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Sarah McCarthy
Studio # 120 at the Jacksonville Center in Floyd
pottery studio & gallery

rigpa123@hotmail.com
540.745.4877

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music news from floyd

ideapark.org music news for September 27, 2006 - The Lee Boys will be performing at the Sun Music Hall in Floyd, Virginia starting at 7 pm this Saturday. Also playing this weekend in Floyd: Bernie Coveney & Friends (Friday, Over the Moon Cafe); Scott Perry (Pine Tavern, 8:00 pm Saturday); Billy Miller (Saturday evening at Oddfellas Cantina)

please consult the ideapark.org loop for more details on these artists and venues.

thank you for supporting independent art & music! - the ideapark.org web development team

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---...--- - -- ideapark.org art & music news for September 26, 2006 - --... -- - - - - The 2006 National Folk Festival will take place in Richmond, Virginia on October 13, 14, & 15. The 68th National Folk Festival will feature 25 performing groups on seven stages. Hazel Dickens is among the invited performers at this festival.

From the National Folk Festival website: "The National Folk Festival is the oldest traditional arts festival in the country, celebrating the roots, richness and variety of American culture through music, dance, traditional craft, storytelling and food. This "moveable feast of deeply traditional folk arts” regularly attracts more than 100,000 people each year. Its been held in 27 communities around the country and in 2005 it began the first of its three-year tenure on historic Richmond’s downtown riverfront."

For more information on the National Folk Festival, please visit www.nationalfolkfestival.com.

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ideapark.org art & music news for September 26, 2006 - Ceramic work by Sarah McCarthy is currently being highlighted by the Traces library for creative literacy, an ambient library & public art project with roots in Floyd, Virginia. Since 2005, the Traces library has been installed at the Jacksonville Center in Floyd. To learn more about this artist, or for directions to the Jacksonville Center, please dial 540.745.2784.

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ideapark.org art & music news for September 26, 2006 - Work by A'Court Bason will be on display at Over The Moon Gallery in Floyd, Virginia from October 13 to 30, 2006. A reception is planned during the weekend of October 21. Please phone the gallery at 540.745.2782 for more information.

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ideapark.org music & art news for September 26, 2006 - Cafe del Sol will be hosting an exhibit of artwork by Suzy Nees during the month of December 2006 and a music performance by Billy Miller on the evening of October 27, 2006. Cafe del Sol is located at 302 South Locust Street in Floyd, Virginia. To learn more about Cafe del Sol, please call 540.651-3168 or visit floydcoffee.com.

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Hazel Dickens - bio

Content via the National Folk Festival website. note to reader - Hazel Dickens will appear at the National Folk Festival in Richmond, Virginia during the weekend of October 13 - 15, 2006.

Hazel Dickens grew up near Montcalm, West Virginia, one of 11 children, and moved away in her teens to work in the factories of Baltimore. Dickens transformed this experience into the inspiration and material for a lifelong musical career that has spoken of hard work, hard times, and hardy souls. Songs she has penned such as "Working Girl Blues," "Black Lung," "Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There," and "West Virginia, My Home," have provided the narrative storyline and emotional insight for many who have found themselves in similar circumstances.

Marrying the songwriting abilities of Woody Guthrie with the straight-ahead singing skills of Kitty Wells, she has been an inspiration for a whole new generation of women singers in the bluegrass and country music fields. Her music became more widely known through the use of her songs in the movie Harlan County, U.S.A. and as a result of her live performance of songs in Matewan. Now a resident of Washington, D.C., Hazel Dickens's life and music are inextricably intertwined. As she says in the title song of a recent film documentary about her life produced by Appalshop, “It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song.” In 2001, she was honored with the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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town meeting tonight in Blacksburg

The Air We Breathe! How safe is it?
What can Virginia Tech, the state of Virginia and we do to improve our air quality?

Monday, September 25 at 7 PM
Blacksburg Town Council Meeting Room, Blacksburg Town Hall

Speakers:
Tim Thornton Growth and Environment reporter for The Roanoke Times for the last 18 months. He has been a journalist for 24 years, the last six years for The Roanoke Times.

