Thursday, September 17, 2009

Save L.A. Farmers' Markets, contact Mayor Villaraigosa TODAY!

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From: SEE-LA Farmers' Markets <info@see-la.org>
Subject: Save L.A. Farmers' Markets, contact Mayor Villaraigosa TODAY!
To: cp007@sbcglobal.net
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 6:15 PM

CONTACT MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA
AND YOUR
L.A. CITY COUNCILMEMBER
TODAY!

Tell them you are concerned about the City's new
Special Events Street Closure Fees Ordinance
Impact on Local Farmers' Markets

          On September 1, 2009 the L.A. City Council passed Ordinance 09-0600-S46 (Special Events Special Permit Procedure / Fee Subsidy Program), changing the way the City assesses fees to "Special Events", including local certified Farmers' Markets. The ordinance is now awaiting Mayor Villaraigosa's signature, with a deadline of Friday, September 18. Under the new ordinance, certified Farmers' Markets would be eligible for Special Event fee subsidies, but not fee waivers, as was the previous policy. If non-profit organizations that operate Farmers' Markets are forced to pay these fees, it could result in market closures while severely limiting the ability of Farmers' Markets and other community events to operate in Los Angeles.

            As we all know, the City derives many benefits from Farmers' Markets, including community and economic development and improved public health. We are urging Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council to amend the ordinance to recognize the special value of certified Farmers' Markets and ensure their continued viability by continuing to waive Special Event fees associated with their operation.


Please contact Mayor Villaraigosa and your City Councilmember TODAY!

Tell them how much you value local Farmers' Markets!

Tell them you are concerned about the City's new Special Events Street Closure Fees Ordinance effect on Farmers' Markets.

Given the vital role of Farmers' Markets in Los Angeles as community centers and providing fresh local produce, urge the Mayor not to sign Ordinance 09-0600-S46. Urge your Councilmember to amend the ordinance so Farmers' Markets are exempt from any new Special Event fees.

To view the Ordinance, click here.

To read the September 16 article on this issue by L.A. Times Farmers' Market correspondent David Karp, click here.

Thank you for Supporting Your Local Farmers' Market!

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
200 N. Spring Street, Rm. 303
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 978-0600
mayor@lacity.org

District 1 - Ed Reyes
City Hall Office (213) 473-7001
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 410
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.reyes@lacity.org

District 3 - Dennis P. Zine
City Hall Office (213) 473-7003
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 450
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.zine@lacity.org

District 4 - Tom LaBonge
City Hall Office (213) 473-7004
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 480
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.Labonge@lacity.org

District 5 - Paul Koretz
City Hall Office (213) 473-7005
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 440
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Paul.Koretz@lacity.org

District 6 - Tony Cardenas
City Hall Office (213) 473-7006
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 455
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org

District 7 - Richard Alarcon
City Hall Office (213) 473-7007
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 425
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.alarcon@lacity.org

District 8 - Bernard Parks
City Hall Office (213) 473-7008
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 460
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.parks@lacity.org

District 9 - Jan Perry
City Hall Office (213) 473-7009
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 420
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Jan.Perry@lacity.org

District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
City Hall Office (213) 473-7010
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 430
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.wesson@lacity.org

District 11 - Bill Rosendahl
City Hall Office (213) 473-7011
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 415
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org

District 12 - Greig Smith
City Hall Office (213) 473-7012
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 405
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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District 13 - Eric Garcetti
City Hall Office (213) 473-7013
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 470
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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District 14 - Jose Huizar
City Hall Office (213) 473-7014
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 465
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.huizar@lacity.org

District 15 - Janice Hahn
City Hall Office (213) 473-7015
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 435
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.hahn@lacity.org

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Save L.A. Farmers' Markets, contact Mayor Villaraigosa TODAY!

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