Posts Tagged ‘music’
‘Freedom For Palestine’ Released TODAY!
May 31st, 2011 • News
Tags: FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE, music
JUST 79p! ORDER TODAY ON iTunes & HMVDigital…
HELP US GET IT INTO THE UK CHARTS!
This month we have the opportunity to secure a chart position for a song called ‘Freedom for Palestine’ by a collective of musicians put together by Dave Randal. The song’s chorus has a South African gospel choir and members of the London Community Gospel Choir singing ‘Break down the wall – demand justice for all – Freedom for Palestine’
- Proceeds from the single will go to War on Want for projects in Palestine.
- BUY THE SINGLE ON ITUNES TO ENSURE IT GETS INTO THE UK CHARTS, JUST 79p!!
- Recently the BBC Radio 1xtra removed the word ‘Palestine’ when playing a song by artist, Mic Righteous.
EVENT: July 10 Big Day Out Festival, Bracknell
July 5th, 2010 • 1 comment Events, News
Tags: art, Big Day Out Music & Performing Arts Festival, bracknell, children, festival, food, fun, music, performance, risc, stall, summer
Reading PSC has been invited to hold a stall with RISC at the Big Day Out Music & Performing Arts Festival at Bracknell’s South Hill Park on Saturday July 10, 2010 from 1-11.30pm.
There will be all kinds of performances and food from Egypt, India, Indonesia, France & Ice cream!
Check out the Schedule for a full list of performances/activities & download the programme here…
Big Day Out Festival of Music & Performing Arts
Big Day Out Festival has survived 4 continuous years as a celebration of all that’s good in new music and the performing arts. The festival often feels like a summary of everything you’ve not heard about or got excited about but is definitely worth seeing and if the great outdoors is where you’re at, then Big Day Out Festival is bound to have something for you.
There’s a strong family focus to the event, especially during daylight hours and Big Day Out in 2010 will be no different, with the festival’s day-time activities climaxing in a Children’s parade at 5.30pm. After this, Big Day Out takes on a stronger adult appeal with all kinds of events going on under canvas and outdoors too.
Entry costs £3 in advance or £5 on the door – under 18s FREE!
For tickets and more details, call the box office on (01344) 484123 or visit: bigdayout2010.webs.com
We will be there for the full day – so don’t forget to stop by and say hello!
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters: “We Shall Overcome”
July 4th, 2010 • 1 comment Action, Awareness, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: freedom march, gaza, music, pink floyd, roger waters, video
They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza.Roger Waters, Pink Floyd
To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison.
To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed.
The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza.
The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the US tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza.
How lame is that? And how predictable!
I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-Jan3rd 2010 I saw no reference to Gaza or the Freedom March or the multi national protesters gathered there.
Anyway I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of “We shall overcome”.
It seems appropriate.
Soy Palestino – a musical-comedy journey into Cuba’s politics
December 15th, 2009 • Awareness
Tags: cuba, documentary, film, music, palestine
From Al Jazeera’s Witness
When Osama Qashoo, a Palestinian filmmaker, travelled to Cuba in 2007, he arrived at a time of feverish political uncertainty as Fidel Castro suddenly seemed to be on the point of stepping aside. When Osama introduced himself as a Palestinian to the Cubans, people looked at him in disbelief. He soon discovered that Havana had its own Palestinians – mostly poor black migrants without any documents.
In fact, he found that in Cuba, “Palestino” is a term of racist abuse used to describe the people coming from the rural east of the island to the capital, Havana. He decided to embark on a journey to discover whether the Palestinians of Cuba had anything in common with his own people back home.
The first “Palestino” Osama met ran off with his notebook and the struggle to retrieve it led to a unique friendship with an extraordinary man.
Louisito is a singer and musician who lives in a small wooden box on wheels, covered with instruments made from junk. He entertains other homeless “Palestinos” with songs and comic routines. Louisito had not been home to see his mother for seven years, and so they set off together to meet his family in the east of the island, Cuba’s Palestine.
On a musical-comedy journey into Cuba’s politics, Osama Qashoo lifts the lid on this untold aspect of Castro’s Cuba. Inadvertently, and purely as a result of introducing himself as a Palestinian, Osama had stumbled on a hidden underclass in this staunchly socialist society.
