All Ages Dance with Common Market Friday at the Center

The fact that Barack Obama likes hip hop has brought me at least to the door to have a listen, and fellow Orcas Islanders will have that chance tonight when the Funhouse and Orcas Center join forces to bring hip hop genius to the island.
Common Market and No-Fi Soul Rebellion will go onstage tonight, Friday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are just $10.

Above, singers rock with Common Market as they create their new music video.

Barbara Courtney, Executive Director of Orcas Center says, "Come rock the house with a leader of Seattle’s hot hip hop scene and a hip pop-soul duo."

“Common Market have created a work that’s brought them closer to the region of hiphop greatness. This is no exaggeration.” — The Stranger

From Common Market's latest work

…Service, work it

The vagrant came upon a plot, shop – set it down
Found vacant, he gon’ make it into something better now
Barn hand, conversant in farm land, planted seven rows
Will it ever grow? Heaven only knows, though he’s
Hopeful, never boastful about the ethic
Set it deep into the earth, work and serve, all the rest let it
Come or not, hot summer sun, son – bumper crop
Over night, or so some thought (now they’re talkin’ that)