OUT-234 MUSIQ SOULCHILD CONCERT AT LIVE ON LEVEE AND AFTER PARTY AT KITCHEN K--July 28

HERRE ARE PICS FROM THE HISTORIC LIVE ON THE LEVEE CONCERT WITH MUSIQ SOULCHILD AND OPENING ACTS CHRISETTE MICHELLE AND LAMAR HARRIS. (PHOTOS BY MA'ATOLOGY) FIRST THREE PICS: Musiq preparing to go onstage....

Musiq began his set with his hit, "halfcrazy."

The crowd was in a frenzy with him (as you will see later on in the pics)

SEE!

A shot of Musiq getting filmed and shot near the stage.




One of the first songs he sang from his new CD,LuvandMusic was, "Betterman."

Folks up in VIP were also all up in Musiq's music.

A back view of the crowd watching Musiq perform.

RIGHT: A deaf interpreter at the concert.





When the sun came down, Musiq was still on stage. But it wass time to say goodbye as he sings off his goodbye after performing hie comeback hit, "BUDDY."

Musiq walked toward VIP as greeted his fans.

As you see, they got a little zealous.

The blonde sista along with some of her hedonist cohorts kept cat calling the keyboard player here Monty. They loved his bawwdy.

Live on the Levee volunteer Leannette Payne takes a pic with Monty. She later said up close, that he wasn't all that phyne. LOL

The finale was the fireworks display.

Newcomer Chrisette Michelle opend for Musiq and wowed the crowd with her beauty and talent.

Michelle opened with the uptempo groove, "Let's Rock" from her debut CD, "I AM"

She suprisngly quite agile in her dance moves.

I like this pic. Michelle and her background dancer posin for the crowd.

Michelle's voice has been compared to Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald

She also sang the blissful slow jam, "Love is You" that she co-wrote with John Legend. This was where she shines. Just her and the keys.

Someone had an asthma attack in the crowd and it was a mess tryin to get to the victim in the 30, 000 plus crowd.

Majic 104.9 personality Chas Saunders takes a pic with Michelle before she graced the stage.

Local jazz artist Lamar Harris performed a hip-hop jazz set as the opener of the event along with DJ Reminisce. He aklso did tunes from his latest CD Groove Theory. Harris said that it was honor to open up for the Levee.

Reminisce and Harris before they got on stage.

The Live on the Levee sign.

The Sauce Cafe, a dining area where patrons can order a full course meal and watch the show from plasma TV while dining at their table.

Some of the Volunteer staff inclduing Leanette (up front), Stress Free froday co-creator Mark Anthony Jones (in back) and YOURS TRULY on the left (Well, I was just wearin the shirt. LOL)

Pamela Harris, Angela Robinson and CW 11's Kelley Hoskins chillin in VIp before the concert began.

the crowd.

the crowd!

















THE MUSIQ AFTERPARTY HOSTED BY KONCEPTS AT KITCHEN K

Frontline Security's Brian Stemmons (right) checkin folks before they enetered the spot.

A brotha havin to tell someone to call them back so Stemmons can check his ID.

There was another party goin on outside in front of Kitchen K.

Folks chillin outside waitin until Musiq pullD up to greet his fans andm some just stauyed outside especially when they found out that it was $15 bones to go inside.

For a moment, it seemed as though people werr goin to just party outside cause of of a free liquor truck!

The white truck parked behind the black car was serving up mixed drinks. (I had better pics but I was threatened to erase them. SEE EVENT VIEWZ BELOW FOR THAT STORY)

A pic from across the street wherr the truck was serving drinks.

People still outside waitin.







EVENT-VIEWZ. Due to the length of this weeks blog posts and my already highlightingteh concert already i will just do other highlighted moments:

--When I got there (I had parked my car at the Meterolink at Casino Queen) I took the Mtero from the Union Station eventto Lacelde;s landing to ghetto the Live on the Levee event. The first person I recognized was 2004 Amercina Idol finalist Aloha. I flirted a bot with her telling her how sexy she was. She blushed. And as I was going to get my bag checked. I thought I was going to get away with the can of CAMO in my bag. Then the lady said, "Do you want to drink this now? I just told her to go ahead and toss it. Then she said. "You should know better, especially withyou being media." Then she smilD.

