Fwd: Anniversaries

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From: Les Herring lesherring@gmail.com


I think it worth pointing out that in addition to next month being the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, it is the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival, the next addition of which will take place next weekend.  If you can't make it, kiss someone from Rhode Island!!

WOODSTOCK WOODY GUTHRIE FEST & WOODY RADICAL PROSE


From: John Pietaro leftmus@earthlink.net



Friends,

Well, if this is July it must be another Woody birthday anniversary. He would have been 97 this time around. Like many others around the world, I organize this annual salute to Woody in the world's most famous little village, Woodstock NY, and this year will be spectacular. Come on up to Woodstock early---check out the galleries, the shops, the memorobilia, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony (where Dylan had his home), the Bearsville site that was Albert Grossman's digs and Todd Rundgren's studio and where Jimi Hendrix lived for a time, and then come over to the Colony Cafe to celebrate Woody.

By the way, at the end of this announcement, look for the radical prose by Woody. I will be reciting this to the accompaniment of Laurie's bass and my own drumkit on Saturday evening....just one of the many reminders of Woody's revolutionary art!

In Solidarity,
John Pietaro - www.flamesofdiscontent.org

WOODSTOCK WOODY GUTHRIE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO COLONY CAFÉ, JULY 25

Woodstock NY:  Woody Guthrie, legendary folksinger and prototypical protest musician, will once again be celebrated at Woodstock's historic Colony Café. This is the third annual event in his honor. This July would have been the 97th birthday of Guthrie, who died in 1967 but has long been remembered not only by fans of folk song but progressive thinkers all over the world. Guthrie, who fought against racism and fascism as well as for workers' rights and a more equitable society in his lifetime, has been acknowledged as the father of the folk song revival that begat the likes of Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, the Almanac Singers, the Weavers, and their 1960s offspring, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and numerous others.

This year's event will feature not only some of Woody's most powerful songs but also his poetry, prose and even a member of his family. The Keynote Address will be given by ANNA CANONI, Woody's granddaughter and the Outreach Coordinator for the Woody Guthrie Archive. The Festival is very pleased to present Ms. Canoni in Woodstock for the first time.

A special feature will include guest speakers who are both journalists: DAN MARGOLIS, New York Bureau Chief of the People's Weekly World newspaper who will discuss Guthrie's contributions as a columnist for the Daily Worker, and GARY ALEXANDER, Music Writer with the Woodstock Times.
Music will be provided by festival hosts THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT who perform 'alternative protest song', folk expansionists HOPE MACHINE, Mexican revolutionary musician ZENOTE SOMPANTLE, and Labor singer JOHN O'CONNOR.  And there will also be recitation of Guthrie writings by performance poet PATRICIA MARTIN.

THE WOODSTOCK WOODY GUTHRIE FESTIVAL 2009
When: SATURDAY, JULY 25, 8 – 11PM
Where: The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock NY, (845) 679-5342
Admission: $10.
For more info: www.flamesofdiscontent.org or www.colonycafe.com
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Art is a weapon and as deadly as steel cannons or exploding bombs.
It is the job of poets to untangle all of the knots, wipe away all of the clouds and fog.
It is the job of all artists, painters, dancers, writers, singers, sculptors, musicians, critics, actors, everybody everywhere, to join hands with the workers and root out, expose, and kill out the fascist enemy everywhere. Words must be turned against the Nazis like red hot machine gun bullets, mowing their poor, misled soldiers to the ground like brutes and monsters, blowing their factories and munitions dumps into 10 million pieces. Unless words do this job, they are useless……

I carted my paints and my water color brushes today down the street two short blocks and painted some fancy leafs and weeds and stems all around the edge of the window of the Communist Party.
I painted, "Join the Communist Party" on a strip of wrapping paper and "Kill the Taft-Hartley Slave law" on some more strips. "Lets Have a Low-Cost Housing Project in Coney Island" and "Read Your Daily Worker". Gwen, my 11 year old daughter from Texas helped me clean, sweep, scrape and paint and fix the windows of the Party office and book shop.
When we got it all done, I went in next door to a little eat shop and the soda jerker told me, "Your work is just one big, gigantic smudge!"
I didn't even say one single word. Just drunk my coffee and walked out.

I drew pen sketches for the Peoples World and Daily Worker and learned all I could from the speeches and debates, forums, picnics, where famous labor leaders spoke. I heard William Z Foster, Mother Bloor, Gurley Flynn, Blackie Myers.
I heard most all of them and played my songs on their platforms…….
Art is a weapon and as deadly as steel cannons or exploding bombs.
-Woody Guthrie


Take Me Out to the Ball Game

At http://www.parttimemusician.com about Glenn Donnellan, violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, making an electric violin from a baseball bat.

Catskills Irish Arts Week!

There's SOOOOO MUCH MORE than classes
at the
CATSKILLS IRISH ARTS WEEK
 
CD Launches! Lectures! Tunes!
 
Céilithe, Seisiúns, Concerts
EVERY NIGHT!
 