Rob Lowe an Environmental Engineer working at Virginia Tech for Environmental Health and Safety Services. His primary responsibilities are environmental compliance oversight.

Billy Weitzenfeld Executive Director of the Association of Energy Conservation Professionals, a non-profit energy education and advocacy organization. He has more than 20 years experience in the energy field including weatherization, energy education and training, legislation advocacy, and residential energy efficiency and conservation applications.

Key developments on verified voting: The above program is presented by the Montgomery County League of Women Voters, which was pivotal during the past national convention in influencing the national organization to take a stronger stand on verified voting. On the latter subject, the following are of particular note:

1. A recent study by the Princeton University Center for Information Technology demonstrated how a Diebold voting machine was easily hacked to steal a mock election, leaving no trace of the theft: itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting

2. An article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in Rolling Stone Magazine, describes in detail how, based on a Diebold insider source, the 2004 Georgia Senate and Gubernatorial races were by all indications stolen using precisely this technique. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092106R.shtml

Close to a critical mass of US states now has legislation requiring verified voting. Action in upcoming months on the Hugo bill that would require this in Virginia may turn the tide nationally if successful. If anyone is interested in helping with some focused work on this local effort, please stay tuned to the ideapark.org news loop.

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hello everyone
happy Sunday
here are a few news bits
bye, have a great day
-Suzy

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---..--- - - - - ideapark.org music & art news for September 24, 2006 - Work by A'Court Bason will be on display at Over The Moon gallery in Floyd, Virginia from October 13 to 30, 2006. please phone the gallery at 540.745.2782 for more information on this exhibit. - - - ----..-- - - - Ceramic work by Sarah McCarthy is currently being highlighted by the Traces Library for Creative Literacy. The Traces collection is currently installed in Studio 124 at the Jacksonville Center in Floyd. To learn more about this artist, or for directions to the Jacksonville Center, please call 540.745.2784. - - ---...--- - - - Billy Miller will play at Cafe Sol on Friday, October 27 starting at 7:30 pm. Cafe Sol is located on South Locust Street near the Country Store in Floyd. Please call 540.745.2287 for more information. - - -- ----...- -- - - - - -

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via the Sludge Safety Project news - image from the Pennies of Promise campaign

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hello everyone

hope you are all well
it is a beautiful but chilly day today
I planted some flower bulbs and also started a cold frame setup

the cool weather is bothering Cleo, since she has arthritis.
I had a bad scare the other morning because she could hardly walk when she woke up.

anyway. she is doing much better now although not quite ready to give up the gettin'-extra-spoiled thing.

so if you are thinking about going to the Fandango I think you should go.
Junior Brown is playing and so is Carbon Culture
also the Wild Turkeys

Billy is going to play as well, along with a few other folks I think

PLUS a there will be a ferris wheel there and a Burlesque Show
not to mention clowns...
maybe Cleo could get hired as a clown dog.

my friend Penelope Moseley just sent out a press release about some musicians from Central Asia who will be arriving in Galax in early October to spend a week in Virginia meeting Crooked Road musicians and performing their music in this area.

personally I am very excited about this extremely cool event and plan to go see at least one of the performances. These are throat singers from the Altai Mountains, near Mongolia.

a belated happy birthday to Superhero Ed Wiley - Ed spent his birthday in DC and was given a cake which sported a penny (minus the Lincoln and plus the camo hat clad Ed). A photo of the cake is on the Front Porch blog.

I can't begin to tell you how happy it makes me to see those numbers climb every time I visit the I Love Mountains site...

Anyway I need to be going, hope you are all doing well.

-Suzy

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Throat Singing in the Blue Ridge - An International Cultural Exchange

Beginning October 5, Galax, Virginia , will be host to an unusual international exchange. A group of 8 musicians and throat singers from the remote mountains of the Altai Republic in Central Asia will spend a week in Galax and nearby communities, meeting Virginia mountain musicians, performing, visiting musical instrument makers, and learning how Virginia counties and communities cooperated in creating a Crooked Road organization to represent their musical communities.

