tahiti, rachella parks

i wasn't there, but i heard that rapper-filmmaker tahiti (whose group ppt has a new cd, denglish, out income tax day on idol/koch) and ex-decoding society saxophonist rachella parks to' it up yesterday at the black history month program for the jo kelly school, where my sweetie works as a speech-language pathologist. not only did they perform their own solo bits, plus a spontaneous, improvised-on-the-spot collaborative piece that involved audience members, but they hung around afterward to visit and sing with a jo kelly alumnus who'd arrived too late to catch the show. jo kelly's an "intensive services" campus for medically fragile, multi-disabled kids aged 3 through 22, and not evabody's comfortable around their students (altho musos including spoonfed tribe, brian sharp, tim locke, and caroline collier have spent time there), but my sweetie sez that both tahiti and rachella were able to connect with 'em immediately and had students 'n' staff alike rockin'. wish i'd a been there.