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Greetings Lou! Special
OCT 10 WomenROCK Benefit to raise awareness for GINA-Missing Persons
WomenROCK will be throwing a party with great
music at the Starry Plough in order to raise funds for WomenROCK and
raise awareness for GINA-Missing Persons. WomenROCK is a collective
of local female musicians that, since its formation over 2 years
ago, has produced successful concerts to raise funds for local
non-profits and raise awareness around issues such as breast cancer, violence
against women and women’s
health. GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation’s was created in honor of Gina Bos, who disappeared from Lincoln, NE in October of 2000 after a performance. Each year, GINA For Missing Persons produces The Squeaky Wheel™ Tour, a world-wide event consisting of talented musicians performing shows and profiling missing persons in their area-esp. those who don't get media attention. On October 10, WomenROCK will be part of this tour, profiling missing persons in our local Bay Area community. To date: over 300 missing people profiled by GINA have been FOUND. See: www.411Gina.org/squeakywheeltour.htm
The reason why I am producing and performing in this very important event is that I was so moved by GINA and the stories of those who've been found-like this one: Picture this...some
artist down on his luck has handed out his umpteenth DVD to
passersby, on the front of which is a picture of a missing little
girl. Some random guy takes the dvd, goes home, plays it while his
daughter is watching with him and she says, daddy, I know her-that's
the new girl down the street that I play with...just that simple act
was able to lead the cops-who had no previous leads-to the missing
girl and bring her back home...
Thought it might be fun to tell you a little story in each newsletter behind each of the songs on the new album, in no particular order...for October, it's Annalis (which I finally uploaded on myspace...) The seeds for the lamenting ballad of Annalis (written on piano-a first for me) were planted when I was riding a Ferrry across San Francisco Bay from Larkspur to San Francisco and passed by San Quentin State Prison...images came to my head of a convicted inmate so close to freedom and the sea air he could taste it-yet so far away...and what he could possibly still have left (or have lost) to live and die for...http://myspace.com/aoedemuse Huge thanks as always to YOU for reading and
supporting and please write and update me! We couldn't do this
without you! ITUNES:
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SHOWS!!
OCTOBER
10/02
Grant and Green
1371
Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 8:00 pm (time to be
confirmed)
10/10
(FULL BAND-SEE FLYER BELOW)
WomenROCK benefit/awareness for GINA-missing persons Starry Plough, Berkeley, CA
9pm 21+ (Aoede on at 10:15pm)
10/15
WomenROCK Acoustic Showcase: with Marianne
Barlow and special guests @ Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California Street, San
Francisco, CA
7:00 pm
10/24-10/25
Las Vegas
GirlFestival 2008 Las
Vegas, NV
Zia Records 4225 S. Eastern Ave (time, day tbd)
Hennessey's Tavern 425
Fremont St (day, time tbd)
10/26, 10/31-HALLOWEEN
The Cannery
courtyard-an SF landmark! acoustic performance
2801 Leavenworth Street
@ Columbus San Francisco, CA
10/26: 2:45-5:45pm (3
sets!)
10/31: 6pm-8pm