Sunday, February 28, 2010

Awesome Time Today

I just wanted to say I had a great time hosting Rock the Silence with Deb from Unsigned Musicians. We really had some awesome musicians, and we'll be recapping the event on my show tonight. Thanks again to everyone for all the support!

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Another Event Coming Up This Weekend

Hi everyone. Deb from the Unsigned Musicians show and I will be hosting a 12 hour music event to raise awareness about the situation out in South Dakota (see earlier blog). Like our other events this will be hosted on the UnleashedAgain channel over on blogtv. The show starts at noon featuring some new music from some of the most incredible independent musicians, I've heard some of it the music is going to be totally awesome.

Hope you'll join us.

(handy link for the show)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Wow, I Haven't Blogged in Over a Week

Guess I need to put something here soon, happy Thursday everyone!

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Show Reminder!

Don't forget that I am doing a show over on my old channel on blogtalkradio tonight starting at 11 pm (eastern time)

Join us for 2 hours of great independent music!

Also, while I'll be watching the Super Bowl tomorrow I will be playing music on my regular show on blogtv.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Video from Sunday Night's Show

Here is a video clip from Sunday night, for more details see the blog right below this one. You might need to mute the blogtalkradio player to watch the video.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Your Help is Needed Now!

Last Sunday we talked about the plight of the Native Americans in South Dakota. The region has been battered by unusually cold and inhospitable weather this winter. I was honored to have Beki (Tat2dnurse) on as a guest to talk about this, and was equally honored to have Robin from NAMAPAHH Radio in the chatroom.

These folks need our help. As we discussed on the show it is an easy and almost seductive thing to think that the Native Americans live off the land, and easily fend for themselves. Well, 100 or so years ago, they could, but the Native Americans of today are just as dependent on electricity, running water, ect as we are. Right now you have a population of 15,000 living on 2.8 million acres. To cut it down to size that works out to about 2800 acres per person. In one of the most recent storms many of them lost power. Right now as they await the repair of almost 3000 telephone poles many of them have no running water, due to the fact that it's well water, no electric, no water pump, and the water system they do have is almost 200 years old.

I had promised some links during the show, sorry it's taken me so long but I'm traveling and have access only to not so fast internet on my laptop but this couldn't wait until I got home so here it is;

http://ndnnews.info/news/2010/01/disaster-declared-on-the-cheyenne-river-sioux-indian-reservation-in-south-dakota/

http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Cheyenne-River-Tribe-Storm-Relief-Emergency-Assistance

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_95604146-0ab5-11df-88a7-001cc4c03286.html

You can donate at any Well's Fargo branch (I was not able to find out if you can donate at Wachovia which is owned by Wells Fargo, will post here if I do) and any little bit helps.

One final note, not to take anything away from the victims of the Haiti earthquake, that is also a devastating tragedy. I would like to note however that for every dollar given to help the Haitian people on average only one CENT goes to actually helping these people. Think about it on a larger scale, out of every THOUSAND dollars donated, they get ONE dollar.

It's great everyone is jumping onboard and helping the Haitian people out, they certainly need it, but so do some very proud folks closer to home.

Thank you for your support.