Sun. Dec. 19 6-Mid. Butterfly DOP Christmas DOP Benefit for Musicians for Peace - SF

Don't let election blues get you down. Come out and party for the planet and a US Department of Peace and join our DoPeace Campaign. We are having a benefit for Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace with the blessing of Dennis Kucinich who endorsed our Department of Peace Campaign in 2001

On Saturday, November 6, I attended a breakfast with Dennis Kucinich in San Francisco. Jolie De Pauw, one of our members from Lotus Dog, provided the entertainment at breakfast and will be performing tonight with many other Kucinich Butterfly People. Later at the Green Festival Dennis gave a heartfelt talk about the election results and how we have to move forward to get his plan for a Department of Peace implemented. He told us that the only path to peace is through the heart and to me the butterfly represents that heart connection.

So come out tonight and enjoy the show and attend the press conference before we begin. The revolution will be televised!

Featuring a host of musicians from Musicians for Peace with Sherry Glaser, Fontain's M.U.S.E., Laramie Crocker, Cyoakha Grace of Land of the Blind and a cast of ...well, too many to count now.

The program will begin with a kirtan by Maha Kirtan with Saraswati, Jean & Richard. They recently performed at our PeaceFest in Golden Gate Park. www.homepage.mac.com/alreadyfree1

Mary Eberspacher will perform a crystal bowl toning and chanting calling the " I Am Presence" of each person present.
www.ancientsounds.com

Steve Bhaerman, also know as Swami Beyondananda and Sherry Glaser will do special comedy routines. Sheery wiil do her new act called "Activist Mom."

Cindy Sheehan of Military Families Speak Out  www.mfso.org will share her spiritual journey since loosing her son Casey Sheehan in Sadr City, Bagdad, Iraq on April 4,2004. She will also recite a poem, A Nation Rocked to Sleep, written by her daughter Carly in honor of her brother Casey. Cindy has spoken at a memorial in Washington DC and traveled to many swing states.
After our National Elections this is an appropriate time to reflect on the soul of our nation & how we best move forward together. We will again touch that place of common human-ness that will strengthen us all in healing and action to bring the troops home now and end the occupation. Please see her site dedicated to her son Casey at www.angelfire.com/sk3/spkhntrca/Casey.html

Cindy will also take part in our press conference that will kick off our Department of Peace -DOP- Campaign in the Bay Area in honor of Congressman Dennis Kucinich. It coincides with our plans to announce that Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace has surpassed one thousand members worldwide and the need to end the war in Iraq and have clean elections in our country again with editable black boxes with paper trails.

Laramie Crocker will perform his song Cargo in honor of Casey Sheehan. This will be a very moving experience for those in attendance.

Karil Daniels, the producer of Voices of Dissent, will show an 8 minute
trailer of her documentary about authentic patriotism and protecting First
Amendment rights against the Bush administration's attempt to discredit dissent and limit free speech. Voices of Dissent contains scenes from our butterfly Naked4Peace - Make Love Not War protest.

This show is being produced in cooperation with StudioZ, Deborah Paulino (gigslist.org & gigdirectory.net) and Department of Peace Campaign.

Sonsoring organizations include Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace,

Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org,
Middle East Children's Alliance/MECA
www.mecaforpeace.org ,
the San Francisco New Living Expo
(www.newlivingexpo.com
and the Global Peace Foundation
www.globalpeacefoundation.org.

Where: Studioz Gallery, 1515 Folsom @ 11th, San Francisco

Details to be announced. Please see www.artintoindustry.net

About our Musicians & Performers

Fontain's M.U.S.E. with the enchanting voice of Fontain, is an ensemble of musicians whose original music is composed and performed combining instrumentation from around the world, including tablas, sitar, joia, bouzoukie, electronica, and guitar. Fontain's haunting voice, and the range of international instrumentation the group uses, from sitar to guitar, creates an extraordinary and mystical mix, blending electronic dance grooves, eastern instrumentation, and spirited vocals in English, Persian, Hindi, French and Spanish. . "The United Nations of musicians, Fontain's M.U.S.E. infuses magic in every beat." - Bay Arts and Music
www.fontainsmuse.com

Steve Bhaerman aka Swami Beyondananda is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 18 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the Cosmic Comic. Swami's comedy has been called irreverently uplifting and has been described both as comedy disguised as wisdom and wisdom disguised as comedy.
www.beyondananda.com
www.wakeuplaughing.com

