The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and the Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival Join Forces and Combine Three-Day Event to Celebrate Hip-Hop, Peace, Education, Unity and Empowerment
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Jan 23, 2003--The City of Atlanta will host the precedent setting, first ever Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival (UHMF), together with the second national Hip-Hop Summit, slated for April 11-13.
The second national Hip-Hop Summit will take place on April 11 at Morehouse College, and the Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival, the ''Woodstock of Hip-Hop,'' will take place at Turner Field on April 12 and 13. Atlanta becomes the first city to embrace a hip-hop festival of this magnitude.
The second national Hip-Hop Summit will bring together hip-hop artists, music industry executives, youth and community leaders to address the positive utilization of hip-hop for community empowerment. ''Our celebration of hip-hop as a global cultural phenomenon in Atlanta through the Summit and Music Festival will help to sustain the positive future of hip-hop culture,'' said HSAN President, Dr. Chavis.
The 2003 Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival will include two days of superstar artist performances, major corporate sponsors, participation from national, minority-owned businesses, educational, health and youth organizational displays, an array of cultural and artistic vendors, as well as pavilions sponsored by voting rights and civil rights organizations. While the focus of these events is hip-hop culture, the Summit and the Festival will be intergenerational. The
UHMF is being produced by 40 Street Records & MG Entertainment and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, founded by Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis. A portion of net proceeds from the Festival will be earmarked for charity.
Russell Simmons, Chairman of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, stated, ''Just as music played an important role in the changing of our culture after the original Woodstock, we are again at a turning point where music--specifically hip-hop--will have a role in shaping our future,'' Simmons said. ''It`s time to take that responsibility seriously.''
''Our objective with the concerts and Summit is to establish new programs that will provide entertainment, education, jobs and artist stimuli for the myriad of individuals in young urban America,'' said Earl Little, one of the organizers of the Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival.
Miquel Savannah, the President of the Festival, adds, ''In addition, the Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival in cooperation with the city of Atlanta, will present a unique opportunity to focus and to address needs and issues of the community, utilizing music and culture as the impetus.''
The Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival will be hosted by New York`s POWER 105.1 DJ and hip-hop luminary Ed Lover.
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