Music Event July 23, 2010
- Reclaim the Coast - Oil Spill Benefit - 3 nights in July - July 23rd
- 8:00pm
Join us for three nights of benefit shows to help raise funds for rebuilding and restoration relief along the Gulf Coast as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill disaster.
The acclaimed activist and environmentalist Pete Seeger will open the series of concerts on July 23rd with the debut of his newly penned song, "Drill Baby Drill...Spill Baby Spill". A folk hero and one of the first true environmental advocates Seeger has used his music over the years to further a myriad of domestic and international environmental and social causes.
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Artist to perform July 23rd include:(More TBA)
Pete Seeger,
Richard Barone,
Freedy Johnson
The Roches,
Mike Doughty,
Elysian Fields,
Lucy Wainwright Roche,
James Maddock,
Julie Gold,
Kahn Mobley of Parlotones plus many many more.
Along with the fragile coastal environment, residents and businesses along the Gulf Coast have suffered numerous setbacks in the past few years, still reeling and rebuilding from the devastation wrought by Katrina, this latest indignity will have far reaching effects for many years to come.
Please help mitigate those effects by supporting this series of benefit concerts. 100% of tickets proceeds will be donated equally to the Gulf Restoration Network, under the umbrella of healthygulf.org, and Global Green, globalgreen.org. Both non-profits have been hard at work along the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle , supporting and assisting a coalition of stakeholders dedicated to protecting and restoring the Gulf of Mexico for the populations dependent on this imperiled natural treasure.
Peter Seeger was born in May, 1919, in New York City. His father, Charlie, was a musicologist, and both of his siblings, Mike and Peggy, also became musicians (Mike Seeger was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers).
Pete spent two years studying Journalism at Harvard University before dropping out to perform music. During the late 1930s, he met Woody Guthrie at a benefit concert for migrant workers, which was inspired by the novel Grapes of Wrath.
The two found they had plenty in common both musically and ideologically, and they soon formed a group that came to be known famously as the Almanac Singers.
Pete was also a founding member of the Weavers, who enjoyed extensive success until being blacklisted for being Communists during the McCarthy Era. Seeger himself refused to testify in the McCarthy hearings, citing that it would violate his first ammendment rights.
In the late 1950s, Seeger began his solo career. He became well-known as a topical songwriter and activist folksinger. He reworked the African-American spiritual to popularize "We Shall Overcome," and also penned "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "If I Had a Hammer," which have all become anthems for peace movements and civil rights.
Seeger has released dozens of records during the course of his extensive and inspiring career, and has received the Kennedy Center Honor Award, National Medal of Arts, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. He continues to perform with his grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger.
Richard Barone is an acclaimed recording artist, performer, producer, and composer. Since his beginnings at age seven as “The Littlest DJ” on top-forty radio in Tampa, Florida, and later fronting indie-pop icons The Bongos, Barone has produced countless studio recordings. He has collaborated with world-class artists in every musical genre - from Lou Reed and Moby to Liza Minnelli and Tiny Tim.
As musical and theatrical director, he scores shows and stages all-star concert events at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, and New York's Central Park. His first book, FRONTMAN: Surviving the Rock Star Myth, was published by Backbeat/Hal Leonard Books and performed as a 'Musical Reading' at Carnegie Hall. Barone lives in New York City, where he recently completed work on his fifth solo album, GLOW, produced by Tony Visconti and others, to be released in Summer 2010.
"Is there a musician more deserving of the moniker Man About Town than Richard Barone?"
- Ann Powers, The New York Times
"Prince of New York"
- Andrew Aber, Village Voice
"Barone knows the alchemic formula for converting an everyday thought into a powerful refrain."
- Tom Moon, NPR
The story of James Maddock over the last 10 years has been one of pain and persistence. The brass ring was within his grasp. He relocated to the U.S., got married, and made another record for Columbia. And then it all fell apart. His personal and professional life unraveled at a rapid pace. He found himself in a new country, divorced, and to add to the insult, Columbia decided to not release the follow-up to "Songs from Stamford Hill". James was unceremoniously dropped from the label. A lesser man would have been broken by the experience, but James rallied on amid the ruins.
What James now has to show for the detour from major label to the present, is an extraordinary set of songs embodied in his new album "Sunrise on Avenue C". In the age of the track, James has made a real album with a beginning and an end.
Lucy Wainwright Roche grew up in Greenwich Village, New York City. She is the daughter of two performing musicians, Loudon Wainwright and Suzzy Roche (The Roches). Her childhood was spent living out of a suitcase, either on the road, with her parents or being ferried around to different relatives in her big musical clan. About her childhood, Lucy has this to say: “I loved being on the road as a kid.
It was like traveling in a pack, which is something that is fundamentally appealing to me. It included the best parts of a good book: the ups and downs of an ever-changing, ever-moving adventure, new characters in every town and all along I had everything I needed with me. My family, music and a window seat in the van.” In a family of rebels, she proved most rebellious by completing her Master’s Degree in Education and has spent several years teaching second and third grade in New York City.
After singing backup with her brother, Rufus Wainwright, over the years 2005 & 2006, she decided to take some time off from the classroom to explore her life long relationship to singing and song writing. Described by the New York Times as having the best qualities of both her parents and a voice “clear as a bell”, Lucy is a refreshing, pure, alternative to the jive pop culture. She is alarmingly straightforward and unadorned. A young singer just beginning to find her own point of view from a unique perspective.
