Music & News, Friday, Nov 22, 2013

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This is the second, and main edition today. The earlier edition has lots of different content, not repeated here.
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This edition's sections…
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♪   TODAY IN HISTORY: the day we lost the future of the future
♪   THOMAS DOLBY warns of imminent demise of US Lighthouses, as his “Invisible Lighthouse Tour,” arrives for one Southern Cal concert / screening / program Nov 22 in Hollywood
♪   TV WORTH SEEING OR RECORDING on Friday
♪   FRIDAY’S WEEKEND MUSIC CONFERENCE
♪   FRIDAY NIGHT’S LIVE MUSIC SCENE…


♪   MORE NEWS -- Wednesday’s two editions are loaded with NEWS FEATURES, and they’re still available just below, at separate clicks. Along with NEWS, there are two TICKET ALERTS in that edition.
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A FINAL WORD ON NOVEMBER 22: THE DAY WE LOST THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE

by Larry Wines

We've just finished a week of television's incongruous mixes of wallowing in horrific forensics juxtaposed with revealing tributes, of critical commentary and analysis mixed with half-century-old images and memories of genuine grief and hand-wringing angst.

A few more words beg to be said about John Fitzgerald Kennedy, because we don’t want questions of how he died to continue to overshadow the kind of leader he was. Sadly, even after five decades, society isn’t quite capable of separating those things.

It is certain that America lost its innocence and its faith in its leaders during the 1960s and 1970s. And it's certain that began on November 22, 1963.

The 800,000 who lined the funeral route, and the 75 million who watched on television were processing the shock and the grief. Few, if any, could have understood the substance of what was lost. Even today, it's almost overwhelming. And it is transcendent. We live in a time that looks nothing like the future we expected.

Would there have been a Watergate, a Vietnam quagmire, a preeminence of the Military-Industrial Complex, or even a Nixon Presidency, had there not been the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Would America have seen the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act had JFK, instead of consummate-political-arm-twister LBJ, been president?

Would there have been a Cuban Missile Crisis if Nixon had beat Kennedy in 1960? Would there have been global thermonuclear war in 1962 had anyone but Kennedy been president? Would we have gone to the Moon without a Kennedy Presidency, and would we have gone had he not be killed?

Would the spirit of unity and common effort --  and asking what we can do for our country -- have vanished in favor of high-tech narcissism? Would today's politics of "I've got mine, you're on your own," have been possible had the culture of suspicion and cynicism and distrust not developed from the post-assassination / Vietnam war world?

At last, historians are focusing on questions like these, instead of the titillating and salacious boudoir gossip and the assassination theory du jour.

Enough facts are emerging to clarify all these questions, and more. And what is clear is that the man who founded the Peace Corps and the Green Beret; who faced-down the Russians over Cuba; and challenged us to “choose to go to the Moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” remains the most forward-looking American President since Woodrow Wilson.

After being one of only two men in history – the other was Nikita Kruschev – who looked into the face of hotter-than-the-sun destruction of human society and a radioactive wasteland for survivors, JFK was deeply committed to achieving lasting peace with the Soviet Union, three decades before it happened. After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, he was in the middle of quiet negotiations with the Castro regime to normalize relations – something that still has not happened.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Apollo program and its lunar explorations were possible only because of the Cold War. Was it just an exercise of the national ego after Russia launched Sputnik as the first artificial satellite and Yuri Gagarin as the first human in space? We now know that JFK had taken his overture beyond his UN speech, proposing that the US and the USSR go to the Moon together, in a cooperative venture.

How many conflicts, uprisings, revolutions, refugee crises, flood and drought and famine deaths, and individual and collective cases of human death and suffering were prevented because JFK founded the Peace Corps?

He has been found wanting in historical speculations as someone with the savvy to convince Southern Democrats that Southern segregation – the American apartheid – needed to end. It is conventional wisdom that only Lyndon Baines Johnson, as a prominent leader from Texas, a state more Southern than Western, a state of the Confederacy, had the political skills to pass President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Act.

That may not be the case. JFK’s Texas trip, until the moment of the assassination, was a resounding success with the crowds and the warring factions of the Texas Democratic Party, who seemed to reconcile their differences with the visit by the President -- and Jacqueline Kennedy, whose popularity and charm have never been exceeded by an any First Lady.

