WASHINGTON, DC - A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Munch blessed the DC artist’s scene in the 1990's.

He also created music for and worked on a video installation project titled, Me/More/I/All: A Visual Libation by Tewodross Melchishua. The project was based around different video shrines and memorials from the African American experience. He also was the co-creator for Groove Gumbo, a monthly showcase of local and national musical, poetic, film and visual artists in Washington, DC. His work as a DJ and musician is well known and respected here in the Washington, DC area and the east coast in general. Munch is also the creator and founder of The Hip-Hop Philharmonic Project which was performed at The Kennedy Center, Adams Morgan Day, and funded by The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

His project The Hip-Hop Nightmares of Jujube Brown was well received and both received critical acclaim. He has also served co-creator and musical director with Founder, Matthew Payne, for DC’s longest running Spoken word and poetry session, The Movement. This weekly event showcases artists, musicians and poets from all over the Metropolitan area, is held every Monday night at Bar Nun, on U Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Munch and Tewodross Melchishua are currently working together on an animated video project that infuses art, music, text, and improvisation into a video and multimedia presentation, based around missing and abducted children, titled, A Father’s Pain: My Gain Is Your Loss. The track titled, “Strawberry Haze,” serves as the music for the video and invokes some very powerful emotions and energy for the project.

Munch has also worked with local and national theatrical and film productions and some of his roles were sound designer, musical director, producer, and conductor.

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Check out a clip from one of the Groove Gumbo performances featuring W. Ellington Felton, Kokayi and Ellisha “Teapot” McKinney from a Kennedy Center Performance on October 25, 2003.

Groove Gumbo website.