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Sacramento Music festival, Saturday June 21-free

It's all free, take your bike and go enjoy...

The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is a world wide music festival that will take place on June 21 in Sacramento, concentrated in the Midtown area. On this day, parks, sidewalks, parking lots, stores and more become impromptu musical stages for both amateur and professional musicians to showcase their talents. All concerts and performances are free and open to the public.

The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is a world wide music festival that takes place on June 21, which is usually the summer solstice. On this day, sidewalks, parks, community gardens, stores and more become impromptu musical stages for both amateur and professional musicians to showcase their talents. All concerts and performances are free and open to the public.

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NorCal Blues Festival in Fair Oaks

Northern California Blues Festival
Saturday, June 21 & 22, 2008
Fair Oaks Park, Fair Oaks, CA
MAP

Benefits Through the Mind
Providing Free Alternative Mental Health Care to returning war Veterans. Helping Veterans with PTSD.

That’s right, due to popular demand, The Northern California Blues Festival is now two great days of awesome music and good times!

CLASSIC CARS - FOOD & SPIRITS - CRAFTS - KIDS ZONE - PANCAKE BREAKFAST - MORE!

NorCal Blues Festival in Fair Oaks

Northern California Blues Festival
Saturday, June 21 & 22, 2008
Fair Oaks Park, Fair Oaks, CA
MAP

Benefits Through the Mind
Providing Free Alternative Mental Health Care to returning war Veterans. Helping Veterans with PTSD.

That’s right, due to popular demand, The Northern California Blues Festival is now two great days of awesome music and good times!

CLASSIC CARS - FOOD & SPIRITS - CRAFTS - KIDS ZONE - PANCAKE BREAKFAST - MORE!

Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73"

Submitted by Dan Bacher on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 4:34pm

The offical Obituary as provided by the family. May 24, 2008
"Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73"

Nevada City, California:
Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor.

Born Bruce Duncan Phillips on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of labor organizers. Whether through this early influence or an early life that was not always tranquil or easy, by his twenties Phillips demonstrated a lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people. He was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, popularly known as "the Wobblies," an organizational artifact of early twentieth-century labor struggles that has seen renewed interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not in small part due to his efforts to popularize it.

Hear Charlotte O'Neal talk about her experiences living in Tanzania for 35 years

Submitted by sgl on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 10:16am


Hear Charlotte O'Neal, poet, musician, community activist



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Charlotte O'Neal

In Sacramento, CA on April 12th, Charlotte O'Neal, a poet, musician, community activist and former Black Panther, talked about her experiences living in Tanzania for 35 years. She and her husband founded the United African Alliance Community Center.



Some of her friends helped with the music and poetry. She was originally from Kansas City.

Country Joe McDonald's Tribute to Woody Guthrie

Second Show added for Country Joe's
Woody Guthrie Tribute

Due to popular demand, and a sold-out show this week @ the 24th St. Theatre in Sacramento, a second show has been added-at a different venue.
Please update your calendars now.

Swell Productions-com and The Americana Ramble Presents:

County Joe MacDonald's Tribute to Woody Guthrie.
Back by popular demand!

Thursday, April 24
Marilyn's on K
908 K. St.
Sacramento, CA
Advance tickets available now at:
www.marilynsonk.com
$25
7:30 showtime
www.swell-productions.com
Swell info #: 916-457-7553

Jim Page in Concert

Jim Page in Concert
8:00 PM on Friday, March 21st at the Odd Fellows Hall
located at 415 2nd Street Davis in downtown Davis.
Doors open at 7:00 PM and the price at the door is $12.00.

From Bill Wagman...

I am helping the Davis Oddfellows get the word out about a concert they are hosting on Friday, March 21st featuring Seattle Singer/Songwriter Jim Page, http://www.jimpage.net/.

Morello, Tankian, Harper Rock For 'War'

Submitted by billl on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 9:45pm

SXSW: Morello, Tankian, Harper Rock For 'War'
March 14, 2008, 11:20 AM CT | Gary Graff, Austin, Texas

Tom Morello, Serj Tankian, Ben Harper, Billy Bragg and others joined forces to sow some musical seeds of revolution last night (March 13) at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

The musicians were celebrating the release of "Body of War," the new documentary about paralyzed Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, who also worked with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder to curate the film's soundtrack. Vedder was caring for an ailing relative and unable to make yesterday's premiere of the film and concert, but the others filled in admirably.

Bragg previewed three songs -- "Farm Boy," "Oh Freedom" and "Sing Them Back Home" -- from his upcoming album, "Mr. Love and Justice." New Warner Bros. signing American Bang performed "Home Mr. President," a song it wrote especially for the occasion. Tankian performed a solo set on piano, while Morello and Harper joined forces for the latter's "Gather 'Round the Stone."

Country Joe McDonald's Tribute to Woody Guthrie

UPDATE: This show is SOLD OUT! New show added on April 24th. Info here: http://sacramentofordemocracy.org/?q=node/view/16254

1960s Anti-War Music Icon Honors America's Legendary Populist Patriot:

Country Joe McDonald's Tribute to Woody Guthrie Comes to Sacramento

Country Joe McDonald, activist and folk music icon is bringing his one man show of song and spoken word about the legendary songwriter/hobo/patriot Woody Guthrie to an intimate theatre in Sacramento.

Thursday, March 27

The 24th St. Theatre

2791 24th St.

Sacramento, CA 95818

Doors open 6:45

Show starts at 7:30

Advance Tix: $ 25/All Ages

Available at R5 Records (16th & Broadway), The Beat (17th & J), The Book Collector (1008 24th St.) and online at www.inticketing.com

Swell Productions Information #: (916)457-7553

www.swell-productions.com