East Meets Words: Justine Ok
It’s October already and the year is winding down. This month’s open mic featured some new faces as well as some familiar faces. The show began with two first time Open Mic performers, Taz and Patrick. Taz performed his rap and Patrick introduced us to himself by bringing a refreshing vibe to the Open Mic with his enthusiasm. Giles returned to East Meets Words by performing two pieces, one was Untitled and the other was entitled “Mousetrap.” L.I.F.E. composed of Joey B and Febo made their second performance illustrating the power of “Words” further showing that they will be a force to be reckoned with. Andy followed up by performing a piece that involved the audience’s participation. Theresa was next as she read a piece from her book and Jill followed Theresa by performing a song with the guitar. Charles performed one of his recent pieces and Victor closed out the Open Mic with his signature freestyle accompanied by Giles on the guitar.
This month’s feature on East Meets Words was Justine Ok, a singer/songwriter and recent graduate of the Berklee School of Music. Accompanied by Tony on the piano, Justine opened the segment with the cover of “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys. With the audience’s help (mainly from Patrick), Justine performed her own song “NO.” Justine then followed up with “It’s Too Late” and “Fed Up.” She closed the show with “Snowflake.” It was refreshing to have Justine Ok at East Meets Words because she was not a spoken word artist but rather a singer. She sang with passion and one can tell that that she had a lot of fun.
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Justine was dope. I really enjoyed her music. It was a nice change of pace from really intense, in your face political spoken word. I can’t wait to hear the interview.
Justine’s single Snowflake should be hitting the online radio soon.
I really enjoyed looking at her hat and someone else said that too in the crowd I think one of the folks from LIFE
[...] in Beantown, USA. She is an old friend of Boston Progress and recently featured at the October 2007 East Meets Words Open Mic. When not belting out Alicia Keys covers and songs about snowflakes, Justine co-hosts a radio [...]