Grandmaster Flash – Hip Hop People, Places and Things – CANCELLED

Grandmaster Flash – Hip Hop People, Places and Things – CANCELLED

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Grandmaster Flash - Hip Hop People, Places and Things - CANCELLED

Grandmaster Flash
"Grandmaster Flash was hip hop in the same way Velvet Underground was punk. Or King Tubby was dub. Or Wiley was grime. They were predecessors, making the music before it even had a name"
Tom Wakins - Polygraph
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This performance has been cancelled
_ Time: 19.30
_ Duration: 180 mins
_ Age Suitability: 16+

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances it is with great regret this event and performance has had to be cancelled. Please contact your point of ticket purchase for a full refund.

 

Emerging from the South Bronx in the early 1970s, Grandmaster Flash is inarguably one of Hip Hop’s original innovators. In the earliest days of the genre, he manipulated music by placing his fingers on the vinyl, perfected beat looping, and discovered many of the most iconic beats still commonly sampled today. It’s no surprise that The New York Times calls him hip hop’s first virtuoso.

Today, he’s the voice of an entire generation of 1970s hip hop pioneers. From his electric live shows, to his production role on Netflix’ The Get Down, Grandmaster Flash is at once a historian, a storyteller, and a cultural force.

The music of the 1970s fueled the rise of Hip Hop, but much of that decade’s influence has been lost to time. With access to archival master recordings, images, and videos from the vaults of the major record labels, Grandmaster Flash’s live show is a celebration of hip hop’s most formative decade.