Pittsburgh
26 March 2008
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:
(details at the bottom of this message and continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html)
Thursday, March 27 - Pittsburgh w ROY ZIMMERMAN
Saturday, March 29 - Pittsburgh w Roger McGuinn
April 3-6 - BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster
April 11-13 - Labor Notes - Dearborn, MI
(possible Detroit CD release party on the 13th)
I'm looking for places to have CD release parties on April 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 or 27... anyone interested???
Hi Folks:
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I've got lots of news this month, but I'll try to keep it short:
In this issue:
THE NEW CD IS READY!
ROY ZIMMERMAN IN PITTSBURGH and CHAMPAIGN
BURIED: THE STORY OF THE SAGO MINE DISASTER
SUSQUEHANNA MUSIC AND ARTS FEST
UNION WOMEN!!! POLK CONFERENCE COMING!
REFLECTIONS ON THE FLORIDA TOUR
IRELAND 2008
BIRTHDAYS
TOUR DATES
THE NEW CD IS READY!!!!
I couldn't be more excited! This is my best recording ever.
"Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" should be available from http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid and http://laborheritage.org in the next couple days. You can hear some of the songs at http://myspace.com/annefeeneyreally
It's a fantastic collection of songs... 6 previously unrecorded songs of mine, 6 great songs from colleagues Kiya Heartwood, James Keelaghan, Al Grierson, John William Davis, Evan Greer and Colum Sands, and three unforgettable versions of IWW classics. I'm joined by the finest musicians in Pittsburgh, as well as Anne Weiss, the Austin Lounge Lizards, Commander Cody and Emma's Revolution. Oooh la la!!
Please order your copy right away to help me dig out from the mountain of debt I incurred with this great project.
If you send me the name and station address of your favorite folk radio show, I'll send them a CD with your compliments, and let you know that it's there, so that you can request your favorite songs.
At this point, I think I have sent the CD to all the sponsors of the recording... If you sent me $100 and didn't get a CD yet, please accept my apologies and drop me a line to let me know. I'll get one in the mail to you immediately! And I mailed out the last of the pre-orders today... so if you don't have your CD very soon, call me or write me!
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ROY ZIMMERMAN in Pittsburgh, March 27th
Champaign, March 28th
One of the many highlights of the fabulous FL tour I just completed was getting to do a couple shows with the best political satirist in North America - the brilliant ROY ZIMMERMAN. ( http://royzimmerman.com )
His hilarious "Defenders of Marriage" is the most requested song from my last CD. The material he's traveling with now is just terrific.
He and I are doing a show at
7:30PM on Thursday, March 27th
at Jim and LLouise's house
(I know, it's not much notice -- drop whatever you're doing and be there, though... you won't regret it!)
Email me at anne@annefeeney.com or call me at 412.877.6480 to reserve a seat and get directions. This is Roy's first Pittsburgh show and I want to give him a great welcome. I still have 15 seats left!
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Roy appears to be as much of a driving fool as I am. He's doing a show the NEXT night in Champaign, IL!
FRIDAY, March 28th at the IMC in Champaign, IL
(that's 481 miles away!!!)
The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway (at Elm in the old post office building)
Urbana, IL
8 pm - Tickets: $15 at the door
That's a great venue and I hope all you C/U folks are taking note and clearing your calendars immediately! Roy is the best!
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BURIED: THE STORY OF THE SAGO MINE DISASTER
April 3, 4, 5 and 6
Waller Hall Studio Theater - IUP - Indiana, PA
I'm thrilled to be part of another production of Jerry Starr's brilliant play about the Sago mine disaster. My talented companera Sue Powers will be with me for this production at Indiana University of Pennsylvania -- just outside of Pittsburgh.
http://www.hhs.iup.edu/laborcenter/CurrentEvents/Buried.shtml
In this moving drama, we get to watch the transformation of the miners' wives from widows to warriors as they investigate the causes of the Sago mine disaster. There are about a dozen songs featured in the show -- I wrote two of them for this play.
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7TH ANNUAL SUSQUEHANNA MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
Mothers' Day Weekend - May 9-11
Ramblewood Resort, Darlington, MD
http://www.susquehannamusicandartsfestival.com/smaf_001.htm
This is a great festival located halfway between Baltimore and Philadelphia in the resort town of Darlington, MD... on the Ramblewood Resort We'll be camping (although there are lots of moderately priced motels nearby for those of you who don't camp...), singing, eating and shopping all weekend...
The lineup for this festival is always awesome. They are still finalizing this year's lineup, but SONiA and Disappear Fear, Kim and Reggie Harris, Terry Allard, Tret Fure, Wishing Chair, Chris Chandler, Brian QTN, The Dreamsicles, Tom Kimmel, Joe Jencks, Stephanie Corby, Christine Havrilla and We're About 9 are all confirmed.
This is a rain-or-shine festival with lots of cozy indoor performance spaces if the weather is inclement...
I'd love to see you there!
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UNION WOMEN! CHECK OUT THE REGINA POLK CONFERENCE
If you are a female union member living in IL, IN, WI, MI or IA, register now for the fantastic Regina Polk Institute for union women leaders!
http://www.ift-aft.org/UserFiles/File/pdf/2008%20Womens%20Labor%20Conference.pdf
is a link to the conference brochure
and
http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu is a link to the scholarship application form
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REFLECTIONS ON THE FLORIDA TOUR
This was the best FL tour ever! But I ended up with so many tales to tell that I've moved this section to my blog - right below this post, but you can fast-forward to it clicking here..
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IRELAND
Thanks to all of you who wrote me in response to the Ireland newsletter ... I wish I could take you all with me. There are still a few seats left, and if you'd like to see Ireland with me this summer, check out http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html or drop me a line. (anne@annefeeney.com)
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BIRTHDAYS & NEWS
Happy Birthday to lifelong pal Bette Jacobson (Mar 26), APWU-FL Prez Martha Shunn (Mar 27), cousin Mary Weldon (Mar 29), cousin Kelly Grefenstette Warren (Mar 31), folksinger/agitator David Rovics (Apr 10 ), Canadian folksinger/troublemaker/punk Joey Only (Apr 17) turns 30! and my dear dear friend Rosanna Lane (Apr 19)
Joyce Kornbluh, marvelous activist and writer of Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology and many other fine books, turns eighty on Apr 16 1928 --
Send her a card and thank her for all she's done for working people:
Joyce Kornbluh
1005 Berkshire Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Julius Margolin is home from the hospital, and is doing great on his own! He and I will be gigging together on Mayday at Botto House in Haledon, NJ.
I'll be part of a Utah Phillips benefit concert in Madison in May, and organizing a similar concert here in Pittsburgh. He could still use your best wishes and financial support: Checks to:
Utah Phillips
PO BOX 1235
Nevada City, CA 95959
Canadian labour activist Joey Hartman is recovering nicely from her "lump-out-a-me" -- a get well greeting to #2402 6888 Station Hill Dr, Burnaby, BC V3N-4X5 would be in order!
My Swedish friend, Per Forsberg, just got a cool write-up about the exotic 'lawnmowers' he cares for!
http://www.dalademokraten.se/Nyheter/Smedjebacken/Dyr-men-snygg-grasklippning/
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TOUR DATES:
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 7:30 PM
Roy Zimmerman and Anne Feeney in Concert
Jim & Llouise's House in Friendship
call or email for address
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-877-6480
http://royzimmerman.com
Price: $20
Don't miss this intimate opportunity to hear America's foremost political satirist - the brilliant, hilarious and outrageously talented Roy Zimmerman!! I'll do a short set, too. This show will sell out (only 30 seats total) ... so call now to reserve seats!
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 7:30 PM
Opening for Roger McGuinn
Calliope presents at Carnegie Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-361-1915
http://www.calliopehouse.org
Price: $40
Thursday, April 3rd-Sunday, April 6th, 2008 8:00 PM
BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster
IUP - Indiana, PA
http://www.hhs.iup.edu/laborcenter/CurrentEvents/Buried.shtml
Come see this wonderful production of Jerry Starr's powerful play.
Friday, April 11th-Sun April 13th, 2008
Labor Notes
Hyatt Regency
Dearborn, MI
http://labornotes.org
This is the cutting-edge conference for labor activists!
Their publication is outstanding, too....
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 4:00 PM
Carlow College
Pittsburgh, PA
wollerjj(@)carlow.edu is the contact
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 8:00 PM
Mayday Celebration
Botto House American Labor Museum
83 Norwood St
Haledon, NJ
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 8:00 PM
St Catherine's & District Labour Council Mayday Celebration
Niagara Arts Centre
Niagara/St Catherine's, ON
Canada
ballen (@)cogeco.ca>
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney and Peter Kastner
Free Times Cafe
320 College St.
Toronto, ON
(416) 280-6456
Friday, May 9th- Sunday, May 11th 2008
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival
Ramblewood Resort
2564 Silver Road
Darlington, MD 21035
http://www.susquehannamusicandartsfestival.com/smaf_001.htm
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 8:00 PM
Benefit Concert for U Utah Phillips
Barrymore Theater
2090 Atwood Ave
Madison, WI 53704
Larry Penn, David HB Drake, Anne Feeney and more!!
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
FLORIDA 2008 !!!
This was the best FL tour ever!
Ken and Cee Cee, my fabulous Jacksonville hosts, now have a great radio show - Progressive Roots - Sunday nights on WZNZ radio, streaming live at http://www.1460.us from 8-10PM. Check out their myspace, and for all your performers on my list - send them your CDs!!
My visit to the Miccosukee Land Coop was the best ever! Kayaking on Wicissa with Peter Broderson was fabulous - even saw a big ol' gator. The show was lots of fun too... and the next night we saw Roy Zimmerman in Tally, with a great opening set by Floridian Grant Peeples... Roy invited me up for a couple numbers, too! This picture is of Doug Gauss, me and Roy Zimmerman - I'm loving Doug's shirt!
Then on to St Augustine where we ended up raising $1000 for the Winter Soldier Campaign at a concert I did at the UU Fellowship of St Augustine. It was such a fun show! And I stayed with American legend Stetson Kennedy and his wonderful wife Sandra Parks... I just wish our visit could have lasted longer. Here's a photo by JD Pleasant taken at the St Augustine gig.
It was so wonderful to get to Orange City and reconnect with the oh-so-talented Magda Hiller and her most charming daughter Wyatt (partner Chip is no slouch either!).
Then on to JAX for two busy days on campus at UNF, thanks to Andy Johnson, United Faculty, UNF and the efforts of my friend and comrade, Stan Swart. This time I met some really wonderful, engaged, concerned, bright students at UNF. It was so great to see Candice Carter again, and the Amnesty Chapter concert at the Gallery was the best show ever at UNF... Thanks to Shelley Clay-Robinson and her family, and to Roy Zimmerman for a great guest set.
Stan hosts "The Brother Stan Labor Show!"
Saturdays, 10 AM - 12 Noon
AM 1460 -- and streaming live at http://www.1460.us
Call-In # = 854-1460
LISTEN IN! -- CALL IN!
Before I left Jacksonville, I got to spend most of a day with Jackie Brown's dear friend Ysryl -- he and I paid a call on Dorothy Pitman Hughes ... a feminist icon and wonderful writer who recently opened a bookstore in JAX. Dorothy managed Jackie Brown's remarkable campaign for mayor of Jacksonville (many of you will remember me raving about how amazing Jackie was in these newsletters. My friend Jackie died last year of breast cancer at the age of 46). Ysryl, on the other hand, is a living miracle, having survived catastrophic injuries to his brain when the tailgate from a dump truck almost took his head off last fall.
From Jacksonville I headed to Tampa and had a great visit with Gloria Holloway and her family, and my dear friend Diane Stein. Gainesville with Jenny and Joe Courter was terrific, and the show raised a few hundred dollars to help send them to Venezuela... I'll be looking forward to their eyewitness report. Sarasota was great... catching up with Martha Shunn, the extremely dedicated and effective president of the Florida Postal Workers' Union ... and singing union songs for two hours inside Whole Foods was awesome! I wish I could get some YouTube videos of that show!
WSLR community radio, 96.5 in Sarasota is a great addition to the audio landscape there... the latest project of the amazing Dave Beaton and Arlene Sweeting of Fogartyville... It was great to see the whole Fogartyville gang turn out for the show at JRs Packinghouse... Steve Stokes, Jim Glover, The Merrills and the Johnsons (Ireland bound with me, this summer!), Aunt Marilyn, Faith Fippinger, CC Carter... so many more -- thanks! You made it into a very special night for me!
From Sarasota I headed to Florida Gulf Coast University for a reunion with my old Edgewood neighbor, Vicki Dimidjian, and a chance to meet some terrific activists on this very reactionary campus... Angela and Rob - you're my heros! Then on to my Ft Myers haven with Wendyl and Bill and the gang from Manna Reading Room. And what a fun-filled St Pat's afternoon it was with the United Irish of SW Florida!!! Many thanks to Laura Griffin for lining that up!
The tour ended with two great concerts for the Immokalee Workers in Lake Worth and Dania Beach. Here's a photo that Leonard Bryant took at the concert in Lake Worth -- (The Friends Meeting House that hosted the concert was recently featured on NBC news as a spot where the FBI was infiltrating the anti-war movement!)
Vicki Ryder and Ray Del Papa did a fantastic job of organizing these concerts, which raised close to $2000 for the Immokalee workers' campaign for justice... check out http://ciw-online.org to learn more about their amazing work. And David Engels wrote a lovely review of the Dania Beach concert and posted it on my guestbook, http://www.annefeeney.com/guestbook.html ... a nice highlight to the Dania Beach show was Jerry Gray's banjo and singing -- part of the legendary Canadian folk group, The Travellers, Jerry regaled me with stories about introducing young Gordon Lightfoot to audiences at the Mariposa Folk Festival.
I got to spend those last two days in Florida with Brooke Bell and Amy Carol Webb ... their warmth and hospitality is overwhelming... and Amy http://amycarolwebb.com played my new guitar and sang me two fabulous songs from her upcoming Florida songs CD.
I took Amtrak there and back ... I'll be very happy when we have a democrat in the White House and some much needed funding is sent in Amtrak's direction. I'm hoping to be riding the train a lot in 2008... I'll keep you posted on that adventure. Anyway, there's the Sunshine State in a nutshell.... Thanks to everyone who made it so special!
Ken and Cee Cee, my fabulous Jacksonville hosts, now have a great radio show - Progressive Roots - Sunday nights on WZNZ radio, streaming live at http://www.1460.us from 8-10PM. Check out their myspace, and for all your performers on my list - send them your CDs!!
My visit to the Miccosukee Land Coop was the best ever! Kayaking on Wicissa with Peter Broderson was fabulous - even saw a big ol' gator. The show was lots of fun too... and the next night we saw Roy Zimmerman in Tally, with a great opening set by Floridian Grant Peeples... Roy invited me up for a couple numbers, too! This picture is of Doug Gauss, me and Roy Zimmerman - I'm loving Doug's shirt!
Then on to St Augustine where we ended up raising $1000 for the Winter Soldier Campaign at a concert I did at the UU Fellowship of St Augustine. It was such a fun show! And I stayed with American legend Stetson Kennedy and his wonderful wife Sandra Parks... I just wish our visit could have lasted longer. Here's a photo by JD Pleasant taken at the St Augustine gig.
It was so wonderful to get to Orange City and reconnect with the oh-so-talented Magda Hiller and her most charming daughter Wyatt (partner Chip is no slouch either!).
Then on to JAX for two busy days on campus at UNF, thanks to Andy Johnson, United Faculty, UNF and the efforts of my friend and comrade, Stan Swart. This time I met some really wonderful, engaged, concerned, bright students at UNF. It was so great to see Candice Carter again, and the Amnesty Chapter concert at the Gallery was the best show ever at UNF... Thanks to Shelley Clay-Robinson and her family, and to Roy Zimmerman for a great guest set.
Stan hosts "The Brother Stan Labor Show!"
Saturdays, 10 AM - 12 Noon
AM 1460 -- and streaming live at http://www.1460.us
Call-In # = 854-1460
LISTEN IN! -- CALL IN!
Before I left Jacksonville, I got to spend most of a day with Jackie Brown's dear friend Ysryl -- he and I paid a call on Dorothy Pitman Hughes ... a feminist icon and wonderful writer who recently opened a bookstore in JAX. Dorothy managed Jackie Brown's remarkable campaign for mayor of Jacksonville (many of you will remember me raving about how amazing Jackie was in these newsletters. My friend Jackie died last year of breast cancer at the age of 46). Ysryl, on the other hand, is a living miracle, having survived catastrophic injuries to his brain when the tailgate from a dump truck almost took his head off last fall.
From Jacksonville I headed to Tampa and had a great visit with Gloria Holloway and her family, and my dear friend Diane Stein. Gainesville with Jenny and Joe Courter was terrific, and the show raised a few hundred dollars to help send them to Venezuela... I'll be looking forward to their eyewitness report. Sarasota was great... catching up with Martha Shunn, the extremely dedicated and effective president of the Florida Postal Workers' Union ... and singing union songs for two hours inside Whole Foods was awesome! I wish I could get some YouTube videos of that show!
WSLR community radio, 96.5 in Sarasota is a great addition to the audio landscape there... the latest project of the amazing Dave Beaton and Arlene Sweeting of Fogartyville... It was great to see the whole Fogartyville gang turn out for the show at JRs Packinghouse... Steve Stokes, Jim Glover, The Merrills and the Johnsons (Ireland bound with me, this summer!), Aunt Marilyn, Faith Fippinger, CC Carter... so many more -- thanks! You made it into a very special night for me!
From Sarasota I headed to Florida Gulf Coast University for a reunion with my old Edgewood neighbor, Vicki Dimidjian, and a chance to meet some terrific activists on this very reactionary campus... Angela and Rob - you're my heros! Then on to my Ft Myers haven with Wendyl and Bill and the gang from Manna Reading Room. And what a fun-filled St Pat's afternoon it was with the United Irish of SW Florida!!! Many thanks to Laura Griffin for lining that up!
