The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38981   Message #551269
Posted By: Ebbie
16-Sep-01 - 12:34 AM
Thread Name: 9/11: Responding through Music
Subject: RE: 9/11: Responding through Music
We're planning an event, with the working title of 'Music for Peace and Relief' for the first weekend in October.

We're working on details right now but so far the gist is that we will advertise it and have musicians sign up to play, instead of the other way around. In addition, the idea is that from time to time someone will lead the audience in songs, just to dissipate or alternatively, crystallize the heaviness we all feel.

It will be a pot luck and we plan to go through United Way in gathering donations and pledges.

We are also, in a separate action, discussing the possibility of staging a city-wide event in Appreciation of Our Heroes: the firefighters, the electrical maintenance people, the police and the Coast Guard- people who every day in their work lives willingly put themselves into harm's way.

Ebbie