Music In Africa - March 20 - 2017

[www.musicinafrica.net] Hello SDC DIGITAL, Here is a selection of stories from around the continent that we hope will interest you.   Goethe-Institut, Grohs family introduce prize for African artists  News Southern African musos to tour SADC region  News Call for applications: Karibu Music Festival  News Call for applications: Bayimba International Festival   News Damian Marley to headline Zakifo  News Music education in Chad  Overviews The lush and extravagant sounds of Thor Rixon  Features South African Broadcasting Corporation calls on aspiring DJs  News Tay Grin, Ata Kak to join Rick Ross at Iceland festival  News Copyright, royalties and musical piracy in Mauritius  Overviews

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz - An Indigenous Economic Model

[AR Upcoming] Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz - An Indigenous Economic Model The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what is now Washington State. He reportedly made these observations in an 1854 letter to U.S. President Pierce: “How can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect.” And he warned: “Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to social justice issues. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at UN headquarters in Geneva. She is the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, winner of the 2015 American Book Award and All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.  PRSS Feed Date & Time: Tuesday, Mar 14, 1400-1459ET Terms: Free of Charge to All Stations Contact Phone: (303) 473-0972 Email: info@alternativeradio.org Web: http://www.alternativeradio.org

Patrick Ames

March 2017, Palo Alto, California

New EP "FOUR FACES" Features the Rock/Gospel-driven Politically Charged "Reawakened"

In the newest EP from the prolific Singer/Songwriter Patrick Ames, the San Francisco Bay Area musician plays a MIDI Guitar Synthesizer, allowing him to explore the piano and soprana saxophone, and other instruments via his Gibson Hummingbird — and what music he makes. From the Gospel-driven, political "Reawakened" to the accoustically-inventive "This Small Town", the EP is full of surprises.

His two backup singers are full-throated and in rare form for this 2017 wake-up call. 4 songs, 4 faces, 4 $.

The 60 year old singer/songwriter, rhythm guitarist is writing and performing his best music of his lifetime. Tune in and enjoy the lyrics from the former writer/book publisher.

“Laid back and funky with heavy classic rock influence.” — Indie Music Plus

"You can compare Ames’ music to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, or whomever, but I hear him as a unique indie artist that is being overlooked by the masses."  JoeJoe Keys, Indie Live

Patrick began writing songs in Toledo, Ohio in 1968 when he was 14 years old after inheriting a guitar and dozens of classic albums from his older brothers who went off to college. An avid songwriter and performer during his own college tenure, he went into book publishing after briefly attempting the music circuit as a songwriter in 1976. Now, in his early 60s, Ames has returned to songwriting armed with decades of wordsmithing, book publishing, and decades of practice.

Ames lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the day he is an editor in high-tech Silicon Valley, a career that over the years has taken him to Apple, Adobe, Palm, Nokia, and Juniper. His lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Elizabeth Ames.

As a songwriter, Ames performs at small venues around the SF Bay Area, and at wineries in Napa, prefering settings where he can be intimate with the audience, such as a recent songwriting residency at Freewheel in Redwood City, CA