_-I saw Mark Anthony Jones , Stress Free Fridays co-creator at the volunteer booth along with some other volunteers and he offered to give me a Volunteer shirt. I said cool. So I was pretending I was a volunteer.

__Event coordinator Missy Slay saw me and sked why I was wearing an LA Raiders cap and not a Cards cap and I told her that my cap was in the cleaners. She hit me on the shouldr playfully (I think she likes black men)

--At the concert, my sister texted me 10 times . I callD her and she said she was near the front of the stage . She waved her hand and I saw her hand. She was trying to get up in VIP and I told her she was too late for me to do all of that.

--As Musiq was getting prepared to go onstage and putting in his earpiece. People in VIP were shouting out, "Look over here!' They were tryin to get his photo with their cam phones. He finally smilD at them and walked on stage. He is teeeeeeny!

--The sistas in VIP was admiring Musiq's keyboardist Monty. One sista, who was the loudest in VIP who was sportin blonde hair said to Monty while he was on stage, "Hey keyboard player, we are lookin at your bawwwwdy."

--There was a lost child in the crowd and Musiq brought him up on stage and his folks saw him and he returned to them.

--I dont think the crowd realized how thick Chrisette Michele's NYC accent was.

--I hear that tehMusiq concert brought over 25,0000 peopel mainly because of the 10,000 or so who were here for the National Urban league Conference.

I left Levee about 9ish so I can get ready for the Afrter Party at Kitchen K. Meterolink was hectic with poeple from the Levee as well as the Cards game(No one was checkin for tix either!) I got to my stop at Casino Queen (I also ran into local singer Sanmuel on the train who was givin away free CD's of his music and didnt realize he works as a cook at one of the resturants in the Casino Queen)

I changed my clothes to my club clothes in my car and drove to Kitchen K. It took my about 30 minutes to ge there cause the traffic was crazy from the Levee)

The crowd was sparse due to the 15 dollar charge. Many were outsuide partyin. Therr were some dudes who partked their white truck serving free mixed drinks ( I was taking snaps of this action until this big bouncer guy walke dup to me and asked to 'holla at me" (OH SHIT!) and asked very nicley, surprisingly, if I could erase the pics cause they had some females in the car that werent "wired." Whatver that meant, but I wasnt goin to say NO and have my face kiss his knuckles. You feel me?

Anyway, Ileft out about 11ish cause I was tired. I didnt see Musiq but he did show up. To see pics go to www.stlouis-online.com


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STL-TIDBITZ. Whats up with the State of Illinois gettin ready to run out of money? (who been puttin their hands in the cookie jar?),....I hear Ike Turner sounded off to the media about the city of St. Louis denying him a proclamation to the city during the Blues fest in September. (I wonder if he is goin to give Mayor Francis Slay a good backhand when he comes here?)...Congrats to local rapper Huey. His single "Pop, Lock and Drop it' was just certified GOLD for selling over 500,000 copies (In the world of downloading music, this is a big accomplishment!). Which local mover and shaker who puts on weekly networking event helped Harry Michel and Fred Finley name their upcoming club After Seven?...STL social networking group SYGU taped a hot commercial regarding their upcoming party Smokin Aces. To peep it out go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-i9Asvnh7A It was produced by videographer Dana Christian...Has anyone got an update on the health of comedian Dee's Lee's father?...Several St Louis people passed on thie past week: Director of the West End Community Conference Marie Fowler , baseball legend Mike Shannon's wife, judy; and the grandson to Dred scott, John MAdison, Jr.


IN THE MIA FILE: What ever happenned to socialte Anthony Beasley?

Last week I said that the West End Word was goin to publish my article in regards to the Live on The Levee. Well, they claim they didnt have enough room to publish it. So here is the article Enjoy!

The building of a Levee
By Marcus Ma’at Atkins



The summer is here and we all know what that means—hot weather, vacations stays and great outside music concerts. And St. Louis is providing all three.
The city is hosting currently the 3rd Annual Live on the Levee/Celebrate St. Louis festival, a free 12-night weekend concert series that takes place under the Arch Fairgrounds. Since its opening July 6, the festival has had Grammy-Award winning and nominated artists on the main stage. Some include Texican rock band Los Lonely Boys, country icon Emmylou Harris, musician Bruce Hornsby, and neo-soul artist Musiq Soulchild. Food, family fun and fireworks are also part of the mix

There will be one more weekend of music with St. Louis-based urban jam band Madahoochi who will perform Fri. Aug. 3 at 6:30 p.m. They will open for multicultural funk band Robert Randolph and the Family Band who performs at 8 p.m. On Sat. Aug. 4, concert opener country act Lucky Shy performs at 6:30 p.m. followed by Grammy-Award winning national recording country artist John Michael Montgomery at 8 p.m.

