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Calling All Drummers! Fight World Hunger with Marv Dahlgren!

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
December 23, 2011

Marv Dahlgren, well-known Twin Cities' percussionist and educator, has launched an initiative that he hopes will raise global awareness of world hunger. His new Global Drummers Alliance calls upon drummers to send the message via a global performance of “Three Camps" on January 14th at 2 pm CST. His fellow drummer (and former student) Dave Stanoch is hosting Marv's website, which provides background and information about this initiative. If you are a drummer at any level, please consider joining in ...

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A Letter to Congress, from the Guys That Invented the Internet...

Source: Digital Music News
December 19, 2011

The following open letter was recently sent to members of US Congress, with an urgent warning to vote against SOPA. It comes from 83 engineers and innovators responsible for creating the internet, including TCP/IP creator and “father of the internet" Vint Cerf and Paul Vixie, author of the widely-used DNS server software BIND.

We wrote and debugged the software; we defined the standards and protocols that talk over that network. Many of us invented parts of it. We're just a ...

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Former Yes Lead Singer Jon Anderson Provides Soundtrack For Cancer Support Community Of Philadelphia’s Holiday E-card

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
December 19, 2011

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) Jon Anderson, the voice of the rock group Yes for many years, has once again stepped up to help the Cancer Support Community of Philadelphia (CSCP) by providing the soundtrack for the organization's 2011 electronic holiday card. The e-card, designed by Lauren Keswick and Scott Bluebond and produced by Keswick (www.medicalartstudio.com) was distributed today to the cancer support organization's friends, supporters, members, donors and others and is available at cancersupport- phila.org. The card shows images from events and ...

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Occupy Musicians: Lou Reed, Talib, Tom Morello, Biafra

Source: JamBase
November 25, 2011

MUSICIANS PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR ALL OCCUPY MOVEMENTS A number of prominent musicians have pledged their support for the Occupy Movement by launching the Occupy Musicians website. The website aims to to facilitate performances at Occupy spaces and events, network musicians to Occupy locations and Occupy fund raisers, host embedded media to Occupy-related songs and music videos, and more. Head over to the Occupy Musicians website to get a look at the full list of supporters, and check out their official ...

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Occupy Music Movement Grows with Occupy Musicians Petition

Source: HypeBot
November 23, 2011

Musicians have gotten involved with the Occupy Movement in many locations both on and offline. A new initiative seeks to focus that energy starting with an Occupy Musicians petition in support of the movement. But Occupy Musicians hopes to become much more than just a petition and plans to provide additional resources. Musicians Occupy Wall Street Ginny Suss and Vanessa Wruble at Okayplayer helped Occupy Musicians get a petition online that has already been signed by a number of musicians ...

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Congress May Pave Way for Small Investors to Crowdfund Music Startups

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2011

A bill that was recently passed by the House of Representatives opens up the possibility of music startups raising $1 to $2 million annually via social media and crowdfunding platforms without having to meet costly registration requirements.  This bill would allow for investments by small fry, who are currently shut out of such opportunities, and provide much needed funds to music businesses that can't attract venture capital or wealthy individual investors due to current funding trends. Rep. Patrick McHenry [R-NC10] ...

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James McMurtry: Free MP3 in Support of Occupy Movement

Source: JamBase
November 16, 2011

FANS ENCOURAGED TO MAKE OWN MUSIC VIDEOS; BEST TO BE FEATURED ON JAMESMCMURTRY.COM Singer-songwriter James McMurtry is giving away free mp3s of his iconic political song “We Can't Make It Here" from his award-winning Childish Things in support of the Occupy movement. Fans are encouraged to use the free mp3 of “We Can't Make It Here" to create their own unique videos supporting the movement. The best of the best will be featured on James McMurtry's website. Click here to ...

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American Songbook Preservation Society...Singing the Great American Songbook

Source: Ron Kaplan
November 16, 2011

The American Songbook Preservation Society is a performance organization whose purpose is to continue the legacy of the great American Songbook by performing these works in public to audiences in America and abroad. The organization features highly accomplished musicians and singers performing these works for public benefit and educational purposes. As singer Tony Bennett has said..."This is America's classical music." What is the Great American Songbook, also known as the “Popular Standards"? It is largely composed of songs written between ...

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