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Woodstock Taylor track playlisted

Woodstock Taylor's Happening, Song #6 on Hope Never Dies, has just been playlisted on the independent station Radio Six International.

A veteran on the indie radio stage, Radio Six, which has been running for over 40 years, is a private (not for profit) experimental Internet and shortwave station operating from Scotland and playing an interesting mixture of easy listening, lounge, exotica, oldies and contemporary music with a little light music, classical, country, and jazz thrown in to spice up the mixture from time to time.

In addition to a 24 hour internet stream, Radio Six broadcasts daily programmes on shortwave from a transmitter in Maine, USA on 5,105kHz from 0000 to 0200UTC beamed to North America, Eastern Canada and Western Europe, plus monthly broadcasts from a transmitter in Milan, Italy beamed to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East on the second Saturday, Sunday and Thursday of every month.

Radio Six has been an enthusiastic supporter of Woodstock Taylor's music for several years. And a song from another IAA artist, Richard Kapp, recently finished a 10-week stint on their playlist.

Texan fundraisers do it with lemons

From Mercy Corps newspage Texas-Sized Generosity by Roger O. Burks, Jr., Feb 18, 2005

One January day in Houston, lemons seemed to be the biggest thing to hit the state since the ten-gallon hat. On Saturday January 15, several area students put together Lemon Aid, a fundraiser to help survivors of December's devastating tsunami. The students sold lemonade and Lemon Aid t-shirts in front of the local Whole Foods Market.
With assistance from parents, the community and Whole Foods, Lemon Aid raised more than $6,200 for Mercy Corps' tsunami relief efforts.

That's a lot of lemons... . - read more

New Public Forum for Independent Artist Aid

A new public forum has opened where anyone who wants to can air their views on the fundraising CD project Independent Artist Aid - Hope Never Dies.

It's being hosted by Indienetunes, who are also manufacturing and distributing the CD. In addition, iNt is also providing full streaming audio of the whole album and individual tracks (complete with audio tags announcing each song) for those who want to try before they buy.

Reviews added

The media kit now contains a reviews section, which can be reached by clicking on the Resources link at iaa.says.it.

We look forward to adding full album and individual track reviews as they come in.

JPS on TV

Catch IAA artist John Paul Sharp live on the TV show "Out In Denver" here:
http://www.outindenver.org/ep011.htm

Planet of Sound Radio

Just Added full previews of 'Hope Never Dies' to the station playlist - it is programmed to play every hour or so.

Working with Mercy Corps

It's Mercy Corps Day today - I just got back from a meeting with David Welch at the Mercy Corps Headquarters in Edinburgh. Very positive and exciting.

The Edinburgh office is really lovely - very peaceful, with a beautiful view out of the window. A really good vibe.

David filled me in on a lot of the history of MC and also on the work they're doing to help the Tsunami survivors.

One thing he stressed was how this is just the beginning - Mercy Corps ARE in for the long haul, and the generous donations in the immediate aftermath of the disaster have all been spent already. Huge amounts of money are going to be needed to help so many people recover and build new, sustainable communities out of the wreckage.

This is a LONG TERM commitment, and it's going to need long term funding. Our small effort here may be just a drop in a very turbulent ocean, but it's not unnoticed, and it will make a difference to some real people with real wounds to heal.

And the other side of the Atlantic,

Don Spradlin, one of our esteemed co-producers, just had a lovely letter from Mercy Corps USA in response to news of the CD.

Dear Don,

Wow! Thank you so much for this incredibly generous effort. I have listened to some of the songs at the link you provided and I personally think they are wonderful. Thank you so much for your efforts and for helping spread the Mercy Corps mission!

We do have you listed in the database and really appreciate your partnership and support. You are right, we are planning to be in the region for years to come and hopefully contribute to long-term recovery and peace in the region, so your support will be put to powerful and good use.

If I can provide any additional information for you, please let me know.

Again, thanks to you and your colleagues for this amazing and inspirational effort!

Sincerely,

Traci Schick

Mercy Corps

John Paul Sharp on TV

The TV show John Paul Sharp is taping tonight for "Out In Denver" airs on Feb 20 at 10.30pm on Cable Channel 57. If you're out in Denver and staying in, tune in. If you're out in Denver and going out that night, you can catch a repeat at 9pm on Thursday 24. Whether you're in, out or shaking it all about in Denver or anywhere else in the world, you can buy Independent Artist Aid - Hope Never Dies, featuring John's haunting song Perhaps Just Maybe, from iaa.does.it today, and help raise money for the Mercy Corps Asian Tsunami Relief Campaign.

IAA-HND listed in Blogshares

With barely 24 hours online, this blog has merited a mention on the Blogshare index. OK, so it's at #196 of the most recent 200, but it's nice to know we've been noticed. Even if it is just by some digital spiders.

Hope Never Dies Promoted by jps* This Week:

Hi everyone, (Happy V-Day!)

I'm going to be promoting the compilation album, Hope Never Dies twice this week:

1. Tonight I am performing at The Other Side Arts gallery (in Denver, CO, USA) for a charity event where 50% of the art sales this evening will go to The Red Cross and 100% of my own CD sales (for my latest LP release, afflatus animus) will go to Mercy Corps. I will have a table where I will be promoting Hope Never Dies and the web address where people can buy a copy will also be available.

2. Tomorrow night I will be at a taping of "Out in Denver," a local television show where I will be a guest, performing a song and talking about my music. I definitely plan on bringing up Indepedent Artist Aid and the compilation album, as well as where people can go (http:iaa.does.it) to buy it. :)

That's what I'm doing to promote it! jps*

garageband loonies

Shankarji has posted an announcement about the CD in the Loony Bin forum at Garageband.com. You can read it here. For those not familiar with the rough and tumble of Garageband's lively BBS (bulletin board service) this'll give you a gentle introduction to some of the larger than life characters who populate it, many of whom are also featured artists on Independent Artist Aid - Hope Never Dies.

In another thread, a GB (GarageBand) member raised some questions about why we were doing this, and whether the payment module was safe. Valid points, which I've addressed in the FAQ section of our Information Kit.

Information Kit PDFs

The Information Kit can now be downloaded in PDF form from the resources section at http://iaa.says.it. It's already available for download in MSWord and plain text versions.

Independent Artist Aid - Hope Never Dies: Tsunami Relief CD released

Since the beginning of January a few assorted unsigned musicians, who became friends on the messageboards at Garageband.com and other forums, have been working night and day to put together a compilation CD of original songs to help raise money for the Mercy Corps Asian Tsunami Relief Campaign. More musicians were recruited because they'd written songs that the original bunch thought were really good, and things began to take shape.

The result is Independent Artist Aid - Hope Never Dies, and it's now on sale from the online music distributor Indienetunes, who are co-producers in the venture.

You can listen to the music and purchase the CD here: http://iaa.does.it/. A full electronic information kit is also online here:http://cupparecords.com/nmc-iaa/.