Comments on: a Jazz Fest miracle http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/ news, sports and music blog from Jackson Hole, Wyoming Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:52:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: js http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14288 Tue, 13 May 2008 23:36:27 +0000 http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14288 cool. I know the N.O. Musicians' Clinic from the album Get You A Healin'. thanks, Jeff! cool. I know the N.O. Musicians’ Clinic from the album Get You A Healin’. thanks, Jeff!

]]> by: Jeff Potter http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14280 Tue, 13 May 2008 21:05:12 +0000 http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14280 Jim- It was great talking with you first weekend. my sister Katie and I stopped by because of the WY flag, and Katie said she ran into you again second weekend. It was a great festival all around!! Some of my favorite moments include the nevilles, shamarr allen, the midnight disturbers, and many more. When you go to New Orleans, definitely do something, anything, to give back a little bit to a community that willingly gives so much to its visitors. After Katrina, my wife Amy and I started a charity raffle that we promoted through friends from jazzfest and we raised a couple thousand dollars in the first year for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, an organization that provides health services to musicians who do not have health insurance, and that is most, even the most successful new orleans musicians. The second year of the raffle, we raised $12,500 and the third year, this last one, we raised $18,500 for the Musicians Clinic and another organization we've become familiar with, SilenceIsViolence, that provides free clinics for kids who want to learn to play music. Artists donate their time to teach the kids and the kids stay off the streets and continue the city's musical heritage. One of the most special moments of fest for me this year was getting a chance to see the kids perform at a backyard party. Very cool stuff!! We'll be doing the raffle again next year, so please check back at these websites for the raffle and for other programs that friends of ours sponsor or are involved with. http://www.threadheads.org and http://threadheadraffle.org/ Jim-

It was great talking with you first weekend. my sister Katie and I stopped by because of the WY flag, and Katie said she ran into you again second weekend. It was a great festival all around!! Some of my favorite moments include the nevilles, shamarr allen, the midnight disturbers, and many more.

When you go to New Orleans, definitely do something, anything, to give back a little bit to a community that willingly gives so much to its visitors. After Katrina, my wife Amy and I started a charity raffle that we promoted through friends from jazzfest and we raised a couple thousand dollars in the first year for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, an organization that provides health services to musicians who do not have health insurance, and that is most, even the most successful new orleans musicians. The second year of the raffle, we raised $12,500 and the third year, this last one, we raised $18,500 for the Musicians Clinic and another organization we’ve become familiar with, SilenceIsViolence, that provides free clinics for kids who want to learn to play music. Artists donate their time to teach the kids and the kids stay off the streets and continue the city’s musical heritage.

One of the most special moments of fest for me this year was getting a chance to see the kids perform at a backyard party. Very cool stuff!!

We’ll be doing the raffle again next year, so please check back at these websites for the raffle and for other programs that friends of ours sponsor or are involved with. http://www.threadheads.org and http://threadheadraffle.org/

]]> by: js http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14142 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:22:34 +0000 http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14142 Widespread Panic is doing its part, too, sponsoring the building of a home in the Ninth Ward: http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1209653341189540.xml&storylist=louisiana&thispage=1 And for the Spread Heads, the set list from the Fairgrounds (since the AP writer above butchered it): http://www.widespreadpanic.com/photo_gallery.php?id=202 Widespread Panic is doing its part, too, sponsoring the building of a home in the Ninth Ward:
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1209653341189540.xml&storylist=louisiana&thispage=1

And for the Spread Heads, the set list from the Fairgrounds (since the AP writer above butchered it):
http://www.widespreadpanic.com/photo_gallery.php?id=202

]]> by: js http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14118 Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:34 +0000 http://www.jhunderground.com/2008/05/08/a-jazz-fest-miracle/#comment-14118 I just spoke with Sakura Koné of Common Ground, and it turns out the show raised $4,500. He also gave me a little background. Common Ground did not have to approach Franti about playing. He offered. Franti and Spearhead performed a show in New Orleans a year ago, and he visited the Common Ground headquarters and observed the group's work firsthand. Koné praised the singer's benevolence. "The message of his music is consistent with the philosophy of Common Ground: peace, social justice, sustainability, humanism, love, nonviolence, and survival of a culture with dignity. We are kindred spirits." Great vids of the show on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YAPgV-LDGS4 http://youtube.com/watch?v=PvGLXf2MCfY I just spoke with Sakura Koné of Common Ground, and it turns out the show raised $4,500. He also gave me a little background.

Common Ground did not have to approach Franti about playing. He offered. Franti and Spearhead performed a show in New Orleans a year ago, and he visited the Common Ground headquarters and observed the group’s work firsthand.

Koné praised the singer’s benevolence. “The message of his music is consistent with the philosophy of Common Ground: peace, social justice, sustainability, humanism, love, nonviolence, and survival of a culture with dignity. We are kindred spirits.”

Great vids of the show on YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YAPgV-LDGS4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PvGLXf2MCfY

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