Acoustic Americana Music Guide – CURRENT SECTIONS, August 12, 2011

    
    
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                                                       August 12, 2011
    
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(a) NEWS – August 12 edition...
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/acoustic-americana-music-guide-news_12.html   
   
        
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(b) EVENTS – August 12 edition – concerts, festivals, free shows, workshops, and more...
    
    Including the Guide's SHOW-OF-THE-WEEK picks, AND the full abundance of the acoustic music spectrum in our SPOTLIGHT EVENTS, together, in one place...
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/spotlight-events-acoustic-americana_12.html  
   
    
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SPECIAL FEATURES...
    
    
(c) Comment Back on
“CALLING STEPHEN COLBERT: HELP! WE'VE BEEN COMPROMISED!” (and read it, too) at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/calling-stephen-colbert-help-weve-been.html  
       
    
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(d) A great songwriter remembered:
“A SONG FROM ACROSS THE VOID – HONORING THE GREAT KEN GRAYDON”
    
Is available at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/song-from-across-void-honoring-great.html  
   
    
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(e) “IN MEMORIUM: JOEL OKIDA, MUSIC JOURNALIST EXTRAORDINAIRE”     
    
Is available at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-memorium-joel-okida-music-journalist.html  
       
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(f) 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    
    
  1) “ROOTS ROADHOUSE 2,” this Sunday, is L.A.'s 2011 Americana Music Event   
  2) A Record Forty-Four “SHOW-OF-THE-WEEK” Picks Over the Next Ten Days
  3) Banjos? in Rolling Stone Magazine?
  4) LOAFER'S GLORY, A California All-Star Bluegrass Band, Plays Saturday
  5) Great Opportunities to Enjoy WOMEN MUSICIANS, but Tough Choices
  6) RODNEY DILLARD, Already an IBMA Inductee, to Join New Missouri Music Hall of Fame
    
That complete news edition is at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/acoustic-americana-music-guide-news_12.html  
    
    
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(b) EVENTS – August 12 edition – SHOW-OF-THE-WEEK picks & SPOTLIGHT EVENTS...
    
    NEED SOMETHING FAST?
    
    The Guide's SHOW-OF-THE-WEEK picks list FORTY-FIVE events, from August 12 through 21. They're front-loaded in the opening part of SPOTLIGHT EVENTS (their new home in EACH new edition of the Guide's Spotlight Events).
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/spotlight-events-acoustic-americana_12.html   
    
    
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(c) The Guide's special features on the politics (and funding) of the arts – 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 NEW 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 the subject! With “Supercongress” now deciding whether anything the government has supported will survive (at all) the topic will remain one of vital concern for what may be endangered, or may face extinction...
    
    
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(d) A great songwriter remembered:
“A SONG FROM ACROSS THE VOID – HONORING THE GREAT KEN GRAYDON”
    
(from this week's News Features, feature #2) is available BY ITSELF where you can comment, at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/08/song-from-across-void-honoring-great.html  
   
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(e) “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  
       
(f) in the companion feature, “REMEMBERING JOEL OKIDA: HIS WORK FOR THE GUIDE,” you'll find a compilation of the reviews and other features Joel for us; all at
    
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2011/07/remembering-joel-okida-his-work-for.html
    
    
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