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e.g. bailey

MUSIC IS THE WEAPON OF THE FUTURE

About Me


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e.g. bailey + Jose James with an impromtu
performace of 'Love Songs in Middle Passage'.
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The greatest master is not one with the largest flock but he who creates the most masters. - Proverb
Multidisciplinary artist, e.g. bailey, is an actor writer poet playwright and producer. Born in Saclepea, Liberia, and now lives in the US. Since arriving in the Twin Cities, he has actively pursued acting and performing. He is a founding member of Sirius B, a black male performance collectivewith whom he performed and created and co-wrote monday morning body count, a performance work dealing with the high rate of homicide among black menand is an original member of Spine: a writer's collective developed by the Loft and the Walker Art Center. Spine produced spoken word performances at several local venues and created a performance at the Walker Art Center. He is also a founding member of @rkology, a spoken word and music collective, which was chosen in the City Pages' Picked to Click" Best New Band Poll in 1998 and 1999. In addition, e. g. co-wrote and co-produced blues for nina: a poetic interpretation of the life and music of nina simone, for SASE: The Write Place and the Twin Cities Black Film Festival. He also co-produced Write On RaDio!, a weekly literary radio program on KFAI Fresh Air Radio, which received a NFCB (Nation Federation of Community Broadcasters) award.
He is also co-founder of the film collaborative, dream cafe Xperience, with filmmaker Ayesha Adu, which produced the spoken word film village blues, which has won experimental film awards at the Worldstaff Houston International Film Festival (1999) and the Sarah Lawrence Film Festival (2001). In 1997, he co-produced the opening of Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight: Lives Connected for the Mpls. Institute of Arts and performed as a dancer in poet J. Otis Powell!'s performance work THEOLOGY: Love and Revolution. Recently, he was commissioned by Pangea World Theater to adapt Chinua Achebe's novel No Longer at Ease to the stage, which will be produced in May 2001 at the Playwright Center. He also created, with actress Sha Cage, an experimental movement/spoken word/video performance, Birth Spirit Songs, with Sha Cage, exploring their journeys to Afrika; and was recently in Pangeas production of Ionescos Rhinoceros.
He also co-founded, and is Artistic and Executive Director of the MN Spoken Word Association, Minnesotas first resource organization dedicated to poets and spoken word artists, and has co-produced, for two years, a spoken word conference, Singers of Daybreak, to engage dialogue about the art of spoken word with local and nationally recognized spoken word artists. He co-produces the Words Will Heal the Wound spoken word radio series for KFAI Fresh Air Radio in celebration of National Poetry Month and in honor of the diverse poetic traditions in the Twin Cities, now in its 7th year. His spoken word record label, Speakeasy Records, has released four albums including the first volume of the Words Will Heal the Wound series; Nazirahs Playhouse, the debut CD of spoken word artist Nazirah P. Mickey; The Evidence of Silence Broken (version poetic), by spoken word artist Zell Miller III; and Expansions + Contractions (Psoems 1:1), the debut solo ablum of legendary hip hop artist, Truthmaze.
e. g. was the winner of the Hughes Knight Diop Poetry Award at the Annual Black Writer's Conference in 1995, and was chosen for Intermedia Art's Exchanges artist mentoring program the same year. He has been chosen for the Powderhorn Writers' Festival's Broadside Project and several of his poems were published in the publication Solid Ground. His poems have also been published in Warpland, a publication by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for creative writing. In 1998 he received a MN State Arts Board Cultural Collaborations grant to produce a yearlong series of experimental spoken-word performances. He was a 1999 recipient of the St. Paul Companies LIN Grant, which will enable him to travel home to Africa after twenty year; and is a co-recipient, with filmmaker Ayesha Adu, of the Jerome Foundation's Media Arts grant to produce Cord, a feature length narrative film. In addition, his poem, we were not always missing, was included in the millennial issue of Drumvoices Revue, an African-American literary journal. For more information you can email [email protected].
Recent + Current Projects:
- Actor, Music Supervision - RADIO (Short Film)
- RUDY DEE OSSIE DAVIS (Performance Play)
- SHA CAGE - AMBER PEOPLE (Album Release)
- VERBAL GRAFFITI TOUR (Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records)
- god's pager - 'never here' (new track w/ dj hipgnosis)
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TRU RUTS ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR MN MUSIC AWARDS - 2005 + 2006
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AUG/SEPT 2007 - Chicago • Madison • Milwaukee • Urbana • Rockford • Minneapolis
Special Guests: El Guante/Grey Scare, Word Association, Idris Goodwin, Dynamic Vibrations,
Ugochi, Diagram of Truth, Ovadiel, Fundamentalist, Seemore Perspectives, Ryan K,
Tish Jones, Bleed Yellow + more.
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True Music for the People • From the Griot to the MC • 5th Year Anniversary
www.kfai.org | sundays 11:00p - midnight | shows archived for 2 weeks on web
"spoken word conscious movement - changing consciousness one track at a time"
hosted by e.g. bailey + sha cage
www.myspace.com/tehutiradioshow
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/3/2006
Band Website: egbailey.com
Band Members:
SHA CAGE
AMBER PEOPLE
Featuring Truthmaze, HipGnosis, Rene Ford, Amiee K Bryant. Produced by Ben Durrant, HipGnosis, e.g. bailey + Shá Cage. Executive produced by e.g. bailey + Shá Cage.

