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NEW CLASSIC 


2015 is here...Onward and Upward! This lightweight, unisex semi-fitted T-shirt is crafted from 100% ringspun jersey cotton and features Carolyn Malachi's official logo designed by visual artist Rose Jaffe. Expect the CM Classic Tee to keep its shape and softness after several washes. Wear with pride.

Designed in DC. Shipped from the UK. Available here.

#SCAPESCAPE 


Magic lives deep within the synapses of spontaneity, which is to say that what we think of a moment pales in comparison to what the moment thinks of itself. I have ScapeScape to thank for a timely reminder. 

Tantamount to being completely unplanned, this performance with Shodekeh and the Baltimore Boom Bap Society reminded me to let go and let magic happen. The feeling?! Indescribable! Lucky for you, photographer Al Marcus captured it all


 

GOLDEN MOMENTS 

Carolyn Malachi & Tribe

Candid moments with Carolyn Malachi, band, and Tribe (fans) at Baltimore SoundStage, captured in stunning B&W photography by photographer Ryan Stevenson.

Band:
Kevin Powe Jr. (Bass)
Steve "SteveO" Evans (Drums)
Lorenzo Johnson (Keys)
 

STYLIST FOR A DAY 



Carolyn Malachi is the first artist to be featured in Shopcade’s new “Stylist For A Day” campaign that gives fashion lovers the chance to style artists and celebrities for big events.

The campaign gives Shopcade users living all over the United States the kind of experience only available to personal stylists in the fashion hubs of New York and Los Angeles.

If you were headed out to a red carpet event would you rather get fashion advice from one personal stylist or 400,000?

 

MUSIC MATTERS 


 

If you missed Carolyn Malachi with Noel "Paul" Stookey, Jasiri X, and the rest of the Music2Life family last Friday in NYC, here's a quick update...

MUSIC MATTERS now heads to New Orleans next Friday (5/31) to perform for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Colleges (NCORE). This is a group of 2,300 diversity educators around the country who can bring our programs to their students in 2014. Later this year, MUSIC MATTERS heads to Bloomberg News to be globally broadcast as part of their Inspirational Speaker Series...
Thanks to your support, Music2Life helps music spark activism for causes through creative and evocative programming.

Contribute to Music2Life, here!

- CM

APOLLO MUSIC CAFE 

 


There's no place like Harlem, and nothing like playing to a sold-out crowd at the historic Apollo Theater. PURE JOY from sound check to standing ovation. S/O to the D.C. Youth Poetry Slam team for adding extra spice. You are truly gifted! The band was on. The people were hyped! It was a GREAT night! THANK YOU!

If you missed the show, enjoy video clips courtesy of the Apollo Theater on Tumblr.

Much love to my team and to the band: Yusef Chisolm (bass), Steve-O (drums), Jabari Exum (djembe), James McKinney (keys), and Brock Smith (guitar).
 
Onward and upward!

- CM

#DCYSGrandFinals 


Thanks to Pages Matam, this weekend, I had the distinct honor of judging the DC Youth Poetry Slam Grand Finals. What a beautiful challenge. Above, check out a video of one winner, Asha Gardner, performing her poem "History."

The future is well spoken for...

- CM

#BMORE DILLA 


 

The J Dilla Foundation's mission is to help fund inner-city music programs, and provide scholarships to students attending schools that have progressive music curricula. Check out photos captured by photographer Richard Smith at the foundation's #BMoreDilla fundraising concert with Grap Luva, Ma Dukes (J. Dilla's mother), Carolyn Malachi, and gifted artists from the Baltimore community.

 

ELLEN. TAYLOR. ME. YOU. 

What can you accomplish with a few friends and a serious vision? Try this on for size.


 
I love making music. When the creative process ends, I put my product on the market then cross my fingers, hoping it serves a higher purpose. Too much guessing grinds my gears (blame that on my Zodiac sign). I need to know what I do makes a real difference.