The tour ended with two great concerts for the Immokalee Workers in Lake Worth and Dania Beach. Here's a photo that Leonard Bryant took at the concert in Lake Worth -- (The Friends Meeting House that hosted the concert was recently featured on NBC news as a spot where the FBI was infiltrating the anti-war movement!)
Vicki Ryder and Ray Del Papa did a fantastic job of organizing these concerts, which raised close to $2000 for the Immokalee workers' campaign for justice... check out http://ciw-online.org to learn more about their amazing work. And David Engels wrote a lovely review of the Dania Beach concert and posted it on my guestbook, http://www.annefeeney.com/guestbook.html ... a nice highlight to the Dania Beach show was Jerry Gray's banjo and singing -- part of the legendary Canadian folk group, The Travellers, Jerry regaled me with stories about introducing young Gordon Lightfoot to audiences at the Mariposa Folk Festival.
I got to spend those last two days in Florida with Brooke Bell and Amy Carol Webb ... their warmth and hospitality is overwhelming... and Amy http://amycarolwebb.com played my new guitar and sang me two fabulous songs from her upcoming Florida songs CD.
I took Amtrak there and back ... I'll be very happy when we have a democrat in the White House and some much needed funding is sent in Amtrak's direction. I'm hoping to be riding the train a lot in 2008... I'll keep you posted on that adventure. Anyway, there's the Sunshine State in a nutshell.... Thanks to everyone who made it so special!
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - MARCH 2008, VOLUME THREE, #12
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:
(details at the end of this post and continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html)
CLEVELAND - March 1 and 2 - Hey folks -- if you know anyone in the Cleveland area, PLEASE email them the details about these shows
FLORIDA - March 6-19
Nineteen gigs in 14 days in 10 cities, plus 4 or 5 in-class presentations! Check the details at the end or continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html
Tallahassee
St Augustine
Orange City
Jacksonville
Tampa
Sarasota
Gainesville
Ft Myers
Lake Worth
Dania Beach
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IN THIS ISSUE:
New CD is ready!!!
End of an era
Florida tour
BURIED
Grant update
Oscars
Julius Margolin & Utah Phillips Health Updates
March Birthdays
Family News
Tour Dates
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DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK
It's finished!!! ... I dropped off the master at the duplicator this afternoon. I am SOOOOOOOOO excited. This is unquestionably my best CD ever. You're going to love it. It will be ready in about two weeks and I'll have it for sale on CDBaby very soon after that. I spent today writing thank you notes and addressing mailers to all the $100 sponsors of the CD -- They'll be the first to get these 15 tunes:
1. Dump the Bosses off your Back 2:02
2. Preacher and the Slave 3:24
3. You Will Answer 2:54
4. Hillcrest Mine 3:11
5. Goonies 2:40
6. We Fought Back 2:44
7. Santiago Cruz 2:54
8. Ya Basta 3:12
9. Sago 3:43
10. 50¢ Sneakers and Five Dollar Wine 3:04
11. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 4:03
12. How Much for the Life of a Miner? 2:43
13. How Long? 4:29
14. Brave New Christmas 4:01
15. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing 2:15
It's too late to get your name in the liner notes of the CD, but if you'd like to help me with the crushing $14,000 debt I'm carrying from this project, I'd sure appreciate it.
Your check to :
Anne Feeney * 2240 Milligan Ave * Pittsburgh, PA 15218
will be most welcome and deeply appreciated. You can send me a donation via paypal too... there's a "Donation" button just underneath my picture on the right hand side of this page.
And many many thanks to the folks who stepped up to help me with this. Doing a recording is a real leap of faith on a budget like mine, but when you get to hear it, you'll think it was worth it, I'm sure. Commander Cody came in to play piano and sing on "Preacher and the Slave." The Austin Lounge Lizards harmonized my a capella gospel tune "You Will Answer," and Pat and Sandy (Emma's Revolution) harmonize on "Hillcrest Mine." And when you hear the lush magnificent harmonies that Anne Weiss arranged for "How Long?" you'll be dazzled!
I'm doing a CD release concert in Detroit on the Sunday of Labor Notes - April 13th...
I'd love to do a CD release concert in your hometown too - so let me know if you have any ideas. Also.. if you have a great folk show on the radio, let me know about it. I'm happy to send CDs to your favorite folk show... and I'll tell them you sent me!
If you write reviews of folk music for any publication, let me know and I'll send you a review copy!
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End of an era... Martin D-28 #232732 retires
I'm still somewhat traumatized by the news that my sweet Martin D-28 is no longer well enough to travel. I have had to retire my beloved guitar. It's just too fragile to continue subjecting it to the rigors of touring. It's the only guitar I've ever owned or played. I bought it new for $400 in 1969 -- It's the only "thing" I've ever been really attached to...
I had to buy a new guitar. I'll be taking my new Larrivee with me to Cleveland and Florida. It's a beautiful guitar, and I'm sure I'll learn to love it. (Guitar prices seem to have kept pace with CEO compensation in the last 40 years, but my friends at Swissvale Music have made me a generous deal.) Still, incurring such a major expense in the middle of doing a CD was DEFINITELY NOT in my plans.
I'm looking forward to this new era, though. Be sure to come up and check her out at my upcoming gigs!
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Florida is action-packed, as you'll see below! If you know anyone who lives in Florida, please forward this newsletter to them. Gloria Holloway is worried about turnout for the house concert she's doing for me in Tampa. If you know someone in Tampa, please send the info on to them...
It will be great to do some work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers while I'm there, too... http://ciw-online.org
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BURIED
A new production of BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster opens at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (just about 40 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh) on April 3 and runs through April 6th.
Jerry Starr's powerful play about the transformation of the Sago women from widows to warriors is riveting, and it's my pleasure and honor to provide the music throughout this production, along with my talented friend Sue Powers on banjo.
For more information go to:
http://www.hhs.iup.edu/laborcenter/CurrentEvents/Buried.shtml
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My research on my Grandfather's life and work is on hiatus until I return from Florida... but there is so much source material out there, I feel like I'm really getting to know him, even though he died more than 12 years before I was born. I'm so grateful to the IUP Labor Center for giving me this opportunity to dig into this most personally interesting chapter of PA labor history.
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We ended up with 16 dinner guests for our Oscars party. You can read my reviews of 2007's films at:
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-movie-picks.html
Our menu was:
THERE WILL BE BLOODy Marys
Saganaki - A flaming Greek cheese dish, which exploded at table, courtesy of Bridget Shields - It was served with sliced baguettes as our tribute to MICHAEL CLAYTON
a JUNO salad of baby bella mushrooms, baby arugula, baby spinach, baby swiss cheese, raspberries and jerusalem artichokes courtesy of Dan and Monique
Our entree was a stretch, but really... when this dish was invented for the King of Sweden in 1897 the average life expectancy was 45 years -- It was NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN ... We served a variation of the Swedish classic, Veal Oscar, substituting free range hormone/anti-biotic free pork filets for the veal ..
and our dessert of ATONEMENT was Burnt Almond Torte, provided by Mary Magan.
mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmm
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Julius Margolin (http://georgeandjulius.com) is doing much better. Thanks to all of you who sent cards. He'd still enjoy hearing from you, I'm sure, if you haven't gotten around to sending him a card yet..
Julius Margolin
330 W 28th, Apt 3-G
New York, NY 10001
I'm looking forward to performing with him at Botto House on Mayday.
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Utah Phillips is still not at home ... He has decided not to have a heart transplant. You can listen to him explain why in a podcast posted at
http://utahphillips.org/podcast/index.html
I'm going to be arranging a benefit concert for him here in Pittsburgh, and performing at one in Madison, WI in May.
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MARCH BIRTHDAYS
Shirley Shultz Myers Mar 1
Mary McCahill Madera Mar 1
Griffin Lane McCahil Mar 13
Ron Berlin Mar 15
Tom Weldon Mar 17
Bette Jacobson Mar 26
Mary Weldon Mar 29
Kelly Grefenstette Mar 31
Happy Happy!
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FAMILY NEWS
My daughter Amy is now officially a certified massage therapist. She has completed her coursework and passed the state exam in Texas. Congratulations!
Joseph and Manelle McCahill welcomed Baby Benjamin on Feb 21st... healthy and beautiful!
Mary and Tom Weldon visited Aunt Claire in Aiken, SC a couple weeks ago. Claire was overjoyed!
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The Tour:
Anne Feeney
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 7:30 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
216.932.1898
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: $10
The Church is located between Euclid Heights Blvd. and Coventry Rd.
Lancashire is a one-way street that is entered from Euclid Hts. Blvd. The Society is a 2 storied brick building on the right hand side, across from Musicians Towers. Parking is available on either side of the building, on the street, or in metered public parking lots nearby.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 10:45 AM
Unitarian Service
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: free - all welcome
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 6:30 PM
Concert and Pot Luck!
Imaginary Fool's Juggling, Singing and Gourmet Supper Club
Tallahassee, FL
850-878-4149
Price: $10-20 suggested
This is one of my favorite gigs ... I look forward to it all year long.
Friday, March 7th, 2008 8:00 PM
Roy Zimmerman in Concert with Grant Peeples
American Legion Hall
229 Lake Ella Dr.
Tallahassee, FL
(I'll probably do a few numbers at this show, and Roy will be dropping in on my shows for the next few days, too! - Roy is the composer of "Defenders of Marriage" and many many more of my favorite political tunes.)
Tickets: $10 advance and at the door. For more info, visit wakullareporter.com or write to zimconcert@gmail.com.
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert on International Women's Day
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine
2487 A1A S
St Augustine, FL 32080
904-540-3575
Price: $10
Terry Buckenmeyer is organizing this concert. Terry's cell: 904-540-3575
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Iraq Veterans against the War will be tabling at the concert, and we will be accepting your generous checks and contributions for their work at the show.
904-471-2047 is the number of the church.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 10:30 AM
Music for Church Service
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St Augustine
2487 A1A South and Florida Avenue
St Augustine, FL 32605
http://www.nrdp.net/uufsa/
Price: free - all welcome
3/4 miles south of Route 312
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 3:00 PM
Music for Church Service
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: free - all welcome
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 5:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert with special guest Magda Hiller!!
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: $15
Monday, March 10th, 2008 12:00 PM
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL 32224
(904)-620-1654
Stan Swart, "Brother Stan the Union Man," is my host and contact for this residency.
Monday, March 10th, 2008 7:30 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
University of North Florida Campus Theater -- Robinson Student Services Building (Building #14, Room #1700)
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
Price: free - all welcome
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 12:00 PM
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
(904)-620-1654
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=144545&ck=
"Brother Stan the Union Man," Stan Swart, is my host and your contact for this residency.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 5:00 PM
Anne Feeney In Concert for Campus Chapter of Amnesty International
UNF Art Gallery Auditorium
Jacksonville, FL
904-620-1654
http://www.unf.edu/dept/gallery/
Price: donations welcome
Shelly Clay-Robison is organizing this concert... shellyclayrobison(@)hotmail.com
Come, and learn more about the important work of Amnesty International!
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 5:30-6:15PM (tentative)
Instore Concert at Vinyl Fever
4110 Henderson Blvd
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 289-8399
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 7:30 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
House Concert at Gloria's
Tampa area, FL
813-837-6572
Price: $15
Come at 7:30... we'll start promptly at 8. Reserve a space now... email Gloria at gshello@tampaybay.rr.com or call 813-837-6572 - House concerts are a fabulous way to hear music! Don't be shy, call Gloria now!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 7:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
JR's OLD PACKINGHOUSE CAFE
987 S. Packinghouse Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
371-9358
http://www.oldpackinghouse.net/
Price: $your generous tips!
Friday, March 14th, 2008 6:00 PM
Singing for the Vegetables
Whole Foods
1451 1st Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-955-8500 ext. 215
Price: FREE
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
The 2nd Street Bakery
1511 NW 2nd St
Gainesville, FL
352-505-5039
http://www.afn.org/~iguana
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 10:30 AM
Unitarian Universalists of Gainesville
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
4225 NW 34th St
Gainesville, FL 32605
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 4:00 PM
Progressive Student Alliance, Code Pink and EPEC Pot Luck
FGCU Student Union Ballroom
Ft Myers, FL
http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier
Price: donations
nferaldi(@)gmail.com - Nancy Feraldi is the contact. We'll also be screening "Winter Soldier Campaign" from IVAW (click on the URL above for more info about the film). Presented by the Environmental and Peace Education Center, the Progressive Student Alliance and Code Pink of SW Florida. Directions: "Student Union" (#17 on the campus map): http://www.fgcu.edu/info/Map/Campus_MainMap.asp
Free/no-permit-needed guest parking is plentiful on Sunday evenings either in the Student Union bldg parking lot or directly across the street in guest lot.
Map directions to FGCU campus:
http://www.fgcu.edu/info/Directions.asp
Nancy's phone number is 239-489-4249
cell: 808-285-9842
Monday, March 17th, 2008 1:00 PM
Concert for Unitied Irish of SW Florida
contact Laura Griffin for location
Ft Myers, FL
239-823-4743
http://www.swflairish.com/index.html
swflagirl(@)aol.com
Monday, March 17th, 2008 7:00 PM
St Patrick's Day Feast !!!
Manna Reading Center
2040 Collier Ave.
Fort Myers, FL
(239) 277-7866
http://www.mannareadingcenter.com/
This will be so much fun!! In addition to my usual hell-raising repertoire, this show only will include a huge selection of Irish favorites - ballads, drinking songs, sing-alongs, sea chanteys and more!! Don't miss it.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 7:30 PM
CIW Benefit Concert
Society of Friends (Quakers) Meeting House
823 North A St.
Lake Worth, FL
561-330-9016
Price: $15- $10 low income/student
Vicki Ryder (vickiryder@juno.com)is organizing this! Sponsored by South Florida Peace and Justice
TICKETS available at SOMA Café • 609 Lake Avenue
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 7:30 PM
Honor CIW on the Feast of St Joseph the Worker
St Maurice Church
2851 Stirling Road
Dania Beach, FL
(754) 423-0051
http://ciw-online.org
Price: $15 ($10 low inc/student)
This is a fundraising concert to benefit the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
St Maurice is located one mile west of I-95 and is between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. We hold most of our tri-county peace and justice meetings there. Father Roger is very supportive of the movement and will promote the event within the parish. Ray Del Papa is the contact - mrrratpp(@)aol.com
Thursday, April 3rd through Sunday, April 6, 2008 - 8PM
BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster
IUP Waller Hall Studio Theater
Indiana, PA
This powerful play by Jerry Starr, documents the transformation of the miners' wives from widows to warriors, and features lots of wonderful music.
http://www.hhs.iup.edu/laborcenter/CurrentEvents/Buried.shtml
April 11th & 12th & 13th, 2008
Labor Notes Conference
Hyatt Regency
Dearborn, MI
http://labornotes.org
Sunday, April 13th, 8PM
Detroit CD Release of "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back"
location tba
contact is Barb Ingalls: 248-547-7729 or bigrafx(@)cavtel.net
(details at the end of this post and continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html)
CLEVELAND - March 1 and 2 - Hey folks -- if you know anyone in the Cleveland area, PLEASE email them the details about these shows
FLORIDA - March 6-19
Nineteen gigs in 14 days in 10 cities, plus 4 or 5 in-class presentations! Check the details at the end or continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html
Tallahassee
St Augustine
Orange City
Jacksonville
Tampa
Sarasota
Gainesville
Ft Myers
Lake Worth
Dania Beach
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I'm always looking for work: email me at anne@annefeeney.com if you'd like to help set up a concert, or have me play at your college, conference, convention or riot.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
New CD is ready!!!
End of an era
Florida tour
BURIED
Grant update
Oscars
Julius Margolin & Utah Phillips Health Updates
March Birthdays
Family News
Tour Dates
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DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK
It's finished!!! ... I dropped off the master at the duplicator this afternoon. I am SOOOOOOOOO excited. This is unquestionably my best CD ever. You're going to love it. It will be ready in about two weeks and I'll have it for sale on CDBaby very soon after that. I spent today writing thank you notes and addressing mailers to all the $100 sponsors of the CD -- They'll be the first to get these 15 tunes:
1. Dump the Bosses off your Back 2:02
2. Preacher and the Slave 3:24
3. You Will Answer 2:54
4. Hillcrest Mine 3:11
5. Goonies 2:40
6. We Fought Back 2:44
7. Santiago Cruz 2:54
8. Ya Basta 3:12
9. Sago 3:43
10. 50¢ Sneakers and Five Dollar Wine 3:04
11. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 4:03
12. How Much for the Life of a Miner? 2:43
13. How Long? 4:29
14. Brave New Christmas 4:01
15. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing 2:15
It's too late to get your name in the liner notes of the CD, but if you'd like to help me with the crushing $14,000 debt I'm carrying from this project, I'd sure appreciate it.
Your check to :
Anne Feeney * 2240 Milligan Ave * Pittsburgh, PA 15218
will be most welcome and deeply appreciated. You can send me a donation via paypal too... there's a "Donation" button just underneath my picture on the right hand side of this page.
And many many thanks to the folks who stepped up to help me with this. Doing a recording is a real leap of faith on a budget like mine, but when you get to hear it, you'll think it was worth it, I'm sure. Commander Cody came in to play piano and sing on "Preacher and the Slave." The Austin Lounge Lizards harmonized my a capella gospel tune "You Will Answer," and Pat and Sandy (Emma's Revolution) harmonize on "Hillcrest Mine." And when you hear the lush magnificent harmonies that Anne Weiss arranged for "How Long?" you'll be dazzled!
I'm doing a CD release concert in Detroit on the Sunday of Labor Notes - April 13th...
I'd love to do a CD release concert in your hometown too - so let me know if you have any ideas. Also.. if you have a great folk show on the radio, let me know about it. I'm happy to send CDs to your favorite folk show... and I'll tell them you sent me!
