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Emma Lee Puts It All On Paper with “Dear Corona”

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Hip Hop Golden Age named her one of the best in U.S. Hip-Hop Underground for her performance on UK producer/DJ Mark Ski’s self-produced 2020 LP, Catch-REC.  Emma Lee is forging her own path as a Ungandan-born, Harlem-raised emcee rap activist, but continues to prove that continual exploration of one’s craft in collaboration with others is still the most effective and impactful methods of engaging and building more community. “Dear Corona” was written and arranged by Lee, and was produced and engineered by fellow renaissance artist, and Brooklyn native, Emzkey One. Together, they would co-direct and co-edit a fascinating music video for the track, which highlights the social impact that COVID-19 has had around the world, and that health is not an issue that should be used to divide people by race or gender.

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Foghat Sonic Mojo 2024 Tour. Fillmore Silver Spring, MD March 9
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Foghat’s Roger Earl Refuses to Slow His Ride

By this point in his life, Foghat founding drummer Roger Earl has visited quite a few doctors. But what may be surprising is that the percussionist, 77, is quick to point out that many of the medical professionals who have worked on him also enjoy rocking out.

“Nearly all the doctors and surgeons I know, they all play something: trumpet, sax, violin, guitar,” Earl said recently. “There’s not too many drummers that are surgeons, there’s probably a good reason for that!”

Earl half-jokingly invites his surgeon-rockers to join him and the other members of Foghat onstage at the Fillmore in Silver Spring March 9, where they will be headlining the Rock and Roll for Children Foundation benefit for the Children’s Inn at NIH. Earl, the only original member of Foghat still in the band, will be banging the skins behind guitarist Bryan Bassett and other members Scott Holt and Rodney O’Quinn. “Slow Ride,” the band’s 1975 megahit, is all but assured to be on the setlist, along with tunes from Foghat’s most recent record, “Sonic Mojo.”

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