Internationally, President Kennedy had a proactive Latin America policy, a resounding success in the wake of Eisenhower’s Vice President Nixon getting stoned – it had a literal meaning then – in Latin America. No American president since JFK has understood the concerns of the Western Hemisphere south of Texas. And like the Europeans, the rest of the Americas loved him.

Not until George W. Bush took steps to fund AIDS prevention in Africa have we had a president that understood Kennedy's "Africa for Africans" policy – and no president but JFK was proactively pro-African.

But we need not speculate simply on the basis of terrestrial perceptions. What enabled his global popularity was the largely intangible embodiment of one of JFK’s favorite words: vigor.

America was seen as a leader -- happily, expectantly, peacefully and vigorously racing into a bright future, embracing it even before it was there, and inviting the rest of the world to come along.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk was on his way to Japan when the assassination turned his plane back home. Along with the many concerns of his trade delegation, Rusk had a personal mission: to arrange a reunion of mariners for 1964. It would have been a reunion of the crew of PT 109 with the crew of the Japanese destroyer that rammed and sunk them in the South Pacific during World War II.

Little things are often as important as big ones, when they are characteristic of outlook. And so many things about the Kennedy Presidency reveal a thoughtful, forward-looking leader who couldn't wait to get to a brighter future.

When the trips to the Moon were achieved, Nixon omitted the name of the man who started us on humanity’s greatest voyage. There are plaques affixed to the descent stages of the six Lunar Modules, still on the Moon where they will last for millenia, and each bears the signatures of the crew of that mission and the signature of Richard M. Nixon. And Nixon’s complex personality of paranoia, petty resentment and retribution was no doubt at work when he cancelled the final three Apollo missions and began a long starvation diet to suck the vigor out of the manned space program.

Had Kennedy lived, there is good reason to believe the American presence in Vietnam would not have escalated. There is reason to believe we would have achieved détente with the Soviet Union, beyond Kennedy’s Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Those things alone would have freed billions of dollars for human empowerment and scientific exploration, two things dear to the Kennedy spirit and its dual sense of noblese oblige and bold adventure.

Perhaps the twenty-first century that Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick portrayed in their 1968 epic, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” would have come to pass. Given the momentum that Nixon abruptly stopped, there is more reason to believe that we have achieved the world of "2001" than to believe not.

Without the assassinations and the personal threat of getting drafted into the pointless meat-grinder of Vietnam, could the hopeful vigor of the Kennedy years have soured into disillusioned cynicism, protest and riots?

And without the modern outlook of suspicion and mistrust, would we instead have presidents today who could challenge us to boldly go forth to explore and discover and take humanity to a realization of ever-increasing aspirations?

Barack Obama can’t even get enough congressional support to repair the infrastructure we inherited from the administrations of Roosevelt and Truman, or of Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is excruciatingly impossible to imagine President Obama challenging us to reinvigorate the human spirit by returning to the adventurous exploration of space.

Had Kennedy lived and completed a second term, I might be writing a column from a colony on Mars.

November 22, 1963, was a singularity, one with implications so far-reaching we will never comprehend all that we lost: it was a specific moment in time when everything changed, when, transcending the shock and grief, the future of the future was forever stolen.
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THOMAS DOLBY WARNS OF IMMINENT DEMISE OF U.S. LIGHTHOUSES ON “DOOMSDAY LIST” – with one Southern Cal concert / screening / program Nov 22 in Hollywood

The “Invisible Lighthouse Tour,” launched October 20 in North America, mixes film and live music in groundbreaking “transmedia” show.

Thomas Dolby, multi Grammy®-nominated musician and songwriter, wants to help save America’s doomed historic lighthouses. The “Doomsday List”* of endangered lighthouses currently numbers 46 monuments that are threatened by erosion or lack of upkeep. Having been powerless to prevent the closure of a much-loved lighthouse near his own home, Dolby is setting out to alert the U.S public to the fact that many of these venerable landmarks are close to extinction.

Throughout October and November, Dolby is touring North America with his groundbreaking trans-media show “The Invisible Lighthouse,” which features a screening of his award-winning film documenting the closing earlier this year of the Orford Ness lighthouse, visible from Dolby’s home studio in East Anglia, and the lack of co-operation he received from the authorities in his efforts to draw attention to its plight. As the film screens, Dolby and renowned sound designer Blake Leyh (The Abyss, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) will create the narration, score, songs and sound effects in real time.

