An afternoon of jazz, blues and funk: June 2 2013

On Sunday, June 2, 2013 @ 3 pm our emerging community of musicians will hold another in our ad hoc series of musical fund raisers for local compassion and justice groups.  It will be another chance for us to get together to make sweet songs in community, enjoy one another's company (these folk are the BEST) and welcome the wider town into our beautiful space for a bit of refreshment and renwal.

My hope is three-fold:  first, I pray that our creative community will have a blast playing some fun tunes together; second, I want to continue building safe public space for people to simply "be" and enjoy themselves; and third, I hope we can raise some money for BEAT (Berkshire Environmental Action Team - check them out @ www.thebeatnews.org/)  In times like these it is crucial for people of good will and peace to build loving and creative alliances. 

Already Steely Dan's "Bodhisattva" is running through my head - along with Chaka Kahn's "Tell Me Something Good," the Miles Davis "All Blues" with the call to community and justice lyrics and probably "We Are Family!"  (I want to do the Delgado Brothers' "Church of El Monte" too and maybe the Allman Brothers version of "Stormy Monday" or Bonnie Rait's take on "Burning Down the House.")
This quote by Leonard Bernstien sets up our concert - so please join us for the fun.

This is our reply to violence

to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before

Leonard Bernstein 

Sunday, June 2, 2013

3 pm

First Church

on Park Square - 27 East Street, Pittsfield, Ma

A blues, jazz, rock and soul afternoon

To benefit BEAT:  Berkshire Environmental Action Team

 

A Free Will collection will be taken

Information:  447-7351 – www.firstchurchpittsfield.org

an open and affirming congregation

(Original art lena karpinsky)