25 October, Sunday - 7:30 PM
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In the Spirit of Hope & Change: HYLA MENUHIN DOUGLAS, ANDREA SCARPINO, WAYNE KRAMER, and GUESTS
Poet HYLA MENUHIN DOUGLAS has a diverse musical background with a solid blues/folk traditional influence. Douglas is joined by musical partner, ZANE SUAREZ, a songwriter who just released his first solo record, Life Interrupts. ANDREA SCARPINO is author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line). She has worked for anti-war movements, feminist campaigns and environmental organizations and is West Coast correspondent for the blog Planet of the Blind. WAYNE KRAMER, one of the top guitarists of all time as well as singer and songwriter, was co-founder of the Detroit’s MC5. Kramer recently completed work on the score for the documentary The Narcotics Farm about America's disastrous, endless drug war, as well as the Soundtrack Album "Lexington."

A Benefit for Sweet Home New Orleans
Bonerama with Wayne Kramer, Erin McKeown, Martín Perna


Future of Music Coalition and Air Traffic Control present
Musicians Bringing Musicians Home
A Benefit for Sweet Home New Orleans
Bonerama
with Wayne Kramer, Erin McKeown, Martín Perna of Ocote Soul Sounds/Antibalas and other special guests.
Monday, October 5th @ Rock and Roll Hotel, 1353 H Street NE, Washington DC.
$18. Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m.

Click here to buy tickets and use the password: bonerama.

On Monday, October 5, join us for a once in a lifetime rock and roll concert experience! New Orleans brass rock band Bonerama bring their unique sound to the District for a benefit show for Sweet Home New Orleans, an organization working to return musicians to New Orleans and rebuild their homes. Bonerama will be joined on stage by Wayne Kramer of the MC5, Erin McKeown, and Martin Perna of Ocote Soul Sounds/Antibalas, along with other surprise special guests. Policy Summit 2009 conference-goers can attend this exclusive concert for only $18. The concert takes place at Rock and Roll Hotel at 1353 H Street NE, Washington DC. Tickets are available online in advance and are available for purchase at the Summit registration table or at the door of the event. Doors for the show will open at 8 pm with music to begin at 9 pm.

More about FMC and ATC's New Orleans work:
Over the past four years, the Future of Music Coalition and Air Traffic Control have collaborated on a series of artist activism retreats that have brought 45 musicians to New Orleans for three days of discussions and learning about policy, activism and the New Orleans music community post-Katrina. These retreats have each concluded with a "Musicians Bringing Musicians Home" benefit where participating musicians collaborate with the great New Orleans brass/funk band Bonerama at the legendary Tipitina's nightclub. For the first time, on October 5th, FMC and ATC will host a "Musicians Bringing Musicians Home" benefit in Washington, DC.
Proceeds for this event will benefit Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO), a group that helps displaced New Orleans musicians get back on their feet in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. SHNO has helped more than 2,300 members of New Orleans' music community recover by providing targeted financial assistance and connecting artists to the resources they need to sustain themselves. Despite these efforts, thousands of New Orleans musicians are dispersed across the country, lacking means to rebuild their neighborhoods and their lives. The survival of New Orleans culture depends on their return.

For Immediate Release

WAYNE KRAMER Joins with BILLY BRAGG for the Raindance Film Festival Premier of

BREAKING ROCKS - The Jail Guitar Doors Documentary

Thursday October 1st, 2009 6:30 pm
At The Proud Galleries, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH

The film will be followed by a live performance from:
BILLY BRAGG (full set)
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly (full band)
Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters)
Wayne Kramer
Rotten Hill Gang (feat Mick Jones)
The Jail Guitar Doors graduates Leon Walker & Johnny Neesom
plus very special guests to be announced

 

“MUSICIANS BRINGING MUSICIANS HOME V”
BENEFIT CONCERT FOR NEW ORLEANS ARTISTS

All-star Tipitina’s performance tops off three-day artist activism camp bringing together musicians from around the country to discuss best practices for positive social change

NEW ORLEANS, LA – Wayne Kramer (MC5), Jolie Holland, Jon Langford (Waco Brothers, Mekons), Saul Williams, Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, R.E.M.), Laura Veirs, Vijay Iyer, Erin McKeown, Bonerama, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Martín Perna (Antibalas, Ocote Soul Sounds) and Paul Sanchez will come together for “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home V” – a special evening of inspired sounds that celebrate the spirit of New Orleans musical culture.

