Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Hi. Here is the next Ash Grove/Beyond November's project,

one I'm very proud of. I'll update it as the musicians confirm.

It's free, but feel free to make a donation at the event. A map

of parking lots is in the attached flier. I'm off to interview the

great guitarist Doc Watson for the ongoing Ash Grove film project.

I leave you with two outstanding articles with different focuses on

today's talks in Geneva with Iran. Back next week.

Also a money-saving tip of how to get free, quick phone # info

and connection! : 1-800-Goog-411, i.e.. 1-800-4664-411.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/30/world/worldwatch/entry5352457.shtml

Over a Barrel: Why Iran Sanctions Won't Work - World Watch -

CBS News 09/30/09

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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/478079/can_the_us_iran_talks_succeed

Can the US-Iran Talks Succeed?

The Nation 09/28/2009

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Teresa Conboy P.R.

teresaconboypr@yahoo.com

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The Ash Grove Honors 45^th Anniversary of The Resistance –

a meeting of the resisters of the military draft and Veterans For Peace

Sunday, October 25 at Arlington West in Santa Monica

The Ash Grove Foundation in its ongoing series of "Beyond November" community events will honor the 45^th Anniversary of The Resistance draft resisters movement with "Resistance Then, Resist Now!" on Sunday, October 25^th at Arlington West in Santa Monica, 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Arlington West is a temporary memorial erected every Sunday on the beach by Veterans For Peace, immediately north of the Santa Monica Pier: http://www.arlingtonwestsantamonica.org/.

The Resistance was an organization of draft resisters founded in 1964 and quickly grew nationally. The actual anniversary date and gathering of original members of The Resistance will take place the previous day on Saturday, October 24^th.

Resistance Then, Resist Now! brings together the original Resisters and current Veterans For Peace, emceed by famed peace activist, Veteran Ron Kovic who became disabled in the Vietnam War.

Kovic was profiled in the film Born On The Fourth of July, based on his memoir and the inspiration for Jane Fonda's film Coming Home.

Two groups of speakers will be framed by cultural presentations: spiritual drumming from the S.H.I.N.E. Mawusi women's drum alliance; Get Lit Players - teenage wizards with poetry from the sonnets of Shakespeare to hip-hop - who tour Southern California school assemblies, also competing nationally in contests, and a drum circle will conclude the event. (One or two additional music performers TBA.)

The speakers on the first 20-minute panel will focus on The Resistance, then and now. Guests include: Joe Maizlish from The Resistance, a US marine, currently in Iraq, and a speaker from Committee Against Militarism in the Schools. The second panel will focus on the war budget and poverty draft with historian and unionist Gordon Alexandre. CSULA student Anitra Wetzel will speak of problems facing students in today's skewed economy, and a public health advocate will address "It's Healthcare or Warfare."

The Ash Grove (1958 – 1973) on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood was a pioneering musical and political venue. The performance standards and creative interplay among musicians, young and old, produced many great artists, enriched the lives of audiences, and gave the club a leading role in the culture of a generation. Archived Ash Grove concerts from that era are available for listening or download at WolfgangsVault.com. "Beyond November – Party with a Purpose" - brings together an assortment of artists, advocacy and social action organizations, to entertain, to inform and to enthuse by tapping into the vast energy for positive change sparked by the November elections.

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Media contact:

Teresa Conboy P.R.

teresaconboypr@yahoo.com

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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

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