First Flight Crew are an eight piece hip hop outfit from Sydney, performing original tracks with Aussie B-Boy Morganics.
First Flight Crew are getting serious about representing people with a disability and showing off their hip hop skills to a wide public audience.
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Upcoming Gigs
19 August 2010
Pine Street Creative Arts Studio Outreach exhibition launch
CarriageWorks, Eveleigh.
Starts 3:30pm. All welcome!
Music
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Background
In late 2008 Accessible Arts’ Creative Programs Coordinator, Alison Richardson assisted Victorian based music organisation Club Wild to organise a series of four workshops in song creation with hip hop artist Morganics. The result of these workshops were two tracks, The Wild Ones and Music Makes Me Happy which also had an accompanying music video clip that the group created with video artist Finton Mahony.
Following this, the group was invited by Morganics to perform at The Beach Road Hotel, Bondi as part of a hip hop night with interstate and international artists including Elf Tranzporter and King Kapisi. This night exposed the group to a whole new audience of people outside of the disability sector, they blew the crowd away with their dancing and beat boxing. One of the members of the group, Nam, left the venue with one word to say “More!”
In 2009 most of the original hip hoppers returned, along with a few newbies, to take part in a two day song creation workshop again with Morganics. They created an original song called Funky Guitar Style Noises as The Funkeze, which they performed over a weekend at two of Western Sydney’s biggest Youth Week events, The Burbs in Blacktown and Bring It On! in Fairfield. They performed on the hip hop stages at both events and again showed the crowd how just how talented they are and how they can hold their own in the hip hop arena. The group is now called the First Flight Crew.
Contact: Alison Richardson on tel: 02 9251 6499 ext 112 or arichardson@aarts.net.au.
Past gigs
- Word Sound Power, Beach Rd Hotel, Bondi, December 2008
- The ‘Burbs Youth Week Festival, Blacktown Showground, April 2009
- Bring It On Youth Week Festival, Fairfield Showground, April 2009
- Down Syndrome Association (DSA) fundraiser, Westin Hotel, Martin Place, September 2009
- DSA fundraiser, The Hughenden Hotel, Woollahra, July 2009
- Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival, CarriageWorks, Eveleigh, March 2010
- Arts Activated National Conference, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, March 2010
- Sydney Writers Festival, Hip Hop Projections # 5, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, May 2010
- Hip Hop Week end- 80s exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, June 2010
- Ch 7 Sunrise appearance, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, June 2010
Supporters
Morganics
Powerhouse Youth Theatre
Club Wild
Phunktional
Down Syndrome NSW
The Hughenden Hotel
The Queen St and West Woollahra Association
