HIP HOP FEVER Live on Stage: Sugar Hill Gang , Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio, Brand Nubian, Nice

BRONX, N.Y. - May 7, 2024 - PRLog -- Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, in association with SAL ABBATIELLO of Fever Records, is proud to present HIP HOP FEVER on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 8pm. In the early 1970's, the hip hop musical genre was born in the neighborhoods of the South Bronx. The HIP HOP FEVER 2024 concert will feature performances by Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio "The Message", Sugar Hill Gang "Rapper's Delight", Brand Nubian "One For All", Force MD's "Tender Love", Nice & Smooth "Hip Hop Junkies", Black Sheep "The Choice Is Yours", The Fearless Four "Rockin It", Peter Gunz "Déjà Vu", Mc Shan "The Bridge", Sweet G "Games People Play", Grandmaster Caz Of The Cold Crush Brothers. Hosted by Bugsy Buggs and Sal Abbatiello. Music by Funk Flex, Grand Wizard Theodore, Dj Hollywood.

SAL ABBATIELLO, one of the pioneers of Hip Hop, discovered many rappers and DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow and Run-D.M.C. at the legendary night club Disco Fever. Abbatiello's Bronx Latin dance club, The Devil's Nest, is where Latin Hip Hop was born and is now called Freestyle. There he discovered Little Louie Vega, TKA, The Cover Girls, Lisette Melendez and many more.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is on the campus of Lehman College/CUNY at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468. Tickets for HIP HOP FEVER on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 8pm (VIP $70, $65, $60, $45, $40) can be purchased by calling the Lehman Center box office at 718-960-8833 (Monday through Friday, 10am–5pm, and beginning at 4pm on the day of the concert), or through online access at https://www.lehmancenter.org/events/old-hip-hop. Lehman Center is accessible by #4 or D train to Bedford Park Blvd. and is off the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Major Deegan Expressway.