Atlas : Saturday, July 11th
Thank you to all the wild dancers that made our June Atlas so much fun. If you missed Anjali last month, she is back at ATLAS in July alongside The Incredible Kid and E3. We will be reunited like Voltron.
Check out our ATLAS page. Thanks to your support we are Holocene’s longest-running dance party, now in our sixth year.
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ALL-AGES Museum Family Day : Sunday, July 19th
To celebrate the acquisition of a 1000-year old Ganesha statue, the Portland Art Museum is throwing a party on Sunday, July 19th, and everyone will be granted free admission to the museum, while Anjali and the Kid will be throwing an all-ages Desi dance party in the Museum Courtyard. We will be playing from noon to 5:30pm, and Anjali will be teaching bhangra dance lessons every hour. There will be many other family activities in the park blocks including art projects, and story-telling, as well as Indian snacks!
Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205.
503.226.2811, info@pam.org
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Andaz : Saturday, July 25th
Thank you to everyone who has been packing our shows since our return from India. We owe it to all you fabulous dancers for making the first shows of our seventh year at the Fez such amazing parties.
Our next Bhangra and Bollywood party at the Fez Ballroom will be Saturday, July 25th.
Portland’s only Bhangra and Bollywood night just keeps getting better and better. Come experience the excitement of a party like Portland has never seen before. Check out our Andaz page.
In our seventh year we will continue to bring you the best Bhangra and Bollywood every last Saturday at the Fez Ballroom.
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Anjali and The Kid in XLR8R
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid are featured in the October 2008 Portland City issue of XLR8R. You can find us on page 71 in the section on Portland’s DJs, and as part of the cover collage. You can download this issue for free here:
http://www.xlr8r.com/magazine/121
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Anjali’s online interview
Click here to read the Willamette Week’s online interview with DJ Anjali.
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Interview with the Kid
The Willamette Week did an online interview with The Incredible Kid. Check it out!
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Anjali made a desi hot mix for the portland mercury so hot right now podcast
Check it out!
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ANJALI & THE KID BIO
photo by Shayla Hason
DJ ANJALI & THE INCREDIBLE KID BIOGRAPHY
DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid have played a transformative role in the Portland, Oregon club scene for nearly a decade, hosting two of Portland’s longest-running and most successful dance parties. After making a name for themselves in their hometown’s lively house party circuit, DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid introduced the Portland, Oregon nightclub scene to the sounds of Bhangra and Bollywood on New Year’s Eve 2000. After a series of residencies, beginning with a six month residency at the legendary Blackbird, the duo began hosting sold out ANDAZ dance parties, which found a permanent home at the Fez Ballroom in the Fall of 2002. For more than six years DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have packed the dance floor at the Fez the last weekend of every month, selling out on a regular basis. The focus of these parties remains hardcore Panjabi Bhangra with the sounds of Bollywood and the emerging genres of Asian Hip-hop and R&B featured in the mix.
In order to satisfy their growing fan base, they founded the popular monthly ATLAS (with co-host/DJ E3) at Holocene in November of 2003. The ATLAS parties provide a forum for the duo to feature other sounds in their repertoire including: UK Asian Garage and Drum’n'Bass, Middle-Eastern electronica, Balkan Beats, Funk Carioca, Reggaeton and international Hip-hop. Since introducing Portland club audiences to the amazing sounds of the South Asian diaspora the duo have remained in constant demand playing any number of one-off events nearly every weekend of the year in addition to their regular parties. The duo barnstormed New York in December of 2004 when they were flown out to headline a sold-out party at NYC’s oldest and best Bhangra party: Basement Bhangra, where Anjali has returned to play several times. In January of 2007 Anjali and the Kid headlined the opening night party of the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration in Vancouver, British Columbia. Together and separately they have supported artists as diverse as Digable Planets, Balkan Beat Box, DJ Spooky, Tigerstyle, Boban i Marco Markovic Orkestar, State of Bengal, Karsh Kale, DJ Rekha, Antibalas, Dengue Fever, Maga Bo, Ming & FS, Joro-Boro, J-Boogie, and Nickodemus from Turntables on the Hudson.
photo by Tracy Harrison