April 30 2011 Be prepared to celebrate the conclusion of this year’s Spring Semester as Union Board provides some amazing local and national talent for your enjoyment. It’s an entire day filled with musicians, vendors, and a finale that will have you talking for years! You will not want to miss out! Enclosed you will find your guide to all of the excitement! Guide
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April 30
2011 Be prepared to celebrate the conclusion of this year’s Spring Semester as
Union Board provides some amazing local and national talent for your
enjoyment. It’s an entire day filled with musicians, vendors, and a finale
that will have you talking for years! You will not want to miss out!
Enclosed you will find your guide to all of the excitement!
Guide
Gregg Gillis is Girl Talk, a one-man show, celebration extraordinaire, Case Western graduate and Pittsburgh
native. Gillis celebrated his 10th
plus year of sample-obsessed production last fall with the release of his most
epic, densely layered, and meticulously composed musical statement to date – All Day – clocking in at 71
minutes of music created by 372 samples. Girl Talk has flourished in the past four years and has played over
300 shows, hardly taking a full week off from touring. Performance highlights include the Vancouver
Olympics, large festivals such as Coachella, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, V-Fest, Sasquatch,
Rothbury, Monolith, Planeta Terra, and trips to Australia, Japan, South America, Europe, and Mexico. Gillis
will be continuing this trend with repeat performances at the two of the most influential festivals in the United
States – Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza – both this summer. So prolific is Girl Talk, he even has his own official
holiday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 7th
– “Gregg Gillis Day.”
One Be Lo (a.k.a. Nahshid Sulaiman) has fashioned himself into what he describes as "the MC's MC." Having grown
up listening to the likes of KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, and Ice Cube, One Be Lo gained an interest in hip-hop from
an early age. Rapping and producing since his high-school days under the name One Man Army, he first made waves as
one half of Binary Star in 1998 before breaking out as a solo artist, founding the Subterraneous label/collective and
changing his name to One Be Lo in the mid-'00s. Sulaiman converted to Islam as a young man, which inspired trips to
the Middle East and his eventual move to Egypt in 2007; he now splits time between metro Detroit and Cairo. His most
recent release came in the summer of 2010 with B.A.B.Y. (Being a Black Youth), an album featuring a number of
collaborations with heavy hitters like Freeway, Devin the Dude, Phonte, Royce Da 5'9", Jean Grae, Guilty Simpson, and