The US tour hit New York October 28, and arrives in Los Angeles November 22, playing 23 other cities coast-to-coast, many of which — even inland cities with rivers — possess surviving lighthouses in town or nearby.

“Some of these marvelous lighthouses have stood watch over our coasts for centuries, through devastating hurricanes, epic sea battles, daring rescues and thwarted invasions,” explains Dolby. “The U.S. public has a perpetual love affair with the lighthouse, but is probably unaware that many are on the verge of being lost forever. It is so sad to see them crumble. America is still a young country and we should be doing all we can to preserve our historic landmarks for future generations to enjoy.”

Sirius XM program host Richard Blade called The Invisible Lighthouse “spellbinding.” J.J. Abrams (director of Star Trek Into Darkness and the forthcoming Star Wars feature film) described it as “touching, evocative, and beautiful.”

The Liverpool Sound and Vision wrote, “The Invisible Lighthouse Tour sees Thomas Dolby take his latest film project on the road, and present it to audiences as a unique theatrical experience. Combining his music and art in one breath-taking show.”

“The Doomsday List” of endangered lighthouses was created in 1993 by Lighthouse Digest Magazine, which sought to draw public attention to the issue. Despite the passing of the National Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, and the addition of many U.S. lighthouses to the National Register of Historic Places, many of America’s most revered lighthouses have continued to be allowed to deteriorate beyond repair. The burden of the expense falls on the U.S. Coast Guard, and this is underscored by commercial shipping’s increasing reliance on satellite and radar navigation.

A number of lighthouses that were once on the list have been saved. Among those are the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina, Michigan’s Crisp Point Lighthouse and Grand Island East Channel Lighthouse, Avery Point Lighthouse in Connecticut, Sankaty Lighthouse on Nantucket, Cape Cod’s Highland Light and Nauset Light, Maine’s Little River Lighthouse and Prospect Harbor Lighthouse, and Southeast Lighthouse on Block Island, Rhode Island.

“The Invisible Lighthouse” is focused on arthouse cinemas and independent film festivals, and the tour’s only Southern Cal date is Fri, Nov 22, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Watch the trailer at:
http://youtu.be/9jdsBYlZeHs
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♪   TV WORTH SEEING OR RECORDING on Friday…

Here is an updated list of our recommendations to watch or to set your recorder to catch.

In three parts:
Part One – JOHN F. KENNEDY 50th Anniversary – related TV
Part Two – LINCOLN’s GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 150th Anniversary -- related TV
Part Three – LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES on TV
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Part One – JOHN F. KENNEDY 50th Anniversary – related TV
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JOHN F. KENNEDY is being examined, celebrated, and exploited on TV all this week. You can find everything from thoughtful documentaries of his presidency and its legacy, to wild speculation and the conspiracy-theory-du-jour about the assassination that happened 50 years ago on November 22, 1963.
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FRIDAY on daytime TV, the History Channel takes a rare break from its infatuation with junk collectors, junk hoarders and junk sellers to bring a quality morning and afternoon of JFK-related programming, and there are good PBS docs and one promising new NBC special.

√  8:30-9 am  “10 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT” the Kennedy Presidency, from 2012. On the History Channel.

√  9-10 am  “INVESTIGATING HISTORY” is a 2004 forensic rehash of the assassination. On the History Channel.

√  10 am-noon  “LOST KENNEDY HOME MOVIES” is a 2011 documentary that covers JFK’s youth, up through his final weekend with his own children. On the History Channel.

√  Noon-4 pm  “JFK: 3 SHOTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA” (2009) is a documentary (two parts, two-hours each) that rehashes speculation and controversy after the assassination. On the History Channel.

√  4-6 pm  “KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: 24 HOURS AFTER” is a 2009 doc that chronicles the history and the transition of power to LBJ. On the History Channel.

√  8-9 pm  “BREAKING THE NEWS” (2003) covers how reporters covered the assassination. Narrated by George Clooney. On KCET.

√  8-9 pm  “JFK ASSASSINATION: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE” (2013) is all about conspiracy theories. On the History Channel.