The concert takes place at 9 p.m. on Friday, May 22 at Tipitina’s Uptown (501 Napoleon Ave) and benefits Sweet Home New Orleans— a coalition of non-profit organizations that helps find affordable housing and provides rental assistance for Katrina displaced musicians, Mardi Gras performers and other traditional New Orleans artists (www.sweethomeneworleans.org).

Tickets for the event are on sale now at www.tipitinas.com and in person at the Tipitina’s box office. Admission is $12, with all proceeds benefiting Sweet Home New Orleans.

“Musicians Bringing Musicians Home IV” is the celebratory and fundraising finale of the fifth three-day activist retreat hosted by Air Traffic Control (www.atctower.net) and Future of Music Coalition (www.futureofmusic.org) since the Gulf Coast storms of 2005. Artists from around the country converge on New Orleans to tour affected neighborhoods, visit with the city’s notable musicians and community leaders and participate in strategy sessions about how to integrate activism and philanthropy into their musical lives and careers.

“Last year's retreat was a complete revelation for me,” says Jon Langford of the Waco Brothers and the Mekons. “Being able to come back so soon and cavort onstage once more with Al ‘Carnival Time’ Johnson, the Bonerama boys and this year’s retreat participants is a monstrous privilege. I’ve heard fantastic things about Paul Sanchez and played Erin McKeown's brilliant live album on my radio show but I've never seen either of them play. This will be an exciting night for a great cause.”

Past retreat participants include Steve Earle, Tom Morello, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Boots Riley (The Coup) Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), Damian Kulash (OK Go), Nick Harmer (Death Cab for Cutie), the Indigo Girls, Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), Jim James and Patrick Hallahan (My Morning Jacket), Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy) and more.

No two “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home” benefit concerts are the same. Past events have seen many artists performing together for the first time and sitting in on each other’s sets. These unique partnerships arise out of the camaraderie established during the retreat and, in some cases, continue well after participants have left New Orleans.

The efforts of many groups and individuals, including Sweet Home New Orleans, have had an enormously positive effect on Big Easy musicians like Mardis Gras legend Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, who — thanks in part to fund-raising efforts like the “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home” concerts — recently moved into a new Habitat for Humanity home after having lost his original house to Hurricane Katrina. Yet there is still much to be done to ensure that New Orleans can return to its rightful place as a beacon of American music and culture. “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home V” is part of an ongoing commitment to this cause.

About Sweet Home New Orleans
Sweet Home New Orleans (www.sweethomeneworleans.org) is a non-profit agency that offers social services and financial assistance to the city’s musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, and Social Aid and Pleasure Club members.

About Future of Music Coalition
Future of Music Coalition is a national non-profit education, research and advocacy organization that seeks a bright future for creators and listeners. FMC works towards this goal through continuous interaction with its primary constituency — musicians — and in collaboration with other creator/public interest groups. (www.futureofmusic.org)

About Air Traffic Control
Air Traffic Control (www.atctower.net) believes in the power of music, the influence of musicians, and the ability that music fans have to make social change. They exist to support and provide musicians and managers who want to be engaged in social change the resources and backing they need to make change.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4.9.09

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR YOUNG ADULT CHARITY ROAD RECOVERY IN NEW YORK CITY
HONORING RESILIENT ROCK ’N’ ROLL PIONEER WAYNE KRAMER

SHOW TO FEATURE LIVE PERFORMANCES BY IGGY POP, TOM MORELLO, ETTY & PERRY FARRELL, DON WAS, JERRY CANTRELL, BILLY BRAGG, HANDSOME DICK MANITOBA, GILBY CLARKE, EMCEE MATT PINFIELD AND MORE SURPRISE GUESTS WITH A LOW $25 TICKET PRICE

Sponsored by DeBartolo Family Foundation and Bright Antenna Records, Road Recovery's Performance Workshop Program house band Crazy James, Joan As Police Woman, Ours, Miggs will also take the stage.

