NYC Fresh Festival II (6/27/1985)
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Artist(s): “New York City Fresh Festival II”Date: 27 June 1985Tickets: $11.25 (reserved seating and general admission)Attendance: 6,200Notes: A 3½-hour show featuring rappers Run-DMC, Whodini, The Fat Boys, and Grandmaster Flash, with breakdancers Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quiñones and Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers (stars of the “Breakin’” films), Double-Dutch Women (a double-dutch jump rope team), the Dynamic Breakers (six-person breakdance team), and others.
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Kalamazoo Gazette , (left) 9 June 1985, (left center) 21 June 1985, (right center) 23 June 1985, (right) 26 June 1985. Kalamazoo Public LibraryKalamazoo Gazette , 23 June 1985. Kalamazoo Public LibraryKalamazoo Gazette , 25 June 1985. Kalamazoo Public LibraryKalamazoo Gazette , 27 June 1985. Kalamazoo Public LibraryKalamazoo Gazette , 28 June 1985. Kalamazoo Public Library
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“Etc.” Kalamazoo Gazette , 9 June 1985, page 93
“Coming up” Kalamazoo Gazette , 16 June 1985, page 81
“Coming up” Kalamazoo Gazette , 21 June 1985, page 19
“Thursday” Kalamazoo Gazette , 23 June 1985, page 84
“Fresh Fest brings hip-hop to Kazoo Thursday” Kalamazoo Gazette , 23 June 1985, page 85
“Fresh Festival: Rock in a new ‘rapping’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 25 June 1985, page 19
“Coming events’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 26 June 1985, page 1
“Coming events’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 27 June 1985, page 1
“Fat Boys a rap success story’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 27 June 1985, page 36
“Fresh Festival a mixed bag of excitement and repetition’” Kalamazoo Gazette , 28 June 1985, page 24