednesday 27th October 2021
Doors 7pm - 10pm

"Hip Hop People, Places and Things" is the first audio, visual, historical presentation, of the early years of Hip Hop the 70s to present day, told by the legendary Grandmaster Flash.

Flash has designed this new interactive, audio-visual show for large venues and festival like stages, where he takes the audience from the birth of Hip-Hop and plays the biggest hits right up to present day. He explores his own influences and different musical genres like Disco, Soul, Funk & even a bit of Rock across a 90 minute performance so its a great show for a wide range of people across all ages!

There are lots of stories about the birth of jazz and the beginning of rock n’ roll, but Hip-Hop has founding fathers: one of them is DJ Grandmaster Flash.

In the early 70’s Joseph Saddler was living in the South Bronx and studying electrical engineering. However, Saddler, a native of the Bronx, had a much deeper passion for music; he had been experimenting with his father’s vinyl since he was an toddler.

His knowledge of audio equipment led him to an idea that would revolutionize the way he Played music: the turntable would become his instrument. Although Flash has been in the business for many years, he shows no sign of slowing down.