√  9-11 pm "WHERE WERE YOU? THE DAY JFK DIED" is a new documentary with Tom Brokaw. On NBC.

√  9-10 pm  “THE KENNEDY HALF-CENTURY” (2013) is a serious examination by historians of the Kennedy legacy. On KCET.

√  10-11 pm  “JFK: ONE PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME” is a 2013 episode of “Secrets of the Dead” that covers how reporters covered the assassination, with a focus on CBS and Walter Cronkite. On PBS SoCal.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN and the 150th anniversary of the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS was all but forgotten on its actual anniversary day this week, but PBS West is taking a few steps to correct that on Friday:

√  5-6 pm & 10-11 pm  “THE GETTYSBURG STORY” is a new 2013 documentary on the pivotal battle of the Civil War, when we came closest to becoming two separate nations.

√  6-7 pm & 11 pm-midnight  “LINCOLN: PRELUDE TO THE PRESIDENCY” (2009) chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s years as a lawyer (1837-60) on Illinois’ Eighth Judicial Circuit, and how his experiences there led to his successful run for the presidency in 1860.

√  9-10 pm  “LINCOLN@GETTYSBURG” is a fine new 2013 documentary that reveals how Lincoln’s embrace of the telegraph made him the first media-savvy president, and is the reason why he limited the Gettysburg Address to just 272 words.
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Part Three – LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES on TV

***Fri & Sat, Nov 22 & 23, on TV:
This is a first-ever PBS " AMERICANA MUSIC WEEKEND" and it brings premieres of two Americana music specials, the performance-filled documentary “NASHVILLE 2.0: The Rise of Americana” tonight at 9, and “ACL PRESENTS: AMERICANA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013.”

These two new programs anchor the “PBS Americana Music Weekend,” with lots more music programming on PBS nationwide -- and a little bit of it on Los Angeles TV.

