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Homegrown Revolution Trailer: Premiers Wild & Scenic Film Festival Jan 9-11
Jun 29th
Homegrown Revolution (2008) is a film short that gives a brief introduction to the Dervaes Family’s urban homestead which they call “Path to Freedom.” On this tiny city lot, a beautiful and productive oasis was created, producing 6000 lbs of food annually and is a model of urban sustainability. Film premiers at the WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL (Jan 9-11, 2009) www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org ——About Path to Freedom—— Since the mid 1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic micro farm that supplies them with food all year round. These eco-pioneers also run a successful home business providing their surplus produce to local restaurants. Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own food, installing a solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel, raising backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness. Since 2001, their website has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a 21st century urban homestead movement. visit their blog at http
Big Jack Johnson – Blues Guitarist – Recorded Live
Jun 29th
Big Jack Johnson recorded live at the Curry Ranch in Venice, FL in summer of 1999. The legendary Rock Bottom was the opening act of this Mini Blues Festival. Please also see the Rock Bottom video from this same concert by going to: www.youtube.com From Wikipedia: * Genre: Blues * Active: ’70s – 2000s * Instruments: Vocals, Guitar Biography Contemporary Mississippi blues doesn’t get any nastier than in Big Jack Johnson’s capable hands. The ex-oil truck driver’s axe cuts like a rusty machete, his rough-hewn vocals a siren call to Delta passion. But he’s a surprisingly versatile songwriter; Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home?, his ambitious 1990 set for Earwig, found him tackling issues as varied as AIDS, wife abuse, and Chinese blues musicians in front of slick, horn-leavened arrangements! Big Jack Johnson was a chip off the old block musically. His dad was a local musician playing both blues and country ditties at local functions; by the time he was 13 years old, Johnson was sitting in on guitar with his dad’s band. At age 18, Johnson was following BB King’s electrified lead. His big break came when he sat in with bluesmen Frank Frost and Sam Carr at the Savoy Theatre in Clarksdale. The symmetry between the trio was such that they were seldom apart for the next 15 years, recording for Phillips International and Jewel with Frost, the bandleader. Chicago blues aficionado Michael Frank was so mesmerized by the trio’s intensity when he heard them playing in 1975 at Johnson’s …