Roberta Donnay is a grammy nominated and award winning recording artist, singer-songwriter & producer. Her new CD is due out January 2005 and features 15 new songs co-produced with Kit Walker (Windham Hill / Jay-Z) and features legendary performances with trumpet & flugelhorn player Peter Welker (Van Morrison), and Vernon Black (Mariah Carey). Her song "One World" became a theme for the United Nations 50th Anniversary and is being performed on 5 continents as a world peace anthem. Her last 2 CDs "Bohemian" and "soul reverse" earned her film and TV credits including Nash Bridges, The Young & The Restless, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, All My Children, and That's Life. "Crack In The Sidewalk" was a hit on college and public radio & has aired on radio stations nationwide.

Winner of ASCAP Composer awards, Donnay was voted top 10 solo indie artist by FEMMUSIC.com.
She has appeared on shows with : Booker T, Tommy Casto, The Black Crowes, Peter Coyote, David Grisman, Dan Fogelberg, Woody Harrelson, Colin Hay, Dan Hicks, Jonny Lange, Huey Lewis, Eddie Money, The Mother Hips, Lenny Williams, and Neil Young.
www.robertadonnay.com

Alan Tower has been performing lately on a new instrument out of Switzerland called the Hang. Of the instruments he plays, it is the one people come up after and are fasicinated with the sound and the look. He will perform a new solo piece called Music for Animals. Here is a page about the Hang and a couple links that are working of compositons.
www.octavealliance.org/Hand.html

Laramie Crocker just finished turning his song Cargo into a Flash Movie that anyone with a soundcard in their computer can watch. It includes images from the Veterans for Peace "Vigil for the Fallen", which he played in New York. It is really wonderful. He will perfom his song Cargo at the event. Please see and hear it at www.LaramieCrocker.com/cargo.html

William Florian has been writing and performing music since his childhood in the 60s. During the 70s he was a lead singer for the famous folk group The New Christy Minstrels. William has declared peace!
As The Musical American Ambassador Of Peace he is spreading the message globally. Williams new song/chant 'Im Declaring Peace' has everyone united in song and purpose at his performances.
www.declaringpeace.org
www.florianmusic.com

Maria Halyna will sing The Plot Song. Maria sings from the heart, one that's been broken, one that's been filled with happiness and from a very reflective soul. Her lyrics and hooks capture the attention of listeners and the subjectivity of her words resonates with people who digest the mind travel with pleasure. She's been compared to Patty Griffin, Jewel, Patty Larkin, Bjork and Suzanne Vega. Her songs capture her wandering spirit and let it go. Her demo " Last Drop of Lovin'" has gotten reviewed in Texas and in California and she's had the pleasure of playing a few benefits and several coffee shops and restaurants.
With a life like Maria Halyna's it's no surprise that there will be a lot of songs coming from this absorbing and touching lyricist.

JolieDe Pauw www.lotusdog.net

Chris Skyhawk is a singer/songwriter from Albion CA. He is a long-time forest activist and first became active in the peace movement in 1991 while actively organizing against Gulf War 1 and U.S. intervention in Central America.
He has been active on the north coast folk scene for many years. Singing from the courthouses and cafe's, the music halls and the campfires, his insightful songwriting and rich singing voice have bolstered many a cause. He is active with local public radio KZYX as a public affairs programmer and is the proud father of a teenage son. www.chrisskyhawk.com

Marisa Handler www.marisahandler.com

Maria Mango www.mariamango.com

Lauren Rene Hotchkiss is Berkeley-based singer/songwriter and composer who performs both solo and in ensembles. Her songs and compositions range in subject from addressing war and peace and other social concerns to more up-close-and-personal material, with arrangements ranging from solo instrument to full orchestra and chorus. In addition to playing solo and in various bands, she has also worked in musical theatre and currently performs regularly as a church musician at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists in Berkeley.

Cindy Sheehan's daughter Carly wrote the following entitled CARLY'S POEM - A Nation Rocked to Sleep

Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done
They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?

Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
He must be brave because his boy died for another man's lies
The only grief he allows himself are long, deep sighs
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?

Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say that he died so that the flag will continue to wave
But I believe he died because they had oil to save
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?

Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?

Read more Poems submitted by Military Families at
www.angelfire.com/sk3/spkhntrca/poems.html