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LATE ADDITION... . . While a LOT of what is in our previous edition has not yet happened, so much more needs to be added. And, well, here we are, back again already. We begin with today's very full edition of the occasional e-newsletter from the Pasadena Folk Music Society. It covers a lot of ground, and our friends there are good at including links you won't find anyplace else -- except here. Thorough as they are -- and as we were in our previous edition -- there is SOOO much more. So we follow the presentation of their news with more of our own. Reckon it's time to settle-in with "Bluegrass Underground," "Sun Studio Sessions," "Austin City Limits," and whatever else in the lineup tonight on KLCS, and plan your weekend between the acts, using the Guide! ___ THOUGHT FOR TODAY ■□■●○■□●○■□■ First up... Weekend / Festival / Concert / Musician / Community News from the Pasadena Folk Music Society ___ ___ In Memoriam These times... "California has a 3-Park-a-day smoking habit." ___ Fellow fire evacuees Cartoonist's take... SOLUTION TO GRIDLOCK IN CONGRESS Greenwich Village Folk Fest, online Sunday Día de los Muertos festival The 22nd Annual Día de los Muertos festival happens Saturday, October 30 at noon at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The cemetery’s Dia de Los Muertos celebration is the largest outside of Mexico, attracting visitors from all over the world. There are separate daytime and evening events. ■□■●○■□●○■□■ Boston Court's FREE concerts ■□■●○■□●○■□■ Live performances return to the L.A. Music Center The Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, Los Angeles, CA 90012 ■□■●○■□●○■□■ ■□■●○■□●○■□■ Ken O'Malley brings Irish music ■□■●○■□●○■□■ This Week in Americana, Oct 1st AMERICANA ON YOUR SCREEN NEW RELEASES ■□■●○■□●○■□■ Get tix now "Samhain," the Celtic Halloween, returns ...only TWO shows this year, both on Sunday, October 24 at 3 & 7 pm. This always sells-out FOUR shows. So don't wait! "Samhain" will go live at the Hudson Theatre as planned. Aedan MacDonnell, Creator and Producer of the annual Southern California event, tells The Guide, "I've been checking with other indoor performance venues so see how they're keeping their patrons and cast safe. They are all requiring everyone to wear a mask at all times, as well as showing proof of vaccination." She continues, "At this time it doesn't look like the covid numbers will be getting better by fall. So, we will be doing the same and requiring masks AND proof of vaccination for everyone attending the show. For more covid safety details please see our web page https://celtic-rhythms.com/ "We will be live streaming the 7 pm show. If you will not be vaccinated by show time, don't want to wear a mask, or just don't want to risk sitting in a theatre with other people, you can still see the live show in the comfort of your living room. "How do you purchase tickets for the live stream? Easy! Just purchase a ticket using the Live STREAM button. When show time draws near, we'll send you a FaceBook link to watch the show - live. Don't have a FaceBook page? We'll post the video privately on YouTube the next day and send you the link. "We look forward to seeing you this year! We have some new talent and new surprises we think you'll enjoy! Slainte!" 2) New Blues Festival VIII, Shoreline Aquatic Park, Nov 13th ■□■●○■□●○■□■ 2022... ■□■●○■□●○■□■ REMEMBER TO CHECK OUR PRECEDING EDITION FOR LOTS MORE NEWS OF OCTOBER EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES. WE DID NOT REPEAT THOSE REPORTS IN THIS EDITION! ■□■●○■□●○■□■ Resources / Navigation / Contacting us / finding what you want in current, recent, or archived Guide editions Xxx
An extensive special section at the end of the previous edition pays tribute to the late Mark Humphreys. When published, a memorial service / gathering had not yet been scheduled. Here is that information:
"Mark Humphreys Celebration of Life" is Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at 1 PM
It is followed by a reception for his friends.
Location:
Eternal Valley Memorial Park
23287 Sierra Hwy, Newhall, CA 91321
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Here is this edition as originally published.
"In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs."
~ Daniel J Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (born Oct 1, 1914, died in 2004) As you know, COVID trends are still a little uncertain...
