“BAM! You’ve written a jingle!” � Lucy Eills, 11yr old, 6th grader from from Concord, NH, wins the PeaceLabs Playmaker Award for her “Healthy NH” jingle.

We came. We saw. We sang Kumbaya:
http://zedc3test.techprogress.org/events/2008/09/musiced.html/email.html

Must Read and Listen NH News! My niece & Godchild, Ms. Lucy Eills, wins “Healthy NH” Jingle Competition with her jam: “Hop On the Healthy Bus.” Listen to the PSA now:
http://www.healthynh.com/fhc/initiatives/ch_obesity/5210downloads/HealthyNH5210-1.mp3

How long did it take you to come with your jingle? “Not long, actually. It was the kind of thing where you’re sitting there doing nothing and all of sudden . . . BAM! You’ve written a jingle!” Read Lucy’s full interview in the Concord Monitor:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080916/THECONCORDINSIDER/809160438/1299/REPOSITORY

Lucy’s song was played, produced and recorded by our great artist, teacher and friend, Bill Fletcher. Definitely check him out: http://williamafletcher.com

Bill produced Uncle Kiff’s first tracks in high school. Awesome dude and teaching artist.

And now…Robert gets his Gamelan on!

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow and MNSI board member, Robert Gordon explores Indonesian music.—–

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The Honorable Bass Player, Governor Mike Huckabee rocked with Congressional Musicians Caucus Co-Chair, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), in support of MNSi. See Wash. Post, HuffPost, Center for American Progress story & video, photos.

NYT: All Ears on Screen: Music and Musicians Play Major Role at Toronto Festival

“…But music was also stealing the show in some less expected places. “The Secret Life of Bees,” a coming-of-age drama set against the civil rights struggles of 1964, turns out to be stitched together, emotionally speaking, with a cello.

Through much of the film, based on a novel by Sue Monk Kidd, the cello is in the hands of Alicia Keys, who joins Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Sophie Okonedo in taking under wing a badly damaged character played by Dakota Fanning. Spotting a lot of singers in that lineup, a reporter on Saturday morning asked them how the movies are like music, or not.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/movies/08fest.html—–;

http://worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/yonder_mountain_barack_obama_2008

And sorry to indulge (for a sec) but, when I saw Barack’s “Top Ten” song list, it did cross my mind that the next President of the United States might actually dig my music…http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080828_4414.php

I saw BLP, Cheryl Crow, Kanye West, Stevie, Michael McDonald. Blue Grass opened the day at Invesco and reentered immediately following the candidate’s speech. But after a couple minutes, mandolins became lush orchestral strings. After a few more minutes, the effect was cinematic. Then climatic. For a couple families waiving vacantly for 6 minutes, the sense of drama was impressive.

As a single shot series of cannon sized roman candles boomed rhythmically around the top, outer-edge of the “colosseum,” the powerful house sound system began to assert more gravitas. And experience that started as “The Beverly Hillbllies,” became West Wing-like. Then darker, almost eery, with sporadic military drumrolls that recalled Jack Bauer on 24. To 86 thousand people, the men waived.

The Dem’s Acropolis backdrop in Mile High City finally made sense to me. The world has become a little scarier over the last eight years. We want serious Titans at the helm. This is not the time to take a chance.

Music can be a very effective element in your communications strategy.

On another note, the house band was slammin except for 2 small things: 1) ‘addicted to love’ after Bill Clinton’s speech. 2) Marroon 5 riff from ‘this love’ on wed. and thurs. – both times the guitar player was off, keys were too i think…if i’m wrong, sorry. but sum’n was definitely off.

One perspective:
http://missmusicnerd.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/dem-convention-music-day-3-hits-and-misses

More on Democrat Convention House band, Ray Chew and the Crew on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94014540&ft=1&f=1039,&cs=bz

Gustav thought of the week: What’s gonna happen to all the musical instruments? I say, protect people first. Then pets. Then musical instruments.—–

Harvard economist and social innovator, Roland Fryer from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute partners with MNSi to design MusicianCorps pilot program evaluation.