A highlight of their visit will be a public performance on October 7 at the Blue Ridge Music Center , located at Milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway . The afternoon performance will feature musical exchanges with Virginia musicians, and is sponsored by the Blue Ridge Music Center and the Arts of Council of the Twin Counties.

The visitors are members of a well known performing group, Altai Kai, consisting of the finest musicians in their region performing the traditional “throat singing” of Central Asia. They also perform on handmade string musical instruments and native flutes.

The troupe has won numerous competitions and is famous in Asia and Eastern Europe . In 2005 they won a UNESCO international competition for world music. Their nation, the Altai Republic , has established a site devoted to their music on the World Wide Web, and a Czech site allows the downloading of their music (Google Altai Kai for a sampling of these sites and a dozen others created by fans of these musicians.)

Throat singing has become a favorite world music style in recent years, knowledge of it spread by the cult movie “Genghis Blues”, the touring of the Silk Road ensembles of Yo-Yo Ma, by troupes of Tibetan Monks, and by singers from Tuva, a region that borders Altai. The style is also found in Mongolia , but many of the finest singers have always been from the Altai Mountains .

Throat singing differs from other singing in that a single singer produces two or three distinct tones at the same time. This is accomplished by creating audible overtones. All tones produce overtones, resonate notes far up the sonic ladder from the fundamental tone. These usually cannot be heard, as the fundamental tone is louder. But the Altai learned to make the overtone as loud as the fundamental tone that produces it by altering the shape of resonate cavities in the mouth, larynx, and pharynx. It is an eerily beautiful effect, one of the greatest virtuosic skills in the music of the world.

There are some 200,000 people in Altai, living in villages scattered among mountains, lakes, and taiga. Their language is Altianan, an ancient Turkic tongue, and their closest neighbors are the Tuvans and Uigurs of middle Asia . Altai is one of the cradles of ancient civilization, and the Scythians left many monuments there. Other ancient people passed by, among them the Huns and the White Horde that galloped out of Asia to challenge the Romans.

It is a place of stunning beauty, with snowy mountains peaks that reach 13,500 feet, and crystal lakes and glaciers. It is far north, and has challenging weather; summer temperatures may reach 100 degrees, but may dive to 80 below zero in winter. It is bordered by Mongolia , Kazakhstan , China , and Tibet . The Altai are herders of sheep, and yaks, and are much devoted to horsemanship.

Penelope Moseley
Executive Director
Arts Council of the Twin Counties
www.artsculturalcouncil.org
(276)238-1217

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Marsh Fork news via Sludge Safety & UPI

hi folks,
below is an excerpt from a United Press International article dated September 18
yay Ed!!!!!

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...Rep. Frank Palone, D-N.J., speaking at the Capitol Hill news conference, called it "preposterous" that the EPA allows the situation with Marsh Fork Elementary to continue.

If it were allowed under the Clean Water Act, Palone said, then the Clean Water Act must be changed. He instead supported the more stringent Clean Water Protection Act. Republicans, he said, "really haven't done anything but tear down environmental laws."

Prior to the news conference, Wiley met with Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., to talk about Marsh Fork Elementary school. He said Byrd "had tears in his eyes," and had promised to "leave no stones unturned."

While there was still clearly hard work ahead, Wiley's walk will put pressure on the local government to help raise the money to build a new school for the children away from the coal mine.

Appalachian activist Debbie Jarrell said: "Even though the area we live in is called 'The Coal Fields,' there is more to where we are at than coal. We have a community there, we have a family there, we have our hopes and our dreams and our visions just like any other people have. We are not just coal fields."

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Pumpkin carving class at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, Virginia

Saturday, October 14
12 noon - 4 pm

Suggested donation: $10 per person/20 per family

Learn fun and easy carving techniques for creating one-of-a-kind glowing sculptures from pumpkins. Floyd artist Rio Semione will demonstrate ways to use wood gouges as pumpkin carving tools. This class is open to all ages, but children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult.

Bring your own tools if you would like, or purchase tools at the class for around $10 a set.

For more information on this class, please email Rio Semione at rio@swva.net or call the Jacksonville Center at 540 - 745 - 2784.