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TRUTHMAZE - EXPANSIONS + CONTRACTIONS (PSOEMS 1:1)
Featuring I Self Devine, Muja Messiah, Sister Mimi, Aimee K. Bryant. Produced by Jeremy Ylvisaker, Tom Scott + Ben Durrant. Executive produced by e.g. bailey + Shá Cage

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"Dubbed 'the Afrika Bambaataa of Minneapolis,' Truthmaze is one of the few MCs who could credibly rap, 'North Side full-throttle/Mister Influence, I taught Aristotle,' as he spits on his new, long-awaited solo debut, Expansions + Contractions (Psoems 1:1) (Tru Ruts/ Speakeasy Records). The album is a true event, combining the full range of his past live music and electro into a carnival of poetry, hard funk, and raw rap, with guests ranging from multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Ylvisaker to fellow ex-Micranot I Self Devine." -- Peter Scholtes, City Pages

Also available at Fifth Element, Electric Fetus in MPLS. And available at Exile on Main Street in CHAMPAIGN, IL.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
WORDS WILL HEAL THE WOUND (VOLUME ONE)
Executive produced by
e.g. bailey + Sha Cage.

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THE TWIN CITIES FIRST SPOKEN WORD COMPILATION! Speakeasy Records' first full production release, Words Will Heal the Wound: A Celebration of Community Through Poetry, was developed from the noted spoken word radio series. Words Will Heal features the works of J. Otis Powell!, Arkology, Truthmaze, Bao Phi, ANIKA, Desdamona, Sister Mimi, Sha Cage, Slug (of Atmosphere), Wookiefoot, and others. Includes orginal version of Slug's "Hell's Playground". A must have for lovers of spoken word and those interested in the Minnesota scene.

ZELL MILLER III
EVIDENCE OF SILENCE BROKEN (VERSION POETIC)
Executive produced by
e.g. bailey + Sha Cage.

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The long awaited release of Zell Miller III's fiery debut CD. The poetic verion of the acclaimed spoken word and hip hop theatre production "The Evidence of Silence Broken", the CD shows why Zell Miller III is fast becoming one of the rising stars in the spoken word genre. With music by the always dynamic DJ Brainchild, this album takes you on a journey through a poet's birth and survival in this often chaotic world. (Note: This is not the soundtrack to the theatre production.)

NAZIRAH P. MICKEY
NAZIRAH'S PLAYHOUSE
Executive produced by
e.g. bailey + Sha Cage.

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Speakeasy Records releases Nazirah P. Mickeys debut CD Nazirahs Playhouse. A poet, playwright and spoken word artist, Nazirah has been nominated for the Spoken Word Artist of the Year Award by the Minnesota Music Academy; has worked with such artists as Sonia Sanchez, Quincy Troupe, Ruth Forman and Tyehimbe Jess, as part of the Hurston/Wright Fellowship, the VONA Fellowship and Cave Canems Master Class, respectively; was a member of the Minnesota Slam Team which place 6th in the nation in 2001; and was one of the recipients of the 2002 S.A.S.E/Jerome Verve Spoken Word Grant. A track from this CD is featured in Urban Bush Women's production "Hair Stories".

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Founder:
- Tru Ruts Endeavors (artistic organization)
- Speakeasy Records (spoken word + hip hop record label)
- Spoken Word Conscious Movement (radio format)
- Youth Slam League (middle school + high school slam league)

Co-Founder:
- MN Spoken Word Association (with Sha Cage + Leah Nelson) (spoken word organization)
- Arkology (with Mire Regulus, Mankwe Ndosi, Dennis Maddix + Jason "Kona" Lund) (spoken word + music collective/band)
- Tehuti (Divine Speech)Urban Griots (with Sha Cage + Frank Sentwali) (spoken word conscious radio show)
- Cipher Zone (with Sha Cage + Willie Ney) (spoken word conscious radio show)
- Sirius B (Black male performance collective)
- Spine: writer's collective (performance ensemble)
- SASE/Jerome Verve Grant (with Carolyn Holbrook) (the first spoken word grant)
- dream cafe Xperience (with Ayesha Adu) (filmmaking collaborative)
- minamine productions (with Mire Regulus) (performance + theatre productions)
- Write On RaDio! (WORD!) (with J. Otis Powell! + Lisa Bullard) (literary radio program)
- Words Will Heal the Wound National Poetry Month Spoken Word Radio Series (with Sha Cage) (annual radio series)
- Neo Manifesto Artist Forum (for Prince's Paisley Park + New Power Generation store) (performance series)
- Habari Gani (first African American student newspaper at Notre Dame University)

