Archives Bellaciao EN 1999-2016

ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS AGAINST WAR (VIDEO)

2011-06-11T13:47:50Z

We are particularly pleased that prominent artists and musicians
who have been long-time supporters of Stop the War Coalition will
be at Saturday's Afghanistan and the War on Terror conference.
They will be leading a much anticipated session on the role of
art in the anti-war movement.
The artists include David Gentleman, whose "blood-spot" posters
and placards for our demonstrations and events have gained
worldwide renown; Peter Kennard and Cat (…)

- contributions / Music, Wars and conflicts

Video: Dr. Margaret Flowers Sings “Imagine”

2010-08-07T06:54:21Z

On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” Social Justice activist Dr. Margaret Flowers participated. She sang her rendition of the popular John Lennon ballad, “Imagine.” It was originally released in 1971. Dr. Flowers is a champion of an expanded Medicare-for-All Healthcare System. She is associated with Physicians for a National (…)

- contributions / Music, Wars and conflicts, USA

Video: Dr. Margaret Flowers Sings “Masters of War”

2010-08-07T01:25:37Z

On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” Social Justice activist Dr. Margaret Flowers participated. She sang the Bob Dylan ballad, “Masters of War.” Dr. Flowers is a champion of an expanded Medicare-for-All Healthcare System. She is associated with Physicians for a National Health Program, check out for more information: (…)

- contributions / Music, Wars and conflicts, USA

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd has Sent the Gaza Freedom Marchers (videos)

2009-12-29T20:52:14Z

My name is Roger Waters. I am an English musician living in the USA. I am writing to express my great admiration for and solidarity with the 1360 men and women from 42 different countries around the World who are gathering in Egypt, preparing for The Gaza Freedom March. We all watched, aghast, the vicious attack made a year ago on the people of Gaza by Israeli armed forces and the ongoing illegal siege. The suffering wrought on the population of Gaza by both the invasion and the siege is (…)

- contributions / Music, Wars and conflicts, International

Video: Custer Died for Your Sins - Thank You for the World So Sweet

2009-12-02T17:23:25Z

Thought folks might like this. The interval between Thanksgiving and Christmas (aka THE Holidays) gives us an opportunity to reflect on the founding mythology of what is now the US. I love this song—I still remember it from a concert about 20 years ago where I went to hear Floyd Westerman sing. Incredible song. I added the Thank You Song at the end in memory of my mom...we still sing the same song today at school before lunch...a ritual she started over 40 years ago. Missing her a lot these (…)

- contributions / Music

Bruce Cockburn Sings for the War in Afghanistan

2009-09-14T07:58:43Z

Cockburn Visits Brother in Afghanistan: CBC News
"It's a long discussion on whether we should be in Afghanistan - whether anyone should be in Afghanistan. But since we are and since we've come this far, I don't think it's appropriate to leave.."
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/...

- contributions / Music, Wars and conflicts, International

Marseille Sways to a Maghreb Rhythm

2009-08-12T10:08:41Z

By SETH SHERWOOD
AS a warm Saturday night hung over the Mediterranean, the Algerian-French band Yazmen shuffled under the spotlights with its instruments — hand drum, flute, electric bass and a boxy, long-necked stringed instrument called a guembri — while a crowd filed into the hot confines of the windowless Tankono club.
Couples arrived with children while bespectacled record-store geeks and a bald guy in a dashiki made toasts with Kronenbourg beers. Close to the stage, a dozen or so (…)

- contributions / Edito, Music, France, Africa

Woodstock, Handmade

2009-08-11T14:23:02Z

By David Glenn Cox
It is funny how sometimes you start out to write one story and end up writing another. I have been doing research on Woodstock and as the old joke goes, “If you remember it, you weren't there.”
I remember it well enough and I wasn't there, but as I watched the You Tube videos I began to remember details long forgotten, plus some things that I've learned since. I was watching a video of the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in 1969, playing "Honky Tonk Woman." Yes, I know the (…)

- contributions / Edito, Music, Daveparts

The Thriller is gone

2009-06-26T06:23:36Z

Los Angeles — Michael Jackson - the pop music icon who charmed the world as a child star, dazzled the planet as the King of Pop and, in later years, alarmed millions with his eccentric behavior and unsettling sex-scandal trials - died Thursday. He was 50.
Jackson's brother says it's believed that the pop star died of cardiac arrest.
Jermaine Jackson cautioned at a hospital news conference Thursday that the cause of his death would not be known until an autopsy was performed.
He said (…)

- contributions / Music, History

A look at the career of Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T06:19:10Z

A look at the career of Michael Jackson
By The Associated Press – 27 minutes ago
A look at the life and career of Michael Jackson: Aug. 29, 1958: Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Ind., the seventh of nine children. 1963: After several years of training, The Jackson 5 begin to perform in public. Dec. 14, 1969: The Jackson 5 appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show." 1970: Their first album, "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5," includes the hit singles "I Want You Back" and "I'll Be (…)

- contributions / Music, History