Sled Island presents: Nesha Nycee, Maky Lavender, LATISHA and Hip Hip Thursday
Schedule
Wed Jun 19 2024 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Location
Sloth Records, 736 17 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta | Calgary, AB
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Nesha NyceeAtlanta-based rapper Nesha Nycee has cultivated a style of heavy, hard-hitting beats and smooth verses. She believes sharing music is a healing power to break negative cycles and is heavily involved with community outreach, philanthropy and youth development. Her music complements these serious themes with thunderous, club-ready anthems that deserve to be blasted from some serious subwoofers.
Maky Lavender
Acclaimed bilingual rapper Maky Lavender returns to Sled Island in a way you’ve not seen him before — acoustic. This follows the release of ACOUSTIC in February, a collection of new versions of tracks from the rapper’s last three albums. With just Lavender’s voice, percussion and acoustic guitar by Ryan Nadin, Lavender recontextualizes his work in a way that will make you see a new side of him.
LATISHA
Massive-voiced R&B singer LATISHA croons over top of instrumentals by hip-hop and trap that sound as if they were imported from top talent in Los Angeles or Atlanta. But the star here is that voice. On “Intertwined,” she summons shades of Kelela’s dimly lit electronic epics, whereas her vocal patterns on “Pennies” sound like a fresh update on 2000s-era midtempo bangers.
Hip Hip Thursday
Emerging from Alcove Centre for the Arts, Hip Hip Thursday features six musicians bonded by their weekly Thursday jams. This project is rooted in creativity, serving as a platform to voice truths and celebrate Mohkinstsis' talent pool. Fusing hip-hop with jazz and indie-funk, their carefree approach to genre invites listeners to experience what words alone cannot convey.
About Sled Island:
Sled Island is an annual five-day independent music and arts festival in Calgary, Alberta that brings together a community of music, comedy, film and art with over 30,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.
Upon entering a festival venue, the passholder agrees to being photographed, filmed or recorded in that venue, and agrees to the publication, reproduction, distribution and broadcast of all photographs, video or other recordings of the passholder's voice or likeness without further notice or compensation in any publicity, advertisement or other publication carried-out by, or on behalf of, Sled Island and in perpetuity in any manner and media whatsoever, including print, broadcast or internet.
Everyone has the right to feel safe and included at Sled Island. All festival attendees must abide by Sled Island's safer spaces and inclusion policy and agree to the code of conduct, which can be found at SledIsland.com/SaferSpaces.
Sled Island acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
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Where is it happening?
Sloth Records, 736 17 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