Two important festivals run all weekend starting TODAY, Friday, October 1 and can be heard online:
☆ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the long running free festival, normally held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, can be heard online through Sunday, 1PM to 9PM from their website, or on Facebook, or on Youtube. It has already begun. Go to their site to launch it. The line-up features Emmylou Harris, Peter Rowan, Mavis Staples, Steve Earle and others, Note, that if you connect between acts, it may look like not much is happening, but hang in there! Watch the video, Let the Music Play on to get the spirit of this festival.
☆ The Kerrville Folk Festival, from Texas, best-known for training and launching many a fine songwriter, runs today through October 11. They have a short night tonight, starting at 5:30 PM. and they will have various hours through the week, so check the schedule. Here's the link for tonight and you can get the other nights through the website.. The festival is broadcast live through the week., so drop in when you can. Portions will likely be archived for future viewing, though we're not sure of how they handle this. You may not be familiar with a lot of the names of the performers, but listen to some of the folks you aren't familiar with- you may be hearing a lot from them a year or two down the road.
There are national Women's Marches for reproductive rights around the country tomorrow, Saturday, Oct 2, including an automobile Caravan for Choice in Pasadena, starting at the Rosebowl (9:30 AM) and a March for Reproductive Rights in downtown Los Angeles from Pershing Square to City Hall (10:00 AM.) You can find more information about these and other similar events at Womensmarch.com
Another Festival coming up is the October 2021 edition of the Greenwich Village Folk Festival on Sunday, Oct 3, 4PM to 7PM. Apparently, they do this every month! And with some very big names, and some very talented folks with names you might not be familiar with out here in California. From the main website for the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, you can find the link which takes you to a page where you can listen to the previous monthly shows There, you'll find names like John McCutcheon, Jay Unger & Molly Mason, Bill Staines, Robin and Linda Williams, and more. One of the guests this Sunday will be Tom Paxton!
Speaking of the Greenwich Village scene, there is a new folk music documentary becoming available for viewing. Karen Dalton was a Cherokee/Irish singer, guitar and banjo player who came from Texas and found her way to the Greenwich scene in the 1960s, when Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, and many others were having a major impact on the times. She had a hard life that is often compared to Billie Holiday, and never achieved much fame, but she is now getting attention for her singing and musicianship. The movie is Karen Dalton: In My Own Time . The film will open at Laemmle's Monica Film Center in Santa Monica on October 8 and be available for download on November 26. You will find an interview with the directors here.
Artnight Pasadena will be next Friday, October 8 from 6 PM to 10 PM and it features 19 arts institutions in Pasadena. It will be mostly virtual, but there are a few programs that will be in-person. Because of the limited in-person events, there will not be the usual shuttle buses, but there will be 2 Access buses for Wheelchair accessibility.
Another live show coming up, an outdoor one, is brought to you by the folks who put on the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest and Folk Festival. Next Saturday, October 9, Tailgate Jam at Paramount Ranch will feature Dust Bowl Revival, AJ Lee and Blue Summit, and Abbey and the Myth out at Paramount Ranch in Agoura. There will be jamming, workshops, food trucks and artisans, Most of the buildings at the old Paramount Western town movie set burned down during the Woolsey Fire in 2018, and this is a fundraiser to help restore it. The Santa Monica Mountains hillsides are growing back from the fire, and it remains a beautiful place to spend time. Gates open at 2:00 PM and music starts around 5:00/ 5:30 PM. Bring chairs or a blanket for festival seating. The Tickets link will provide more information.
There wasn't a Topanga Banjo•Fiddle festival this year, but you can see and hear the virtual contestant videos from 2020's virtual festival here or you can focus on just the winners, here. There are lots of very talented folks (adults and kids) you probably have never heard of out there. See if the Cotton Pickin Kids, from way down in Hanceville, Alabama, who won best band with this version of Rocky Top don't put a smile on your face. The Topanga folks have every intention of holding an in-person festival on May15, 2022, if at all possible, to celebrate their 60th birthday!
A couple of other live shows include the Latin Jazz and Music Festival in Highland Park on Saturday and Sunday, October 9 and 10 at 4702 N. Figueroa, near the Southwest Museum Metro "L Line" (formerly called the Gold Line) station. The festival is in Sycamore Park and the music runs from noon to 8 PM Saturday and noon to 8:30 PM on Sunday. A couple of the headline acts are Ozomatli and La Sonora Dinamita. You must bring proof of vaccination.
