Ottawa’s only Hip Hop Jam session is coming to Red Bird, and will be a strong addition to our monthly music series.
Every month: Will be featuring a different Emcee that will host the show with our house Emcee Nick Pouponneau (of Zoo Legacy). Backed with a full live band Andrew and The Capital Syndicate, these showcases are bound to instil a deep love and connection to the incredible Hip Hop scene that we carry in the Capital city!
Live Band: Nick Pouponneau (Emcee) Andrew Knox (Trumpet/ Keys) Matt Evans (Saxophone/ Keys) James Arif (Sousaphone) Ramel Bautista (Guitar) Harrison Singer (Bass) Sacha Nagy (Drums)
March Feature: Nguyễn Anh Thư, better known by her stage name, King Kimbit, is a versatile, devoted and deeply sincere Ottawa-based spoken word artist, singer and instrumentalist. King Kimbit is best known for her ability to blend gritty personal narratives with compassionate social consciousness. She articulates the spectrum of her thoughts and feelings in a way that is consistently poignant, musical and heart-felt.
As a spoken word artist, King is interested in telling stories that are authentic to her experiences and identities. With nearly equal measure, and always with her characteristic grit and musicality, King Kimbit’s poetic work details, with striking honesty, the realities of her upbringing as the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, the truths of her social vantage point as a young woman of colour, and her stance on social issues regarding racism, de/colonization, and gender inequality. King’s striking honesty, lyrical acuity, empathy and versatility as a singer and guitar-player have earned her a reputation as a welcomed and necessary voice within the landscape of Canadian spoken word.
King Kimbit has also had the honour and pleasure to connect with poetry and music enthusiasts in communities as far away as Washington, DC, Anaheim, California and Dallas, Texas, and more recently, Kingston and Mandeville, Jamaica. Within her hometown of Ottawa, and her home country of Canada, she is respected as an artist of note and acclaim. King Kimbit is the 2012 Urban Legends Poetry Slam Champion (the first woman in her city to be the seasonal champion of a major slam series), she has also represented Ottawa at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, been a featured performer during Ottawa’s internationally-regarded annual poetry festival, VERSefest, and a notable alumni of the Ottawa Youth Poetry Project. Staying true to her roots, King is currently coordinating Urban Legend's YouthSpeak! program providing writing and performance workshops for teens interested in either. In October of 2018, King along with 4theworld (rapper/producer/singer) and Kevin Bourne (Shifter Magazine) founded Cap City Cyphers, a space for rappers across
