Unscripted: Music Edition with Lido Pimienta

Join us for a MUSIC EDITION of Unscripted with Lido Pimienta! This event will consist of a live musical performance by Lido, and will be followed up with a conversation about her musical career, her personal roots, and more. This conversation portion of this event will be hosted by Shad.

Doors open at 6:30, performance begins at 7:00PM. Limited Seating.

About Unscripted:

Unscripted is TAP's speaker series featuring professionals in the arts, ranging from performers to musicians, writers, and filmmakers. In our intimate setting we come together to share an open, personal and sometimes emotional discussion between our guests, moderator, and audience members.

About Lido Pimienta:

Lido Pimienta is a Colombian-born interdisciplinary artist, curator and an award winning musician. She has performed, exhibited, and curated around the world since 2002, exploring the politics of gender, race, motherhood, identity and the construct of the Canadian landscape in the Latin American diaspora and vernacular. 

Musically she digs deeply into the history of Afro-Latin musics, from Palenque to cumbia - styles that Lido embraced after being introduced to Sexteto Tabala, one of the most representative musical expressions of the African communities in Colombia. Lido has an affinity for acts like A Tribe Called Red and Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, but her work also resonates with British-Sri Lankan rapper MIA and she draws unabashed inspiration from the New York-bred Dominican-Trinidadian rap queen Cardi B. Her music has the effect of expanding the narrative about her dual Colombian/Canadian identity to her family’s mixed roots in the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Wayuu communities, while establishing an ambitious new sonic palette that brings her closer to home.

About Shad:

Shadrach Kabango (a.k.a. Shad, Shad K.), rapper, singer, songwriter, radio host (born 18 July 1982 in Kenya). Witty, passionate and earnest, Shad is a Juno Award-winning rapper known for his sharp, socially conscious lyrics. His playful musical style blends rap and hip-hop with rock, R&B and other genres. In 2008 and 2010, the National Post named him the best rapper in Canada, and in 2013 CBC Music ranked him No. 2 in their list of the 25 Greatest Canadian Rappers Ever. Paste magazine hailed him in 2013 as “Canada’s most talented, genuine musical artist and one of the industry’s finest poets.” Shad has been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize four times (2008, 2010, 2014, 2019) and hosted CBC Radio One’s flagship talk show q from April 2015 to August 2016.

To keep this event accessible for all, individuals can pre-register for a free ticket by making a request to info@tapcreativity.org. To support this initiative we have included an option for ticket buyers to purchase an additional ticket to be donated to an individual who has pre-registered for a free ticket. Thank you for your generosity in providing this opportunity for another to attend.