Since 2005, more than 40,000 people have attended the Levee and the Fair St. Louis Foundation, the non-profit organization over the Levee, has raised well over $90,000 for various charities. However, in order for the Levee to continue to be successful, a team of workers behind the scenes make diligent strides to make the event a success.

Missy Slay, executive director of Fair St. Louis and Live on the Levee, said that the process of making the Levee a success starts with the committee.

“We make a concerted effort to offer 12 nights of various areas of music and make sure its (Levee) is diverse and having a little bit for everyone,” she said.

Slay said that the entertainment committee plans its “wish list” of entertainers to perform at the Levee in January and, afterwards, it is more of a “hurry up and wait’ process with the entertainers they seek out until their deadline in May.

“We begin to check schedules and see who’s available and that fits our budget,” she said.
The budget Slay refers to is a $3 million in funding that is donated by corporate and individual sponsors.

Slay also said, “It’s a long process because we are a free festival and that’s unique in itself, so the entertainer’s fees are so much higher than they would be if they were playing at a ticketed event.”

At this year’s event, the Levee committee had some hits and misses with the entertainers.

“We had an offer for John Legend and our booking agent told us we were in the Top Three and it looked really good but the Grammies came up and his demand was out of the sky,” Slay said. “His people couldn’t figure out when he was touring so he became unavailable.”

The first act who said YES was Los Lonely Boys.
‘A lot of it was routing,” Slay said. “They were playing somewhere close and it fit their schedule so it was easier to book the deal.”

Slay also said they were lucky to have booked Musiq Soulchild who currently has a hit CD and is currently on tour with hot singing sensation Chrisette Michelle.

There have also been challenges with the food and beverage component of the festival.
For the first two years, there was the Eats Bridge, a restaurant venue stationed on the Eads Bridge on the East Riverfront. But this year, the concept was scratched.

“Eats (Bridge) was a great success, however, we kind of felt a kind of disconnect with the proximity from, the main stage to the Eads Bridge,” Slay said. “We had local entertainment up there (on the bridge) but people wanted to see the main acts and you really couldn’t hear them.”

To solve matters, Sauce Café was introduced, a 150-seater restaurant venue located near the Budweiser Main stage under the Arch grounds that takes place on Saturday nights from 6p.m. to 8 p.m. There, patrons can order meals from participating restaurants and watch the main act on three-42 inch plasma screens.

“People love it,” Slay said. “It’s something different. One night we had to expand it to seat 500 people.”

There are also a number of food and beverage vendors and for the children, a popular Family Fun Village all located near the main stage. After the event is over, the committees will collect their notes, return to drawing board and plan for next year

“We are always looking for ways of making improvements,” she said. “I get excited about the whole process. It’s fun for us and see people talking about the shows and walking away saying it was a great experience.”


For more information about Live on the Levee call 314/434-3434
or go to www.celebratestlouis.org


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OUT 233--STATE FARM PRESENTS THE MILLION POUND CHALLENGE FEE CONCERT W/DR. IAN At UNION STATION--July 28

HERRE ARE PICS FROM THE MILLION POUND CHALENGE EVENT (PICS BY MA'ATOLOGY) PICS (In order of appearance): Some of the crowd at one of the booths .

An atmosphere shot of the event.

Another atnmosphere shot

It was whole lot of US there.

It was a lot of interactive games at the event.

More atmosphere






The registration booth.

People registered to lose weight for prizes.






A view of the area where the entertainers were going to perfrom.

DJ Biz Markie kept it goin all day with new and old school R&B and hip-hop. He also performed his lone hit, "Just A Friend."

Host comedian Jay Anthony Brown kept the crowd in sticthes heckling the crowd and being his ever crazy self.

Brown asked the crowd who saw the the video of Beyonce falling on the steps at her recent concert.