If you write reviews of folk music for any publication, let me know and I'll send you a review copy!
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End of an era... Martin D-28 #232732 retires
I'm still somewhat traumatized by the news that my sweet Martin D-28 is no longer well enough to travel. I have had to retire my beloved guitar. It's just too fragile to continue subjecting it to the rigors of touring. It's the only guitar I've ever owned or played. I bought it new for $400 in 1969 -- It's the only "thing" I've ever been really attached to...
I had to buy a new guitar. I'll be taking my new Larrivee with me to Cleveland and Florida. It's a beautiful guitar, and I'm sure I'll learn to love it. (Guitar prices seem to have kept pace with CEO compensation in the last 40 years, but my friends at Swissvale Music have made me a generous deal.) Still, incurring such a major expense in the middle of doing a CD was DEFINITELY NOT in my plans.
I'm looking forward to this new era, though. Be sure to come up and check her out at my upcoming gigs!
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Florida is action-packed, as you'll see below! If you know anyone who lives in Florida, please forward this newsletter to them. Gloria Holloway is worried about turnout for the house concert she's doing for me in Tampa. If you know someone in Tampa, please send the info on to them...
It will be great to do some work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers while I'm there, too... http://ciw-online.org
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BURIED
A new production of BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster opens at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (just about 40 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh) on April 3 and runs through April 6th.
Jerry Starr's powerful play about the transformation of the Sago women from widows to warriors is riveting, and it's my pleasure and honor to provide the music throughout this production, along with my talented friend Sue Powers on banjo.
For more information go to:
http://www.hhs.iup.edu/laborcenter/CurrentEvents/Buried.shtml
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My research on my Grandfather's life and work is on hiatus until I return from Florida... but there is so much source material out there, I feel like I'm really getting to know him, even though he died more than 12 years before I was born. I'm so grateful to the IUP Labor Center for giving me this opportunity to dig into this most personally interesting chapter of PA labor history.
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We ended up with 16 dinner guests for our Oscars party. You can read my reviews of 2007's films at:
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-movie-picks.html
Our menu was:
THERE WILL BE BLOODy Marys
Saganaki - A flaming Greek cheese dish, which exploded at table, courtesy of Bridget Shields - It was served with sliced baguettes as our tribute to MICHAEL CLAYTON
a JUNO salad of baby bella mushrooms, baby arugula, baby spinach, baby swiss cheese, raspberries and jerusalem artichokes courtesy of Dan and Monique
Our entree was a stretch, but really... when this dish was invented for the King of Sweden in 1897 the average life expectancy was 45 years -- It was NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN ... We served a variation of the Swedish classic, Veal Oscar, substituting free range hormone/anti-biotic free pork filets for the veal ..
and our dessert of ATONEMENT was Burnt Almond Torte, provided by Mary Magan.
mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmm
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Julius Margolin (http://georgeandjulius.com) is doing much better. Thanks to all of you who sent cards. He'd still enjoy hearing from you, I'm sure, if you haven't gotten around to sending him a card yet..
Julius Margolin
330 W 28th, Apt 3-G
New York, NY 10001
I'm looking forward to performing with him at Botto House on Mayday.
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Utah Phillips is still not at home ... He has decided not to have a heart transplant. You can listen to him explain why in a podcast posted at
http://utahphillips.org/podcast/index.html
I'm going to be arranging a benefit concert for him here in Pittsburgh, and performing at one in Madison, WI in May.
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MARCH BIRTHDAYS
Shirley Shultz Myers Mar 1
Mary McCahill Madera Mar 1
Griffin Lane McCahil Mar 13
Ron Berlin Mar 15
Tom Weldon Mar 17
Bette Jacobson Mar 26
Mary Weldon Mar 29
Kelly Grefenstette Mar 31
Happy Happy!
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FAMILY NEWS
My daughter Amy is now officially a certified massage therapist. She has completed her coursework and passed the state exam in Texas. Congratulations!
Joseph and Manelle McCahill welcomed Baby Benjamin on Feb 21st... healthy and beautiful!
Mary and Tom Weldon visited Aunt Claire in Aiken, SC a couple weeks ago. Claire was overjoyed!
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The Tour:
Anne Feeney
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 7:30 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
216.932.1898
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: $10
The Church is located between Euclid Heights Blvd. and Coventry Rd.
Lancashire is a one-way street that is entered from Euclid Hts. Blvd. The Society is a 2 storied brick building on the right hand side, across from Musicians Towers. Parking is available on either side of the building, on the street, or in metered public parking lots nearby.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 10:45 AM
Unitarian Service
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: free - all welcome
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 6:30 PM
Concert and Pot Luck!
Imaginary Fool's Juggling, Singing and Gourmet Supper Club
Tallahassee, FL
850-878-4149
Price: $10-20 suggested
This is one of my favorite gigs ... I look forward to it all year long.
Friday, March 7th, 2008 8:00 PM
Roy Zimmerman in Concert with Grant Peeples
American Legion Hall
229 Lake Ella Dr.
Tallahassee, FL
(I'll probably do a few numbers at this show, and Roy will be dropping in on my shows for the next few days, too! - Roy is the composer of "Defenders of Marriage" and many many more of my favorite political tunes.)
Tickets: $10 advance and at the door. For more info, visit wakullareporter.com or write to zimconcert@gmail.com.
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert on International Women's Day
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine
2487 A1A S
St Augustine, FL 32080
904-540-3575
Price: $10
Terry Buckenmeyer is organizing this concert. Terry's cell: 904-540-3575
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Iraq Veterans against the War will be tabling at the concert, and we will be accepting your generous checks and contributions for their work at the show.
904-471-2047 is the number of the church.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 10:30 AM
Music for Church Service
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St Augustine
2487 A1A South and Florida Avenue
St Augustine, FL 32605
http://www.nrdp.net/uufsa/
Price: free - all welcome
3/4 miles south of Route 312
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 3:00 PM
Music for Church Service
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: free - all welcome
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 5:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert with special guest Magda Hiller!!
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: $15
Monday, March 10th, 2008 12:00 PM
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL 32224
(904)-620-1654
Stan Swart, "Brother Stan the Union Man," is my host and contact for this residency.
Monday, March 10th, 2008 7:30 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
University of North Florida Campus Theater -- Robinson Student Services Building (Building #14, Room #1700)
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
Price: free - all welcome
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 12:00 PM
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
(904)-620-1654
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=144545&ck=
"Brother Stan the Union Man," Stan Swart, is my host and your contact for this residency.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 5:00 PM
Anne Feeney In Concert for Campus Chapter of Amnesty International
UNF Art Gallery Auditorium
Jacksonville, FL
904-620-1654
http://www.unf.edu/dept/gallery/
Price: donations welcome
Shelly Clay-Robison is organizing this concert... shellyclayrobison(@)hotmail.com
Come, and learn more about the important work of Amnesty International!
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 5:30-6:15PM (tentative)
Instore Concert at Vinyl Fever
4110 Henderson Blvd
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 289-8399
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 7:30 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
House Concert at Gloria's
Tampa area, FL
813-837-6572
Price: $15
Come at 7:30... we'll start promptly at 8. Reserve a space now... email Gloria at gshello@tampaybay.rr.com or call 813-837-6572 - House concerts are a fabulous way to hear music! Don't be shy, call Gloria now!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 7:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
JR's OLD PACKINGHOUSE CAFE
987 S. Packinghouse Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
371-9358
http://www.oldpackinghouse.net/
Price: $your generous tips!
Friday, March 14th, 2008 6:00 PM
Singing for the Vegetables
Whole Foods
1451 1st Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-955-8500 ext. 215
Price: FREE
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
The 2nd Street Bakery
1511 NW 2nd St
Gainesville, FL
352-505-5039
http://www.afn.org/~iguana
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 10:30 AM
Unitarian Universalists of Gainesville
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
4225 NW 34th St
Gainesville, FL 32605
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 4:00 PM
Progressive Student Alliance, Code Pink and EPEC Pot Luck
FGCU Student Union Ballroom
Ft Myers, FL
http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier
Price: donations
nferaldi(@)gmail.com - Nancy Feraldi is the contact. We'll also be screening "Winter Soldier Campaign" from IVAW (click on the URL above for more info about the film). Presented by the Environmental and Peace Education Center, the Progressive Student Alliance and Code Pink of SW Florida. Directions: "Student Union" (#17 on the campus map): http://www.fgcu.edu/info/Map/Campus_MainMap.asp
Free/no-permit-needed guest parking is plentiful on Sunday evenings either in the Student Union bldg parking lot or directly across the street in guest lot.
Map directions to FGCU campus:
http://www.fgcu.edu/info/Directions.asp
Nancy's phone number is 239-489-4249
cell: 808-285-9842
Monday, March 17th, 2008 1:00 PM
Concert for Unitied Irish of SW Florida
contact Laura Griffin for location
Ft Myers, FL
239-823-4743
http://www.swflairish.com/index.html
swflagirl(@)aol.com
Monday, March 17th, 2008 7:00 PM
St Patrick's Day Feast !!!
Manna Reading Center
2040 Collier Ave.
Fort Myers, FL
(239) 277-7866
http://www.mannareadingcenter.com/
This will be so much fun!! In addition to my usual hell-raising repertoire, this show only will include a huge selection of Irish favorites - ballads, drinking songs, sing-alongs, sea chanteys and more!! Don't miss it.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 7:30 PM
CIW Benefit Concert
Society of Friends (Quakers) Meeting House
823 North A St.
Lake Worth, FL
561-330-9016
Price: $15- $10 low income/student
Vicki Ryder (vickiryder@juno.com)is organizing this! Sponsored by South Florida Peace and Justice
TICKETS available at SOMA Café • 609 Lake Avenue
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 7:30 PM
Honor CIW on the Feast of St Joseph the Worker
St Maurice Church
2851 Stirling Road
Dania Beach, FL
(754) 423-0051
http://ciw-online.org
Price: $15 ($10 low inc/student)
This is a fundraising concert to benefit the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
St Maurice is located one mile west of I-95 and is between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. We hold most of our tri-county peace and justice meetings there. Father Roger is very supportive of the movement and will promote the event within the parish. Ray Del Papa is the contact - mrrratpp(@)aol.com
Thursday, April 3rd through Sunday, April 6, 2008 - 8PM
BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster
IUP Waller Hall Studio Theater
Indiana, PA
This powerful play by Jerry Starr, documents the transformation of the miners' wives from widows to warriors, and features lots of wonderful music.
http://www.hhs.iup.edu/laborcenter/CurrentEvents/Buried.shtml
April 11th & 12th & 13th, 2008
Labor Notes Conference
Hyatt Regency
Dearborn, MI
http://labornotes.org
Sunday, April 13th, 8PM
Detroit CD Release of "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back"
location tba
contact is Barb Ingalls: 248-547-7729 or bigrafx(@)cavtel.net
Friday, February 01, 2008
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - FEBRUARY 2008, VOLUME THREE, #11
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:
February - PITTSBURGH, with FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT!
March - Cleveland, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Orange City, Tampa, Sarasota, Gainesville, Ft. Myers, Palm Beach County, Dania Beach
BUY CDS: http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid
IN THIS ISSUE:
THE GRANT!!
THE STUDIO!!
PLEASE SEND A GET WELL CARD TO TWO LABOR LEGENDS!
BEST LINKS SENT TO ME THIS MONTH
FAMILY NEWS
ELEVEN GOING TO JAIL FOR JUSTICE - CLOSE THE SOA!
SPECIAL IRELAND MAILING
OSCARS/WRITERS' STRIKE
1 February
Pittsburgh
Hi Folks!
I can't remember the last time that I was home for a whole month! It's been a great month... lots of time to cook and eat well, to work out at the gym, to update my mailing list (welcome to all of you new folks!) and to work on the very exciting project I've undertaken thanks to a grant from the Labor Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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THE GRANT!!!
My grandfather, William Patrick Feeney (1876-1939), was a union organizer for the United Mineworkers of America. He started work in the infamous New Hartley Colliery near Bedlington, England in 1888 (that's right, he was twelve) - and emigrated to the US in 1890. He went straight into the mines here, married, fathered ten children, served a term in the PA legislature, introduced one of Pennsylvania's first mine safety bills, played the violin and sang (and wrote) union songs, knew Gene Debs, Fannie Sellins and Mother Jones -- and thanks to the digitized archives of the local papers from that era, I have found thousands of articles chronicling his most interesting life. I'll be writing some papers ... if not a book... if not a musical... who knows?
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THE STUDIO!!
I'm FINALLY finishing DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK - my new CD. With any luck, the CD will feature a lot of my talented friends, including Evan Greer, Anne Weiss, the Austin Lounge Lizards, Commander Cody and many many more! I could really really really use a few more sponsors. If you're in a position to help, send $100 to
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
I'll be happy to put your name (or your sweetheart's name -- there's an unusual Valentine's gift!) in the liner notes.
This fifteen song CD should be finished by the time I leave for Florida.
Here's what's going to be on it:
Preacher and the Slave (Joe Hill) 4:11
You Will Answer (Feeney) 2:48
How Long? (Feeney) 4:51
Dump the Bosses off Your Back (John Brill) 2:09
How Much for the Life of Miner? (Feeney) 2:21
Santiago Cruz (Feeney) 2:03
Ya Basta! (Evan Greer) 3:13
Hallelujah I'm a Bum (McClintock/Kotheimer) 4:12
Sago (Kiya Heartwood) 4:20
Hillcrest Mine (James Keelaghan) 3:16
50 Cent Sneakers and $5 Wine (Al Grierson) 3:13
Goonies (Feeney) 3:18
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (Colum Sands) 2:16
Brave New Christmas (John William Davis) 4:07
We Fought Back (Feeney) 2:18
It costs about $2500 to master and press 1000 CDs. It costs about $5000 in studio time for the sound engineer. It costs about $10,000 to pay the musicians who work on the recording. It costs another $1000 to pay the pension for the musicians working on the recording. It will cost about $600 to pay the composers of the 'cover songs' for the rights to record their songs. It costs several hundred dollars to get the printing for the artwork. Layout, design and typeset can run into hundreds of dollars. Add in lots of transportation, copying, snacks for the musicians in the studio. And then mailing dozens of free copies for review to radio and press .... These are daunting numbers to come up with on a folksinger's budget...
You can put a donation on your credit card by clicking on the Donate button in the right hand column of this page underneath my picture. If that doesn't work for you for some reason, and you'd still like to contribute on a credit card, email me anne@annefeeney.com and I can invoice you. Your generosity and support makes my work and music possible.
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SEND A GET WELL CARD TO TWO LABOR LEGENDS!
Two wonderful friends of all working people could use some get well wishes:
Julius Margolin (http://georgeandjulius.com), 91 years old, lifelong activist and IATSE member (stagehands' union), is back home from the hospital after treatment for lymphoma, flu, intestinal problems and more. httpHe is such a dear and amazing person with 70+ years of activism and support for working folks everywhere. You may have seen UNION MAN - the wonderful film that George Mann produced about Julius' life. He's still in remarkable spirits and thinking of others. Please send him a thank you/get well card at:
Julius Margolin
330 W. 28th St.
Apt. 3G
NY NY 10001
And the golden voice of the great Southwest, Utah Phillips, is in San Francisco undergoing evaluation for a heart transplant. http://utahphillips.org His health is deteriorating, and we are all hoping that he will get some really hopeful information on this visit. In addition to the stress of his illness, Phillips has financial concerns too. He's been deprived of his livelihood just as his expenses have skyrocketed.
Send him a card and/or a check at:
Utah Phillips
PO BOX 1235
Nevada City, CA 95959
and do yourself a favor and go listen to Phillips tell 'the funniest story ever,'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks-LmHAGouQ
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BEST LINKS SENT TO ME THIS MONTH
http://blip.tv/file/520347/ - bush coins
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/02/20/bayoneting-a-scarecrow/
http://www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/impeach.html
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FAMILY NEWS
My cousin Kelly Grefenstette of South Carolina is married to pro golfer Charles Warren -- We're very excited to see that Charles is leading the pack at a big tournament- the FBR Open in Phoenix! Go Charles!!
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=golf-m/news/ben4126948.htm
My cousins Kevin McCahill and Mary Lane McCahill of Columbia, MD just went sailing in the British Virgin Islands. There's a link to some photos below, and here's a wonderful excerpt from Mary's trip diary:
"The highlight of the trip for Kevin and me was the amazing snorkelling in the choral reefs of the BVI, and we snorkelled our hearts out, literally for hours. We saw so many beautiful undersea creatures it's beyond description, including an immense and ancient Hawksbill sea turtle with whom I had the blessed fortune to swim briefly. He (the turtle) actually looked at me and was close enough to touch, but I respected his home and let him swim off in peace. We also saw many of the wonderful living jewels of the reef including the blue chromies, four-eyed butterflyfish, blue tangs, parrotfish, trunkfish, yellowtails, bluehead wrasse, fairy basslets, and some big ugly guys like barracuda, tarpon and grouper. The reef itself has its own beauty with many varieties and colors of coral such as staghorn and brain corals and gently swaying green and purple sea fans. Snorkelling for us is like meditation: the world around us becomes very quiet and still as the sea life continues to move about or sway gently in the current somewhat oblivious to our presence. It is so peaceful and warm and comforting that the sound of the water becomes a chant and draws us into it's utter quiet. "
Thanks Mary!
http://www.digiproofs.com/ecom/page_view.pl?p=Fxt2DCn
BIRTHDAYS ----
Lauren Grefenstette Jan 8, Chris Chandler Jan 16, Jim Marks, Jan 16, Shannon Metcalfe Jan 16, Blanka Engstrom Jan 16, (Happy Anniversary Kelly & Charles Warren Jan 25), Tom Weldon Jan 27, Art Deckard Jan 29, Ed McCahill Jan 29, Maryellen Hayden January 31, Kevin Weldon Feb 3, Joe McCahill Feb 15, Ross Chapman Feb 24, Shirley Shultz Myers Mar 1, Mary McCahill Madera, Mar 1.
