Wednesday, September 6, 2017

The Silver Room Block Party!'Chi-town Afro-Funk!
There were so many 
Funky badass …magical… musical moments of
Blackgirlmagic  and  BlackguyAfrofunk... 
that it was truly a kaleidoscope of 

Funk, 
Fun, 
Energy 
and 
Peace
With a can of hair grease….
 
As  the  Millenials  
and ere'body  else 

showed up and showed out
all peace and love...

as the Silver Room Block party 
mushroomed n2 Art
Fashion
painted faces
Artist, Marcus Allenye
was pushing his new book ' The World Is Yours!'
The Universal Alley Jazz Jam..
and some killer 
Black Rock music….
on 3 different stages 
Rocking  out  with Black Cheri Soul! 
Cherelle CheriSoul Sullivan, 
Jordan Bosman, Aki Antonia 
Km Nelson,  Lothario  Lee and more... 
 
Cherelle Cheri Soul  
& the  Black Cheri Soul Band
was rocking out!

The Joint was Jumping at the Silver Room  Block Party!
Hey! ...Keyboardist, Aki Antonia caught a moment with 
Vocalist, Actress and uber multitalented  Sharyon Culberson!
Rituals..Poet..Photographer and more, 
Corey Walden catches up .. at the Silver Room Block party! 

from  53rd and Blackstone
2 53rd and Harper 
(Honorary Oscar Brown  Jr Way
53rd and Lake Park 
and everywhere in-between…. 
There were some Salsa dancers 
dancing ...
and a LIVE Salsa band!

And the crowd was lOving how
A Drum & Dance troupe...  & 'Chi-town tribe ...
Ayodele  
were bringing that vibe..  
Africa  Brown was rockin those drums!
and rhythms 
straight from the Motherland… 
like....  
Fela meets Southside HOUSE
.
AYODELE

When we rolled up on 53rd St... 
going 2 the sound check for Black Cheri Soul… 
we could see the cars were back 2 back! 

On 53rd St?... 
N Hyde Park? ...
Really?
People were everywhere!

Rocking the beautiful funkiness of natural hair in all shapes,
forms and colors

It was so intoxicating & intergenerational …
that  it was like an Afro - Futuristic dream...
of Urban Pharoahs and Nubian Queens

Dashiki-ed Africanos and Beauty Africana 
were floating in and out ..
Not..
 " We gone 2  Paris this weekend 4 Afro-Punk  
but like...
We sTaYed at home in our Pyramid...
.. 4 some  Chi- town Afro-FUNK! …

U know we are a spiritual center 4 all things Black  NOIR!...
when we in... CHICAgO are the home of Sun RA
and Kelan Phil Coran...  Chaka ...Earth Wind and Fire and  
The  Pharoahs .  and Africobra...
We are DuSable's   great great grand children.....
....and ONLI and the Black AGE!

A bevy of Neo-Africana and Neo Africanos …
 in full effect…
BlackRock bands  were slanging.
and Neo-Soul sistas were sanging

Black hair…. 
was everywhere…
from Bald sOul Sistas 2  
sOul sisters with big Box braids…

Multicolored locs 
             with intricate Chi-town fades....
Big naturals  on shorties.... 
and
Queens floating those Goddess braids...






I saw sisters with threaded braids 
that I haven’t seen since I was in Ghana
Brothers with BIG ‘natchals.. that made u  just wanna...
hmmmmm....

Afri-fashinistas were flashing skin and Kente.. 
I saw some ‘Classic men’ in skinny ties and plaid
The Silver Room Block Party was 
sO sO "SUPERBAD"!

And at night…
They were stunting and fronting 
on Pop shots and Scooters..


Boys will be boys
and the Boyz had their toys
All out and 
Sleek and shiny...
All jumping with sounds and in beautiful colors...
Bentleys and Jeeps and Pop Shots
Futuristic and Classic  
and rocking  some some hip hop
…the music was playing
I felt like a star... 
Cause  they  just wouldn’t stop standing 'round my car...


All text and  video and photographs by Aki Antonia c2017
All rights reserved.
AA72017

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