DJ's Biz Markie adn DJ Kaos hyping the crowd.

Black people of all shades, sizes and religions were all over the place.

Brown got some youngsters together todo a dance contest and gave a disclaimer to the kiddies to not dance as though they were in a music video.

This young guy got his lean wit it , rock wit it on.

This young sista was doin the Soulja dance.

This young sista, who won the contest, did more choregraphed steppin.

This youngster took it old school with breakdancin.

This couple had on matching outfits to the T!

Of course the day wouldnt have been complete without the Cupid Shuffle.

This fluffy sista was the ultimate Cupid shuffler.

Brown picked out this brotha for having a short set that triggered Brown's Short Set Alert.

Dr. Ian makin his appearance at the event.

Dr. Ian addressing one of his fans.

A fan waitin for the next move Dr. Ian made.

Brown had a contest of whch sista can fuss at an imaginary child without cussin.

"What do you mean I can't be on Celebrity Fit Club???"

Dr. Ian signing autographs.

A fan gettin her grab on with Brown.

Biz, Kaos and Brown who was passing out hats and shirts to the crowd below.

Dr. Ian about to throw caps to the crowd below.

There the hats go and the hands below. This could have been a chaotic situation. Folks were pullin for whatever was free at the free event.

State Senator Harry Kennedy addressing the crowd (more like losing his voice to the crowd).

Missouri State Rep Connie Johnson talks to the crowd of how important it is to lose weight and be healthy.

Former Rams player Marshall Faulk addreses the crowd.

CNN's Stephanie Carr (who recently lost weight) talks to Dr. Ian about not showin those eyes of his.

Another short set sighting and Brown directs this brotha what he needs to do to show off his attire.

TO DO THIS!

A feisty AKA rep and her sorors talk with Brown.

Dr. Ian poses for a pic with fans.

Some brothas breakdancin.

Vet rapper Slick Rick enteratined the crowd with some of his hits inclduing, The Show "Six Minutes" and "Children's Story."

Biz beat boxed as Slick Rick rapped the classic, "La-Di-Da-Di."

Slick rock showin off his eyepatch and the BLING!

Singer Shirley Murdock mostly sang sings from her new gospel CD and only sang breif snippets of her clssic hits, "Go On without you" and 'Husband."

R&B singer Kelly price sang soem gospel as well along with her hit, "You Shouldve Told Me." She also said that she had lost over a 100 pounds and wanted to be healthy so she wouldnt die.

A classic moment. Kelly Price and Shirley Murdock do vocl acrObatics on the song, "As We Lay" that both artists recorded. Kelly quipped that Jennifer Hudson had Jennifer Holliday and she had Shirley Murdock.

Heartthrob R&B singer had thr females in the crowd swooning along with the summer heat with hits, "Ride with me," "All the Things," 'I Wanna Know," And his latest, "If I was Your Man."

Joe was the only artist who came down from the steps to perform closer to the crowd, with much security around him of course.

His fans took plenty cam phone pics of the singer (Even his No. 1 fan who had on the same white linen outfit with all of Joe's albums on the outfit was therre up front!).

So Diverse's Miss Lisa, fitness trainer Malcom Lee and (her name escapes me now) enjoying the festivities.

A long shot of the crowd. It looked more like a Million Pound MArch than anything.

They were shooting a documentary and all were involved as they held a sign and walked briefly around Union Station.

The celebrities partook in the documentary and the celebratory march. IT TOOK A LOT TRYIN TO GET THIS AND THE NEXT SET OF SHOTS DUE TO SECURITY TRYING TO VOCALLY MUSCLE ME BUT I HUNG ON IN TEHRRE AND GOT WHAT I NEEDED!

Joe, Murdock and Price walking in front of the crowd for the documentary.

"We Shall Overcome....Weight Loss!"

Another shot of the celebratory march.








EVENT-VIEWZ. I pretty much hit on err thing above with the captions, but I must say that hundreds were packed on the front of union Station from noon to 4 p.m. to the point wherr white folks who were trying to go inside Union Station was lookin as though they picked the wrong day to shop! LOL

I also didnt realize Dr. Ian was Sooooooooooooooooo skinny!

Also, for thsoe who were therre, did Jay Anthony Brown and Dr Ian ever give the 100 bones to the female who was able to persuade their ex to come to Union station and kiss them?