Conchance returns to The Waiting Room to kick off the first night of his 2 week tour to the west coast. Black Jonny Quest, Kethro, and Dojorok will also be reuniting for the first Midtown Marauders performance in a year!
Doors at 8pm
Show at 9pm
$5 – All Ages
Listen to Conchance’s new single “Half Stepper Kings” on soundcloud @ https://soundcloud.com/conchance/half-stepper-kings-master
Peep the tour schedule @ http://www.recordsfrommakebelieve.com/TOUR.html
Bio: Omaha-native Brenton Gomez, better known as Conchance, Conny Franko, Uncle Conny, Daddy Woozbucks or B, depending on the day, exploded onto Omaha’s hip-hop scene in 2007 after dropping his first mixtape. Born in 1987, the young emcee grew up in Omaha and graduated from Millard West High School in 2005. With influences ranging from the late local jazz legend Luigi Waites, Nina Simone and Miles Davis to Big Pun, Common and Big L, Conchance enveloped himself in music as soon as he was old enough to understand the meaning of the word. However, hip-hop didn’t initially draw him in. He started doing poetry as a young boy, which eventually grew into rhyming. A friend’s older brother introduced him to hip-hop in 1996 and got him into artists like Mos Def and Pharoahe Monch. He lived through the era when Biggie and 2Pac were actually alive and ruled the airwaves; when radio wasn’t as deplorable as it is today. Like most kids, he went through his “everything has to be underground” phase, but quickly realized all variations of the genre can be considered art.
In high school, he started performing under the moniker Conchance. His first live show was at a house party in someone’s living room. It was on from there. After 2007’s All City Mixtape, Conchance hit the local music scene heavily, signed with Make Believe Recordings and began performing as much as possible. Now at the ripe age of 26, he has a full-length album under his belt, 2012’s Calm Kids, is working on his sophomore album, has graced the cover of the Omaha Reader, been featured in URB, and won two Omaha Entertainment Awards for “Best Hip-Hop” artist. As he hones his craft, he aims to consistently put out music that is, according to him, “live, fruitful, honest, and full of integrity. No faking the funk.”
Conchance has shared the stage with notable acts such as Typical Cats, Blu, Mr. Lif, Egyptian Lover, Peanut Butter Wolf, Team Bear Club, Capgun Coup, Tilly and the Wall, DJ Rob Swift of the X-ecutioners, Desaparecidos, and of course his click, Midtown Marauders.
In 2013, he released The Mixtape EP: A Tribute to Barney Miller’s Clarinet and drops M34N STR33T’s Mutants of Omaha on April 25, 2014, another project he has his hands in. He’s also gearing up for his first headlining tour this summer with his DJ, Kethro (Keith Rodger), and working on a new video for the single, “Half Stepper King$.”
“It would be beautiful to tour the world and shake Nas and Rakim’s hand,” he says. “Through my music, I want to provide knowledge and perspective. I want people to feel the relationship between the inner city dweller and the broke kid in the middle of the suburbs; see how these things translate. It’s for the greater cause, for knowledge. I’m trying to put together a collection of songs that people listen to and maybe will be able to learn something from or at least gain another way to look at things.”
