If you’ve ever been stuck on hold with a congressional office in the past, at least you’ve been able to enjoy some good patriotic music, as opposed to the lilting tones of generic smooth jazz that have been driving elevator users insane for decades. For years, congressional offices have played patriotic anthems as the background music during hold times.
The kickoff concert for Still Moving Mountains The Journey Home, sponsored by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, the Appalachian Community Fund and Aurora Lights, will be broadcast live TODAY, Sunday, August 23rd. from 2 to 6 PM ET by Bob Kincaid. The live broadcast is sponsored by Coal River Mountain Watch and Coal River Wind. Tune in to the HORN stream, join us in the chatroom and enjoy…
Kathy Mattea got on board, as did Del McCoury, Blue Highway, Everett Lilly and Robert Kennedy Jr. Before they knew it, Jen Osha and Jeff Bosley had quilted together a collection of music and words documenting a movement of the people.
From 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, that collection called “Still Moving Mountains: The Journey Home” gets celebrated live with a CD release party at the outdoors stage at the Capitol Complex in Charleston.
Free and open to the public, the show features Jen Osha and Grayson Samples, Matt Parsons, The LoneTones, Andrew McKnight, The Halftime String Band as well as local speakers.
The concert is sponsored by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and the Appalachian Community Fund, as well as Aurora Lights, a nonprofit group that put out the CD. Profits from the CD go to grassroots groups opposing mountaintop removal.
New York, NY…August 13, 2009…Les Paul, acclaimed guitar player, entertainer and inventor, passed away today from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, surrounded by family and loved ones. He had been receiving the best available treatment through this final battle and in keeping with his persona, he showed incredible strength, tenacity and courage. The family would like to express their heartfelt thanks for the thoughts and prayers from his dear friends and fans. Les Paul was 94.
There is, it turns out, a political price to pay when you make bold statements calling out Michael Jackson for some of the nefarious moments of his personal history.
Fans of Jackson are mobilizing to raise money for an opponent — any opponent — to run against Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., following the critical remarks the congressman made about the recently deceased pop icon.
Over the weekend, King said that the media had gone far over the top in glorifying Jackson, who he deemed a “low-life” pervert who “may have been a good singer” and “did some dancing.” Source Article
With nearly wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, it might be easy to forget the ongoing struggle taking place in Iran. But rocker Jon Bon Jovi hasn’t forgotten.
Earlier this week, Bon Jovi and bandmate Richie Sambora recorded a version of Ben E. King’s classic “Stand by Me” with Iranian superstar Andy Madadian. Their mission: to send a message of global solidarity to the people of Iran who are caught in the midst of debate and protest over the country’s recent election.
By Andrew Blankstein, Phil Willon and Harriet Ryan
June 26, 2009
Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead today after paramedics found him in a coma at his Bel-Air mansion, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.
Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Steve Ruda told The Times that paramedics responded to a 911 call from the home. When they arrived, Jackson was not breathing. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda said.
Hundreds of reporters gathered at the hospital awaiting word on his condition. The sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named, said family members rushed to Jackson’s bedside, where he was in a deep coma. Source Article
Iranian singer Googoosh, whose voice was silenced in the years following the 1979 Revolution, and who has often sung about her nation has dedicated a song to the masses protesting in the streets of Iran:
Today, the right-wing site The New Ledger has a report about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) “problem” with “patriotic music”:
August 21, 2009