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ELEVEN GOING TO JAIL FOR JUSTICE!
At the School of the Americas Watch Vigil last November, eleven people engaged in civil disobedience to CALL YOUR ATTENTION to the atrocities being committed in our name and with our tax dollars. Honor their sacrifice by visiting http://soaw.org and educating yourself on our very own "terrorist training camp.'
The SOAW 11 are:
- Joan Anderson, 65, Casper, WY - 30 days and a $500 fine
- Ozone Bhaguan, 33, Duluth, MN - 90 days and no fine
- Le Anne Clausen, 29, Chicago, IL. - 30 days and no fine
- Art Landis, 74, Perkasie, PA - 30 days and no fine
- Ed Lewinson, 78, Newark NJ - 90 days and a $500 fine
- Chris Lieberman, 54, Albuquerque, NM - 60 days and no fine
- Diane Lopez Hughes, 58, Springfield, IL - 45 days and a $500 fine
- Tiel Rainelli, 25, Canton, OH. - 90 days and a $500 fine
- Gus Roddy, 45, Chicago, IL - 30 days and a $500 fine
- Stephen Schweitzer, 45, Binghamtom, NY - 60 days and a $500 fine
- Michelle Yipé, 45, of Argonia, KS - 30 days and a $500 fine
http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=1621 Read more about the SOAW 11...
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SPECIAL IRELAND MAILING
I know I promised only one email a month, so I'm giving you a heads-up. If you'd like to go to Ireland with me in 2008, I'm sending out a special mailing in mid-February with all the details. If you're not interested, you can delete it without reading it, because that is all that will be in the mailing.
If you can't wait until then for the details, check out the new page that Dave Livingston set up for me:
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
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OSCARS/WRITERS' STRIKE
This is a great exposition of the issues in the writers' strike, if you've had a hard time figuring it out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk
And this one is hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w&NR=1
If management won't come up with a real settlement, I won't be holding my Oscars party. There wouldn't be any joy in watching a writer-less Oscars show.
Still, the eternal optimist, I'm catching as many films as possible hoping for the best. I've posted my 2008 film reviews on the blog.
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/
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FEBRUARY/MARCH DATES:
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 8:00 PM - PITTSBURGH
Four Shillings Short and Anne Feeney in Concert
Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church
416 W North Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412.877-6480
http://www.art.net/~4ss
Price: $15 suggested
If you missed the first concert, you won't want to miss this one! And if you came to the last 4ss concert you'll be spreading the word, I'm sure.. what fun!!
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 8:00 PM
Oscars Party
2008 Oscars Party
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
invitation only
http://www.oscarfrenzy.com/
(cancelled if the writers' strike continues.......)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 7:30 PM - CLEVELAND
Anne Feeney in Concert
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
216.932.1898
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: $10
The Church is located between Euclid Heights Blvd. and Coventry Rd.
Lancashire is a one-way street that is entered from Euclid Hts. Blvd. The Society is a 2 storied brick building on the right hand side, across from Musicians Towers. Parking is available on either side of the building, on the street, or in metered public parking lots nearby.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 10:45 AM - CLEVELAND
Unitarian Service
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: free - all welcome
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 6:30 PM - TALLAHASSEE
Concert and Pot Luck!
Imaginary Fool's Juggling, Singing and Gourmet Supper Club
Tallahassee, FL
850-878-4149
Price: $10-20 suggested
This is one of my favorite gigs ... I look forward to it all year long.
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 8:00 PM - ST AUGUSTINE
Anne Feeney in Concert on International Women's Day
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine
2487 A1A S
St Augustine, FL 32080
904-540-3575
Price: $10
Terry Buckenmeyer is organizing this concert. Terry's cell: 904-540-3575
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Iraq Veterans against the War will be tabling at the concert, and we will be accepting your generous checks and contributions for their work at the show.
904-471-2047 is the number of the church.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 10:30 AM - ST AUGUSTINE
Music for Church Service
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
2487 A1A South and Florida Avenue
St Augustine, FL 32605
http://www.nrdp.net/uufsa/
Price: free - all welcome
3/4 miles south of Route 312
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 3:00 PM - ORANGE CITY
Music for Church Service
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: free - all welcome
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 5:00 PM - ORANGE CITY
Anne Feeney in Concert with special guest Magda Hiller!!
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: $15
Monday, March 10th, 2008 12:00 PM - JACKSONVILLE
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL 32224
(904)-620-1654
Stan Swart, "Brother Stan the Union Man," is my host and contact for this residency.
Monday, March 10th, 2008 7:30 PM - JACKSONVILLE
Anne Feeney in Concert
University of North Florida Campus Theater -- Robinson Student Services Building (Building #14, Room #1700)
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
Price: free - all welcome
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 12:00 PM - JACKSONVILLE
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
(904)-620-1654
http://wagepeace.net/
"Brother Stan the Union Man," Stan Swart, is my host and your contact for this residency.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 5:00 PM - JACKSONVILLE
Anne Feeney In Concert for Campus Chapter of Amnesty International
UNF Art Gallery Auditorium
Jacksonville, FL
904-620-1654
http://www.unf.edu/dept/gallery/
Price: donations welcome
Shelly Clay-Robison is organizing this concert... shellyclayrobison(@)hotmail.com
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 7:30 PM - TAMPA
Anne Feeney in Concert
House Concert at Gloria's
Tampa area, FL
813-837-6572
Price: $15
Come at 7:30... we'll start promptly at 8. Reserve a space now... email Gloria at gshello@tampaybay.rr.com or call 813-837-6572 - House concerts are a fabulous way to hear music! Don't be shy, call Gloria now!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 7:00 PM - SARASOTA
Anne Feeney in Concert
JR's OLD PACKINGHOUSE CAFE
987 S. Packinghouse Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
371-9358
http://www.oldpackinghouse.net/
Price: $your generous tips!
Friday, March 14th, 2008 12:00 PM - SARASOTA
Singing for the Vegetables
Whole Foods
1451 1st Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-955-8500 ext. 215
Price: FREE
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 8:00 PM - GAINESVILLE
Anne Feeney in Concert
The 2nd Street Bakery
1511 NW 2nd St
Gainesville, FL
352-505-5039
http://www.afn.org/~iguana
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 10:30 AM - GAINESVILLE
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
4225 NW 34th St
Gainesville, FL 32605
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 8:00 PM
wide open....
any ideas?
Sarasota - Ft Myers... FL
Monday, March 17th, 2008 1:00 PM - FT. MYERS
Concert for Unitied Irish of SW Florida
contact Laura Griffin for location
Ft Myers, FL
239-823-4743
http://www.swflairish.com/index.html
swflagirl(@)aol.com
Monday, March 17th, 2008 7:00 PM - FT. MYERS
St Patrick's Day Feast !!!
Manna Reading Center
2040 Collier Ave.
Fort Myers, FL
(239) 277-7866
http://www.mannareadingcenter.com/
This will be so much fun!! In addition to my usual hell-raising repertoire, this show only will include a huge selection of Irish favorites - ballads, drinking songs, sing-alongs, sea chanteys and more!! Don't miss it.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 8:00 PM - PALM BEACH COUNTy
CIW Benefit Concert
TBA
Palm Beach County, FL
561-330-9016
Vicki Ryder (vickiryder@juno.com)is organizing this!
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 7:00 PM - DANIA BEACH
Honor CIW on the Feast of St Joseph the Worker
St Maurice Church
2851 Stirling Road
Dania Beach, FL
http://ciw-online.org
Price: $10-20 suggested
This is a fundraising concert to benefit the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
St Maurice is located one mile west of I-95 and is between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. We hold most of our tri-county peace and justice meetings there. Father Roger is very supportive of the movement and will promote the event within the parish. Ray Del Papa is the contact - mrrratpp(@)aol.com
February - PITTSBURGH, with FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT!
March - Cleveland, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Orange City, Tampa, Sarasota, Gainesville, Ft. Myers, Palm Beach County, Dania Beach
BUY CDS: http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid
IN THIS ISSUE:
THE GRANT!!
THE STUDIO!!
PLEASE SEND A GET WELL CARD TO TWO LABOR LEGENDS!
BEST LINKS SENT TO ME THIS MONTH
FAMILY NEWS
ELEVEN GOING TO JAIL FOR JUSTICE - CLOSE THE SOA!
SPECIAL IRELAND MAILING
OSCARS/WRITERS' STRIKE
1 February
Pittsburgh
Hi Folks!
I can't remember the last time that I was home for a whole month! It's been a great month... lots of time to cook and eat well, to work out at the gym, to update my mailing list (welcome to all of you new folks!) and to work on the very exciting project I've undertaken thanks to a grant from the Labor Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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THE GRANT!!!
My grandfather, William Patrick Feeney (1876-1939), was a union organizer for the United Mineworkers of America. He started work in the infamous New Hartley Colliery near Bedlington, England in 1888 (that's right, he was twelve) - and emigrated to the US in 1890. He went straight into the mines here, married, fathered ten children, served a term in the PA legislature, introduced one of Pennsylvania's first mine safety bills, played the violin and sang (and wrote) union songs, knew Gene Debs, Fannie Sellins and Mother Jones -- and thanks to the digitized archives of the local papers from that era, I have found thousands of articles chronicling his most interesting life. I'll be writing some papers ... if not a book... if not a musical... who knows?
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THE STUDIO!!
I'm FINALLY finishing DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK - my new CD. With any luck, the CD will feature a lot of my talented friends, including Evan Greer, Anne Weiss, the Austin Lounge Lizards, Commander Cody and many many more! I could really really really use a few more sponsors. If you're in a position to help, send $100 to
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
I'll be happy to put your name (or your sweetheart's name -- there's an unusual Valentine's gift!) in the liner notes.
This fifteen song CD should be finished by the time I leave for Florida.
Here's what's going to be on it:
Preacher and the Slave (Joe Hill) 4:11
You Will Answer (Feeney) 2:48
How Long? (Feeney) 4:51
Dump the Bosses off Your Back (John Brill) 2:09
How Much for the Life of Miner? (Feeney) 2:21
Santiago Cruz (Feeney) 2:03
Ya Basta! (Evan Greer) 3:13
Hallelujah I'm a Bum (McClintock/Kotheimer) 4:12
Sago (Kiya Heartwood) 4:20
Hillcrest Mine (James Keelaghan) 3:16
50 Cent Sneakers and $5 Wine (Al Grierson) 3:13
Goonies (Feeney) 3:18
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (Colum Sands) 2:16
Brave New Christmas (John William Davis) 4:07
We Fought Back (Feeney) 2:18
It costs about $2500 to master and press 1000 CDs. It costs about $5000 in studio time for the sound engineer. It costs about $10,000 to pay the musicians who work on the recording. It costs another $1000 to pay the pension for the musicians working on the recording. It will cost about $600 to pay the composers of the 'cover songs' for the rights to record their songs. It costs several hundred dollars to get the printing for the artwork. Layout, design and typeset can run into hundreds of dollars. Add in lots of transportation, copying, snacks for the musicians in the studio. And then mailing dozens of free copies for review to radio and press .... These are daunting numbers to come up with on a folksinger's budget...
You can put a donation on your credit card by clicking on the Donate button in the right hand column of this page underneath my picture. If that doesn't work for you for some reason, and you'd still like to contribute on a credit card, email me anne@annefeeney.com and I can invoice you. Your generosity and support makes my work and music possible.
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SEND A GET WELL CARD TO TWO LABOR LEGENDS!
Two wonderful friends of all working people could use some get well wishes:
Julius Margolin (http://georgeandjulius.com), 91 years old, lifelong activist and IATSE member (stagehands' union), is back home from the hospital after treatment for lymphoma, flu, intestinal problems and more. httpHe is such a dear and amazing person with 70+ years of activism and support for working folks everywhere. You may have seen UNION MAN - the wonderful film that George Mann produced about Julius' life. He's still in remarkable spirits and thinking of others. Please send him a thank you/get well card at:
Julius Margolin
330 W. 28th St.
Apt. 3G
NY NY 10001
And the golden voice of the great Southwest, Utah Phillips, is in San Francisco undergoing evaluation for a heart transplant. http://utahphillips.org His health is deteriorating, and we are all hoping that he will get some really hopeful information on this visit. In addition to the stress of his illness, Phillips has financial concerns too. He's been deprived of his livelihood just as his expenses have skyrocketed.
Send him a card and/or a check at:
Utah Phillips
PO BOX 1235
Nevada City, CA 95959
and do yourself a favor and go listen to Phillips tell 'the funniest story ever,'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks-LmHAGouQ
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BEST LINKS SENT TO ME THIS MONTH
http://blip.tv/file/520347/ - bush coins
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/02/20/bayoneting-a-scarecrow/
http://www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/impeach.html
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FAMILY NEWS
My cousin Kelly Grefenstette of South Carolina is married to pro golfer Charles Warren -- We're very excited to see that Charles is leading the pack at a big tournament- the FBR Open in Phoenix! Go Charles!!
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=golf-m/news/ben4126948.htm
My cousins Kevin McCahill and Mary Lane McCahill of Columbia, MD just went sailing in the British Virgin Islands. There's a link to some photos below, and here's a wonderful excerpt from Mary's trip diary:
"The highlight of the trip for Kevin and me was the amazing snorkelling in the choral reefs of the BVI, and we snorkelled our hearts out, literally for hours. We saw so many beautiful undersea creatures it's beyond description, including an immense and ancient Hawksbill sea turtle with whom I had the blessed fortune to swim briefly. He (the turtle) actually looked at me and was close enough to touch, but I respected his home and let him swim off in peace. We also saw many of the wonderful living jewels of the reef including the blue chromies, four-eyed butterflyfish, blue tangs, parrotfish, trunkfish, yellowtails, bluehead wrasse, fairy basslets, and some big ugly guys like barracuda, tarpon and grouper. The reef itself has its own beauty with many varieties and colors of coral such as staghorn and brain corals and gently swaying green and purple sea fans. Snorkelling for us is like meditation: the world around us becomes very quiet and still as the sea life continues to move about or sway gently in the current somewhat oblivious to our presence. It is so peaceful and warm and comforting that the sound of the water becomes a chant and draws us into it's utter quiet. "
Thanks Mary!
http://www.digiproofs.com/ecom/page_view.pl?p=Fxt2DCn
BIRTHDAYS ----
Lauren Grefenstette Jan 8, Chris Chandler Jan 16, Jim Marks, Jan 16, Shannon Metcalfe Jan 16, Blanka Engstrom Jan 16, (Happy Anniversary Kelly & Charles Warren Jan 25), Tom Weldon Jan 27, Art Deckard Jan 29, Ed McCahill Jan 29, Maryellen Hayden January 31, Kevin Weldon Feb 3, Joe McCahill Feb 15, Ross Chapman Feb 24, Shirley Shultz Myers Mar 1, Mary McCahill Madera, Mar 1.
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ELEVEN GOING TO JAIL FOR JUSTICE!
At the School of the Americas Watch Vigil last November, eleven people engaged in civil disobedience to CALL YOUR ATTENTION to the atrocities being committed in our name and with our tax dollars. Honor their sacrifice by visiting http://soaw.org and educating yourself on our very own "terrorist training camp.'
The SOAW 11 are:
- Joan Anderson, 65, Casper, WY - 30 days and a $500 fine
- Ozone Bhaguan, 33, Duluth, MN - 90 days and no fine
- Le Anne Clausen, 29, Chicago, IL. - 30 days and no fine
- Art Landis, 74, Perkasie, PA - 30 days and no fine
- Ed Lewinson, 78, Newark NJ - 90 days and a $500 fine
- Chris Lieberman, 54, Albuquerque, NM - 60 days and no fine
- Diane Lopez Hughes, 58, Springfield, IL - 45 days and a $500 fine
- Tiel Rainelli, 25, Canton, OH. - 90 days and a $500 fine
- Gus Roddy, 45, Chicago, IL - 30 days and a $500 fine
- Stephen Schweitzer, 45, Binghamtom, NY - 60 days and a $500 fine
- Michelle Yipé, 45, of Argonia, KS - 30 days and a $500 fine
http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=1621 Read more about the SOAW 11...
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SPECIAL IRELAND MAILING
I know I promised only one email a month, so I'm giving you a heads-up. If you'd like to go to Ireland with me in 2008, I'm sending out a special mailing in mid-February with all the details. If you're not interested, you can delete it without reading it, because that is all that will be in the mailing.
If you can't wait until then for the details, check out the new page that Dave Livingston set up for me:
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
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OSCARS/WRITERS' STRIKE
This is a great exposition of the issues in the writers' strike, if you've had a hard time figuring it out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk
And this one is hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w&NR=1
If management won't come up with a real settlement, I won't be holding my Oscars party. There wouldn't be any joy in watching a writer-less Oscars show.
Still, the eternal optimist, I'm catching as many films as possible hoping for the best. I've posted my 2008 film reviews on the blog.
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/
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FEBRUARY/MARCH DATES:
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 8:00 PM - PITTSBURGH
Four Shillings Short and Anne Feeney in Concert
Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church
416 W North Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412.877-6480
http://www.art.net/~4ss
Price: $15 suggested
If you missed the first concert, you won't want to miss this one! And if you came to the last 4ss concert you'll be spreading the word, I'm sure.. what fun!!
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 8:00 PM
Oscars Party
2008 Oscars Party
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
invitation only
http://www.oscarfrenzy.com/
(cancelled if the writers' strike continues.......)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 7:30 PM - CLEVELAND
Anne Feeney in Concert
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
216.932.1898
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: $10
The Church is located between Euclid Heights Blvd. and Coventry Rd.