Some Highlights:
(see the current IRISH VOICE for detailed schedule)
 
Monday 13 July, Weldon House 4:00
"From Shore to Shore:
Irish Traditional Music in New York City"
screening & discussion presented by Pat Mullins (filmmaker)
 
Tuesday 14 July, Weldon House 4:00
Paddy O'Brien's compositions & work
Book Launch
presented by Eileen O'Brien Minogue
 
Wednesday 15 July, Weldon House 4:00
Tribute to Mike Rafferty
Lecture presented by Don Meade
 
Wednesday 15 July, Shamrock House 4:00
Mrs. Crotty's Legacy
Led by Edel Fox with Caitlinn Nic Gabhann
 
Wednesday 15 July,Bernie O's 10:00
"THE OLD BROOM"
CD Launch / Listening Room Seisiún
Mike Rafferty & Willie Kelly 
 
Thursday 16 July, Weldon House 4:00
"Unskirting the Issue"
Pivotal Irish American women in Irish traditional music
Lecture presented by Earl Hitchner
 
Thursday 16 July, Shamrock House 9:00
"PRIDE OF NEW YORK"
CD Launch / Céilí
Brian Conway, Brendan Dolan,
Joanie Madden, Billy McComiskey
 
Friday 17 July, Weldon House 4:00
Irish music in the Catskills
Lecture presented by Brendan Dolan  
 
Friday 17 July, Shamrock House 4:00
Tunes & Chat
James Keane & Antoine Mac Gabhann
 
Friday 17 July, Quill Festival Grounds 7:30
Tribute to Joe Madden
Concert featuring Joanie Madden, John Nolan,
James Keane, Billy McComiskey & many, many more
 
Friday 17 July, Gavin's 10:00
GIRSA
CD Launch
 
These events alone make the week worth the short drive to East Durham! If you cannot be there for the full summer school, consider heading there for a few days at the end of the week. Something for Everyone!
 
Andy McGann Traditional Music Festival
Saturday, July 18th
Noon ~ 7pm
1-800 / 434-FEST
 
 
For more info: 
518 / 634-2286   or   contact@irishartsweek.com
 
Slán,
Maureen
www.my.calendars.net/ceolagusrince

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Fwd: An Exciting Event this Saturday



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From: Cara Cruickshank <cara@catskillwoodlandcamp.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Subject: An Exciting Event this Saturday
To: boblusk@gmail.com


Camp Woodland: 1959
An Evening of Stories and Songs
cw
Saturday, July 11
 7:30pm

At the Pine Hill Community Center
287 Main St., Pine Hill
Free Admission
A Legendary and Historical Event
Camp Woodland was a summer camp in Phoenicia, N.Y. from 1939-1962.  Interracial and progressive, it helped to preserve much of the folklore of the Catskills.
Alumni Sue Rosenberg, Pat Gordon Lamanna, Karl and Greg Finger, and (possibly) Eric Weissberg
will give a Camp Woodland Multi-Media Presentation through photos, stories and songs.

(After-Party and Music Jam at Cara's House)
For more info. call: 845-452-4013, email: patla@hvc.rr.com orinfo@pinehillcommunitycenter.org
www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org


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Cara Cruickshank | P.O. Box 647 | Phoenicia | NY | 12464

Fwd: WORKSHOP ATA HARTFORD



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From: Debashish Bhattacharya <debashishguitar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Subject: WORKSHOP ATA HARTFORD
To: boblusk@gmail.com



-          Broad-spectrum finger picking and left hand movement

-           Raga Music Workshop with Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya

In

Hartford, CT, USA

 

 

Gurus: Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya and Sri Subhasis Bhattacharya

 

Detailed and extensive knowledge of the following topics will be imparted in this 5 day long residency/workshop program.  The workshop will conclude with a full-length concert by Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya and Sri Subhasis Bhattacharya at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford.  All participants will be able to attend this concert by invitation.

 

* An Overview of Raga Music:

            - Raga music interpretation for both the beginner and advanced level students.

            - The historical and philosophical perspective with an emphasis on the aesthetics and literature of      Raga Music.

            - The inherent capacity of Raga music to express and interpret human nature, along with different moods and emotions.

            - Compositions and Performance

            - How to amalgamate Raga Music in your own work.

 

*  Rhythm Structure in Indian Music:

            - Different rhythmic cycles and various rhythmic structures

            - The synthesis of rhythm and melody in Indian music

 

*  The Impact of technology and modern life on ancient art of Raga Music.

 

* Raga Music in context with the slide guitar, regular guitar, and other Western and Indian instruments.

            - Slide guitar techniques and practices.

practices

 

* Indian melodic chanting and rhythmic vocalizations.       

 

 

Other details

Place: 34 Hilltop Drive , Weatogue, Connecticut

Date: October 12th, 2009 – October 16th, 2009

Concert of Pt. Debashish bhattacharya:  October 17th, 2009

For Registration and further inquiry Please contact: bsumkol@gmail.com

debashishguitar@gmail.com

Phone No: INDIA    +919830204542

Phone No: USA 1 901 757 4567

 

 

Participants are requested to bring their individual instruments and sleeping bags.

 


--
With Best Regards,
Sannati Talukder

Bhattacharya's School of Universal Music
Kolkata, India
Phone:  +91.33.2428 6882
                  +91 9830204542
e-mail:   debashishguitar@gmail.com
visit at:   www.debashishbhattacharya.com