Moe Rizvi visited UCF’s
Tent City event last week, where he witnessed the performance of Afeefa and The
Boy. Shortly thereafter he offered them a gig at the Luminescent Hookah Lounge,
of which he is the event director and coordinator. The business has been open
for about six months and seeks to be a place to showcase local talent. “After
hearing the local talent, I can bet that you won’t want to listen to the radio
anymore.”
Stu Sauce would be the opening
act that night. For Sauce, songwriting began in high school. Now in college, he
continues to write and perform while pursuing a degree in Language Arts
Education. “I like writing short songs, to match my attention span. Pay
attention to the proletariat, we hate long songs!” Songs such as Miss Mary Jane, Aarrgh! Revolution and The
Squirrel Song welcomed approving laughter and applause from the entire
lounge.
In between sets, Afeefa
Ayube spoke extensively about her experience with music. She began playing
guitar and writing songs only about a year ago. While growing up in a religious
home in Toronto, she was not permitted to listen to music. “I have just about
zero musical influences and began writing music accidently, finding rhythm in
poetry. Then the very first time I did an open mic performance, I met [Jay
Yerkes], which was the beginning of the band we have now. I write the lyrics
and melodies, and [my bandmates] just play what they feel and sooner or later
we have a song. We formed so organically, and we have great chemistry. Honestly
I have no clue what I’m doing, music was just something that arrived in my soul
and I couldn’t shake it.”
Later…
“Hey, thanks for coming
out. We really like your blog, by the way.”
“Thanks so much. I’m
running out of adjectives to describe your band. [tone of despair] The English
language limits me.”
“Dude, that’s a great
idea, let’s do a song in Latin!”
To be continued…?
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