CURRENT SECTIONS, Acoustic Americana Music Guide, August 26, 2011

    
The current SPOTLIGHT EVENTS SECTION will get you through the first few weeks of September, and the current NEWS FEATURES includes morevdetails on some events happening Labor Day weekend. Otherwise, we're taking Labor Day weekend off - see ya out there, enjoying the music!
    
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(a) LATEST NEWS – August 26 edition...
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/acoustic-americana-music-guide-news_26.html    
   
        
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(b) SPOTLIGHT EVENTS – August 26 edition – concerts, festivals, free shows, workshops, and more...
    
    Presenting the full abundance of the acoustic music spectrum, together, in one place...
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/spotlight-events-august-26-2011-edition.html    
    
    
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(c) SHOW-OF-THE-WEEK picks, August 17-Labor Day, 2011 – our picks of the best concerts, festivals, indoor / outdoor / and free shows, workshops, and more...
    
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/show-of-week-picks-august-17-labor-day.html   
   
    
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SPECIAL FEATURES...
    
    
(d) “CALLING STEPHEN COLBERT: HELP! WE'VE BEEN COMPROMISED!”
    
Is available by itself, where you can add your comment, at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/calling-stephen-colbert-help-weve-been.html  
       
    
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(e) A great songwriter remembered:
    
“A SONG FROM ACROSS THE VOID – HONORING THE GREAT KEN GRAYDON”
    
Is available by itself, where you can add your comment, at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/song-from-across-void-honoring-great.html  
   
    
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(f) “IN MEMORIUM: JOEL OKIDA, MUSIC JOURNALIST EXTRAORDINAIRE”     
    We remember our friend, artist, and music journalist extraordinaire, and welcome your comments, at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-memorium-joel-okida-music-journalist.html  
       
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(g) Plus, the companion feature,
    
“REMEMBERING JOEL OKIDA: HIS WORK FOR THE GUIDE”     
    
Is available at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/07/remembering-joel-okida-his-work-for.html  
    
    
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Need some quickie deets?
    
    
(a) THIS WEEK’S NEWS FEATURES, August 26 edition...    
    
  1) “Americana” Music Added to Webster's Dictionary  
  2) 9/11 Commemorative Project from Red House Label
  3) Blues Musicians Team-Up to Play Cancer Benefit on Sunday, August 28;
    Proceeds Support The City of Hope
  4) “Remember The Music” Benefit will Bring Grammy Winner SHELBY LYNNE, plus
    PATRICK PARK & BRIAN WRIGHT, to Fight Alzheimers, September 1
  5) Saturday's “FAR-West Folk Alliance Benefit” Promises Fine Americana Artists
  6) DON McLEAN & Broadway Stars Headline Saturday's “BELIEVE Only in Love”
  7) Guitar Goddess VICKI GENFAN Plays Altadena, August 26
  8) DAVID GRIER, IBMA Guitarist of the Year, Plays Culver City, August 26
  9) “The Drop: JOHN DOE” At The Grammy Museum, August 31
10) JONATHAN McEUEN & NATHAN McEUEN Together for Two Rare Shows
11) LAUREN ADAMS Plays a Birthday Show, September 2
12) Acoustic ALARM 30th Anniversary Tour Hits L.A. September 4
13) Musical Memorial Service For KEN GRAYDON is September 4
    
That complete news edition is at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/acoustic-americana-music-guide-news_26.html    
    
    
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(d) RE: The Guide's SPECIAL FEATURES on the politics (and funding) of the arts – We THANK YOU, THANK YOU! FOR TONS OF READER REPLY MAIL! (Like, WOW!)
    
    THANK YOU all for sending us a RECORD NUMBER of comments since we published our feature July 19 examining implications for the arts, artists, and things we care about in common. We examined, “IS THE FUTURE OF ARTS FUNDING GONE IN AMERICA?”
    
    Our feature on the Debt Limit, the budget battle, and politicians playing with dynamite was re-published in FolkWorks magazine as the longest single feature in the magazine's history!
    You can read the many comments and the feature as originally written, at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-future-of-arts-funding-gone-in.html    
    
    Note that all NEWER comments on our pair of recent “politics and the arts” features now appear with the newer story, “CALLING STEPHEN COLBERT: HELP! WE'VE BEEN COMPROMISED!” on that story's standalone page, at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/calling-stephen-colbert-help-weve-been.html  
    
    You are of course invited to add your comments and thoughts on these subjects (and everything else we cover in the Guide.) With “Supercongress” now deciding whether anything the government has traditionally enabled will survive (at all), the topic of funding for the arts will remain one among many of vital concern as we contemplate things that may be endangered or may face extinction.
    
    
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