Post by Dennis M. Kelly on Feb 15, 2006 16:39:04 GMT -6
“STATE OF EMERGENCY”
CD RELEASE BENEFIT PARTY
FOR THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
NEWS RELEASE— Musicians and poets featured on STATE OF EMERGENCY, the new LP created by organizers from the World Can’t Wait (WCW) in Chicago, will perform at a CD release benefit party from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Elbo Room, 2871 N. Lincoln Ave., in Chicago (773/549-5549, http://www.elboroomchicago.com). CD contributors will express their own versions of the state of the union, live at the Elbo Room, to support the national WCW movement. Cover charge is a suggested $7 donation, to WCW-Chicago, and drinks may be purchased at the cash bar. CDs and other merchandise will also be available for sale.
Poet and hip hop-soul diva Nikki Patin will host the event, which begins at 8 p.m. with bands and spoken word artists, followed by hip hop artists and DJ Itch13 at 11 p.m. STATE OF EMERGENCY will be well-represented with a vast list of bands: Nadir’s Distorted Soul (rock), from Detroit, Radio Mango (pop/Latin/world), mind’s hideaway (rock), Cottonseed (folk/rock); and hip hop and spoken word artists: Mars, that revolutionary sister (eclectic/poetry), Dove Rock with Itch13 and Lamon Manuel (hip hop/poetry), Tristan James (trip hop), and avery r. young (gospel/hip hop/poetry). Artist bios and other information can be found at the Proletariat Productions Web site: www.proletariatproductions.com.
STATE OF EMERGENCY is a 17-track compilation CD, and includes the voices of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs Terkel, Debra Sweet, and Samantha Hamlin, along with performers who will appear March 5 at the Elbo Room. This CD was created by WCW-Chicago organizers and Proletariat Productions with recording engineer and producer Tristan James. Radio Mango and Nadir’s Distorted Soul provided recordings from other studios (details available on CD jacket). All tracks were donated by the performers to help raise funds for WCW and to encourage dialogue about the political condition of the United States.
The CD was officially released January 31 to coincide with protests of President Bush’s State of the Union address. This included demonstrations in 68 U.S. cities and towns, organized by WCW to “drown out Bush’s lies.” In Chicago, a rally in Daley Plaza opened with “¡Ya Basta!” played by Radio Mango flamenco guitarist and vocalist, Doug Ringwald, and percussionist John Pollack. Ringwald said, “This song title is Spanish for, ‘Enough!’” The event MC was Mars, that revolutionary sister, whose poem about the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, “Unspeakable,” appears on STATE OF EMERGENCY, as performed with Darius Savage on upright bass.
The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime is a movement of thousands of persons of various political, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations who “seek to mobilize millions to express outrage, to speak the truth, to act with urgency and to form organized political resistance to create a political situation where the Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed.” WCW organizers say, “We demand, Bush step down! And take your program with you!”
CD RELEASE BENEFIT PARTY
FOR THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
NEWS RELEASE— Musicians and poets featured on STATE OF EMERGENCY, the new LP created by organizers from the World Can’t Wait (WCW) in Chicago, will perform at a CD release benefit party from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Elbo Room, 2871 N. Lincoln Ave., in Chicago (773/549-5549, http://www.elboroomchicago.com). CD contributors will express their own versions of the state of the union, live at the Elbo Room, to support the national WCW movement. Cover charge is a suggested $7 donation, to WCW-Chicago, and drinks may be purchased at the cash bar. CDs and other merchandise will also be available for sale.
Poet and hip hop-soul diva Nikki Patin will host the event, which begins at 8 p.m. with bands and spoken word artists, followed by hip hop artists and DJ Itch13 at 11 p.m. STATE OF EMERGENCY will be well-represented with a vast list of bands: Nadir’s Distorted Soul (rock), from Detroit, Radio Mango (pop/Latin/world), mind’s hideaway (rock), Cottonseed (folk/rock); and hip hop and spoken word artists: Mars, that revolutionary sister (eclectic/poetry), Dove Rock with Itch13 and Lamon Manuel (hip hop/poetry), Tristan James (trip hop), and avery r. young (gospel/hip hop/poetry). Artist bios and other information can be found at the Proletariat Productions Web site: www.proletariatproductions.com.
STATE OF EMERGENCY is a 17-track compilation CD, and includes the voices of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs Terkel, Debra Sweet, and Samantha Hamlin, along with performers who will appear March 5 at the Elbo Room. This CD was created by WCW-Chicago organizers and Proletariat Productions with recording engineer and producer Tristan James. Radio Mango and Nadir’s Distorted Soul provided recordings from other studios (details available on CD jacket). All tracks were donated by the performers to help raise funds for WCW and to encourage dialogue about the political condition of the United States.
The CD was officially released January 31 to coincide with protests of President Bush’s State of the Union address. This included demonstrations in 68 U.S. cities and towns, organized by WCW to “drown out Bush’s lies.” In Chicago, a rally in Daley Plaza opened with “¡Ya Basta!” played by Radio Mango flamenco guitarist and vocalist, Doug Ringwald, and percussionist John Pollack. Ringwald said, “This song title is Spanish for, ‘Enough!’” The event MC was Mars, that revolutionary sister, whose poem about the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, “Unspeakable,” appears on STATE OF EMERGENCY, as performed with Darius Savage on upright bass.
The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime is a movement of thousands of persons of various political, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations who “seek to mobilize millions to express outrage, to speak the truth, to act with urgency and to form organized political resistance to create a political situation where the Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed.” WCW organizers say, “We demand, Bush step down! And take your program with you!”