The Carmelita Group introduced me to The School Fund. Ignited by the problem of access to education and united by music, we created the #IAM Campaign

Enter Chegg. The company saves US college students hundreds of dollars a year on textbooks and matches them with personalized scholarship opportunities. Chegg for Good, its philanthropic arm, engages their employees, partners, and students through opportunities to do some good in the world.

Chegg maintains a succinct roster of supportive artists and entertainers. In 2012, during a March episode of the Ellen Show, they awarded one struggling student with a $35,000 scholarship. In October, the company donated $10,000 music education grants to five American colleges. They furnished one, Harvey Mudd College, with an intimate performance by Taylor Swift.

How did Chegg begin 2013? They started the year helping students in East Africa through the #IAM Campaign. It works like this. When folks like you and I watch my “Free Your Mind” music video Chegg donates the cost of an hour of class time to The School Fund. One view equals one class hour.


Chegg committed their donation of 10,000 class hours in January.

Neither the School Fund, Carmelita Group, or I have followings the size of Ellen DeGeneres or Taylor Swift's - yet. We are a small, impassioned unit on a meaningful journey. Along the way, our open-source ethos has raised support from the likes of GOOD, the Huffington Post, Sun Chase Media, PreSonus, Music2Life, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center, and now Chegg.

What problem do you want to solve? Is it vast or niche? Who else cares about the problem, and how can your respective skills meet to address it? Seize the time. MacGyver your dreams. Watch your world change.

May 2013 be the breakout year for your innovative partnership...Onward and upward!

- CM

 

FREE YOUR MIND: WHAT A CRAZY IDEA! 

 

Here we are, 
the School Fund and I, behaving like wind turbines, harnessing music video views and song downloads to create access to education.

Sharing this makes you a game changer and a problem solver. How?

Every view of the "Free Your Mind" music video, and each song download, generates one hour of class time donated to students in East Africa courtesy of The School Fund’s corporate sponsors. Our goal is to provide 10,000 class hours per month for six months. The impact is real, the results are measurable, and the engagement is global.

We call our partnership the #IAM Campaign.

Chegg has already sponsored 20,000 class hours. Features in the Huffington Post, GOOD Magazine, Music2Life - even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center - lead us to believe our crazy idea may actually be quite sane.

I have in mind the echoed posts of a loyal fan (Tribe member) who goes by the name Dr. Post Alot. After learning about the #IAM Campaign, DPA began including in his Twitter timeline just as many tweets about developments in education-nonprofit funding as he did tweets about the latest album releases.

Look at it this way.

All the digital world’s a stage, and each person a key player. You may have 359 Facebook friends (the global average) and half as many Twitter followers, but post an idea that resonates with just one active user, and you could land the world’s most coveted role - thought leader.

That's not so crazy after all, is it?...onward and upward!

- CM

P.S. 
Meet the team behind the video and the song.


BEACH BALL FANTASY 

 
 
This work of art is creating a valuable service for the global community. Honored, humbled, and sending a huge "THANK YOU" to Synthia SAINT JAMES! Her original painting, "Beach Ball Fantasy" is the cover of the "Free Your Mind" single produced by Marcus Marshall and Silvio "Remedy" Delis Available tomorrow exclusively via Google Play, each download of this song will support The School Fund. Learn how at www.TheSchoolFund.org/iam. Be here on December 17.

- CM

#IAM COUNTING DOWN  

 
 
This is a screen shot from the "Free Your Mind" music video. It goes live in three days. Each view of this music video and download of the song will generate $.19 (the cost of one class hour in Tanzania and Kenya) through a global education non-profit org called The School Fund. We call our partnership the "#IAM Campaign".

Just by clicking “play” or “download”, anyone with internet access can help a student to one day say, “I AM a doctor,” “I AM an engineer…” The impact is real, the results are measurable, and the engagement is global. Be here on December 17...and wear your dancing shoes.

- CM