Monday, September 10, 2012

Editor of Echo Park Patch needs 300 FB "Likes" This Week to secure her fantastic job, Woody Guthrie celeb Sat. in Pasadena

Anthea Raymond does a wonderful job in editing and reporting in this vital journal; communicating and

teaching, covering communities day and night. And hustling the ads, to boot. Until recently I thought

she owned the joint. Like wow - doing this incredible amount of creatve vital work for someone else?

The Patch group should be delighted with her stewardship, but apparently also need to hear from you.

Please oblige.

From: Anthea Raymond [mailto:anthea.raymond@patch.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 7:49 AM
To: epearlag@earthlink.net
Subject: Need 300 FB "Likes" This Week

Ed--

you have always been a fan and i so appreciate your support.

may i ask a favor:

i am looking to get 300 "likes" on Facebook in one week so i can keep doing important work like this.

can you help by circulating this link and asking anyone on Facebook to like Echo Park Silver Lake Patch:

http://www.facebook.com/EchoParkPatch

they are also welcome to subscribe to my newsletter at :

http://echopark.patch.com/newsletters

thank you so much.

xo ar

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Editor, Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch
323-388-7207

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From: Peter Dreier [mailto:dreier@oxy.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:03 AM
To: Peter Dreier
Subject: Celebrating Woody Guthrie - next Saturday in Pasadena

Friends,

As part of the year-long, nationwide celebration of folksinger Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, the Pasadena Public Library is sponsoring “Celebrating the Life, Music & Legacy of Woody Guthrie” next Saturday, September 15^th, at 2 pm at the Allendale Branch Library (1130 South Marengo Avenue).

I will be speaking about Woody’s years in Southern California, where he moved from Oklahoma during the Depression. Those years had a profound impact on his music and his politics. He wrote some of his best songs during that period, when he lived in downtown LA, Glendale, and Echo Park. Woody is one of the people I profile in my new book, The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20^th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame. The book will be on sale at the event and I’ll be signing books for those who are interested. In addition, folk singer Ross Altman will play a selection of Guthrie’s songs from that period.

Two weeks later, on Saturday, September 29, at 2 pm, the Pasadena Public Library will be screening the wonderful PBS American Masters documentary film, “Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home.” It includes great footage from Woody’s life as well as interviews with Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and others. Ed Cray, professor at USC and author of Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie, will introduce the film.

For more information, call 626.744.7260 or visit pasadenapubliclibrary.net

You can learn more about the year-long Woody Centennial Celebration, cosponsored by the Woody Guthrie Archives and the Grammy Museum, at this website.

Please forward this announcement to anyone else you think might be interested in these events.

I hope to see some of you on Saturday!

Peter

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Peter Dreier
Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics
Chair, Urban & Environmental Policy Department
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Phone: (323) 259-2913
FAX: (323) 259-2734
Website: http://employees.oxy.edu/dreier

New book: The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books) -- published July 2012

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality" - Dante

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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

Monday, September 10, 2012

Editor of Echo Park Patch needs 300 FB "Likes" This Week to secure her fantastic job, Woody Guthrie celeb Sat. in Pasadena

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