Lancashire is a one-way street that is entered from Euclid Hts. Blvd. The Society is a 2 storied brick building on the right hand side, across from Musicians Towers. Parking is available on either side of the building, on the street, or in metered public parking lots nearby.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 10:45 AM - CLEVELAND
Unitarian Service
UU Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/index.html
Price: free - all welcome
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 6:30 PM - TALLAHASSEE
Concert and Pot Luck!
Imaginary Fool's Juggling, Singing and Gourmet Supper Club
Tallahassee, FL
850-878-4149
Price: $10-20 suggested
This is one of my favorite gigs ... I look forward to it all year long.
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 8:00 PM - ST AUGUSTINE
Anne Feeney in Concert on International Women's Day
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine
2487 A1A S
St Augustine, FL 32080
904-540-3575
Price: $10
Terry Buckenmeyer is organizing this concert. Terry's cell: 904-540-3575
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Iraq Veterans against the War will be tabling at the concert, and we will be accepting your generous checks and contributions for their work at the show.
904-471-2047 is the number of the church.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 10:30 AM - ST AUGUSTINE
Music for Church Service
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
2487 A1A South and Florida Avenue
St Augustine, FL 32605
http://www.nrdp.net/uufsa/
Price: free - all welcome
3/4 miles south of Route 312
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 3:00 PM - ORANGE CITY
Music for Church Service
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: free - all welcome
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 5:00 PM - ORANGE CITY
Anne Feeney in Concert with special guest Magda Hiller!!
Mosaic Unitarian Universalist Church
425 S Volusia Ave (17-92)
Orange City, FL 32774
http://mosaicuu.org/
Price: $15
Monday, March 10th, 2008 12:00 PM - JACKSONVILLE
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL 32224
(904)-620-1654
Stan Swart, "Brother Stan the Union Man," is my host and contact for this residency.
Monday, March 10th, 2008 7:30 PM - JACKSONVILLE
Anne Feeney in Concert
University of North Florida Campus Theater -- Robinson Student Services Building (Building #14, Room #1700)
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
Price: free - all welcome
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 12:00 PM - JACKSONVILLE
artist-in-residence
University of North Florida Campus
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL
(904)-620-1654
http://wagepeace.net/
"Brother Stan the Union Man," Stan Swart, is my host and your contact for this residency.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 5:00 PM - JACKSONVILLE
Anne Feeney In Concert for Campus Chapter of Amnesty International
UNF Art Gallery Auditorium
Jacksonville, FL
904-620-1654
http://www.unf.edu/dept/gallery/
Price: donations welcome
Shelly Clay-Robison is organizing this concert... shellyclayrobison(@)hotmail.com
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 7:30 PM - TAMPA
Anne Feeney in Concert
House Concert at Gloria's
Tampa area, FL
813-837-6572
Price: $15
Come at 7:30... we'll start promptly at 8. Reserve a space now... email Gloria at gshello@tampaybay.rr.com or call 813-837-6572 - House concerts are a fabulous way to hear music! Don't be shy, call Gloria now!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 7:00 PM - SARASOTA
Anne Feeney in Concert
JR's OLD PACKINGHOUSE CAFE
987 S. Packinghouse Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
371-9358
http://www.oldpackinghouse.net/
Price: $your generous tips!
Friday, March 14th, 2008 12:00 PM - SARASOTA
Singing for the Vegetables
Whole Foods
1451 1st Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-955-8500 ext. 215
Price: FREE
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 8:00 PM - GAINESVILLE
Anne Feeney in Concert
The 2nd Street Bakery
1511 NW 2nd St
Gainesville, FL
352-505-5039
http://www.afn.org/~iguana
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 10:30 AM - GAINESVILLE
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
4225 NW 34th St
Gainesville, FL 32605
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 8:00 PM
wide open....
any ideas?
Sarasota - Ft Myers... FL
Monday, March 17th, 2008 1:00 PM - FT. MYERS
Concert for Unitied Irish of SW Florida
contact Laura Griffin for location
Ft Myers, FL
239-823-4743
http://www.swflairish.com/index.html
swflagirl(@)aol.com
Monday, March 17th, 2008 7:00 PM - FT. MYERS
St Patrick's Day Feast !!!
Manna Reading Center
2040 Collier Ave.
Fort Myers, FL
(239) 277-7866
http://www.mannareadingcenter.com/
This will be so much fun!! In addition to my usual hell-raising repertoire, this show only will include a huge selection of Irish favorites - ballads, drinking songs, sing-alongs, sea chanteys and more!! Don't miss it.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 8:00 PM - PALM BEACH COUNTy
CIW Benefit Concert
TBA
Palm Beach County, FL
561-330-9016
Vicki Ryder (vickiryder@juno.com)is organizing this!
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 7:00 PM - DANIA BEACH
Honor CIW on the Feast of St Joseph the Worker
St Maurice Church
2851 Stirling Road
Dania Beach, FL
http://ciw-online.org
Price: $10-20 suggested
This is a fundraising concert to benefit the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
St Maurice is located one mile west of I-95 and is between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. We hold most of our tri-county peace and justice meetings there. Father Roger is very supportive of the movement and will promote the event within the parish. Ray Del Papa is the contact - mrrratpp(@)aol.com
2008 MOVIE PICKS
What a BLEAK year for film. Maybe it's just because Hollywood did so well last year that this year's batch seems lackluster... anyway, here are my capsule reviews for your reading pleasure...
MICHAEL CLAYTON - I skipped this one in the first round because I thought it would be another improbable legal story. NOT SO! It's a first rate thriller with Tom Wilkinson doing a breathtaking portrayal of a full-blown unmedicated bipolar person and George Clooney turning in a first rate performance as well. I really enjoyed this one. That it villifies an ADM/Monsanto type corporation enhanced my enjoyment considerably.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD - I can't tell you how excited I was to see that Daniel Day Lewis was starring in an Upton Sinclair story about the oil industry. One would think that with a title like "There Will be Blood" that we'd have the makings of a first rate allegory for our times about oil/greed/death. Instead we have a fairly compelling but resolutely bleak study of a psychopathic brute... and not much else. I would have enjoyed this more if there had been the slightest hint of background on how Daniel Day Lewis came to be so soulless.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - I'm a huge Coen brothers fan, and this film doesn't disappoint. It's certainly not uplifiting, but it is compelling. Javier Bardem is absolutely amazing - the scariest bad guy since Hannibal Lecter.. woof! and Tommy Lee Jones is brilliant. This is the most suspenseful film the Coens have pulled off, and it's riveting. They should win the Directing Oscar. The ending is going to leave a lot of you groaning... but it just makes me want to see it again.
ATONEMENT really missed the boat. I think this could have been a really good movie... and I suspect it came from a very good book. It's impossible to believe that a much-less-than-tender, very brief and almost certainly unconsummated tryst in the family library forms the basis for years of yearning and selfless devotion - especially from Keira Knightley -- It's impossible to believe she wouldn't have moved on with her young life if that was truly their only encounter. I suspect that in the book she and Robbie Turner (the housekeeper's son played by James McEvoy) were secret lovers at school, but the class barriers that separate them became painfully obvious when they returned to her family's estate. For my money, the underrated KITE RUNNER was a better and more engaging version of the same story - Youngster does things in his/her youth that are wrong/shameful, spends rest of life worrying about it, becomes novelist.
JUNO - What is JUNO doing in this list? If I had caught it as a Tuesday night special on Lifetime I might have thought it a pretty good made-for-TV movie. The film's version of visit to an abortion clinic was nothing short of preposterous ... I love a witty script if the people uttering the lines are old enough to have conceivably thought up the words they are delivering. It did have a good soundtrack, though.
INTO THE WILD was a much better film than either ATONEMENT or JUNO. So was THE SAVAGES. So was GONE BABY GONE. I thought ENCHANTED was a better musical than Tim Burton's hugely disappointing SWEENEY TODD. (And believe me, I LOVE Tim Burton AND Johnny Depp.) I'm on my way to see AWAY FROM HER right now. Julie Christie looks like a shoo-in to me, sight unseen. Best supporting actor is filled with fantastic choices. Philip Seymour Hoffman was brilliant in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - Cate Blanchett was fabulous in I'M NOT THERE -- but I'm rooting for the always amazing Ruby Dee, even though I haven't found the almost 4 hours required to see AMERICAN GANGSTER. I haven't seen the DIVING BELL/3:10 TO YUMA/LA VIE EN ROSE/THE ASSSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES/IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH/EASTERN PROMISES/LARS AND THE REAL GIRL. I can't make a call on best actor... but if Tommy Lee Jones is better in IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH than he was in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, my money is on him.
I'm stunned that the brilliant screenplay for CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR didn't get an Oscar nomination - maybe it was because the film was such a distorted pack of lies that it made the snappy script hard to swallow. I haven't seen enough of the nominees in either of the writing categories to make a call...
This would have been a better year to have Michael Moore going for BEST PICTURE instead of BEST DOCUMENTARY. I loved SICKO, and it deserves a huge audience...(besides, he used the Austin Lounge Lizards version of Irving Berlin's C-U-B-A.) But the Oscar for best documentary almost certainly has to go to one of the fabulous anti-war documentaries - My money's on NO END IN SIGHT.
Amazingly, I haven't seen even one of the nominees for best foreign film. But I did enjoy both KINGS and EL VIOLIN - despite the fact that both films were very depressing and, well, BLEAK. For best picture of 2008, I'll be rooting for Michael Clayton, just because the good guys win, and in this year of extremely brutal, bleak films, I found that refreshing. See you at the movies!
MICHAEL CLAYTON - I skipped this one in the first round because I thought it would be another improbable legal story. NOT SO! It's a first rate thriller with Tom Wilkinson doing a breathtaking portrayal of a full-blown unmedicated bipolar person and George Clooney turning in a first rate performance as well. I really enjoyed this one. That it villifies an ADM/Monsanto type corporation enhanced my enjoyment considerably.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD - I can't tell you how excited I was to see that Daniel Day Lewis was starring in an Upton Sinclair story about the oil industry. One would think that with a title like "There Will be Blood" that we'd have the makings of a first rate allegory for our times about oil/greed/death. Instead we have a fairly compelling but resolutely bleak study of a psychopathic brute... and not much else. I would have enjoyed this more if there had been the slightest hint of background on how Daniel Day Lewis came to be so soulless.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - I'm a huge Coen brothers fan, and this film doesn't disappoint. It's certainly not uplifiting, but it is compelling. Javier Bardem is absolutely amazing - the scariest bad guy since Hannibal Lecter.. woof! and Tommy Lee Jones is brilliant. This is the most suspenseful film the Coens have pulled off, and it's riveting. They should win the Directing Oscar. The ending is going to leave a lot of you groaning... but it just makes me want to see it again.
ATONEMENT really missed the boat. I think this could have been a really good movie... and I suspect it came from a very good book. It's impossible to believe that a much-less-than-tender, very brief and almost certainly unconsummated tryst in the family library forms the basis for years of yearning and selfless devotion - especially from Keira Knightley -- It's impossible to believe she wouldn't have moved on with her young life if that was truly their only encounter. I suspect that in the book she and Robbie Turner (the housekeeper's son played by James McEvoy) were secret lovers at school, but the class barriers that separate them became painfully obvious when they returned to her family's estate. For my money, the underrated KITE RUNNER was a better and more engaging version of the same story - Youngster does things in his/her youth that are wrong/shameful, spends rest of life worrying about it, becomes novelist.
JUNO - What is JUNO doing in this list? If I had caught it as a Tuesday night special on Lifetime I might have thought it a pretty good made-for-TV movie. The film's version of visit to an abortion clinic was nothing short of preposterous ... I love a witty script if the people uttering the lines are old enough to have conceivably thought up the words they are delivering. It did have a good soundtrack, though.
INTO THE WILD was a much better film than either ATONEMENT or JUNO. So was THE SAVAGES. So was GONE BABY GONE. I thought ENCHANTED was a better musical than Tim Burton's hugely disappointing SWEENEY TODD. (And believe me, I LOVE Tim Burton AND Johnny Depp.) I'm on my way to see AWAY FROM HER right now. Julie Christie looks like a shoo-in to me, sight unseen. Best supporting actor is filled with fantastic choices. Philip Seymour Hoffman was brilliant in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - Cate Blanchett was fabulous in I'M NOT THERE -- but I'm rooting for the always amazing Ruby Dee, even though I haven't found the almost 4 hours required to see AMERICAN GANGSTER. I haven't seen the DIVING BELL/3:10 TO YUMA/LA VIE EN ROSE/THE ASSSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES/IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH/EASTERN PROMISES/LARS AND THE REAL GIRL. I can't make a call on best actor... but if Tommy Lee Jones is better in IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH than he was in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, my money is on him.
I'm stunned that the brilliant screenplay for CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR didn't get an Oscar nomination - maybe it was because the film was such a distorted pack of lies that it made the snappy script hard to swallow. I haven't seen enough of the nominees in either of the writing categories to make a call...
This would have been a better year to have Michael Moore going for BEST PICTURE instead of BEST DOCUMENTARY. I loved SICKO, and it deserves a huge audience...(besides, he used the Austin Lounge Lizards version of Irving Berlin's C-U-B-A.) But the Oscar for best documentary almost certainly has to go to one of the fabulous anti-war documentaries - My money's on NO END IN SIGHT.
Amazingly, I haven't seen even one of the nominees for best foreign film. But I did enjoy both KINGS and EL VIOLIN - despite the fact that both films were very depressing and, well, BLEAK. For best picture of 2008, I'll be rooting for Michael Clayton, just because the good guys win, and in this year of extremely brutal, bleak films, I found that refreshing. See you at the movies!
Monday, December 31, 2007
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - JANUARY 2008, VOLUME THREE, #10
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - JANUARY 2008, VOLUME THREE,
#10
I'm sitting in my new office, which is a lovely room, but so full of
piles of things to be sorted that it's a daunting place to be. My
bedroom isn't much better. Instead of tackling the mess, I'm reading
an online book on how to avoid procrastination...
This is the time of year when many of us are taking stock of
ourselves... are we still "on the path"? have we taken a detour?
2008 is taking me on some new journeys. I hope that this new year is
kinder to us all than 2007 was.
NEW ADDRESS
I moved in 2007. For those of you who haven't updated your records,
you might want to do that now... the forwarding order will expire
soon --
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
same phones: 412-241-7664 (home) 412-877-6480 (cell)
same email: anne@annefeeney.com
2007 IN THE REARVIEW
2007 was a fantastic year for me -- full of challenges and obstacles,
but for the most part, all well-met with lots of help from my friends.
For the first time in my life, I was alone at Christmas this year.
My husband went back to Sweden, my son to his wife's family in
California, and my daughter and her boyfriend went to Mexico. I
curled up with Barbara Kingsolver's fabulous "Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle," and Barack Obama's "Dreams from my Father ". This very
unusual vantage point left me as a spectator on the season, with
plenty of time to think. As most Americans are wallowing in stuff
right now, I'm looking for ways to simplify my life. If you haven't
visited http://storyofstuff.com this would be a great time to do
it. I'm planning a more sustainable 2008.
THE NURSES' STRIKE IS OVER!
My holidays were brightened considerably by the news that the valiant
UAN nurses on strike against Appalachian Regional Health Systems
ratified a good contract that will have them all back to work no
later than March 31, 2008. Keeping the scabs on the payroll isn't my
favorite way of achieving safer staffing levels... I'll look forward
to new from the nurses on how that works out.
WILL THIS CD EVER GET FINISHED??????
These next two months at home would be a great time to finish "Dump
the Bosses Off Your Back" -- my new CD... Many many thanks to the
dozen folks who sent me sponsorship money last month when I asked for
it... Unfortunately, that's not enough to get the project finished,
but it will get me back in the studio for a couple more days. If
you'd like to see your name in the liner notes of my new CD, or if
you'd just like to help me get this album finished and out there,
please send $100 to Anne Feeney, 2240 Milligan Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
15218.
I GET A GRANT!!
2008 is taking me on several new, but still familiar paths... Thanks
to a grant from the Labor Center at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, I will spend the first couple months of 2008
researching and writing on the life William Patrick Feeney --
immigrant, coal miner, fearless union organizer for the United
Mineworkers of America, one-term legislator in Pennsylvania,
accomplished violinist, labor singer -- and my grandfather.
This means that I *won't* be at the Western Workers' Heritage
Festival -- or anywhere on the left coast -- in January and February,
as I have been for the past 7 years or more.
FLORIDA IN MARCH??
I'm still hoping to do my Florida tour in early March ... anyone
interested? With the closing of two of my favorite venues -
Fogartyville and the Main St Café -- it's harder to plan a Florida
tour.... Florida -- let me hear from you!!
NEW PRODUCTIONS OF "BURIED"
In early April, I'll be performing in a production of Jerry Starr's
powerful play, "Buried: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster." I may
be doing another two or three productions of the play as the year
unfolds. There is a great deal of interest in the play these days.
COMING IN 2008
I'm looking forward to the familiarity and welcome of the Regina Polk
Conference for Labor Union Women, Susquehanna Music and Arts Fest,
Labor Notes, Mayday at Botto House, Radio Live!, the Debs Dinner
... as well as the excitement of some new opportunities -- Cleveland,
St. Catherine's, Ontario, and the Association for Humanist Sociology
conference.
COME TO IRELAND WITH ME!
I hope by now you know that I'm taking three groups of friends on
fabulous music/history/politics and poetry tours of western Ireland
... There are still seats available for you on all three tours,
although August is almost full. I'm very grateful to the folks who
have signed up early for these tours... it's making it possible for
Tom Pigott and me to plan fantastic trips. It's still not too late
to sign up, and the earlier that you do, the easier it is to make
great plans. Email me for more information: anne@annefeeney.com
SCANDINAVIA IN JULY/AUGUST
I haven't decided if I'm going to spend the time in between the tours
in Europe or on the left coast. Invitations to a few festivals on one
side of the pond or the other would clinch my decision pretty quickly.
