East Meets Words Open Mic Series: Melissa Li
Another month has passed, feels like time is flying by. This month’s East Meets Words Open Mic Series featured the talented Ms. Melissa Li. The Open Mic Series this month featured a great cast of performers. Every performer shot straight from their heart and it was one of the more inspirational open mics. Vinh the Kid was normally the first one to perform for the Open Mic but he was a no show this month so Kit Yan, the featured artist for the month of September started things off. Kit performed a moving piece dedicating to his home island of Hawaii. Delia followed up by reading two pieces, one in which she wrote in College and one about the recent events that’s been happening in her life in which she titled “The D Word.” Febo was up next and with inspiration from Kit, performed a powerful piece addressing truth in society. Ash performed a moving piece dedicated to his mother and Joey B performed a piece reminding us all about our past with that special someone. A new performer came onto the stage by the name of Afro-D who blew us all away with his piece about the Racial Race in America. Giles covered a piece by Jason Bayani and the Two Warriors performed next and taught us all how to be true warriors through peace and love. Charles concluded this month’s Open Mic Series by performing a couple of untitled raps.
As mentioned before, this month’s feature was Melissa Li. A singer/songwriter from Boston, she wrote a musical called “Surviving the Nian” which received some well-deserved praise this past year. She shared her recent experience being on the “Hong Kong Karaoke Idol.” Melissa Li displayed her multi-talents by playing her guitar to near perfection. Her style was unlike any other as she pour her life stories into her songs and we were privileged for her to share it with us in the audience. She was truly an original one of a kind performer.
[Editors' Note: Stay tuned for some highlights from August's open mic.]
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That piece that Giles covered had a little too much stink.
I really enjoyed Afro-D’s performance. And hope that he comes back to share with us again.
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