Jazz With DAD’s

JAZZ WITH DADS

Event Details: Happening Saturday, December 7, 2019 starting at 7pm Central standard time. Come out and enjoy a night of Live Music, Live Art, Live Spoken Word, & Live Entertainment all happening inside of the the historic ELKS LODGE in Nashville Tennessee on the historic Jefferson Street. Come out and be a part of an event established to make change in the communities of Nashville Tennessee.

Who Is Performing: You have live music performances by Tremaine Arte’Mis and Cojo Ko. Live Art that will be up for auction and sale by the one and only Crystal Brown. Live Spoken Word Performances by Frank “Frizzy” Sykes, B.A. the Lewe, Spoke N-Words, & Teejay the Protege. This will be a night to remember, and a must that you are a part of in some type of way, whether it be with your physical presence with ticket purchase, or your donation to assist in the efforts of DAD’s.

What Does This Event Help Fund:

This event is to help acquire funding for the nonprofit organization known as DADs. With your purchase of a ticket to this event, you help with the funding of this nonprofit organization to do the things that it does in the community. This organization is taking a hands on approach to deal with the toughest things in the community that is causing destruction. Hence the name DADs which is the acronym for Dads Against Destruction. Here clearly for the purpose of dealing with the things that are setup for a community’s destruction, as well as to deal with the people that are causing the destruction. It’s an all gas no brakes approach to get to the repair of a community while using creativity in the arts to do just that. Dad’s Against Destruction takes the opportunity to partner up with FRIZZY PRODUCTIONS to make the moves that need to be made as creative as it can be done. Join us in the efforts to make this happen. We Thank You Now, already knowing that you are in on the things that need to happen in our communities for a better outcome for us all. We appreciate any and all support.

Ways to Support DAD’s:

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Sometimes due to many reason’s you may not be able to make it to the event to provide the support needed to make things happen. Don’t let that be your reason to not support the happening. Your donation of whatever amount is just as important as another. Please if you have it, click the link above and make the donation to support the organization that is destined to make the needed community impact. You don’t have to be here to be recognized for your contributions.

THANK YOU!

For more information about the event, check out DAD’s or check out the event page Jazz With DAD’s on Facebook.

Music: “Sit Back” by Cornelius Johnson C-Jazz

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Gearing up for Jazz With DADs!

Yes it is I, the one and only Frank “Frizzy” Sykes, letting you know that we are getting ready for an amazing event that you need to be a part of, if you are in the Nashville Tennessee Area. This event is known as “Jazz With DADS.” DAD’s is the acronym for the non profit organization meaning, Dad’s Against Destruction. Dads Against Destruction Inc. (DADS) was founded in 2014 by Phil Hawkins, a native of Nashville, TN. DADS is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization. DADS was not started intentionally as an organization but as a desire and passion to assist other fathers faced with similar situations Mr. Hawkins has experienced over the years. Despite the personal challenges involving the correctional system, being a father, and the child support system, Mr. Hawkins’ efforts to assist his own son expanded to other fathers within the local communities of metro Nashville. More information can be found out about the things that are happening with DAD’s by simply plugging in, liking and following their social media page on Facebook.

With all this being said and understood, things are happening within the community to get things rolling in the right direction, and you have the opportunity to be a part of just that. Support the efforts that are being made in the community with DAD’s. Get your ticket to the event being hosted by the non-profit organization, which becomes a donation to the organization to assist with the many things that are being implemented for better assistance to a community in need. Come out and experience the amazing things that are going to be happening on this night as we Jazz with DAD’s. We have some of the most amazing spoken word talents that are going to be taking the stage to perform, music entertainment that is going to be out of this world and mind blowing, art from the most talented artist around, and an experience with those that are making a difference in your community. Don’t procrastinate! Get your ticket today and make a difference. We’ll see you there!

In photo: (left) Founder of DAD’s Phil Hawkins and (right) Frank “Frizzy” Sykes artist and owner of Frizzy Productions.

Did Someone Say Open Mic?

You heard it right. Open Mic! But there is something a little bit different about this one. This mic is open with a purpose. This mic is open with many purposes.

Many people are aware of what the open mic is suppose to do. This is the opportunity for performers to take the stage and show a crowd what they got. Within the open mic portion the person hitting the mic is suppose to be using the opportunity to grow and advance their skills and go from being a beginner and new face, to someone who is well known in the game. It does start at home or in the comfort space that you choose, but the real challenge always comes when you do it in front of a crowd.