THE ELECTION
Now more than ever I think it's essential to focus on issues, not
candidates. If we keep the heat on for an immediate end to the war
and for national health care now, we might get both. If we invest
all our energy in trying to decide which candidate has the best of
the lousy plans to phase down the war and tack some hopeless bandaid
on the health care crisis, that's what we'll get....
That's it. No immediate destinations.
Drop me a line and tell me what you're up to.
Happy New Year!
Love and peace
Anne
PS - Check out Bill Maher's Dickheads of 2007 --
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/17538811/dickheads_of_the_year/1
#10
I'm sitting in my new office, which is a lovely room, but so full of
piles of things to be sorted that it's a daunting place to be. My
bedroom isn't much better. Instead of tackling the mess, I'm reading
an online book on how to avoid procrastination...
This is the time of year when many of us are taking stock of
ourselves... are we still "on the path"? have we taken a detour?
2008 is taking me on some new journeys. I hope that this new year is
kinder to us all than 2007 was.
NEW ADDRESS
I moved in 2007. For those of you who haven't updated your records,
you might want to do that now... the forwarding order will expire
soon --
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
same phones: 412-241-7664 (home) 412-877-6480 (cell)
same email: anne@annefeeney.com
2007 IN THE REARVIEW
2007 was a fantastic year for me -- full of challenges and obstacles,
but for the most part, all well-met with lots of help from my friends.
For the first time in my life, I was alone at Christmas this year.
My husband went back to Sweden, my son to his wife's family in
California, and my daughter and her boyfriend went to Mexico. I
curled up with Barbara Kingsolver's fabulous "Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle," and Barack Obama's "Dreams from my Father ". This very
unusual vantage point left me as a spectator on the season, with
plenty of time to think. As most Americans are wallowing in stuff
right now, I'm looking for ways to simplify my life. If you haven't
visited http://storyofstuff.com this would be a great time to do
it. I'm planning a more sustainable 2008.
THE NURSES' STRIKE IS OVER!
My holidays were brightened considerably by the news that the valiant
UAN nurses on strike against Appalachian Regional Health Systems
ratified a good contract that will have them all back to work no
later than March 31, 2008. Keeping the scabs on the payroll isn't my
favorite way of achieving safer staffing levels... I'll look forward
to new from the nurses on how that works out.
WILL THIS CD EVER GET FINISHED??????
These next two months at home would be a great time to finish "Dump
the Bosses Off Your Back" -- my new CD... Many many thanks to the
dozen folks who sent me sponsorship money last month when I asked for
it... Unfortunately, that's not enough to get the project finished,
but it will get me back in the studio for a couple more days. If
you'd like to see your name in the liner notes of my new CD, or if
you'd just like to help me get this album finished and out there,
please send $100 to Anne Feeney, 2240 Milligan Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
15218.
I GET A GRANT!!
2008 is taking me on several new, but still familiar paths... Thanks
to a grant from the Labor Center at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, I will spend the first couple months of 2008
researching and writing on the life William Patrick Feeney --
immigrant, coal miner, fearless union organizer for the United
Mineworkers of America, one-term legislator in Pennsylvania,
accomplished violinist, labor singer -- and my grandfather.
This means that I *won't* be at the Western Workers' Heritage
Festival -- or anywhere on the left coast -- in January and February,
as I have been for the past 7 years or more.
FLORIDA IN MARCH??
I'm still hoping to do my Florida tour in early March ... anyone
interested? With the closing of two of my favorite venues -
Fogartyville and the Main St Café -- it's harder to plan a Florida
tour.... Florida -- let me hear from you!!
NEW PRODUCTIONS OF "BURIED"
In early April, I'll be performing in a production of Jerry Starr's
powerful play, "Buried: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster." I may
be doing another two or three productions of the play as the year
unfolds. There is a great deal of interest in the play these days.
COMING IN 2008
I'm looking forward to the familiarity and welcome of the Regina Polk
Conference for Labor Union Women, Susquehanna Music and Arts Fest,
Labor Notes, Mayday at Botto House, Radio Live!, the Debs Dinner
... as well as the excitement of some new opportunities -- Cleveland,
St. Catherine's, Ontario, and the Association for Humanist Sociology
conference.
COME TO IRELAND WITH ME!
I hope by now you know that I'm taking three groups of friends on
fabulous music/history/politics and poetry tours of western Ireland
... There are still seats available for you on all three tours,
although August is almost full. I'm very grateful to the folks who
have signed up early for these tours... it's making it possible for
Tom Pigott and me to plan fantastic trips. It's still not too late
to sign up, and the earlier that you do, the easier it is to make
great plans. Email me for more information: anne@annefeeney.com
SCANDINAVIA IN JULY/AUGUST
I haven't decided if I'm going to spend the time in between the tours
in Europe or on the left coast. Invitations to a few festivals on one
side of the pond or the other would clinch my decision pretty quickly.
THE ELECTION
Now more than ever I think it's essential to focus on issues, not
candidates. If we keep the heat on for an immediate end to the war
and for national health care now, we might get both. If we invest
all our energy in trying to decide which candidate has the best of
the lousy plans to phase down the war and tack some hopeless bandaid
on the health care crisis, that's what we'll get....
That's it. No immediate destinations.
Drop me a line and tell me what you're up to.
Happy New Year!
Love and peace
Anne
PS - Check out Bill Maher's Dickheads of 2007 --
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/17538811/dickheads_of_the_year/1
Friday, November 30, 2007
Attention Pittsburgh Folks - Special Holiday Fundraiser!!!
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Right click on this flyer and save it to your computer using the "SAVE AS" choice that will appear. Print it out and post it on your refrigerator! Forward it to your friends. And MOST IMPORTANTLY - bring a new toy, or new clothes, or a gift card, or cash, or a check to KENTUCKY NURSES ASSOCIATION to the Letter Carriers' Hall - Local 84 - at 841 California Avenue on the North Side between 4 and 9 PM on Saturday, December 15th. Make sure that these nurses have a happy holiday season -- they've been on strike for us - holding the line for safe staffing levels and quality patient care. Let's show our appreciation for their courage.
Or contribute online securely by clicking here:
https://secure.ga6.org/08/arhstrikefund
Hope to see you at the Letter Carriers' Hall on the 15th any time after 4PM -- from 7PM-9PM I'll be leading a sing-along of labor tunes and Christmas carols and seasonal songs.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - DECEMBER 2007, VOLUME THREE, #9
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - DECEMBER 2007, VOLUME THREE, #9
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS: (details at the end of this post)
NURSES' RALLY IN LEXINGTON, KY!! - NOV 29th
SYRACUSE (NY) PEACE COUNCIL BENEFIT - DEC 1st
JACKIE ALPER TRIBUTE in SCHENECTADY, NY - DEC 2nd
PITTSBURGH BENEFIT CONCERT FOR STRIKING NURSES
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IN THIS ISSUE
750 NURSES ON STRIKE FOR SAFE STAFFING LEVELS!
BENEFIT CONCERT FOR STRIKING NURSES
"BURIED" PRODUCTIONS FOR 2008
MILESTONES & HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007
SEASONAL JOKE
IRISH TOURS UPDATE
LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS
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750 NURSES ON STRIKE FOR SAFE STAFFING LEVELS!
On October 1, 2007 750 nurses went on strike against Appalachian Regional Health Systems. The incessant mandatory overtime and chronic understaffing is endangering patients and limiting the nurses' ability to do their jobs properly.
When I played in Charleston, WV in early November, I stopped by the nurses' picket line in Beckley. They're a great group of folks, and determined to stick this out.
Read more here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_us/nurses_strike_6
You can help by signing this petition:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/nurses_kywv
Or clogging up their scab hotline -- apply for a job... hell apply for several jobs ... if they're getting 10,000 job applications a day it might make it hard for them to find the three creepy lowlife scabs willing to come to WV or KY to break this strike.
http://www.arh.org/Employment/ImmediateOpenings.php
I applied for a job as an RN at Beckley ... My name was Ms. Scab E. Scab. I obtained my BS in BackStabbing. I was referred to their site by Benedict Arnold. My references included Satan Himself, beelzebub@hotmail.com, telephone (666) 666-6666
You can amuse yourself filling out the application, and help the striking nurses by making it just a little harder for management to sort through the job applications looking for real scabs.
AND, you can contribute securely online at:
https://secure.ga6.org/08/arhstrikefund
or by check to:
Kentucky Nurses' Association
1400 South First Street
P.O. Box 2616
Louisville, KY 40201-2616
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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR STRIKING NURSES
I will almost certainly be doing a benefit concert for the striking nurses at a Pittsburgh location on Saturday, December 15th. It will be a free concert with your generous donations to the strike fund ... food, cash, checks, clothing, toys ... all delivered to the nurses on the 16th in time for Christmas.
Check http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html for the location.
In the meantime, gather up your generous gifts for the striking nurses. If I don't get a location for the concert, I'll come to your house to pick up your gifts and even sing you a song!
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"BURIED" PRODUCTIONS FOR 2008
Jerry Starr's powerful play, BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster, will be produced in Detroit, Chicago and Indiana, PA in 2008. I'm hoping to be a part of all three productions, although my 2008 schedule may make that difficult. I'll *definitely* be doing the music for the Indiana, PA production at the end of March/beginning of April 2008.
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MILESTONES & HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007
Just back from the School of the Americas Watch vigil - as moving and powerful as ever - 25,000 say NO! Not in my name! Close the SOA!! Holly Near, the Indigo Girls and Dennis Kucinich and a fabulous collective of musicians were on hand. I've put some photos by Al Viola on my blog and there's a great slide show at:
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Your holiday gift to School of the Americas Watch will help to close our terrorist training camp.
Chris Chandler and I on stage at the SOAWatch Vigil 2007
The Musicians' Collective
2007 was a year of tragic and devastating losses - starting with the murder of brilliant 36 year old Helen Hill in New Orleans last January 4th; Santiago Cruz, FLOC organizer, only 29 years old when he was found murdered in the union office in Monterrey; my friend Jackie Brown, dead at 47 from breast cancer in Jacksonville; my dear friend Berk Snow, dead in a plane crash at 55; my son's childhood best friend, Joel Daniels Walker - dead at 27 here in Pittsburgh; the dynamic young president of United American Nurses, Cheryl Johnson - dead of a brain aneurism at 57 -- The world is diminished by the loss of Molly Ivins, George Becker, Jackie Alper, Pat Jardine and Victor Rabinowitz. And my hometown won't be the same without Ralph Kelly and Leon Swimmer. The tragic, preventable deaths at the Crandall Canyon mines in Utah remind us all to "Mourn the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living!"
2007 was also filled with joys. Lots of wonderful new babies to play with, lots of weddings - most notably (for me) the wedding of my son Dan to the brilliant and lovely Monique Murad. This Thanksgiving holiday was the best ever - family, friends, music, games, jokes, food and lots of laughs and hugs. My wonderful daughter Amy is almost a certified massage therapist.
I was blessed with too many wonderful performance opportunities to list (... but the Salt Spring Folk Club will give me lovely memories for a lifetime!).
Still, I am so touched by the kindness, generosity, dedication and hard work of my wonderful presenters and tour mates: Rick Smith, all the NOLSW folks, Celeste Howard and Georgia Pinkel, Inger and Bo in Gothenburg, Charles King, Kathleen Culver and Noel Beasley of the Eugene Debs Foundation, Don Scheiber, my Telus pals in Smedjebacken, Sarah & Tarmo, Shelley Kessler & all the WWLHF folks, Kay and Walter Tillow, Eleanor Walden, Pat Hogan, Michael Goodman & Sharon Sjerven (!), Ken Orchard & Sharon Hazelwood, Al & Dotty Dale & Betsy Pernotto & Bob Marshall, Leon Peek, Lu Mitchell, Danny Yeager, Jenny Brown & Joe Courter, Ward Broderson, Julia Ayres, Alexis, Arlene & Dave, Wendyl, Martha Shunn, Melanie Crawford, Alan Patrusevich, Dale Morris, Jamie and Matt in IA City, Corey Dolgon, Art & Melanie, Dave Johnson, Ron Haldeman, Helena Worthen, Margie Rosenkranz, Terry Irons, Robert Ford, Teresa Allen, Adam & Kris, Brian QTN, my OCF Faire Family, Ken & Janet Bates, Jim Gorman & Joey Hartman, Larry Olds, all my wonderful new friends in Florence, OR, Amy Newell, Maureen and Al Cholger, Maureen Wood, Jim Cook & the NW Labor Arts committee (!), Cecile and Axel Myer, Dan Kenney, Chris in Charleston, Jim & Jenny Barrett, the Anathoth Community folks, Janet Tucker, Julienne and John Oldfield, Liz Long, Polly Grubb, Alex, Paul Kotheimer, Rosanne Barker, Julius Margolin, David Rovics, Evan Greer and Chris Chandler. (I'm sure I missed some folks I'm going to kick myself over, but it's a start!)
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SEASONAL JOKE (From Karen Newman)
Two Santas from rival department stores walk into a bar and get into a fight. Fortunately, a comma and a period are in the same bar. They get together and separate the two Clauses.
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IRISH TOURS UPDATE
The Irish tours are filling up fast. I've got room for six more folks in June, five more in August, and still sixteen more folks for the Sept/Oct tour (when the airfares should be lower). I've set up Google discussion groups for folks on the tour, and we're busy planning our adventures, making reading lists and more. It's not too late to join us. We'll need $750 by December 20th to hold your spot, and the balance eight weeks before departure.
After some preliminary investigation, it doesn't appear likely that I'll be able to arrange any "group discount" with the airlines. So you should start looking into air fares to Ireland. I hope the dollar gets stronger soon... although it's sure making this tour even more of a bargain now!!! Nine days in Ireland with all accommodations, all ground transportation, all breakfasts, three dinners, and admission to most group events only $1750. (This does NOT include airfare to Shannon, Ireland where each tour begins).
We'll have the best of the West - the best scenery, the best music, and many opportunities to learn about Irish history, politics, poetry and more! Send me an email if you'd like more information.
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LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS
My CD sale at CDBaby continues through December 8th. Take advantage of my seasonal sale!!
Northland Poster Collective carries a fabulous inventory of union made posters, tee shirts and so much more!
A great source for activist books and more is Burned Books Publishing -- check out my friend John Storhm's fine selection of hard-to-find books!
I've still got a couple music boxes that play "The Internationale" left... $40
Powell's Books is a superior source of books and more. Use this link and the ILWU local that represents Powell's workers will benefit! http://www.powellsunion.com/shop-smart/shop-smart/buy-books
It's still not too late to give a special someone a unique gift - credit in the liner notes of my new CD!! For $100 I'll list your name, or your sweetheart's name, or the name of someone you admire in my forthcoming CD "Dump the Bosses off Your Back." I've got 41 of the 62 sponsors I need to finish this CD. Send a check for $100 to ANNE FEENEY, 2240 Milligan Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
If you want to use a credit card, email me at anne@annefeeney.com and I'll tell you how to do that.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/publications/magazine/cooltools.cfm
is more than a guide to union made goods... the facts & stats box in the bottom left corner is a goldmine of useful information
and remember -- this season is NOT about the gifts... spend time with friends - do something unexpected and wonderful for someone else. Thanks for staying in touch with me... I hope to see you in 2008!
Happy holidays and much love
Anne
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UPCOMING DATES:
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 12:00 PM
CODE RED RALLY!! Appalachian Regional Health Care RNs Fighting Back
ARH Headquarters
2285 Executive Drive
Lexington, KY
http://www.uannurse.org/ufiles/UAN37-07flyerfinal.pdf
Price: free
Exit 110 off I-75
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 7:30 PM
The Syracuse Peace Council presents Anne Feeney with Colleen Kattau
Pebble Hill Church
5299 Jamesville Road
DeWitt, NY
(315) 475-6251
Price: $1-=20 suggested
Colleen is a fabulously talented singer and songwriter in both English and Spanish. This will be a wonderful evening.
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 7:00 PM
Truth and Artichokes: A Fabulous Tribute Concert for Jackie Alper!
Eighth Step at Proctors
432 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12305
(518) 434-1703
http://eighthstep.org
Price: $tba
This concert will benefit the Eighth Step and features Ronnie Gilbert, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen and many more special guests. I'm ecstatic to have this opportunity to honor the memory of my friend, Jackie Alper, and to benefit the Eighth Step.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 4:00 PM
Support Striking RNs at Appalachian Regional Health
tba
Pittsburgh, PA
Price: donation
Drop off new toys, food, cash, checks, new clothing -- From 7 - 9 PM we'll have a sing-along of union songs, carols and more.
Checks to: Kentucky Nurses' Association
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 10:00 AM
Caravan to ARH Picket Line
I'm driving down to Beckley or Lexington or Louisville (I'll know soon) with whatever we collect on the 15th... does anyone want to come along?
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 8:00 PM
Four Shillings Short and Anne Feeney in Concert
Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church
416 W North Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412.877-6480
Price: $15 suggested
If you missed the first concert, you won't want to miss this one! And if you came to the last 4ss concert you'll be spreading the word, I'm sure.. what fun!!
also coming to Pittsburgh in February - THE PRINCE MYSHKINS!!
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS: (details at the end of this post)
NURSES' RALLY IN LEXINGTON, KY!! - NOV 29th
SYRACUSE (NY) PEACE COUNCIL BENEFIT - DEC 1st
JACKIE ALPER TRIBUTE in SCHENECTADY, NY - DEC 2nd
PITTSBURGH BENEFIT CONCERT FOR STRIKING NURSES
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IN THIS ISSUE
750 NURSES ON STRIKE FOR SAFE STAFFING LEVELS!
BENEFIT CONCERT FOR STRIKING NURSES
"BURIED" PRODUCTIONS FOR 2008
MILESTONES & HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007
SEASONAL JOKE
IRISH TOURS UPDATE
LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS
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750 NURSES ON STRIKE FOR SAFE STAFFING LEVELS!
On October 1, 2007 750 nurses went on strike against Appalachian Regional Health Systems. The incessant mandatory overtime and chronic understaffing is endangering patients and limiting the nurses' ability to do their jobs properly.
