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Urb Alt 3.O Celebrates Martin Luther King Holiday Through 21 piece Orchestra Collaboration

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For Immediate Release

Media Contact: Muhammed P. Aziz
Phone: (212) 281-7723(New York) or 404-313-5341(Atlanta)
Email: [email protected]

Celebrate, Commemorate, And Collaborate! URB ALT 3.0 Celebrates MLK Holiday through Orchestral Collaboration

WHAT: Urb Alt 3.0 - Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
WHO: Mutha Wit, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and Roy LaGrone
WHEN: Saturday, Jan 14, 2006 at 8pm
WHERE: MAKOR/Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street

New York, NY (December 2005) - URB ALT 3.0 will celebrate diversity, universal love and understanding through music in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy and teachings. The performance will meld the creative voices of several multi-cultural artists in an outpouring of passionate creative expression. URB ALT 3.0 features the 21-piece URB ALT String Orchestra enhancing the lush progressive-rock/jazz/soul sounds of Mutha Wit and Shaka Zulu Overdrive. The avant video projection imagery of Roy LaGrone will heighten the musical performances. For media inquiries, please contact Muhammed P. Aziz at (212) 281-7723, 404-313-5341 or [email protected].
For general information visit www.myspace.com/muthawit, www.myspace.com/urbalt or www.BostonCommunications.com.



About Mutha Wit:
MuthaWit, founded by Boston Fielder, is known for provocative live shows that incorporate rock dynamics and avant-garde experimentation. Group members have worked with Yo Yo Ma, Funkadelic, Olu Dara, Organized Noize (Outkast), Curtis Mayfield and Brendan O'Brien (Stone Temple Pilots). MuthaWit's eclectic sound provides whispers of the classical string chamber, soulful cries of the field and the electric roar of deepspace.

About Shaka Zulu Overdrive:
Shaka Zulu Overdrive is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Evan O'Reilly. This edgy 3 piece “shoe-gazing negro prog rock band" combines improvisation with an aggressive yet dreamy rock style containing quick shifts in dynamics and tone. Shaka Zulu Overdrive is the sonic melding of John Coltrane's sheets of sound, Fugazi's guitar skronk, Live/Evil era Miles Davis and the spirit of 3000 Zuluwarriors.

About Roy LaGrone:
Roy LaGrone sits at the crossroads of electric collage culture and resurrection aesthetics. As an initiate into the realm of cyber-shamanism and electric hermetics, LaGrone's digital/video projections at the Smithsonian, Siggraph, RUSH Arts Gallery and SCAD have shown us the alchemical process of creation and reproductive re-creation. What results in his poly-visual continuum are visual love songs for cyborgs searching for guidance through the Frankenstein aesthetic we now call global culture.

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