In the past few years Lucy has toured the US doing solo shows and opening for many different musicians from Dar Williams to her brother Rufus. She ended 2007 with a special sold out birthday celebration at Joe's Pub in her hometown of NYC. In 2007 Lucy released her first recording, and EP entitled "8 Songs". In the spring of 2008 she released her second EP, "8 More". She says, “A person can inherit their family's name and a person can inherit their family's stories but experience is something everyone aquires themselves. That's what I'm thinking about as I'm starting to perform on my own.”
"Sincere and raw, at times recalling Joni Mitchell and Patty Griffin, Roche's bittersweet voice leaps out; she paints an indelible image..." NPR's Song of the Day
The Roches are Maggie, Terre & Suzzy, three sisters who live in New York City. Together they have created fifteen recordings in various configurations. Whether as a trio, duo or solo, each recording is as distinct as a snowflake. They have defied definition, and most accurately their music can be called “Roche” music. Their self titled album, “The Roches” was hailed as the Best Record of The Year by the New York Times. Their children’s recording “Will You Be My Friend” was awarded The Parent’s Gold Choice Award. “We Three Kings”, a collection of Christmas and Holiday songs is a perennial favorite in households all across the United States and overseas as well.
The Roches performed for twenty years as a trio throughout Europe and the United States in a wide variety of venues from their own sold out show at Carnegie Hall to the concert halls of Europe and the street corners of New York City. They appeared on The Tonight Show, The David Letterman Show and have sung with Philip Glass, Paul Simon, Laurie Anderson, The Indigo Girls, Loudon Wainwright and Linda Ronstadt just to name a few. They’ve written music for TV and films and were even drawn as cartoons for Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon’s series.
In the nineties they expanded to pursue solo projects. These projects include Terre’s stunning “Sound Of A Tree Falling”, Suzzy’s bittersweet “Holy Smokes” and “Songs From An Unmarried Housewife and Mother” (Album of the Week, New York Times). As a duo, Maggie and Suzzy created “Zero Church” (at Harvard University) the highly acclaimed, unusual collection of prayers which was also produced at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York with dancers, puppets and a multitude of musicians and singers. Maggie and Suzzy have recently released a smart and hearty set of songs “Why The Long Face” in keeping with their long tradition of original thought and close ethereal harmony. As the Washington Post wisely noted, “The sisters still have a lot to say.”
Legendary cult heroes Elysian Fields have always travelled in mysterious waters. Led by the enigmatic New York co-composers Jennifer Charles (vocals) and Oren Bloedow (guitar), the music born of their collaboration is impossible to categorize. They carry a torch for nature, sex, love, the cycle of death and rebirth, and the sounds of folk and jazz ballads, no wave and classical music, seamlessly interwoven into a style that is at once languorously romantic and tough.
Long known to European audiences where they have been lionized, the paradox is that in their home country, their art has gone largely unnoticed, but to the musical cognoscenti and in the know music Hop-heads. But the fact is, more than anything, Elysian Fields is a New York band, as much a part of the cities tapestry as New York Marble Cemetery, or The Frick. Maybe you've heard of them, but likely you haven't experienced them. Oren Bloedow, a New York maverick, who grew up in the 70's at 53rd and 3rd Avenue no less, brings not only his masterly and unique command of the guitar to the stage, but his unparralled finesse of song craft. Co writer Jennifer Charles is possessed of unusual songsmithery and spirit; she seems to be channneling the songs from a mysterious source. She is both poet and siren, her rich voice of velvet, flush with emotion, entwining around one's heart. Behind these two have always been the finest of Downtown music's demi monde.
Elysian Fields music should be experienced live, where the potency of the duos music can be experienced first hand. Their work is infused with imagination and an undeniable authenticity. Their latest effort is The Afterlife, was just released on vinyl on their own Diluvian imprint.
Before emerging as a solo artist, Mike Doughty was best known as the frontman of the unique avant-garde group known as Soul Coughing. Spawned in 1992, Soul Coughing was formed after Doughty met his bandmates (Yuval Gabay, Sebastian Steinberg, and Mark de Gli Antoni) while working as a doorman at the Knitting Factory, a staple of New York City's hip underground music scene.
Soul Coughing signed to Slash/Warner in 1993 after making a name for themselves on the local scene and attracting the attention of music labels with their fusion of rock, Doughty's beatnik-inspired lyrics, and elements of hip-hop and electronic music. Releasing their first of three albums the following year, Soul Coughing enjoyed only moderate commercial success over the next six years with the singles "Super Bon Bon" and "Circles." However, their unclassifiable music style kept Soul Coughing apart from the mainstream as the initial boom of alternative rock in the early '90s soon subsided considerably.
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ABOUT THE GULF RESTORATION NETWORK
GRN is a 16 year old environmental non-profit organization committed to uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region for future generations. As the only environmental organization working Gulf-wide, they are working hard to respond to the disaster in the Gulf. To learn more about their history, check out: www.healthygulf.org; and to read about their oil response efforts, check out: http://BPdrillingdisaster.org.
Since the first days of BP's oil drilling disaster, the Gulf Restoration Network has provided independent monitoring and advocacy focused on holding BP accountable and ensuring an effective and transparent response to the crisis. Take action, stay informed, and donate to these efforts at http://BPdrillingdisaster.org.
ABOUT GLOBAL GREEN USA
Global Green USA – the American arm of President Gorbachev’s Green Cross International - is a national environmental organization whose mission is to reconnect humanity with the environment. Global Green opened a New Orleans office shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf to create a model green city by rebuilding healthy, energy-efficient homes, schools and communities. According to Time Magazine, “no organization is doing more to green New Orleans than Global Green USA...”
Global Green is now responding to the nation’s largest environmental disaster by supporting the communities impacted, helping to document the devastation, and fighting for more legislative regulation of the oil industry and increased investment in renewable energy and clean technologies.
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