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news bit from Appalachian Voices

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

WEST VIRGINIA GRANDFATHER COMPLETES 455-MILE WALK TO WASHINGTON TODAY SEEKING HELP FOR SCHOOL THREATENED BY MINING

Ed Wiley joined by thousands across America in calling for new school for kids of Marsh Fork Elementary, protection for all coalfield children.

WASHINGTON, DC – West Virginia grandfather and former coal miner Ed Wiley today completed his 455-mile walk from Charleston, WV to Washington, DC, seeking help for a southern West Virginia school threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining. Supporters from across the nation joined Wiley for the last mile of his walk, from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol.

Wiley walked to Washington to bring attention to the plight of children at Marsh Fork Elementary School in Sundial, WV, which is on the front lines of the controversial practice known as mountaintop removal coal mining. A 1,849-acre mountaintop removal coal mine surrounds the school area with more mining permitted. Marsh Fork Elementary sits just 225 feet from a coal loading silo that releases coal dust, with independent tests confirming the presence of coal dust in the school. A leaking earthen dam holding back 2.8 billion gallons of toxic coal-sludge is located just 400 yards above the school. The Pennies of Promise campaign was created to build a new school for the children of Marsh Fork Elementary.

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Ed Wiley news

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MTR removal weekend in DC begins soon

A reminder to ideapark.org news loop readers - mountaintop removal week in Washington DC will begin soon. please consult the Ap Voices front porch blog for news on this event. thank you for reading.

music at the sun music hall on November 5

ideapark.org music news for September 5, 2006

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come one, come all to a music extravaganza at the Sun Music Hall in Floyd, Virginia on November 5, 2006 from 2 to 10 pm.

Confirmed:

The Kind
A’Court Bason
Blue Mule
Carbon Culture
George Penn
Billy Miller

Tentative:

True Sound
Natural Causes
Snake Hollow String Band

And others...

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Sharyn McCrumb Talk and Book Signing

Sharyn McCrumb will present a talk, "Grass Roots Saints and Honky Tonk Heroes" at 7:00pm on Friday September 8 at the Montgomery Museum on Pepper St. in downtown christiansburg. Following the talk, the popular local author will be signing her best seller, "St. Dale", as well as her other popular novels. Barnes and Noble will be handling the event. Joining Ms. McCrumb for this special opportunity will be modern-day local race driver Adam Edwards. This event is being held in conjunction with the museum's current exhibit "Life in the fast lane: Local NASCAR Legends". Admission is FREE.

Labor Day party in Shepherdstown, WV

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Labor Day party in Shepherdstown, WV

Where: The Shepherdstown Train Station
When: Monday, September 4. 2:00 p.m.

The Speak Easy Boys will bring the music and Ed Wiley will bring the message to this party in Shephedstown, which recently passed a resolution welcoming Ed and Pennies of Promise.

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ideapark.org music news for September 1, 2006

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Starting this Friday, September 1st, the Snake Hollow Stringband (Mary Predny on fiddle, Skip Slocum on banjo, Bob Browder on guitar, and Rusty May on bass) will be raising the roof the first friday of every month at the Floyd Country Store at 9:30pm.


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September 1, 2006 - Chris Luster & Bernie Coveney will be playing at Over the Moon in Floyd this evening. Please call 540.745.4366 for more information.

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Bill Adams (Country, Jazz, Swing, Jazz, Folk, Bluegrass & Pop) will be playing at Tuggles Gap on Saturday, September 2 from noon to 3 pm. Please visit the ideapark.org > news archives for more information on this venue.

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On Saturday, August 9 there will be a pet welfare event at Cross Creek in Floyd from 8 am to 3 pm. Bernie Coveney, Chris Luster, and Billy Miller will be helping to provide music for this event. For details, please stay tuned to ideapark.org or read the "News & Events" page on the Floyd County Humane Society website.

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Carbon Culture and the Survivors will be playing at the Sun Music Hall in Floyd on Friday, September 8, 2006. Please call the Sun at 540.745.7880 for details.

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