When I played in Charleston, WV in early November, I stopped by the nurses' picket line in Beckley. They're a great group of folks, and determined to stick this out.
Read more here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_us/nurses_strike_6
You can help by signing this petition:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/nurses_kywv
Or clogging up their scab hotline -- apply for a job... hell apply for several jobs ... if they're getting 10,000 job applications a day it might make it hard for them to find the three creepy lowlife scabs willing to come to WV or KY to break this strike.
http://www.arh.org/Employment/ImmediateOpenings.php
I applied for a job as an RN at Beckley ... My name was Ms. Scab E. Scab. I obtained my BS in BackStabbing. I was referred to their site by Benedict Arnold. My references included Satan Himself, beelzebub@hotmail.com, telephone (666) 666-6666
You can amuse yourself filling out the application, and help the striking nurses by making it just a little harder for management to sort through the job applications looking for real scabs.
AND, you can contribute securely online at:
https://secure.ga6.org/08/arhstrikefund
or by check to:
Kentucky Nurses' Association
1400 South First Street
P.O. Box 2616
Louisville, KY 40201-2616
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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR STRIKING NURSES
I will almost certainly be doing a benefit concert for the striking nurses at a Pittsburgh location on Saturday, December 15th. It will be a free concert with your generous donations to the strike fund ... food, cash, checks, clothing, toys ... all delivered to the nurses on the 16th in time for Christmas.
Check http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html for the location.
In the meantime, gather up your generous gifts for the striking nurses. If I don't get a location for the concert, I'll come to your house to pick up your gifts and even sing you a song!
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"BURIED" PRODUCTIONS FOR 2008
Jerry Starr's powerful play, BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster, will be produced in Detroit, Chicago and Indiana, PA in 2008. I'm hoping to be a part of all three productions, although my 2008 schedule may make that difficult. I'll *definitely* be doing the music for the Indiana, PA production at the end of March/beginning of April 2008.
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MILESTONES & HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007
Just back from the School of the Americas Watch vigil - as moving and powerful as ever - 25,000 say NO! Not in my name! Close the SOA!! Holly Near, the Indigo Girls and Dennis Kucinich and a fabulous collective of musicians were on hand. I've put some photos by Al Viola on my blog and there's a great slide show at:
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Your holiday gift to School of the Americas Watch will help to close our terrorist training camp.
Chris Chandler and I on stage at the SOAWatch Vigil 2007
The Musicians' Collective
2007 was a year of tragic and devastating losses - starting with the murder of brilliant 36 year old Helen Hill in New Orleans last January 4th; Santiago Cruz, FLOC organizer, only 29 years old when he was found murdered in the union office in Monterrey; my friend Jackie Brown, dead at 47 from breast cancer in Jacksonville; my dear friend Berk Snow, dead in a plane crash at 55; my son's childhood best friend, Joel Daniels Walker - dead at 27 here in Pittsburgh; the dynamic young president of United American Nurses, Cheryl Johnson - dead of a brain aneurism at 57 -- The world is diminished by the loss of Molly Ivins, George Becker, Jackie Alper, Pat Jardine and Victor Rabinowitz. And my hometown won't be the same without Ralph Kelly and Leon Swimmer. The tragic, preventable deaths at the Crandall Canyon mines in Utah remind us all to "Mourn the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living!"
2007 was also filled with joys. Lots of wonderful new babies to play with, lots of weddings - most notably (for me) the wedding of my son Dan to the brilliant and lovely Monique Murad. This Thanksgiving holiday was the best ever - family, friends, music, games, jokes, food and lots of laughs and hugs. My wonderful daughter Amy is almost a certified massage therapist.
I was blessed with too many wonderful performance opportunities to list (... but the Salt Spring Folk Club will give me lovely memories for a lifetime!).
Still, I am so touched by the kindness, generosity, dedication and hard work of my wonderful presenters and tour mates: Rick Smith, all the NOLSW folks, Celeste Howard and Georgia Pinkel, Inger and Bo in Gothenburg, Charles King, Kathleen Culver and Noel Beasley of the Eugene Debs Foundation, Don Scheiber, my Telus pals in Smedjebacken, Sarah & Tarmo, Shelley Kessler & all the WWLHF folks, Kay and Walter Tillow, Eleanor Walden, Pat Hogan, Michael Goodman & Sharon Sjerven (!), Ken Orchard & Sharon Hazelwood, Al & Dotty Dale & Betsy Pernotto & Bob Marshall, Leon Peek, Lu Mitchell, Danny Yeager, Jenny Brown & Joe Courter, Ward Broderson, Julia Ayres, Alexis, Arlene & Dave, Wendyl, Martha Shunn, Melanie Crawford, Alan Patrusevich, Dale Morris, Jamie and Matt in IA City, Corey Dolgon, Art & Melanie, Dave Johnson, Ron Haldeman, Helena Worthen, Margie Rosenkranz, Terry Irons, Robert Ford, Teresa Allen, Adam & Kris, Brian QTN, my OCF Faire Family, Ken & Janet Bates, Jim Gorman & Joey Hartman, Larry Olds, all my wonderful new friends in Florence, OR, Amy Newell, Maureen and Al Cholger, Maureen Wood, Jim Cook & the NW Labor Arts committee (!), Cecile and Axel Myer, Dan Kenney, Chris in Charleston, Jim & Jenny Barrett, the Anathoth Community folks, Janet Tucker, Julienne and John Oldfield, Liz Long, Polly Grubb, Alex, Paul Kotheimer, Rosanne Barker, Julius Margolin, David Rovics, Evan Greer and Chris Chandler. (I'm sure I missed some folks I'm going to kick myself over, but it's a start!)
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SEASONAL JOKE (From Karen Newman)
Two Santas from rival department stores walk into a bar and get into a fight. Fortunately, a comma and a period are in the same bar. They get together and separate the two Clauses.
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IRISH TOURS UPDATE
The Irish tours are filling up fast. I've got room for six more folks in June, five more in August, and still sixteen more folks for the Sept/Oct tour (when the airfares should be lower). I've set up Google discussion groups for folks on the tour, and we're busy planning our adventures, making reading lists and more. It's not too late to join us. We'll need $750 by December 20th to hold your spot, and the balance eight weeks before departure.
After some preliminary investigation, it doesn't appear likely that I'll be able to arrange any "group discount" with the airlines. So you should start looking into air fares to Ireland. I hope the dollar gets stronger soon... although it's sure making this tour even more of a bargain now!!! Nine days in Ireland with all accommodations, all ground transportation, all breakfasts, three dinners, and admission to most group events only $1750. (This does NOT include airfare to Shannon, Ireland where each tour begins).
We'll have the best of the West - the best scenery, the best music, and many opportunities to learn about Irish history, politics, poetry and more! Send me an email if you'd like more information.
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LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS
My CD sale at CDBaby continues through December 8th. Take advantage of my seasonal sale!!
Northland Poster Collective carries a fabulous inventory of union made posters, tee shirts and so much more!
A great source for activist books and more is Burned Books Publishing -- check out my friend John Storhm's fine selection of hard-to-find books!
I've still got a couple music boxes that play "The Internationale" left... $40
Powell's Books is a superior source of books and more. Use this link and the ILWU local that represents Powell's workers will benefit! http://www.powellsunion.com/shop-smart/shop-smart/buy-books
It's still not too late to give a special someone a unique gift - credit in the liner notes of my new CD!! For $100 I'll list your name, or your sweetheart's name, or the name of someone you admire in my forthcoming CD "Dump the Bosses off Your Back." I've got 41 of the 62 sponsors I need to finish this CD. Send a check for $100 to ANNE FEENEY, 2240 Milligan Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
If you want to use a credit card, email me at anne@annefeeney.com and I'll tell you how to do that.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/publications/magazine/cooltools.cfm
is more than a guide to union made goods... the facts & stats box in the bottom left corner is a goldmine of useful information
and remember -- this season is NOT about the gifts... spend time with friends - do something unexpected and wonderful for someone else. Thanks for staying in touch with me... I hope to see you in 2008!
Happy holidays and much love
Anne
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UPCOMING DATES:
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 12:00 PM
CODE RED RALLY!! Appalachian Regional Health Care RNs Fighting Back
ARH Headquarters
2285 Executive Drive
Lexington, KY
http://www.uannurse.org/ufiles/UAN37-07flyerfinal.pdf
Price: free
Exit 110 off I-75
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 7:30 PM
The Syracuse Peace Council presents Anne Feeney with Colleen Kattau
Pebble Hill Church
5299 Jamesville Road
DeWitt, NY
(315) 475-6251
Price: $1-=20 suggested
Colleen is a fabulously talented singer and songwriter in both English and Spanish. This will be a wonderful evening.
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 7:00 PM
Truth and Artichokes: A Fabulous Tribute Concert for Jackie Alper!
Eighth Step at Proctors
432 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12305
(518) 434-1703
http://eighthstep.org
Price: $tba
This concert will benefit the Eighth Step and features Ronnie Gilbert, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen and many more special guests. I'm ecstatic to have this opportunity to honor the memory of my friend, Jackie Alper, and to benefit the Eighth Step.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 4:00 PM
Support Striking RNs at Appalachian Regional Health
tba
Pittsburgh, PA
Price: donation
Drop off new toys, food, cash, checks, new clothing -- From 7 - 9 PM we'll have a sing-along of union songs, carols and more.
Checks to: Kentucky Nurses' Association
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 10:00 AM
Caravan to ARH Picket Line
I'm driving down to Beckley or Lexington or Louisville (I'll know soon) with whatever we collect on the 15th... does anyone want to come along?
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 8:00 PM
Four Shillings Short and Anne Feeney in Concert
Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church
416 W North Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412.877-6480
Price: $15 suggested
If you missed the first concert, you won't want to miss this one! And if you came to the last 4ss concert you'll be spreading the word, I'm sure.. what fun!!
also coming to Pittsburgh in February - THE PRINCE MYSHKINS!!
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival: Workers Unite With Art!
In addition to the music schedule below, the Festival featured labor art (including my husband, Julie Leonardsson's); panel discussions, workshops, films (including John Sayles' MATEWAN)... a FANTASTIC DAY.. Thanks to Wes Brain for the photos!
Here are some Photos:
Susan Lewis and Janet Stecher - "Rebel Voices" - sing with me
Saturday, November 10th
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival: Workers Unite With Art!
Portland State University
Cramer Hall Room 053
Portland, OR
503-235-9444
http://nwlaborarts.org
Price: free!!!
[Schedule as of 11/01/07]
Music Stage - PSU's Cramer Hall - Room 053 (Basement level):
1:00 PM - Native American Ceremony
2:00 PM - M.C. introduces, Festival Coordinator Jim Cook, who introduces the other members of the Coordinating Committee.
2:05 PM - Jimmy Kelly (Santa Cruz) - Founder of the Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival (1987)
2:15 PM - General Strike Band
2:30 PM - The Joe Hillbillies
2:45 PM - George Mann (New York City)
3:00 PM - Film: "A Union Man - The Life and Work of Julius Margolin"
4:00 PM - Melinda Pittman
4:45 PM - Citizens Band (Olympia)
Grace Cox of Citizens' Band and I join Rebel Voices
5:20 PM - Mic Crenshaw
6:15 PM - Judy O'Connor - NW Oregon Labor Council, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Others - KBOO Radio, PNLHA, others
6:30 PM -The AFTRA Radio Players Presents - A Stage Reading of Studs Terkel's "American Dreams"
6:50 PM - Rebel Voices (Seattle)
7:30 PM -The AFTRA Radio Players Presents - A Stage Reading of Studs Terkel's "American Dreams"
7:50 PM - Dick Weissman - Folk Legend / Musician for the Oil, Chemical, Atomic Workers Union
8:20 PM - Anne Feeney - "The Best Labor Singer in North America" ---- Utah Phillips
9:00 PM - Finale
Solidarity forever!
The UNION makes us strong!!!!
Here are some Photos:
Susan Lewis and Janet Stecher - "Rebel Voices" - sing with me
Saturday, November 10th
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival: Workers Unite With Art!
Portland State University
Cramer Hall Room 053
Portland, OR
503-235-9444
http://nwlaborarts.org
Price: free!!!
[Schedule as of 11/01/07]
Music Stage - PSU's Cramer Hall - Room 053 (Basement level):
1:00 PM - Native American Ceremony
2:00 PM - M.C. introduces, Festival Coordinator Jim Cook, who introduces the other members of the Coordinating Committee.
2:05 PM - Jimmy Kelly (Santa Cruz) - Founder of the Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival (1987)
2:15 PM - General Strike Band
2:30 PM - The Joe Hillbillies
2:45 PM - George Mann (New York City)
3:00 PM - Film: "A Union Man - The Life and Work of Julius Margolin"
4:00 PM - Melinda Pittman
4:45 PM - Citizens Band (Olympia)
Grace Cox of Citizens' Band and I join Rebel Voices
5:20 PM - Mic Crenshaw
6:15 PM - Judy O'Connor - NW Oregon Labor Council, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Others - KBOO Radio, PNLHA, others
6:30 PM -The AFTRA Radio Players Presents - A Stage Reading of Studs Terkel's "American Dreams"
6:50 PM - Rebel Voices (Seattle)
7:30 PM -The AFTRA Radio Players Presents - A Stage Reading of Studs Terkel's "American Dreams"
7:50 PM - Dick Weissman - Folk Legend / Musician for the Oil, Chemical, Atomic Workers Union
8:20 PM - Anne Feeney - "The Best Labor Singer in North America" ---- Utah Phillips
9:00 PM - Finale
Solidarity forever!
The UNION makes us strong!!!!
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - NOVEMBER 2007, VOLUME THREE, #8
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - NOVEMBER 2007, VOLUME THREE, #8
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:
Charleston, WV
Portland, OR
Atlanta, GA
Fort Benning, GA
Schenectady, NY
details at the end of this newsletter
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This is a great time of year to take stock of all the things we have to be grateful for... I'm so grateful to have you in my life... your interest, your activism and your support of my music mean so very much to me. I'm grateful for the work that I have... I hope you'll get some time with friends and family over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Love,
Anne
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IN THIS ISSUE:
FABULOUS DECEMBER 2nd SONG FOR JACKIE CONCERT w BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON, RONNIE GILBERT and me!!!
PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY NEW CD!!
DISCOUNTS IN NOVEMBER on my CDs at CDBABY
DVDs and MUSIC BOXES
IRELAND IN 2008
A HALLOWE'EN STORY:
THE REVOLT OF THE SKELETON CREW
JULIUS MARGOLIN TRIBUTE
NORTHWEST 2008
FAMILY NEWS
TOUR DATES
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I'M IN CONCERT DEC 2nd with RONNIE GILBERT, BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON, and MANY MANY MORE WONDERFUL MUSICAL GUESTS...
My September newsletter noted with sorrow the death of my longtime Albany/Schenectady area host Jackie Alper. Jackie's "Mostly Folk" aired on WRPI for many many years and she was an extraordinary person... which is why so many luminaries will come to be part of this concert to honor her: SONG FOR JACKIE
The Eighth Step at Proctors will host a tribute concert for Jackie Alper - featuring yours truly AND Ronnie Gilbert, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen and many many more special and wonderful musical guests! If you're within 200 miles of Schenectady you'll want to get tickets immediately for this concert... scheduled for Sunday, December 2nd at 7PM
Proceeds benefit the Eighth Step.
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MY NEW CD:
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back -- You Can Help!
Part of the reason that Dump the Bosses Off Your Back has been so long in coming is because so far I only have 30 sponsors for this recording, instead of my usual 200... Check to see if your name is on the donors' list below. If not, please, please, consider being an 'executive producer/angel/enabler' of this new CD - $100 gets your name (or the name of someone else of your choice... now there's an unusual holiday gift...) into the liner notes of my CD.
If you can, please send $100 to:
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
If you can't, don't sweat it. Consider buying one of my CDs for a friend... that'll help too. Still, there must be 170 people left on this list who can spare $100 to help me out here.....
(If you sent me $100 for "If I Can't Dance," thank you thank you & please disregard this message.)
Here is the list of my angels-to-date - If I forgot anyone, please let me know, ASAP!!!
Amy Newell, Kay Magill, Jeanine Malito, Jack O' Malley, Rosemary Trump, Rosanna Lane, Candice Carter, Stan Swart, Joel Henderson, Rich Shriver, Shelley Kessler, Tom Herman and Jo Miller, Rose Feurer, Pat Bennett, Berk Snow, Jeanne Clark & Tim Sullivan, Michele Samuels. Courtney Derwinski, Dexter Arnold, Corliss Olson, Charlene Torok Cannon, Martha Shunn, Michael Ruscigno, David Newby, Jan Boyd, Jim Tremmel, Millie B, Sue Vilbrandt, Noel Beasley, Ron Berlin
The new CD will include:
Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky)
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Brave New Christmas
Ya Basta!
plus my three new ones:
You Will Answer
How Much for the Life of a Miner?
How Long?
plus these favorites from my cassettes:
No Man's Land
Here's to You Rounders
Whatever Ya Say, Say Nothing
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Special Discounts at CDBaby, this month only!
For November only I have discounted all my CDs at CDBaby for gift-givers... (if you buy more than one)... Please visit http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid ....
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Music Boxes & DVDs
While supplies last, I have a small quantity of those darling hand-cranked Swedish music boxes that play "The Internationale." Too cool. The perfect holiday gift for the leftie who abhors commercialism. $40 while supplies last. Send check to Anne Feeney, 2240 Milligan Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
And, I have a small quantity of the "This is What Democracy Looks Like" DVD in stock. This latest edition includes recent interview with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva. $20 by check to Anne Feeney, 2240 Milligan Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
If you want to pay by credit card or Paypal, email me... anne@annefeeney.com
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Ireland 2008
The Ireland trips for 2008 are going to be fantastic. I can only take 20 people at a time. I've got 13 signed up for June, 11 signed up for August and 5 signed up for September/October ... If you're interested in touring the west of Ireland with me in 2008, drop me a line - anne@annefeeney.com - and I'll send you all the details. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the "real Ireland." Music, politics, poetry, history, scenery ... and, of course, Guinness...
