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The Chris4Life Colon Cancer Foundation, in partnership with The Pink Line Project and Pamela’s Punch, will host the 1st Annual “Blue Crush” Summer Celebration to Crush Colon Cancer on Tuesday, July 27, from 7-10PM at the new and exquisite Adams Morgan space called STROGA. The evening will be filled with live music performances, an opportunity to purchase limited-edition prints commissioned from DC’s top artists, signature cocktails, savory bites, VIP reception, local DC celebrities and inspirational stories from notable colon cancer survivors. Performance line-up includes Grammy nominee hip-hop artist Christylez Bacon, contemporary classical group Low End String Quartet, indie-rock band The Four Horsemen, the City Dance Ensemble, and Evan Bliss.This world-class performance event will celebrate colon cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.
Click Here to download Event Flyer Artists To Perform:  Christylez Bacon Christylez Bacon - (pronounced: Chris-Styles) (born March 5, 1986) is a progressive hip-hop music artist, from Washington, DC. He is responsible for introducing his live eclectic blend of classical and jazz and hip-hop arrangements and lyricism to such reputable presenters as Strathmore Hall, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Christylez will be perfroming a new song that focuses on the idea of patient treatment and care.
 Evan Bliss Evan Bliss is one singer-songwriter to watch. His voice, combining the effortless soul of Maroon 5's Adam Levine with the smoky blues undertones of Ray LaMontagne, makes his alt/rock/pop sound unmistakable. Ubiquitous despite not yet being a household name, Evan's music has been featured in commercials for surf-inspired footwear maker Reef, and he has performed in support of artists as diverse as O.A.R., Wyclef Jean, and the Flaming Lips. Evan is building on the groundswell of popularity he enjoyed with his former band, well-respected East Coast reggae rockers 'The Low Life'. Needless to say, you will be hearing much more from him with his latest release on Holster Records.
 CityDance Ensemble CityDance Ensemble is a professional dance company based in Washington, DC. Promising its signature power, passion, and purpose at every turn, the company performs athletic, challenging repertory by choreographers from the United States and around the world. Under the direction of Artistic Director Paul Gordon Emerson, Rehearsal Director and Choreographer-in-Residence Christopher K. Morgan and Executive Director Alexe Nowakowski, CityDance Ensemble blends exceptional technique and physicality with a dynamic mix of energy, emotion, and humor to deliver performances full of integrity, expression, and life.
 Low End String Quartet The Low End String Quartet was formed by composer / guitarist Jonathan Matis. The instrumentation differs from the standard string quartet model, adding a bass, dropping a violin, and swapping a guitar where the viola should be. This "new and improved" string quartet lineup is much better suited to clubs and bars than the classical model, and is better equipped for rumbling your ribcage.
 Jory Herman Jory Herman recently finished playing a year with the National Symphony in Washington D.C. and in the fall he will be moving to the San Diego Symphony as the newest member of the Double Bass Section. A native of Houston, he received both a Bachelors and Masters of Music Performance in an Honors 5-year degree program at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. After this, he spent three seasons with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. The awards he has received for solo competitions have included second place in the International Society of Bassists Competition and finalist with the Corpus Christi Young Artists Competition. His primary teachers have been Dennis Whittaker and Paul Ellison. He has participated in numerous orchestra festivals including Tanglewood Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. This summer, Mr. Herman is working in Paris, France as a performing arts laureate for the International Recollets Residency where he will be composing video and music into works for solo double bass and multimedia.
 The Four Horseman The Four Horseman is a collaboration between brothers John and Paul Thornley of the Alternative Rock band US Royalty (http://www.usroyaltymusic.com/) and Matthew Hemerlein (http://matthewhemerlein.com/ ), with help from our friend Ryan Mitchell.
Artists:
 Billy Colbert Billy Colbert was born in Baltimore in 1970. His work can be described as visual folklore. He is intrigued by the lost art of story telling and its listening audience. As a result, Colbert tries to captivate the viewers of his work and allow them to feel the experience of those whose lives are represented in his art. He composes imagery, literature, and nature into a layered atmosphere which serves as documentation of the past and the foundation for the future. Colbert's most notable solo exhibitions have been museum shows at the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Delaware. In 2000, Colbert was selected best in show for the prestigious Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Biennial Competition. Colbert's work is in many private as well as public collections. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of Delaware in 2000, where he was a Presidential Fellow.
 Matt Sesow
Matt Sesow now works and lives in Washington, DC as an independent full-time artist.
 Dana Ellyn
 Kelly Towles I think everything is fair game. That goes for subjects, settings, materials, collaborations, dumpsters and food. My early "education" came from anime and the BBC. Shows like The Young Ones and Danger Mouse; movies like Ninja Scroll and City of Lost Children. Stories that jumped off the screen. At some point, I made it from Alice Springs to DC, BBC to BFA. But don't let that fool you. I'm more concrete than canvas. At least that's what I think. Probably some "meaning" hiding out in there. I'd rather you find it. I will do this for the rest of my life.
 Mike Iacovone Michael is an artist and a teacher. He has been working on these photos for nine years but he almost never has a camera on him. He will grow a mustache for any occasion no matter how bad it looks. He was allowed to play with mercury in his middle school science class with his bare hands. He prefers walking to driving, beer to wine, and bacon to anything else. He can't spell, but claims to be able to ride a unicycle. He can't touch his toes but knows they exist. He was born left handed, but gave it up because he has trouble telling which hand that is. He will live longer than Kevin. His past Halloween costumes include, but are not limited to: Bacon, the drummer from Def Leppard, Sexy Pumpkin, Ozone from the gold meddle winning break dance duo The Man Eaters, Scary Clown, a Dancing Monkey with an organ grinder, a Maryland Driver, Senior Bumblebee, Roy being mauled by a white tiger, and a Shark Eating a Monkey (which is different than a monkey-eating shark, think about it). He has never lost a competitive eating competition, and never played the lottery. He was born in Massachusetts, grew up in South Florida and Upstate New York, briefly lived in New Orleans and Montana, and once spent a year studying art in London and all he had to show for it was 30 drawings of Elvis and an enormous credit card debt. He has lived in and loved the District of Columbia since '99 but misses his voting rights. He makes and keeps to his own rules. He thinks about numbers a lot and how they relate to each other. He will not wear shoes to work because it is not a rule. He drove to Alaska and back in a $300 car named Roberta, and lists her as an ex-girlfriend. He watches too much baseball and not enough basketball. He seems to be getting shorter and wonders how that's possible. He loves to cook but refuses to measure anything.
 Sandra Arkin
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We would like to thank the following sponsors for their participation in this event:
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