Brooklyn Girl In…Sicily and Barcelona [Episode #4]
April 23, 2008
The last leg of the Brooklyn Funk Essentials Tour lands Hanifah in Sicily and Spain. There she enjoys some gelato, fights a fever beneath a volcano named Aetna and bikes through the side streets of Barcelona.
Brooklyn Girl In.. Nice to Paris [Episode #3]
April 3, 2008
This episode follows Hanifah and the Brooklyn Funk Essentials on the first leg of their spring tour through France and Torino, Italy. There Hanifah deals with Italian toilet rest stops, rocks the stage in both cities and rural towns and meets up with lesbians of color in Paris who entertain new terms for “People of Color”.
Brooklyn Girl In…Amsterdam [Episode #2]
March 24, 2008
Before meeting up with the Brooklyn Funk Essentials for a month long tour, Hanifah stops in Amsterdam as a guest of the Crime Jazz Festival. There she meets people who not just show her the town but bits of herself 3,000 miles from home. She finds out that Amsterdam is more than what it is known for and that its real intoxicants are found in its people. During the Crime Jazz Festival there was a special U People Screening in front of a Dutch audience made up of black, white and racially mixed people. Below are snippets of the audio from the talk back.
Crime Jazz U People Talk Back [14:50m]: Black Girl In…Stockholm [Episode#1]
February 11, 2008
This is the debut episode of Black Girl In. Taken from the book Black Girl In Paris written by Shay Youngblood, BLack Girl In… the new podcast from iLoveUPeople.com is a travel and tour log of artist Hanifah Walidah. As a member of the massive multi-national neofunk band The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Hanifah will video tape her and the bands journey across the world as the promote their latest album “Watcha Playin’” due out in March 2008.
In this first episode, Hanifah and the band travel to Stockholm, Sweden for a couple of winter dates where they practice news songs off of the album. Hanifah is jetlagged, Swedish newspapers report on Obama’s grandmama and Lati Kronlund (bass player and band leader) talk about how Swedish folks find it hard to show pride.
Brooklyn Funk Essentials “Wacha Playin’” LP
Opening Music Credit: “Need”, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Album “Watcha Playin”.Episodes will continue when the band starts their spring tour in March. Touring schedule below:THE BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS
Spring Tour Schedule
March
18 Nice, Cedeac (France)
19 Torino, (Italy)
20 Arles, Cargo (France)
22 Montpellier, Rockstore (France)
23 Brugge, Cactus Club (Belgium)
25 Lille, Maison Folle (France)
26 Dijon, La Vapeur (France)
28 Paris, New Morning (France)
29 Bordeaux, Krakatoa (France)
30 Sannois (Paris), EMB (France)
April
01 Catania, EtnaFest (Italy)
03 Hospitalet, Salamander (Spain)
04 Matarò, Clap (Spain)
05 Salt, La Mirona (Spain)
06 Lerida, (Spain)
07 Budapest, (Hungary)
