News & Opinion
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YOU CAN HELP HAITI NOW
We urge everyone to donate to an appropriate organization in support of the ongoing relief efforts to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Some options for giving are:
American Red Cross
The Red Cross: Text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be go to
the American Red Cross, charged to your cell phone bill.
UNICEF
The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
Mercy Corps
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REMEMBERING BESS LOMAX HAWES
Bess Hawes, the youngest child of folklorist John A. Lomax, and sister of Alan Lomax, passed away Friday, November 27, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. She was 88.
Hawes was a member of the Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and her husband, Butch Hawes. She wrote "Charley on the MTA," was a noted folklorist, musician, author of three books, made four films while a professor of Anthropology at San Fernando Valley State (CSUN), and was the first director of the Folk & Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hawes attended the University of Texas and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Throughout her life, she carried on her father’s work, teaching traditional folk music at festivals, schools, and universities. In 1993, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.
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ALAN LOMAX IN HAITI NOW RELEASED
Alan Lomax in Haiti has been released on Harte Recordings. This unique boxed set contains 10 CDs and two books, chronicling Alan Lomax's 1936 Haitian recording expedition for the Library of Congress.
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ACE REPATRIATION PROJECT SELECTED BY CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
ACE's Haiti Repatriation and Cultural Preservation Project was selected as an outstanding project of the Clinton Global initiative in Haiti, sponsored by the Green Family Foundation, a humanitarian agency based in Miami and operating in Haiti, and a partner of the CGI.
THIS WEEK ON "ROOT HOG OR DIE"
Good time, hard time, old time, end time music, hosted by ACE's own Nathan Salsburg. New programs every Tuesday at 10am. This week, Western U.S, music from Mormon trail songs to Bob Wills.
