{"id":2010,"date":"2016-03-10T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/video-poetry-and-music-tonight-with-shy-but-flyy\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:46:16","slug":"video-poetry-and-music-tonight-with-shy-but-flyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/video-poetry-and-music-tonight-with-shy-but-flyy","title":{"rendered":"Video: Poetry and Music Tonight With Shy But Flyy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-47220\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ShybutFly700.jpg\" alt=\"ShybutFly700\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Shy But Flyy. Photo by Sander Roscoe Wolff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Shy But Flyy crossed the bridge from San Pedro. Ever since, she has been taking Long Beach by storm.<\/p>\n<p>For two years, she hosted the popular and acclaimed Expressions open mic in the gallery and performance space operated by the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach. More recently, she&#8217;s started running open mic events at Rebel Bite, taking place every Monday from 7:00 to 9:00PM. This month features female artists in celebration of Women&#8217;s History Month. Every Saturday from 8:00 to 10:00PM, she hosts another open mic at Shades of Afrika. <\/p>\n<p> She&#8217;s also the singer in her own band, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecoldshouldersband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cold Shoulders<\/a>. They&#8217;ve been playing regularly throughout the Southland, and have an album in the works. She&#8217;s also recently reprinted her first book of poetry, <em>The Meaning of the Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0l_RVvYiaS8?rel=0\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Shy But Flyy is doing a spoken word performance at 5:00 tonight as part of Live After 5&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveafterfive.org\/march2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neo Soulstice<\/a> event at the Breakers, located at 210 East Ocean Boulevard. At 9:00PM, she&#8217;ll be opening the night&#8217;s entertainment at The Federal Underground. Tomorrow, she&#8217;ll be featured at 8:00PM in the Royal Cup Cafe. <\/p>\n<p> To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shybutflyy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ShyButFlyy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.7665124,-118.19048099999998] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, songwriter, and poet Shy But Flyy is performing twice tonight, first at 5:00PM as a poet for Live After 5&#8217;s Neo Soulstice event at the historic Breakers Building then, at 9:00PM, singing at the Federal Underground. In this video interview with Culture Agent columnist Sander Roscoe Wolff, she talks about what brought her to Long Beach, and her various creative endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[856],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-culture-agent","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}