Monday, September 19th at 9 pm
Femi The Dri Fish is an English-born Nigerian writer, performer/entertainer, poet/lyricist, song writer, one half of the 5th L and a recording artist at Stinkiface Music.
The Dri Fish has been a professional performance artist and entertainer for over ten years, honing his audacious lyrical skills and intense stage presence at venues nationally ranging from concerts to conferences to night clubs to college campuses.
The Dri Fish’s journey as a performer has included serving as one the lead lyricists for the hip hop-meets-spoken word group THE 5th L. As part of THE 5th L, he has performed on BET’s Lyric Cafe, The U.S Tennis Open, and shared stages with artists such as Musiq Soulchild, Saul Williams, Ursula Rucker, Raheem DeVaughn, Bill Cosby, and KRS-One.
The Dri Fish is also actively involved in using his talents to serve his community — he participates in programs designed to introduce creative writing to students and facilitates a violence intervention program at The University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center (VIP).
His current solo project the urban alternative album entitled, “The Clown With No Circus” was released January 2011 and is currently on sale online and at BloomBars’ CD rack.
About the Garden Open Mic
We welcome poetry, music, comedy, story-telling, dancing and other special talents as long as they are within the realm of human respect and dignity. Bloombars is an all all-ages, community-oriented art space, so please keep this in mind when deciding what to perform at BloomBars.
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm and the first performer goes on at 9:00 pm. Hosted by Jonathan B. Tucker and Gowri K.
