The Growing Concerns Poetry Collective Celebrate Their Debut Again This Time On Vinyl

As the Growing Concerns Poetry Collective, poet McKenzie Chinn, rapper Mykele Deville, and producer Jeffrey Michael Austin blend “emphatic spoken word, conversational storytelling, and vivid rapping, all set to dreamy ambient beats” (as Lee V. Gaines put it in the Reader in September). The collective celebrated their debut album, We Here: Thank You for Noticing, with two shows at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre in August, and this Friday and Saturday they return to that venue to mark the vinyl release of We Here and the publication of Five Fifths, a poetry collection by Chinn and Deville. The two perform separately and with the collective both nights; also on the bill are soul multi-instrumentalist Sam Trump (Friday) and R&B artist Tasha (Saturday).

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