Then, in Pasadena's Memorial Park, there will be a Latino band (to be announced) in the Memorial Park Bandshell (85 E. Holly Street, Pasadena) at 5:00 PM on Saturday, October 16 as part of Pasadena's Latino Heritage Celebration. Both of these shows are free.
If you are looking for live music NOW, our friend, Bob Stane, of the Coffee Gallery Backstage, in Altadena, is re-opened with scheduled shows, so you might want to check his website and maybe get on his email list. All attendees must be masked and have proof of vaccination.
Radio station KPFK, 90.7 FM and KPFK.org, continue to be the go-to place on the radio for folk music. FolkScene (Sunday nights, 6:00 to 8:00 PM) has aired a great variety of guests in recent months, both newly recorded (Tim O'Brien, Laura Love, Richard Thompson to name a few) and from the archives (Nanci Griffith, Tom Rush, Peggy Seeger, lots more.) You get lots of great music, usually recorded live, and you learn about the guest during the interview. We urge you to listen weekly to hear the full show, featuring new recordings before the guest. The full shows are archived at KPFK.org/archives for 2 weeks- find it by date. You can hear the guest portion, stored permanently at both Folkscene Apple Podcasts, and FolkScene Soundcloud.
This past Sunday featured a deep archive show from 1975 with the great harmonies, songs, and musicianship of the Rowan Brothers (Peter, Lorin, and Chris.) Peter Rowan is probably the best known, with his time with Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, Old and In the Way (along with Jerry Garcia) and many other notable associations along the way. He continues to be an important voice and influence in bluegrass and other styles today. This Sunday night, promises to be great fun with Tracy Newman.
Roots Music and Beyond (Saturday mornings 6:00AM to 8:00 AM) features 4 revolving hosts, who each play their own unique taste in music, both new and old, with occasional guests. Tomorrow, October 2 (first Saturday of the month) is Tom Nixon and his very broad mix of delightfully unusual, offbeat and often amusing songs and tunes, not to mention a wry sense of humor. Next week, the show will be hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin, followed by Art Podell, and then Mark Humphrey. Four personalities, four different tastes, and all quite enjoyable. Check them out on the radio when you start your Saturday, or listen to the the archived shows at a more civilized hour; the shows are available for two weeks at KPFK.org/archives .
The Library of Congress just premiered a new program this week with Cambalache, the group we presented at the Pasadena Central Library a couple of years ago as a part of their Homegrown series, which will be part of our national Library's permanent collection, Their forte is Son Jarocho music of Veracruz, Mexico. If you don't know what that is, this is a great chance to get introduced! They are quite fantastic. Click here and you can watch the show on Youtube or Facebook.
World renowned banjo player Béla Fleck has explored many kinds of music on his instrument, but his new album, My Bluegrass Heart, returns him to bluegrass. He recently did an interview with music on the NPR radio show, Fresh Air. There's some great music, too, and you can hear it here. Look for the September 13 show.
The great Scottish singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Dougie MacLean is still doing his COVID era weekly Saturday shows (105 now!) in what he calls the Butterstone Studios. You can listen to any or all of them here. His most recent is from September 25, 2021 and there will likely be one this Saturday, too. Be forewarned that the beginning of each show may start with an empty stage for the first few minutes- on this one, Dougie appears 5 minutes into the video, but you can skip ahead, of course. Such a treat to hear him!
We were greatly saddened by the August 13 death of Nanci Griffith, a tremendous singer, songwriter, and guitarist who started out in Texas and later moved to Nashville. She burst onto our radar when she was first a guest on FolkScene in the late 1980's. Whether with a band or performing solo with guitar, her beautiful, clear, voice and story songs are treasured by many. Just a couple of examples are There's a Light Beyond these Hills (Mary Margaret). and Spin on a Red Brick Floor. Though she stopped touring and recording over 10 years ago, she leaves a great deal of music for us to enjoy. It is very easy to find her music on Youtube, with so many fine performances available. You can read her obituary in the New York Times here.
