Hi. The Ash Grove is proud and honored to have been asked by
the Highlander Center and Guy & Candie Carawan to co-produce
this momentous event. The attached 'Profiles' are stunning, providing
a living history of what it took to build this movement and a top-level
range of artistic accomplishment. Don't miss it.
As an aside, sort of, I see that Buddy Collette has died. He was
one of the Ash Grove's earliest performers, bringing many of the
greats of jazz along, into the club. Chico Hamilton, Gerald Wilson,
Billie Higgins, Eric Dolphe and many others played regular Sunday
afternoons, then Monday nights, when 'the guys' were free. He was
a dear friend, a sweet man, and is interviewed in the ongoing AG film
project. The LA Times obit portrays Buddie as the first black musician
in Groucho Marx's eponomous TV show. True enough, but that made
him the first Black musician, ever, playing regularly on television. A
notable omission. His art, humanistic politics and work on civil rights
put him into the pantheon. Presente!
-Ed
Ash Grove 2010 PRESS RELEASE and emailout.
"Contact for more info: 310-391-5794
We Shall Overcome: Singing out for Justice:
A Concert of Celebration and Support for The Highlander Research and
Education Center, Honoring Guy Carawan, a founding member of the We Shall
Overcome Fund, for his 50-plus years of tireless service as a cultural
worker with the Highlander Center.
Presented by Ash Grove Music and The Highlander Center,
and with the leadership and support of Highlander alum Rev. James M.
Lawson, friend and co-worker of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and pastor
Emeritus of Holman Methodist Church.
The Higlander Center since 1932 has tirelessly striven to bring about
justice and equality, through such programs as leadership training,
community & labor organizing, and cultural expression, among many others.
The Highlander Center is where Rosa Parks studied non-violent civil
disobedience just weeks before she took her fateful bus-ride; where Martin
Luther King, Jr., James M. Lawson and thousands of other vital movement
organizers trained, learned, and worked for social justice and equality, and
to that goal Highlander Center continues its work today!
COME CELEBRATE AND SUPPORT THE HIGHLANDER CENTER
WHEN: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 2:30 - 4:30 PM
WHERE: The Home and Garden of Jan Goodman & Jerry Manpearl
939 San Vicente Blvd., Santa Monica. (NW crnr. of Larkin)
FEATURING: Guy and Candie Carawan, Len Chandler, The Get Lit Players,
Bernie Pearl, Betty Mae Fikes of the Freedom Singers, Ross Altman, and
Special Surprise Guests!
In 1961 Guy Carawan, Music Director of the Highlander Center, helped
arrange and spread a gospel and union song into 'We Shall Overcome," which
became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, and was first sung at
meetings, churches and rallies in the deep South, and now all around the
globe - by people working towards social justice.
The 'We Shall Overcome Fund' receives residual income generated by use
of the song, and is used to fund Black cultural institutions in the southern
states.
The song, its singing - and its meaning - continue to inspire work
towards social justice, as does the historic and unceasingly vibrant
Highlander Center, to which all proceeds from this event go.
General tickets are available for $35, with larger donations
encouraged, to purchase tickets and or make a donation visit:
www.highlandercenter.org or by calling 865-933-3443
Visit the Ash Grove website: www.ashgrovemusic.com
See trailers of the in progress www.ashgrovefilm.com
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