Saturday, October 20, 2012

Tom Morello [also performing], Andy Zermeño, Joan Sekler, Aris & Carolyn Anagnos honored tomorrow at CSPG annual Party Auction

Hi. Tom Morello alone should draw great interest, but he joins other important humane activists

in being honored by the greatest accumulation of poster art, and the most active disseminator of

resistance art in the country, if not the world. That is the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

This is their annual party, auction and fund raiser, and merits your financial support. Tickets are from $100 down.

Celebrating the
Art of Resistance
CSPG's Annual
Party Auction

October 21, 2012
3 - 7 pm

Professional Musicians Union Local 47
817 Vine Street
Hollywood, LA 90038

Tickets available ONLINE NOW!

Honoring:

Poster Artist Andy Zermeño
Art is a Hammer Honoree

Andy Zermeño attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, and Otis College of Art and Design. He was introduced to the grassroots civil rights movement through Saul Alinsky and the Community Service Organization, where he met Cesar Chavez. For 14 years, Andy designed posters and other graphics for the United Farm Workers.

Awarded to be presented by Barbara Carrasco

Activist/Documentary Filmmaker Joan Sekler
Historian of the Lions Honoree

Joan Sekler is a political activist and documentary filmmaker. She was publicist for the academy award winning The Panama Deception. She was also director and producer of Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election and Locked Out about the struggle of unionized miners in Boron, California against the multinational Rio Tinto Group.

Award to be presented by Gail Sekler-De Jesus, Art Goldberg,
and Susan Philips

Activist/Musician Tom Morello
Aris & Carolyn Anagnos Culture of Liberation Honoree

Tom Morello is an activist musician. He performs solo as the Nightwatchman and is lead guitarist in Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Street Sweeper Social Club. In 2002, Tom co-founded Axis of Justice, to bring together musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice.

Award to be presented by Wayne Kramer

There will be an elegant reception, a dynamic poster presentation, a unique auction of vintage posters and original artworks and a live performance by Tom Morello.

Sponsor's Reception:
3 - 4:30 pm
Meet the Honorees
Silent Auction

Awards Program:
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Live Performance by Tom Morello
Silent Auction

Tickets purchased will be available at the registration table on the day of the event.

All Sponsorships include the reception, silent auction and program.

Program Tickets are for the program only starting at 4:30 pm.
Program tickets are offered at different prices so guests can make a choice based on their ability to pay.

All guests will have access to the silent auction.

KPFK and make/shift Magazine are Media Sponsors

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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

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Tom Morello [also performing], Andy Zermeño, Joan Sekler, Aris & Carolyn Anagnos honored tomorrow at CSPG annual Party Auction

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