We lost Dennis Caplinger, extraordinary banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar player, (and who knows what else) the next day, August 14. He was a longtime member of Bluegrass Etc. and they played our series back in 2000. He also filled in for a member of another band at another of our shows. He was a versatile session player for many, including Eric Clapton and JJ Cale, with whom he worked on a Grammy-winning album. He did music for television, authored The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bluegrass Mandolin Favorites and a couple of other books, and worked on many other projects. You can read the Bluegrass Today obituary here.
We just learned that Thom Moore, singer, songwriter and guitarist, died in 2018. Maybe there are one or two of you who were in Pasadena in the 1980's and remember an Irish band, Train to Sligo, who played regularly in a pub called The Loch Ness Monster in Old Pasadena -- before so much was re-developed to what we have today. Gerry O'Beirne was in the group too, and they were a good band. Thom was a fine songwriter, as well as a formidable singer, and a good example is his song Cavan Girl. He left the U.S. for Russia, then went to Ireland. Here's a memorial tribute that covers those Pasadena years.
Canada has just issued a postage stamp featuring extraordinary singer-songwriter and guitarist Stan Rogers who played our series back in 1982. You can see the stamp on his website. White Squall is just one of the many very memorable songs he composed and sang. What a voice! [His song, "Northwest Passage," covered by a 21st century Irish band, earned "Listener Favorite" honors on the long-gone "Tied to the Tracks" broadcast radio show in Los Angeles. The song is often considered Canada's alternate national anthem. Enjoy Stan performing it here. - ed.]
Pasadena Folk: Live Concerts
The Pasadena Folk Music Society is still trying to set up an in-person concert at Caltech for January. The emergence of the Delta variant of COVID since our last email makes us extra careful as we move forward. We hope to have something concrete in the next month or two. All we can tell you now is that we've been talking with a Celtic act who we've had before (a popular one!) and we need to wait and see if everything falls into place. Both sides really want this to work out.
Meanwhile, CaltechLive has some interesting talks coming up. Check their website for the programs taking us into the new year. Most are online, but the Coleman Chamber Music Series has scheduled some shows in Beckman Auditorium in the new year!
A last minute community note: The Altadena Public Library will be holding a used book sale Saturday and Sunday, Oct 2-3.
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~ Alex Del Zoppo, singer-songwriter, observer of society, who played at the original Woostock with his band Sweetwater.
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Stricter vax requirements ahead?
L.A. County is considering stricter vaccine requirements, including showing proof of full vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, coffee shops, gyms, shopping centers, museums, movie theaters and hair and nail salons. Read the Sep 28 story in the L.A. Times.
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Instead of hearing all the time from mainstream media about why we cannot abolish the filibuster, because "THAT will come back to bite you in the ass!" why can't we look at where we go after the Texas abortion ban's bounty hunters?
Brilliant take by cartoonist Ruben Bolling; read through to the final panel.
"American Prospect" editor-at-large Harold Meyerson (with support from Thom Hartmann on the radio) has proposed a brilliant solution to flipping Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema. The majority of Americans, across party lines, are with the Progressives standing firm on "Build Back Better" paired with the Infrastructure Bill. (Despite what Fox says.)
The two Dem corporatist senators, playing roadblock, are all over the place about how much of the $3.5 trillion, fully paid-for, ten-year package they will support. But they are on record that they will not accept more than $1.5 trillion in the bill.
So, how much of the full package would $1.5 trillion fund? Well, ALL of it, if you change the amount of time funded from 10 years to four.
Myerson says:
"The point here is that, once the public receives steady and reliable services to meet their individual needs—affordable child care, universal pre-K, Medicare coverage of vision and hearing and dental care, paid sick leave, child tax credits, tuition-free community college, significant climate mitigation—it won’t want to have them terminated."
Myerson provides seal-the-deal context:
"Indeed, that was the argument forcefully and effectively made by then-neoconservative Bill Kristol in 1993, in a memo he addressed to “Republican Leaders” on behalf of the Project for a Republican Future. His advice was they should not seek simply to water down then-President Clinton’s proposal for universal health coverage, because once enacted, the public wouldn’t cotton to having it taken away. Rather, they had to kill it before it could become law.
