Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Javier Sicilia and Peace Caravan in LA today and Tuesday

Today's LATextra front page features a wonderful photo of Javier Sicilia,
with description of The Poetics of Peace caravan. I just opened this agenda.

-Ed

maureenmoore@lfla.org maureenmoore@lfla.org Monday, August 13,10:18 AM (2
hours ago)

to ruben6211
Dear community,
You are receiving this message because you either attended or reserved for
last April's ALOUD program with Javier Sicilia: The Poetics of Protest:
Giving Voice to Mexico's Movement for Peace. I am taking the liberty of
contacting you to share more information about the important work Sicilia's
Movement for Peace is doing here in the United States. Today, the "Caravan
for Peace" arrives in Los Angeles in a few hours. Over the next two days
there are numerous public events in which to participate. Please see the
below schedule and feel free to share it with others.

Before departing Tijuana to cross the border this past weekend, Javier
shared these words about the fight to regenerate democractic life and the
need to place human dignity above every other interest. The L.A. Times'
Steve Lopez also shared the binational nature of the problem in this article
from yesterday's paper.

In peace,
Maureen Moore

US Caravan For peace - Events in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES – Monday, August
13, 2012
11:00 am Welcome at La Placita Church, 535 N Main St. LA. CA. 90012
12: 00 pm Press Conference at Casa Pico 430 N Main St. LA. CA 90012
3 to 7 pm Community Welcome, Plaza Olvera, 430 N. Main St. LA. CA. 90012

LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:00 AM Work Breakfast with
Javier Sicilia, Placita church, 535 N Main St, 10:00 am March to City
Hall: Start at La Placita Church 535 N Main St. CA 90012. To City Hall
10:30 am Los Angeles City Council , 200 N Main St 90012 4:00 pm Concilio
de la Ciudad de Huntington Park, 6550 Miles ave. HP CA 90255
6:30 pm Vigil @ City Terrace with Zacatecanos
Casa del Zacatecano, 1332 N. Miller Ave Los Ángeles
90063.

LOS ANGELES, Wednesday, August 15, 2012
10:00 am Farewell to Caravan for Peace @ Mercado la Paloma, 3655
South Grand Ave. Los Angeles CA 90007.

Maureen Moore
Associate Director, ALOUD
Library Foundation of Los Angeles
630 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
213-228-7321
www.lfla.org/aloud
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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

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Javier Sicilia and Peace Caravan in LA today and Tuesday

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