You're all welcome!
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A HALLOWE'EN STORY
The Revolt of the Skeleton Crew
After months of dwindling staff due to attrition and layoffs, Heartland Human Services in Effingham, IL was finally down to a real skeleton crew.
Thirty five workers were doing the work of 70 by the time they finally said, "Enough is enough," and went on strike.
These thirty five AFSCME members (Local 3494) have been on strike since July 2nd - almost four months without a paycheck ... The board at Heart(less) (In)human Services is ignoring the recommendations of its own chief negotiator and its attorney ... cruelly prolonging the strike. These workers deliver mental health services to inpatients and outpatients in Illinois.
Evan Greer and I helped to raise $800 for the strikers while we were in the midwest. The 100 delegates at the AFSCME education conference I played at last weekend donated $125 to the strike fund. Can't you help by sending a donation - how about $35??? - to:
AFSCME COUNCIL 31 SOLIDARITY FUND
615 S. Second St.
P.O. Box 2328
Springfield, IL 62705
heartland@heartlandhs.org is the email address of the employer...
The Board Members are:
Roger Marshall President
Jeff Bloemker Vice President
Pat Green Secretary/Treasurer
Deborah Mahon Director
Debra Owen Director
John Perry Director
George Westjohn Director
Terri Phillips Director
Email them all at heartland@heartlandhs.org and tell them "Enough is Enough!" Time to return to the bargaining table with promises of adequate staffing, livable wages and security and dignity on the job!
Thanks!
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Julius Margolin Tribute Concert
The Julius Margolin Tribute show was a smashing success... The lovely auditorium at 1199 - the Health and Hospital Workers' Union of New York was a perfect setting for an inspiring show. Julius was in great form and sang a couple songs with George Mann. He was very touched by the turnout and the music. We raised about $1800 for a scholarship fund to help young trade union activists attend the Great Labor Arts Exchange and the Western Workers' Labor Heritage Festival.
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Northwest 2008
I'm trying to decide whether or not to tour the Northwest in Jan/Feb of 2008. My new CD should be ready by then, and there's a good chance that my summer tour to the Northwest will be very very short this year. Does anyone know of anything going on in the NW (or the great Canadian SW) in Jan/Feb 2008?
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Family News
November 6 - Kimberly Sever's birthday phatchick(@)gmail.com
November 12 - Julie Leonardsson picasso77750(@)yahoo.se
Turkey Day plans...
Julie and I will host Amy Berlin and Jesse Dalton, Dan Berlin & Monique Murad, Ron Berlin, Kate Feeney, Kimberly Anne Sever, Bill Feeney and Tod Faller for Thanksgiving dinner.
And in Aiken, Aunt Claire will get to enjoy all seven of her grandchildren and all three great-grandchildren ... Olivia Grefenstette from Chicago, Charlie Warren from Greenville, SC, and newest great-grandchild Marlo Mary of Denver.
San Diego Cousins Dodge the Wildfires
My cousins Jim & Mardy McCahill and Peggy and John Duncan (parents of Connor & triplets Emma, Colin and Tara) live in the "voluntary" evacuation area of the San Diego wildfires. You can imagine the bedlam which ensued when Peggy and John had to uproot the two year old triplets and big brother Connor to new surroundings. At last report, alll are safely back at home.
Hole in One for Birdman
On Wednesday, October 17, my Maryland cousins Kevin (Birdman) McCahill his brother Denny (Yo Daddy) were playing an afternoon round at The Timbers at Troy golf course, in Elkridge, MD. This is an outstanding course, and a very difficult challenge, as witnessed by the Slope Index of 134 from the blue tees, which they were playing that day. The fifth hole is a par three requiring the tee shot to carry over an expanse of open natural wetlands, which extend right up to the heavily trapped green. The course considers this to be their signature hole, and has a picture of it on the front of the scorecard.
It is an exceptionally beautiful and demanding par three.
Denny hit first, and produced a pretty good shot, that hit on the left side of the green, and then bounced into one of the many sand-traps surrounding the hole. Kevin then stepped up, and with a classically smooth swing, launched a high flying seven iron that, after a sweet and delicate draw, landed three feet in front of the pin, took one bounce, and rolled smoothly into the center of the cup! Yeaaaaaay! Hooray for Kevin! A lifetime goal achieved, in the most elegant fashion. Kevin turned after watching the shot go in, and with an incredulous look on his face, rushed across the tee to embrace his cheering brother in exultation.
As if by magic, the beer cart girl showed up as they reached the green, and Kevin immediately bought his first (of many, I expect) round of drinks in celebration of his exploit. The young lady was astounded to receive a five dollar tip just for handing out three beers, but she soon discovered why, and ended up helping with the celebration.
Thanks to Yo Daddy for the exciting account, which I adapted for this month's Family News.
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TOUR DATES
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
520 Kanawha Blvd W
Charleston, WV
304-345-5042
Price: $7-12 suggested
Friday, November 9th, 2007 1:00 PM
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival Retreat
Bonneville Hot Springs
Portland, OR
503-703-1693
This festival is sponsored by the NW Oregon Labor Council and others.
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 1:00 PM-9PM
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival
with Dick Weissman, Rebel Voices, Citizens' Band, George Mann & Julius Margolin, Mic Krenshaw, Robert Johnson & a dramatic reading of Studs Terkel's work by AFTRA Members. Plus Art/Murals/Oral Histories & More!
for more information: 503-703-1693
Portland State University
Portland, OR
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 7:00 PM
Benefit Concert for SOAW
Eyedrum Gallery
290 MLK Drive, SE
Atlanta, GA 30312
http://www.eyedrum.org
Price: $5-25 sliding
with a very distinguished cast ... don't miss it!
Friday, November 16th, 2007 12:00 PM
SOAWatch Vigil
School of the Americas
Fort Benning, GA
http://soaw.org
Saturday, November 17th, 2007 8:00 PM
SOAWatch Vigil
School of the Americas
Fort Benning, GA
http://soaw.org
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 12:00 PM
SOAWatch Vigil
School of the Americas
Fort Benning, GA
http://soaw.org
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 7:00 PM
Song for Jackie:
A Fabulous Tribute Concert for Jackie Alper!
Eighth Step at Proctors
432 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12305
(518) 434-1703
http://eighthstep.org
Price: $tba
This concert will benefit the Eighth Step and features Ronnie Gilbert, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Steve and Cindy Gillette and many more special guests. I'm ecstatic to have this opportunity to honor the memory of my friend, Jackie Alper, and to benefit the Eighth Step.
Please check with the venue to confirm times, etc. Information is continuously updated at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html
If this was forwarded to you, you can subscribe at http://annefeeney.com/newsletter.html
Thanks!
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:
Charleston, WV
Portland, OR
Atlanta, GA
Fort Benning, GA
Schenectady, NY
details at the end of this newsletter
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This is a great time of year to take stock of all the things we have to be grateful for... I'm so grateful to have you in my life... your interest, your activism and your support of my music mean so very much to me. I'm grateful for the work that I have... I hope you'll get some time with friends and family over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Love,
Anne
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IN THIS ISSUE:
FABULOUS DECEMBER 2nd SONG FOR JACKIE CONCERT w BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON, RONNIE GILBERT and me!!!
PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY NEW CD!!
DISCOUNTS IN NOVEMBER on my CDs at CDBABY
DVDs and MUSIC BOXES
IRELAND IN 2008
A HALLOWE'EN STORY:
THE REVOLT OF THE SKELETON CREW
JULIUS MARGOLIN TRIBUTE
NORTHWEST 2008
FAMILY NEWS
TOUR DATES
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I'M IN CONCERT DEC 2nd with RONNIE GILBERT, BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON, and MANY MANY MORE WONDERFUL MUSICAL GUESTS...
My September newsletter noted with sorrow the death of my longtime Albany/Schenectady area host Jackie Alper. Jackie's "Mostly Folk" aired on WRPI for many many years and she was an extraordinary person... which is why so many luminaries will come to be part of this concert to honor her: SONG FOR JACKIE
The Eighth Step at Proctors will host a tribute concert for Jackie Alper - featuring yours truly AND Ronnie Gilbert, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen and many many more special and wonderful musical guests! If you're within 200 miles of Schenectady you'll want to get tickets immediately for this concert... scheduled for Sunday, December 2nd at 7PM
Proceeds benefit the Eighth Step.
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MY NEW CD:
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back -- You Can Help!
Part of the reason that Dump the Bosses Off Your Back has been so long in coming is because so far I only have 30 sponsors for this recording, instead of my usual 200... Check to see if your name is on the donors' list below. If not, please, please, consider being an 'executive producer/angel/enabler' of this new CD - $100 gets your name (or the name of someone else of your choice... now there's an unusual holiday gift...) into the liner notes of my CD.
If you can, please send $100 to:
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
If you can't, don't sweat it. Consider buying one of my CDs for a friend... that'll help too. Still, there must be 170 people left on this list who can spare $100 to help me out here.....
(If you sent me $100 for "If I Can't Dance," thank you thank you & please disregard this message.)
Here is the list of my angels-to-date - If I forgot anyone, please let me know, ASAP!!!
Amy Newell, Kay Magill, Jeanine Malito, Jack O' Malley, Rosemary Trump, Rosanna Lane, Candice Carter, Stan Swart, Joel Henderson, Rich Shriver, Shelley Kessler, Tom Herman and Jo Miller, Rose Feurer, Pat Bennett, Berk Snow, Jeanne Clark & Tim Sullivan, Michele Samuels. Courtney Derwinski, Dexter Arnold, Corliss Olson, Charlene Torok Cannon, Martha Shunn, Michael Ruscigno, David Newby, Jan Boyd, Jim Tremmel, Millie B, Sue Vilbrandt, Noel Beasley, Ron Berlin
The new CD will include:
Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky)
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Brave New Christmas
Ya Basta!
plus my three new ones:
You Will Answer
How Much for the Life of a Miner?
How Long?
plus these favorites from my cassettes:
No Man's Land
Here's to You Rounders
Whatever Ya Say, Say Nothing
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Special Discounts at CDBaby, this month only!
For November only I have discounted all my CDs at CDBaby for gift-givers... (if you buy more than one)... Please visit http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid ....
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Music Boxes & DVDs
While supplies last, I have a small quantity of those darling hand-cranked Swedish music boxes that play "The Internationale." Too cool. The perfect holiday gift for the leftie who abhors commercialism. $40 while supplies last. Send check to Anne Feeney, 2240 Milligan Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
And, I have a small quantity of the "This is What Democracy Looks Like" DVD in stock. This latest edition includes recent interview with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva. $20 by check to Anne Feeney, 2240 Milligan Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
If you want to pay by credit card or Paypal, email me... anne@annefeeney.com
********************************************
Ireland 2008
The Ireland trips for 2008 are going to be fantastic. I can only take 20 people at a time. I've got 13 signed up for June, 11 signed up for August and 5 signed up for September/October ... If you're interested in touring the west of Ireland with me in 2008, drop me a line - anne@annefeeney.com - and I'll send you all the details. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the "real Ireland." Music, politics, poetry, history, scenery ... and, of course, Guinness...
You're all welcome!
*********************************************
A HALLOWE'EN STORY
The Revolt of the Skeleton Crew
After months of dwindling staff due to attrition and layoffs, Heartland Human Services in Effingham, IL was finally down to a real skeleton crew.
Thirty five workers were doing the work of 70 by the time they finally said, "Enough is enough," and went on strike.
These thirty five AFSCME members (Local 3494) have been on strike since July 2nd - almost four months without a paycheck ... The board at Heart(less) (In)human Services is ignoring the recommendations of its own chief negotiator and its attorney ... cruelly prolonging the strike. These workers deliver mental health services to inpatients and outpatients in Illinois.
Evan Greer and I helped to raise $800 for the strikers while we were in the midwest. The 100 delegates at the AFSCME education conference I played at last weekend donated $125 to the strike fund. Can't you help by sending a donation - how about $35??? - to:
AFSCME COUNCIL 31 SOLIDARITY FUND
615 S. Second St.
P.O. Box 2328
Springfield, IL 62705
heartland@heartlandhs.org is the email address of the employer...
The Board Members are:
Roger Marshall President
Jeff Bloemker Vice President
Pat Green Secretary/Treasurer
Deborah Mahon Director
Debra Owen Director
John Perry Director
George Westjohn Director
Terri Phillips Director
Email them all at heartland@heartlandhs.org and tell them "Enough is Enough!" Time to return to the bargaining table with promises of adequate staffing, livable wages and security and dignity on the job!
Thanks!
***********************************************
Julius Margolin Tribute Concert
The Julius Margolin Tribute show was a smashing success... The lovely auditorium at 1199 - the Health and Hospital Workers' Union of New York was a perfect setting for an inspiring show. Julius was in great form and sang a couple songs with George Mann. He was very touched by the turnout and the music. We raised about $1800 for a scholarship fund to help young trade union activists attend the Great Labor Arts Exchange and the Western Workers' Labor Heritage Festival.
***********************************************
Northwest 2008
I'm trying to decide whether or not to tour the Northwest in Jan/Feb of 2008. My new CD should be ready by then, and there's a good chance that my summer tour to the Northwest will be very very short this year. Does anyone know of anything going on in the NW (or the great Canadian SW) in Jan/Feb 2008?
********************************************
Family News
November 6 - Kimberly Sever's birthday phatchick(@)gmail.com
November 12 - Julie Leonardsson picasso77750(@)yahoo.se
Turkey Day plans...
Julie and I will host Amy Berlin and Jesse Dalton, Dan Berlin & Monique Murad, Ron Berlin, Kate Feeney, Kimberly Anne Sever, Bill Feeney and Tod Faller for Thanksgiving dinner.
And in Aiken, Aunt Claire will get to enjoy all seven of her grandchildren and all three great-grandchildren ... Olivia Grefenstette from Chicago, Charlie Warren from Greenville, SC, and newest great-grandchild Marlo Mary of Denver.
San Diego Cousins Dodge the Wildfires
My cousins Jim & Mardy McCahill and Peggy and John Duncan (parents of Connor & triplets Emma, Colin and Tara) live in the "voluntary" evacuation area of the San Diego wildfires. You can imagine the bedlam which ensued when Peggy and John had to uproot the two year old triplets and big brother Connor to new surroundings. At last report, alll are safely back at home.
Hole in One for Birdman
On Wednesday, October 17, my Maryland cousins Kevin (Birdman) McCahill his brother Denny (Yo Daddy) were playing an afternoon round at The Timbers at Troy golf course, in Elkridge, MD. This is an outstanding course, and a very difficult challenge, as witnessed by the Slope Index of 134 from the blue tees, which they were playing that day. The fifth hole is a par three requiring the tee shot to carry over an expanse of open natural wetlands, which extend right up to the heavily trapped green. The course considers this to be their signature hole, and has a picture of it on the front of the scorecard.
It is an exceptionally beautiful and demanding par three.
Denny hit first, and produced a pretty good shot, that hit on the left side of the green, and then bounced into one of the many sand-traps surrounding the hole. Kevin then stepped up, and with a classically smooth swing, launched a high flying seven iron that, after a sweet and delicate draw, landed three feet in front of the pin, took one bounce, and rolled smoothly into the center of the cup! Yeaaaaaay! Hooray for Kevin! A lifetime goal achieved, in the most elegant fashion. Kevin turned after watching the shot go in, and with an incredulous look on his face, rushed across the tee to embrace his cheering brother in exultation.
As if by magic, the beer cart girl showed up as they reached the green, and Kevin immediately bought his first (of many, I expect) round of drinks in celebration of his exploit. The young lady was astounded to receive a five dollar tip just for handing out three beers, but she soon discovered why, and ended up helping with the celebration.
Thanks to Yo Daddy for the exciting account, which I adapted for this month's Family News.
********************************************
TOUR DATES
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in Concert
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
520 Kanawha Blvd W
Charleston, WV
304-345-5042
Price: $7-12 suggested
Friday, November 9th, 2007 1:00 PM
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival Retreat
Bonneville Hot Springs
Portland, OR
503-703-1693
This festival is sponsored by the NW Oregon Labor Council and others.
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 1:00 PM-9PM
Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival
with Dick Weissman, Rebel Voices, Citizens' Band, George Mann & Julius Margolin, Mic Krenshaw, Robert Johnson & a dramatic reading of Studs Terkel's work by AFTRA Members. Plus Art/Murals/Oral Histories & More!
for more information: 503-703-1693
Portland State University
Portland, OR
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 7:00 PM
Benefit Concert for SOAW
Eyedrum Gallery
290 MLK Drive, SE
Atlanta, GA 30312
http://www.eyedrum.org
Price: $5-25 sliding
with a very distinguished cast ... don't miss it!
Friday, November 16th, 2007 12:00 PM
SOAWatch Vigil
School of the Americas
Fort Benning, GA
http://soaw.org
Saturday, November 17th, 2007 8:00 PM
SOAWatch Vigil
School of the Americas
Fort Benning, GA
http://soaw.org
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 12:00 PM
SOAWatch Vigil
School of the Americas
Fort Benning, GA
http://soaw.org
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 7:00 PM
Song for Jackie:
A Fabulous Tribute Concert for Jackie Alper!
Eighth Step at Proctors
432 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12305
(518) 434-1703
http://eighthstep.org
Price: $tba
This concert will benefit the Eighth Step and features Ronnie Gilbert, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Steve and Cindy Gillette and many more special guests. I'm ecstatic to have this opportunity to honor the memory of my friend, Jackie Alper, and to benefit the Eighth Step.
Please check with the venue to confirm times, etc. Information is continuously updated at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html
If this was forwarded to you, you can subscribe at http://annefeeney.com/newsletter.html
Thanks!
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