April 8, 2009 -- New York, New York -- Punk rock pioneer and activist Wayne Kramer of MC5 fame will be honored in a fundraising performance event on Friday, May 1st at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. This special event carries a low ticket price of $25, and will feature a variety of special guests including Iggy Pop, The Nightwatchman Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, singer Billy Bragg, Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction) with Etty Farrell (Satellite Party), Don Was (Was Not Was), Dictators' Handsome Dick Manitoba, Gilby Clarke (Guns 'n' Roses) and more. The night's emcee is Matt Pinfield.

Performing songs together and individually from their respective catalogs, as well as collaborating on MC5 songs and anything else that strikes their fancy, this is sure to be an exciting evening of high-energy rock and roll. "It's going to be just loose enough musically that anything might happen," jokes Kramer. "The only thing you'll need in order to be in the audience is an open mind... and maybe a set of ear plugs."

One hundred percent (100%) of the money raised on May 1st will go directly to support the treatment of children and young adults who suffer from adversities such as addiction, physical and sexual abuse and chronic illness.

The resilient, irreverent, rapier-witted, amplifier-burning Wayne Kramer is in full effect today and relevant, this time at peace with himself, at least most of the time. “I lost everything to addiction. I also forfeited my freedom to it,” Kramer says. "I'm proving there's life after drugs & booze."

Tickets for this special event are now on sale. How to buy tickets can be found at
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004278E3EA9E2D?artistid=1309478&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
There are also 50 high-priced tickets for an artist meet-and-greet on the day of show.

**About Wayne Kramer.
Teenaged leader of the notorious MC5, Wayne Kramer created a sonic assault in the late 1960s that still resonates in rock music. Now a friend to many younger musicians and non-musicians in recovery, telling the story of how he went from inner city underdog to guitar rebel to federal inmate #00180190 to sober mentor and back to guitar rebel is an aspect of Kramer's character that is inexhaustible. Kramer is a respected film and television composer (Talladega Nights, HBO's Hacking Democracy, HBO's East Bound and Down) . He is recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Guitar Players of All-Time” and will release his 8th solo album Lexington, the soundtrack to the PBS documentary film The Narcotic Farm in Summer, 2009.

**About Road Recovery.
Founded in 1998, Road Recovery is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping young people battle addiction and other adversities by harnessing the influence of entertainment industry professionals who have confronted similar crises and now wish to share their experience and knowledge.

**About DeBartolo Family Foundation.
The mission of the DeBartolo Family Foundation, a non-profit corporation founded by the Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr. family, is to provide leadership and financial resources to extraordinary organizations and individuals to improve the community.

**About Bright Antenna Records.
Bright Antenna is an indie record label based in the San Francisco Bay Area that believes music is a necessity, not a pastime, and that a good song can save a life. Bright Antenna's artists include Middle Class Rut, Spring Tigers, Magic Wands, and The Catholic Comb. Their most recent release is the limited edition 7" vinyl single of "Please" by Orbital's Paul Hartnoll featuring Robert Smith of The Cure.

For more information, please visit these sites:
www.debartolofamilyfoundation.com <<http://www.debartolofamilyfoundation.com />>
www.brightantenna.com <<http://www.brightantenna.com />>
www.roadrecovery.org << http://roadrecovery.org/ >>
www.muscletonerecords.com << http://www.muscletonerecords.com/ >>
WHEN:
Friday, May 1, 2009
8pm-11pm

WHERE:
Nokia Theater
1515 Broadway (at West 44th Street)
New York, NY
Nokia Theater Box Office (212) 930-1950

With very special guests:
Iggy Pop
Tom Morello
Billy Bragg
Perry Farrell & Etty Farrell
Don Was
Jerry Cantrell
Gilby Clarke
Handsome Dick Manitoba
emcee Matt Pinfield