Everyone can be the comedian, singer, poet, public speaker, entertainer in the shower right? Can you do it in the eye of the public. That is the challenge that those who really dream big have to face. Enough talking about it, how about being about it. The mic is open for a reason.

Speaking of reasons, lets look at some. Practice makes things perfect, or I should probably say better every time. The open mic is your time to practice. This is one benefit that a person should get from hitting the mic. It is a needed process in getting comfortable in doing the things that one wants to do. So for those aspiring singers, poets, spoken word artist, and entertainers, this is your time to really tweak the things that you want to say, sing, or do.

Another benefit of the mic being open that you should benefit from is exposure. You never know who will be at an event of this magnitude who can work with you and potentially make things better for you. They are known as talent scouts. They are people that come just to see what is out there, and what they can potentially work with in their business. Yet another reason to hit up open mics.

The thing that I love best even when I perform at open mics is the opportunity for feed back. Get someone else’s opinion on it. Find out what they see and the potential things that you need to work on. They call this constructive criticism. This is definitely a need in hitting up a open mic opportunity. Don’t be afraid to ask people what they thought about your performance. One other way you can find out if what you did really has an impact, don’t ask anyone. See if they come up to you afterwards. That’s a clear sign that you might be onto something. Of course on the other side, if they don’t, that may be a clear sign that you need to turn up the volume a little bit. That’s not always the case though. Sometimes you end up in a room full of greats and being human we can only react to so many at one time. So judge the people around that has also performed and gauge the response you want to receive from that.

So what is so different about this open mic that is not the same as any other open mic? Glad you asked. LOL! This mic is in a more relaxed and chilled atmosphere allowing those critical moments you need for growth to happen, if this is what you want to do. What better way to learn than in front of the public, but feel like you are at home. That is one major difference. Another is the organizer of the mic and the future opportunities that they can offer to you. Sometimes you can be standing right in front of a person that is connected and not even know it. No one just walks around with a Frizzy on their chest right. LOL! Pay attention and make sure that you network in the arena to see what opportunities are there. After all that is what networking is.

Another thing that is different about this mic is the fact that it steps outside of the norms of society. Yes it is known that an open mic caters towards the arts. This one does that and more. When you say arts to some, the mind goes to poetry, spoken word, singing, comedy, rapping, the basic things right. Well this mic adds in some extras. Are you a public speaker or aspiring to be? Bring it to the mic! Are you a business owner? Bring it to the mic! You got something that you just want to get off of your chest? Well,….. what can I say. Bring it to the mic! I told you that it was relaxed and chilled. I encourage speaking. It is a lot better than holding it in.

With all that being said, understand that Relaxed & Chilled (Open Mic) is here to be a trend setter. Bring it to the mic every Wednesday at Jazzy Teacher Education & Cultural Center, and understand that with your purchase of the ticket to this event you are supporting a partner of The Dream Fulfillment Center, which is a non-profit organization set up to make change and impact community. For more information on The Dream Fulfillment Center visit Jazzy Teacher Online.

With all that being said, hopefully you now have enough reason to bring it to the mic. See you around. -Frizzy

My Purpose, My Drive, My Fight Against Ignorance

“I look out into a world of those who don’t know, just to understand my mission to make them know.”

I fought against a person this week that made the statement that they were not ignorant, but then followed that statement saying, “I’m not stupid.” They didn’t even realize the ignorance that was in the statement that they had just made, from the lack of understanding the difference between ignorance and stupidity. So if you would, allow me to break down the difference between ignorance and stupidity so that you can better understand how ignorant this person really is.
Let’s start with stupidity. Stupidity is reached when a person has received all of the information that they need to have about a certain matter. Accepted that information for its truth or existence. But still decides to go against the grain as if the thing of existence that was proven will not be there. For instance, there is a wall that is right in front of you. This wall is a solid surface that will not move with the amount of force that you can make with the muscle within your body. To run into this wall would hurt and could possibly cause injury. Now with that information given to you, you now have all the information that you need to know at the time to make the appropriate decision about you and that wall. Even if you lost one of your senses like sight or sound, you still have received the knowledge of its existence to make the decision that you need to make to avoid the collision that is set up in front of you. It is at this point that if you decide to run full speed straight into that wall that you fall in the category of stupid. You would have no one to blame but yourself.