"'Any Republican urge to negotiate a"‘least bad" compromise with the Democrats, and thereby gain momentary public credit for helping the president "do something" about health care, should also be resisted,' Kristol wrote. 'Passage of the Clinton health care plan, in any form, would guarantee and likely make permanent an unprecedented federal intrusion into and disruption of the American economy—and the establishment of the largest federal entitlement program since Social Security … It will relegitimize middle-class dependence for "security" on government spending and regulation. It will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests. And it will at the same time strike a punishing blow against Republican claims to defend the middle class by restraining government.'
"Republicans ended up heeding Kristol’s counsel, killing Clintoncare while still in utero."
(Read the full Myerson piece in "American Prospect" at: https://prospect.org/infrastructure/building-back-america/how-democrats-can-pass-entire-reconciliation-bill/ )
Four years. Damn brilliant. IF it all starts NOW. "Build Back Better" can kick-in before the '22 midterms. Then '24 becomes a referendum on continuing it or letting the Trumpistas take power and kill it. Makes you think the Bill should have been a $1.5 trillion / 4-year package all along.
Agree? Call some Dems, House and Senate, RIGHT NOW and tell them:
"Pass the full 'Build Back Better,' but for 4-years, not 10-years, so it has a $1.5 trillion price tag and all starts NOW. And tell Manchin and Sinema, get on board with that."
Digging deeper...
While corporatist mainstream media celebrates Manchin as a "centrist," they ignore the reality of his constituency: "In deep red West Virginia, Biden’s $3.5tn spending proposal is immensely popular; Working-class people – even Trump voters – understand the Build Back Better plan will benefit them," reported Zack Harold in The Guardian in his Sep 28 feature story:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/28/west-virginia-joe-biden-spending-plan-popular
Why isn't corporate media in a stampede to report that? Or to delve into what Mark Hertsgaard's piece in The Guardian explored on Sep 30: "Joe Manchin, America’s climate decider-in-chief, is a coal baron; The pivotal Democratic senator owns millions of dollars in coal stocks. Shouldn’t he recuse himself from US climate talks?"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/30/joe-manchin-climate-coal-baron-stocks
In fact, Manchin has $5 million in coal stocks. The climate provisions are a key part of Build Back Better. And Manchin already got himself pre-positioned to determine how climate protection money is spent in the companion Infrastructure Bill. Which is another reason why Progressives are saying no dice on the Infrastructure Bill unless Build Back Better gets a yes vote from Manchin.
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Sunday, Oct 3, 4-7 pm PDT, online, "The Greenwich Village Folk Festival" presents "Phil Ochs Song Night" with Sonny Ochs, Martyn Joseph, Colleen Kattau, Reggie Harris, SONiA disappear fear, John Flynn, Holly Near, Greg Greenway, Emma’s Revolution, Tom Paxton, Zach Stevenson and Rod MacDonald. Rod tells The Guide, "At Sonny’s request I’m doing one song to open the concert." Watch at:
www.greenwichvillagefolkfestival.org
Or
www.facebook.com/GVFF2021
Or on YouTube at:
https://youtu.be/ONhySsjFUvc
Or listen on Internet radio at:
folkmusicnotebook.com
This is a free concert, with donations shared among the musicians.
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And TAKE NOTE of more really intriguing stuff ahead from festival musician Rod MacDonald...
“Music Americana: Roots & Acoustic Music" 4 lectures, offered twice online from two different places:
-- Begins Tuesday, October 26 (live and online) 2:30 pm
at Osher/FAU Lifelong Learning, Jupiter, FL 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16. To register call 561-799-8547 or email ollijupiter@fau.edu
--Begins Wednesday, November 3 (live and online) 3 pm at Osher/FAU Lifelong Learning, Boca Raton, FL 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 12/1 For info 561-297-3185 or olliboca@fau.edu
Check him out!
rodmacdonald.com
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Founded in 1899, the cemetery is one of the world’s most visited landmarks -- listed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1999 -- and it is the final resting place of hundreds of Hollywood legends. They include Judy Garland, Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino, Mickey Rooney, Tyrone Power, Douglas Fairbanks, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, Valerie Harper, Chris Cornell, and hundreds of others, alongside thousands of neighborhood residents and individuals from across the globe. Paramount Studios was built on the undeveloped south end of the original site, where the studio still operates.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Bl, Hollywood (Los Angeles) CA 90038
Info & tix:
https://www.ladayofthedead.com/
These concerts are being presented for FREE as part of Boston Court’s commitment to make these awful 18 months just a little bit better.
