Grand Rapids, Michigan based independent label Dirtcore Music has rebranded as just DIRTCORE. And the label continues to expand by signing Author/Activist/Spoken Word recording artist Marcel “Fable” Price ( Fable the Poet). Here is the official DIRTCORE press release announcing the signing of Marcel “Fable” Price!
From DIRTCORE Across Social Media:
DIRTCORE welcomes author, Activist, and Spoken Word recording artist, Marcel “Fable” Price (First know as Fable the Poet). This marks an expansion for the brand as it pivots into other realms outside of music, releasing Fable’s new Book and three disc audio release, “NEW AMERICAN MONARCH”:
Fable is a multi-hyphenate, self-directed creative whose primary medium is stranded somewhere between oratory expression and creative writing.Fable is the 2016 recipient of a Community Advocate Award, 2017 40 Under 40 Honoree, was the 2017-2020 Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids, MI, a 2020 Grand Rapids area Black Businesses “Black Bottom Community Builder” Award winner, 2021 Michigan Humanities Impact Partner of the Year, 2022 Newsmaker of the Year, and was given the “Imagination Award” by the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology.Fable expresses a kaleidoscope of personal experiences, crafted into stained glass examples of transformation desired to connect with readers in a painstakingly beautiful way regardless of their own lived experience. Fable truly believes the mortar to our humanity is shared experience and without intentionally searching for ways to connect, our individual gospels will only remain surface hymns.His work has previously been used by PBS, The Frey Foundation, Mental Health America, and Habitat for Humanity. He has graced the cover of Grand Rapids Magazine, and his poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Button Poetry, and Write About Now.
Founder and CEO of Dirtcore recounts first meeting Fable in 2014, “I was recommended to Fable as an engineer and he was working on his first record which was spoken word coupled with live instrumentation. I remember hearing his lyrics and it fundamentally changed me as a person. Showing me a side of life that I have never and could never experience. I helped him put that album together as well as some artwork. This is now the second full release I’ve had the honor to be a part of, and at a certain point I think it became an obvious decision for both of us to continue building together. After his new release was picked up by the New Michigan Press, we decided that Dirtcore was going to be the best fit for the recording artist side of his art.”
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