Hip Hop Maestro Screens At Mill Valley Film Festival

Mill Valley, CA Patch:

If they can pay for it, they will come.

That's the mantra this week from the daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, an Los Angeles-based band whose creator and conductor is the subject of a documentary that's part of the 34th Mill Valley Film Festival, which kicks off Oct. 6.

The group, founded in the late 1990s by Geoff "Double G" Gallegos as a symphony orchestra augmented by turntables, rappers and a rhythm section, has been invited to play the festival's Oct. 16 closing night party at the San Rafael Community Center. But in order to do so, it has to raise enough money to bring 31 people -- the maximum number of musicians the community center can fit but much smaller than its normal size -- to the Bay Area and get them a place to stay.

Read the whole story: Mill Valley, CA Patch

Comments

[stillshocked]

01:42 PM on 10/06/2011

If you get the opportunity and you are in the area stop by and watch the amazing performance by this amazing visionary. It is unlike anything you will ever see- truly enjoyable.
Check it out:
Go to facebook page : daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra
www.dakahmusic.com