Yes, these are in-person concerts. You can read all about the splendid venue and its reopening protocols HERE.
"Whether you prefer European classical or contemporary compositions, we have a concert for you!" ~ Boston Court.
HOCKET
OCT 30, 8 PM
Hocket presents Composer/Performer, a program featuring newly written works performed and written by some of Los Angeles’s most exciting composer/performers.
THE LYRIS QUARTET
NOV 6, 8 PM
The wonderful Lyris Quartet brings their charming European classical style back to Boston Court. This time with a program designed to elevate historically overlooked string quartets during the time of Mozart.
Free tix. Just make a reservation:
Box office: 626-683-6801
11 am - 5 pm, Tue - Fri
Boston Court Theatre, 70 N Mentor Av, Pasadena, CA 91106
96 never looked this good! We can't wait to celebrate the Opry & WSM's 96th birthday this weekend with free Opry Plaza Parties and back-to-back Saturday night Opry shows featuring performances from the Riley Green, Don Schlitz, Rhonda Vincent, Yola, Jeannie Seely, T. Graham Brown, Connie Smith, and Gary Mule Deer.
The Grand Ole Opry starts at 7 pm Central, 5 pm Pacific on WSM Radio, and you can catch the show Live on Circle starting at 8 pm Central, 6 pm Pacific for the live streams of Riley Green, Don Schlitz, Rhonda Vincent, and Yola's Opry performances.Ways to tune in to the Opry
LIVE ONLINE PERFORMANCE
FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH
NEXT SHOW: OCTOBER 3, 2021
2 PM Pacific, 5 PM Eastern, and 10 PM UK and IRELAND
You can see the show at https://www.facebook.com/kenomalleyirishmusic/live. even if you are NOT on Facebook. The link is also on the website www.kenomalley.com
The show lasts approximately 60 minutes and is free of charge.
Wanna tip?
Venmo: @kenomalley Zelle: 310-569-1062 paypal.me/twlord
Options for Venmo, PayPal, or Credit/Debit Card on Ken's website www.kenomalley.com (click on the tip jar picture).
Miss a show?
All of Ken's live streaming shows are saved on his Irish Music page at https://www.facebook.com/kenomalleyirishmusic
News from the Americana Music Association 
"The Next Go-Round"
"Lately"
"Fancy Drones (Fracture Me) [Live]"
"Wasted Days"
"Church Street Blues"
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WATCH THE LAUNCH VIDEO BELOW
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Sunshine on your shoulders
Jim Curry is back to criss-crossing the lower 48 with his splendid JOHN DENVER TRIBUTE SHOW. He has only two California dates in the next three months:
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Saturday's Women's March, addendum
Sign the petition to corporate America: STOP funding the legislators in TX who created bounty hunters cashing-in
Texas legislature Republicans didn’t act alone when forcing-through a near-total ban on abortion.
They had the financial backing of corporations who, since last year, contributed nearly $6 million to the legislators who sponsored this draconian bill.
These corporations should be held accountable, and everyone should know who they are.
These same corporations publicly claim to be allies of those fighting for women’s rights, but their political spending tells another story entirely.
Corporations have become more and more outspoken, putting rainbows on their marketing for Pride Month and supporting Black Lives Matter. Yet many are staying silent on abortion.
Staying silent is bad enough, and actively financing bounty hunters in the near-total abortion ban in Texas is despicable.
At The Guide, we believe in taking action to hold corporations accountable for how they manipulate politics and abrogate Constitutional rights.
Sign the petition: Corporations must stop funding the lawmakers behind the Texas abortion ban.
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-corporations-must-stop-funding-the-lawmakers-behind-the-texas-abortion-ban
On mobile devices, click "view web edition" to bring-up the left side bar with navigation tools. That gives you direct access to click your way to all re9cent editions. It's easy to bring-up month-by-month archives to everything last year, so far this year, and each previous year.
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