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Now ignorance works differently. For some odd reason, it seems, that some think that we are born into this life with knowledge. It is the total opposite though. You are born into this life completely ignorant. To argue the fact that you are not is the proof in itself that you are ignorant. You don’t have a clue of anything as a child and everything that you learn is something that you have been taught. Some may ask questions about certain things already, so let me just say it once again. Everything in this life that you have knowledge of, is because something taught you, not because you already knew it. Ways that you learn things can happen many different ways, and I will not debate that happening. But you still have to accept the fact of when using the word learned, that there was something that taught you. Trust me, I have already had the argument about, how is it that you know to eat as a baby. You learn that also. The ignorant just overlook the teaching process in doing that. So to go back to the wall situation that I used in stupidity. If you were ignorant of the walls existence, meaning that you had no knowledge of the wall being there at all, you didn’t see it, no one told you about it, you are blind and hard of hearing that you didn’t hear the person yell watch out! Then this would fall in the category of ignorance. This is not your fault because you had no way of knowing. At this level you would be ignorant. This should not be something that we should be offended by, but we should understand is within the happening of our existence. We are ignorant.
Minds have known this for some time now, and have creatively in law coined the phrase, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Meaning just because you didn’t know it was there doesn’t mean that you can’t be punished by it. Actually it sets the precedence that even though you didn’t know it was there and are completely ignorant of its existence you still will be prosecuted as if you had full knowledge of it. It’s funny how your own ignorance in this system can be used against us. For instance, let’s look at a law that you didn’t even know existed.
Document: Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-8-205
8-8-205. Acting as attorney or security prohibited — Attorney as deputy.
(a) No sheriff or deputy sheriff shall appear in any court as attorney or counsel for any party, nor become security for any party in any civil suit or criminal proceeding.

Here is the link if you want to look at it yourself: Tennessee Code Annotated Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2, 8-8-205

One thing that I want you to know is that when my friends asked me to go to court with them, my answer would clearly be….. (Well, let’s just understand that I was a deputy sheriff.)

Now what you should understand is happening is some of you are now becoming of knowledge to something that you were ignorant of. But what you have to understand is that while you are no longer ignorant to this law, there are still so many that don’t have a clue of its existence and even more that are being born at this very moment that might not even have the opportunity to get to know it. That is just how ignorance works. When you do not have the knowledge to know, or even worse, don’t have the energy transmitted to even make you search for what you don’t know. Then you are completely ignorant of the fact that it exist.

Ignorance is not a bad thing, even though we have taken its truth and made it offensive in a sense. It is a thing that we all are. You are ignorant, and to act as if you are not. Well, that’s a big part of the problem. – Frizzy

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I Do Not Support The Tearing Down

“In Memory Of The 20,133 Who Served As United States Colored Troops In The Union Army – Dedicated In 2003”

I do not support the tearing down of any monument. Time has proven, that with the tearing down of something begins the erasing process of history. We want to assume in the living of the now that it doesn’t have an impact on our future. That in our flesh we have the ability to not allow the things to be forgotten as if memory isn’t a flaw of man. To destroy the existence of something that serves as a reflection of a time that once was, is clearly a mistake that we need to not keep making.

It is evident in our own history, that in the process of taking something over, we destroy what it once was, only to put up what it is now. Let us not keep making the same mistake. Let us not keep erasing history only for forget where we have traveled to and have been once before. History even in its ugliest time is still an important part of knowledge that we need not to allow to waste away into the land of forgotten. Forgetting is not the place of happiness. It is the place of confusion, which leaves the ability for repeating the same things that have happened over again. If not careful, we will set ourselves up for a future disaster.

I write this with the understanding of how we may feel emotionally about somethings of the past, but I encourage us to be stronger than to allow something that can’t do nothing to control you thereafter. Take its existence and let it be part of the lesson that you now need to teach. Let us not feel that history is not in the moments of now, and that education has ceased. Just like with every breath that you breathe gives you life longer. Knowledge received pushes you to places that you have never been before. Take the good with the bad in order to have the facts of life, and then travel into a realm of success that we have not achieved.

Don’t tear it down. Use it! Build from it so that we never have to face a time of forgetting how things once was.

I would like to thank Kwame Leo Lillard, Lyn Norris Hayes, African American Cultural Alliance, United Association for Black Veterans, and Creative Artists of Tennessee for creating the moment to reflect. The picture of the monument you see above is because of the actions taken by the above mentioned and others that are not mentioned to make this moment a reality. This is a moment in history that we have to look back at and say, though it was not a pretty moment, it is still something that we must never forget. Let it never be the discussion of needing to be torn down so that we never forget why it is here in the first place. To have knowledge of knowing the people that are responsible for it being here, places an understanding on its purpose and why I need to never allow it to be removed. So to every monument that stands, I leave you alone for the purpose of educating those so that we never forget, and always remember.

Watch snippet of “The Reflect”

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