To help you determine what will send you searching to view on the web or view on a friend's satellite dish, take a look at what USA Today has to say about it, at:
www.usatoday.com
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Fri, Nov 22, on TV:
8-9 pm  “MUSIC CITY ROOTS AT THE LOVELESS CAFÉ” brings LEON RUSSELLM IIIrd TYME OUT, STAR & MICEY, JOSH FARROW, and THE THORPE McKENZIE BAND. On KLCS.
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9 pm "NASHVILLE 2.0: THE RISE OF AMERICANA," is a new PBS documentary premiering nationwide tonight at 9 pm ET / PT. This documentary looks promising, as it features EMMYLOU HARRIS, RODNEY CROWELL, RICHARD THOMPSON, and BUDDY MILLER. On PBS SoCal.
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Fri, Nov 22, on TV:
9-10 pm  “AUSTIC CITY LIMITS” brings JIM JAMES and THE BLACK ANGELS on KLCS.
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♪   FRIDAY’S WEEKEND MUSIC CONFERENCE…
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Wed-Sun, Nov 20-24,
FESTIVAL /CONFERENCE / AWARDS,
in New Mexico:
Annual "WESTERN MUSIC ASSOCIATION CONVENTION" at the Marriott in Albuquerque NM. Event info and registration, www.westernmusic.org
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WMA heads into its 25th year, and events include a 100th Birthday Party for western music / jazz icon Herb Jeffries, "The Bronze Buckaroo," last of the silver screen cowboys and last surviving member of the Duke Ellington Band. Yes, Herb says he will be there.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS are numerous, and include:
Coffee with the DJs - getting airplay for your new CD.
Education Workshop: Programs for Schools.
Working With Your Sound Man - by Syd Masters, an entertainer who performs more than 150 shows every year and has mixed live sound for hundreds of bands.
Yodeling Workshop - by Judy Coder, named "Patsy Montana National Yodeling Champion," Academy of Western Artists "Yodeler of the Year," and two-time WMA "International Yodeling Champion."
WMA Forum: Using Social Media & Digital Marketing.
Songwriters Speed Session - meet the songwriters.
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"Crisis Fund Dinner & Founders’ Show" featuring WMA’s founding members Tom Chambers, Jim Robson, Liz Masterson, Joyce Woodson, Gary McMahan, Mike Mahaney and "lots of surprises."
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There are Harmony & Yodeling Contests, Poet's Jam Sessions, Open Jam Sessions, Roundtable Breakfasts, WMA Youth Chapter Workshops and a main stage showcase, Poetry Workshops, a Mercantile & Vendor Area, a Pro/Am Open Stage, and more.
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Showcase performers include:
♪ The Hanson Family Singers
♪ Susie Knight
♪ Kerry Grombacher
♪ KG & The Ranger
♪ Trinity Seely
♪ Terry Brown
♪ Tumbleweed Rob & The Southwest Junction
♪ Kristyn Harris
♪ Jon Messenger
♪ Belinda Gail
♪ Jim Jones
♪ Fred Hargrove
♪ GT Hurley
♪ Barry Ward
♪ The Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers
♪ Gary Allegretto & Ian Espinoza
♪ Allen Chapman
♪ Bill Barwick & The Sons of the Tumbleweed
♪ Sam DeLeeuw
♪ The Ball Family
♪ The Anslovers
♪ Mary Kaye
♪ Miss Devon & The Outlaw
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The "Friday Night Opry," features Mountain Saddle Band, “Buffalo Bill” Band, Christina & Sons of the Oregon Trail, Peggy Malone, Joe Herrington, James Michael, Doc & Tub, Doug Figgs, Open Range, Juni Fisher, Sons of the Rio Grande, Steve Spurgin, Glenn Moreland & Washtub Jerry, Keeter Stuart, Yampa Valley Boys, Steve Porter, Prairie Moon, Judy Coder, Mikki Daniel, Joyce Woodson, Dennis Jay, Miss Devon & The Outlaw, Many Strings & Company, LeeLee Robert, Jerry Hall & Trick Shot, Gary Allegretto & Ian Espinoza, and a few surprise appearances.
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There's a Western Swing Dance with music by Syd Masters & The Swing Riders.
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The "WMA Awards Show" in the historic KiMo Theatre is one of two annual nights that are very big deals because there are no GRAMMYS for western music.
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Sunday includes "Cowboy Church" led by Steve Harrington, with Troy Bateson, The Carr Family Cowboy Band, Belinda Gail, Earl Gleason, Kerry Grombacher, Peggy Malone, Dave McClure, Jon Messenger, Open Range, Francine Roark Robison, The Cowboy & The Chick, Barry Ward, Doug Muchmore, Keeter Stuart, Royce Smithey, Aspen Black, Almeda Bradshaw, Mary Kaye, Doug Figgs, LeeLee Robert, GT Hurley, Steve Porter, Mountain Saddle Band, Buck “The Big Man” Helton, Mark Baker, Janice Deardorff, Christina & The Sons of the Oregon Trail, Alias Smith & Owens, Mikki Daniell, The Anslovers, Skeeter Mann, Steve Spurgin, and Trinity Seely.
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The full event schedule and events with live performances are still being confirmed at press time. Check the WMA site for updates: www.westernmusic.org
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Fri, Nov 22, in Burbank:
5-8 pm  THE CODY BRYANT TRIO plays early at Viva Cantina, 900 W Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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Fri, Nov 22, in San Diego Co (Santee):
5:30-8:30 pm  BAYOU BROTHERS play the Santee Trolley Ampitheatre’s “Christmas Concert & Tree Lighting Ceremony” on Cuyamacca St at Mission Gorge Rd, 9850 Mission Gorge Rd, Santee  92072.
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Fri, Nov 22, in Monrovia:
6-10 pm  Weekly “MONROVIA FAMILY FESTIVAL” brings plenty of live music, indoors and out, including the KATTYWOMPUS CONCERT & JAM at Dollmakers Kattywompus, 412 S Myrtle Av, Monrovia 91016; 626-357-1091. Free.
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Fri, Nov 22, in Ventura:
6 pm  SONGMAKERS monthly “BELL ARTS SONG CIRCLE” at Bell Arts Factory, 432 N Ventura Av, Ventura 93001.
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6:30-9:30 pm  ANDY & RENEE from HARD RAIN, named the Best Band in the South Bay in 2013, play On The Rocks, 239 N Harbor Dr, Redondo Beach 90277.
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Time tba  Grammy-winner THOMAS DOLBY brings his nationwide “INVISIBLE LIGHTHOUSE TOUR” for one night at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
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Fri, Nov 22, in Venice:
7-10 pm "JFK: THE 50th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT" in observance of November 22, 1963, produced by performing host ROSS ALTMAN, happens only once, at the Talking Stick Coffee Lounge, 1411 Lincoln Bl, Venice 90291; 310-450-6052.
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With special guests poet SHERMAN PEARL, finger-style guitarist JILL FENIMORE, storyteller MARTHA STEVENS, psychiatrist / musician DR. NEIL HARTMAN, blues musician ALEX “ALEJANDRO” SOSCHIN, and "Change-Links" Editor JOHN JOHNSON, the evening promises to be informative, inspiring, and entertaining. Ash Grove alumnus and Venice Arts Council Webmaster ERIC AHLBERG will be running the sound board.
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From “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” to That Dallas morning on November 22,1963, "In Memoriam JFK" looks back on the major themes and events of President Kennedy’s Thousand Days in office, using songs, poems, and a prose narrative to tell the story of a time that is indelibly etched in history books and the personal memory of everyone who lived through it.
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It's hosted by Los Angeles folksinger ROSS ALTMAN on the 50th anniversary of the sudden end of the Kennedy presidency on that long ago Friday, November 22nd.
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The event is FREE and open to the public, with a one-purchase minimum (drink or food) to support the venue.  "JFK: The 50th Anniversary Concert" is a © production of Grey Goose Music (BMI).
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Fri, Nov 22, in L.A.:
7 pm  “NETTE RADIO” is back with a new line-up of music at Muse on 8th, 759 S La Brea Av (at 8th St, just S of Wilshire), in mid-city L.A.;  HYPERLINK "http://www.MUSEon8th.com" www.MUSEon8th.com; 323-933-MUSE (6873).
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http://goo.gl/ZZbWf8
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Fri, Nov 22, in San Pedro:
7:30 pm TIM WEISBERG plays Alva's Showroom, 1417 W 8th St, San Pedro 90732; reservations, 800-403-3447.
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Two of Tim's albums are collaborations with the gifted singer, songwriter, Dan Fogelberg, which include their platinum album, “Twin Sons Of Different Mothers,” containing the hit “The Power of Gold.” Tim’s bands are legendary and have been known as a proving ground for the likes of David Benoit, Art Johnson and Lynn Blessing.
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Tonight, it’s Tim Weisberg – Flute; Chuck Alvarez - Guitar & Vocals; David Hughes – Bass; Maria Martinez – Drums; Barnaby Finch – Keyboard.
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Fri, Nov 22, in Claremont:
7:30 pm  “AMERICAN PARLOR SONGBOOK” at the Folk Music Center & Museum, 220 Yale Av, Claremont 91711; 909-624-2928;  HYPERLINK "http://www.folkmusiccenter.com" \t "_blank" www.folkmusiccenter.com.  HYPERLINK "mailto:info@folkmusiccenter.com" info@folkmusiccenter.com
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“Come into the parlor for songs, stories, sketches, and guests. Hosted from the piano by JP Houston with his wife Julie VanDusen, as JP sings the news of the week, answers advice letters in song, tells amusing stories, puts on mini radio plays with Julie, and invites guests to join in the fun,” says the promo.
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Fri, Nov 22, in Altadena:
8 pm  HONEY WHISKEY TRIO, national vocal champs who happen to be three gorgeous young ladies, play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 92675; reservations strongly advised, at 626-798-6236.
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8 pm  TOM PAXTON plays McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-828-4497.
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8 pm  JIMI NELSON performs at the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Fri, Nov 22, in the north desert (Ridgecrest):
8 pm  MEN OF WORTH, the great Scottish ensemble, plays Cerro Coso Community College, 3000 College Heights Bl, Ridgecrest 93555.
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8:30 pm  CARBE-DURAND DUO (from INCENDIO) at Viva Cantina, 900 W Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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Fri, Nov 22, in SFV (Van Nuys):
9:30 pm  KEN O’MALLEY & THE TWILIGHT LORDS play Ireland's 32, 13721 Burbank Bl, Van Nuys 91401; www.irelands32pub.com
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Contents copyright © 2013,
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The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS and views of interest to artists everywhere, more specifically to musicians and the creative community, and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music, both traditional and innovative. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues, and schedules of performances in Southern California venues large and small. We cover workshops and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kids o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to proto blues.
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The Acoustic Americana Music Guide. We’re on it.
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