Influences: My Parents. Amiri Baraka. Langston Hughes. Steven Biko. Last Poets. Larry Neal. Eric B + Rakim. De La Soul. James Baldwin. Malcolm X. e.e. cummings. Nina Simone. Jack Kerouac. New Order. Jim Morrison + the Doors. Allen Ginsberg. Existentialism. Ms. Bartholomew. Gil Scott Heron. REM. Bob Dylan. Black Star. Common. Prince. Lee "Scratch" Perry. Arkology. Gordon Parks. Bob Marley. Nikki Giovanni. Counting Crows. J. Otis Powell! Prince Nico. Satre. Fellini. Orson Welles. Bob Kaufman. Francois Truffaut + French New Wave.
Sounds Like: Don't know, just trying to find my own path thru this work. I aspire to artists like Baraka, Gil Scott, Last Poets, Larry Neal, Nikki and them.
Record Label: Tru Ruts | Speakeasy Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LATE NITE SERIES co-curated by E.G. BAILEY. Hosted by SHA CAGE.

Saturday, October 11, 20088:00pm " $10 Adults, $5 StudentsPillsbury House Theatre 3501 Chicago Ave sMinneapolis, MNPillsbury House Theatre proudly presents Non English Speaking Spoken Here: The Late N...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:04:00 PST

EL GUANTE " SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE + E.G. BAILEY at JUNKYARD EMPIRE CD RELEASE

October 11th, 2008  music starts at 9pmThe Nomad World Pub, 501 Cedar Ave. S,Minneapolis, MNOn Saturday night, October 11th Junkyard Empire will be officially releasing 'Rise of the Wretched' to the ...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:30:00 PST

SHA CAGE curates FLY GYRLZ at BLUE NILE

Tru Ruts + Rose Up presentFLY GYRLZ: All Female Showcaseat FREAKIN FRIDAYSOctober 10th9:00pm " $5 " 18+Blue Nile2027 East Franklin Ave SouthMinneapolis, MNThe always dynamic SHA CAGE curates an evenin...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:51:00 PST

EL GUANTE + SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE at Red Sea with Kristoff Krane + others


Posted by e.g. bailey on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:33:00 PST

QUILOMBO WEDNESDAYS tonight at the BLUE NILE featuring El Guante + See More Perspective

QUILOMBO WEDNESDAYS @ Blue Nileguest poets, emcees and musiciansOctober 1st - Blue Nile - 10:00pm - 18+ - FREE2027 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MNFollowing up on the TRUE AMERICA, and shining as festi...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:55:00 PST

E.G. BAILEY + SHA CAGE WIN TV COMMERCIAL AWARD

The Minnesota Chapter of the Associationof Independent Commercial Producers presentTHE 17th ANNUAL SHOW TO HONOR THE 2008 INDUCTEES INTO THE ART & TECHNIQUE OF THE AMERICAN COMMERCIALMonday, September...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:25:00 PST

EL GUANTE headlines tonight at FORWARD FESTIVAL in Madison. Frequency Club " 9pm.

EL GUANTE @ FORWARD FESTwith SEE MORE PERSPECTIVESeptember 20th - Frequency121 W Main Street, Madison, WIThe Forward Music Festival (FMF) is a two-day music event that will be held in downtown Madison...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:57:00 PST

E.G. BAILEY co-curates LATE NITE SERIES featuring ’HBO DEF POETS’ BLACK ICE + IDRIS GOODWIN

E.G.BAILEY C0-CURATES LATE NITE SERIESfeaturing 'HBO DEF POET' BLACK ICE, IDRIS GOODWIN. DJ LAST WORD + moreSeptember 12th + September 13th - Pillsbury House Theatre - 9:00pm3500 Chicago Ave So, Minne...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:13:00 PST

WHO SAYS REVOLUTIONARIES CAN’T DANCEPARTY f/ DJ MIX.WELL, DJ FRANCISCO+DJ XORGE. [DANCE PRIZE]

WHO SAYS REVOLUTIONARIES CAN'T DANCEPARTYfeaturing DJ MIX.WELL " DJ FRANCISCO " DJ XORGEhosted by SHA CAGE9:00pm Doors + Music " $5 " 18+Blue Nile, 2027 Franklin Avenue South, Minneapolis, MNOver the ...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:58:00 PST

SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE at BACK TO SCHOOL HIP HOP PARTY - Dinkytowner - 21+

When: Wednesday, September 10thWhere: The Dinkytowner CafeCost: Free ShowAge: 21+Who: Toxic Waste, Brainstem Records, Art Of Faction,SEE MORE PERSPECTIVES, Sonra, Macspillz...
Posted by e.g. bailey on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:04:00 PST