Do You Have Health Insurance

DO YOU HAVE IT? WHERE DID YOU GET IT?

Health Insurance. It has become the most talked about issue on television and in our nation's capitol. But do you even know how many of your friends have insurance or how they get it? To find out more about health care and the music community, we staged a poll of nearly 1,000 fans at concerts around the country and Festival 8. Here's what we found: About 22 percent of you are among the more than 45 million Americans who lack health insurance. Check out the full results:


Headcount is now launching an online poll to add to the results. Take the HeadCount Health Care Poll on Facebook. Go to the Headcount blog next month for the online survey results and a series of stories about health care in the world of music.

Heylady

Happy Friday the 13th.

Wanted to let you know about the band Heylady - it's a funk/soul/pop-rock band out of Brooklyn, NY, that has a show tonight at Arlene's Grocery at 11:30PM (95 Stanton and Orchard). They're a very live band that puts on a high-energy show and despite being a party band, the songs are dynamic. Come check them out!

www.youtube.com/heyladymusic
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Bear Creek Music and Arts Festival 2009 Review

Here is an excerpt of the review I wrote, recounting some collaborations.

Saturday was one of the best days for collaborations with Stanton more sitting in with Robert Walter's 20^th Congress also joining them was Bernie Worrell of Parliament/Funkadelic, The Shady Horns AKA the horn section from Lettuce, (Sam Kinninger and Ryan Zoidis), sat in with The Papa Mali band an hour later. Garage a Trois sat in with The Slip for an old school jamband collaboration. The horns from Bonerama sat in with Brooklyn's Pimps of Joytime and really filled out the sound. Saturday Galactic had a huge jam joined by Ivan Neville, Derek Trucks, Mike Dylan of Garage a Trois and the artist at large Skerik. It was almost impossible to track all the jams and collaborations, there were so many going on at any given moment, luckily there were quite a few tapers in the audience.

Derek Trucks who only lives a few hours away showed up unannounced for the second year in a row and jammed with good friend Eric Krasno and the rest of Lettuce. The “Bear Creek Mystery Show” turned out to be Neal Evans on keys joining Lettuce to complete the lineup of Soulive. Soulive and The Shady Horns ended their set with instrumentals of the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby and She’s So Heavy.

Saturday Galactic was joined by their touring partner Corey Henry, Mike Dillon and Roosevelt Collier of The Lee Boys on steel pedal. Collier is also a Florida resident and showed up unannounced. Galactic played their standard songs “Baker's Dozen,” “Tuff Love,” “Boe Money,” “Garbage Truck” and “Crazyhorse Mongoose” to name a few. Later that night around 12:00 a.m., I listened to Trombone Shorty from a hammock; they played a set similar to what I heard the Dirty Dozen Brass band play at Brooklyn Bowl a week before; the songs Included “When The Saints Go Marching In” and “Sissy Strut.”

Consequence of Sound Plans to Launch New Site

This site is run by a 22 year old polymath, the site has ALOT of potential especially with the "festival outlook," which is everywhere in search engines . I predict this site to figure prominently into the blog takeover in the coming years. I saw a mockup of the new design and it looks great.

Get That Flashlight Out Of My Face

BIG L R.I.P.

Who owns your favorite Organic Brand?

Indigo and Gaia

You read what I post, so I keep doing it. Big things happening in '10. Meaning I will still be alive perusing the American Dream. You like Youtube videos right??? Allow me to seperate the good from bad on the internet and present it to you. Here is some fat to chew on as we hatch the master plans for '10. You are an Indigo!

Bear Creek Festival was awesome. More on that later, Phish MSG to come, Bluegrass/Folk band hipster takeover and are taking suggestions for good names. Meanwhile this blog will not be updated much, head to the more crunchy side of Live Music Peeps, as there are more heads helping with that. '10 we will see a more evolved vision for Hipster Resistance.
(P.S Maya 2012 will be anticlimactic, as an indigo I know this ☻)

CoSM NYC

Every phase in humanity’s spiritual evolution inspires the creation of new art and sacred spaces. From the earliest painted caves, pyramids, stupas, synagogues, mosques, and cathedrals to the most modern temples, sacred spaces help define and glorify a shared relationship with the divine. The greatest sacred spaces inspire generations of pilgrims to places of power in order to refresh their souls.Today, humanity is at a crossroads. Religions are at war, the environmental crisis looms, and old economies are breaking down. A culture based on consumerism, steeped in materialism, is questioning the meaning and purpose of life. A poverty of the soul afflicts our relationships with each other and with nature. Sacred spaces are vital in deeply connecting community members with each other and with the icons and sanctuaries of wisdom so meaningful to their survival. These sites of transformative healing, offer ceremonies intended to trigger mystical experiences and alignment with the cosmos. Unity with the source of creation ignites commitment to a better life and a better world. The collective awareness of a dawning planetary civilization and universal spirituality is calling for an uplifting twenty-first century vision of World Spirit. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is answering that call.