FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOCAL TEEN RAPPER TO FILM MUSIC VIDEO
Streets Will Be Closed for Dancing and Filming
August 13, 2008: Red Wing, MN-A music video scene of parents and kids dancing in the street will be filmed in the East end of town on Tuesday, August 19th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Red Wing High School student, Andrew Hoffpauir, will be performing a rap song he recorded called: Content of Character. The public is invited.
Earlier this spring, Andrew wrote a rap song about drug prevention for an essay contest at Red Wing High School. The Red Wing Chemical Health Initiative sponsored the contest in which Andrew won one of the top prizes. His health teacher, Lisa Hanson, referred him to Taproot, Inc. in Bay City, which was searching for a local rapper. The song, Content of Character urges everyone to become the best he or she can be and to shine their own light within their own community and the world at large, “There’s only one world and it’s yours and mine.” The song was professionally recorded at Mothlab Studios in Minneapolis. This was Andrew’s first experience in a professional studio. “I was pretty nervous, my legs got shaky”, he says.
The finished video will be entered into film festivals, specifically the “Filmanthropist” contest; a Minnesota film festival that supports the use of film for community activism. “The use of music, movies and music videos is a great way to educate a community and involve kids in community activism. It is hard work, but it’s also fun and appeals to the kids’ interests”, says Dorothy Halla-Poe, Vice President of Taproot.
Bluff Street, between 4th and 6th Streets will be closed off to traffic from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Practice begins at 5:30 and actual filming will begin at 6:45. The filmed scene is simply people dancing in the street behind Andrew as he performs. Parents are invited to bring their children and join the filming. The music video will be made available to Red Wing’s local Cable Access Channel for viewing and Andrew’s song, Content of Character will be available for download on iTunes as of August 25th.
Taproot, Inc. is located in Bay City, WI. They specialize in designing educational prevention programs using the media arts. Taproot will be offering a movie making after school program through Red Wing Community Education in the fall for middle school students.
For further information, please call Linda Flanders at 715-594-3880 or Email taproot@redwing.net or check their website: www.taprootinc.com
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