 Bonne Musique Zydeco Gazette |
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January 27, 2010
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Hello Friends and Fans!
BMZ will participate in a benefit event for Haiti. Please read about it below. We also ask for your contributions.
Please encourage your friends to sign up on my newsletter.
Bervick BJ Deculus
818 774-0570
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Concert For Haiti
Bonne Musique Zydeco is proud to be a participant in this worthwhile endeavor. Please come out and support this event.
An extraordinary gathering of 24 top acoustic recording artists!
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 2:00 - 8:00 pm
Culver-Palms United Methodist Church
4464 Sepulveda Blvd
Culver City, CA
310-390-7717
Concert for Haiti - benefiting relief organizations 01 31 10
Donations will be accepted, in lieu of admission, as checks made-out to any of the following disaster relief organizations:
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DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS operates one of the only free trauma centers in Port-au-Prince as well as an emergency hospital in the capital for pregnant women, new mothers and newborns. All three of its primary medical centers have collapsed, but DWB has already set up temporary shelters and is offering emergency care on the ground.
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PARTNERS IN HEALTH-- PIH (@pih_org) is already on the ground in Haiti and mobilizing relief efforts.
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CARE has deployed emergency team members to Port-au-Prince to assist in recovery efforts. They're focusing their efforts on rescuing children who may still be trapped in schools that collapsed.
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OXFAM has four offices in Haiti and over 200 highly experienced aid workers on the ground. They are already responding to the situation where assistance is most needed.
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AMERICARES has already committed $5 million in medical and humanitarian aid, is sending emergency response experts to Haiti, and is currently preparing an emergency airlift to their partners in Haiti.
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ACTION AID'S STRATEGIC CRISIS FUND coordinates immediate disbursement of funds for rapid humanitarian response, and is providing medicines, food and shelter to people in need.
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MADRE has activated an emergency response through its partner organization, ZANMI LASANTE CLINIC. The most urgent needs right now are bandages, broad-spectrum antibiotics and other medical supplies, as well as water tablets to prevent cholera outbreaks.The doctors, nurses and community health workers there are working to get medical assistance and supplies to areas that have been hardest hit.
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(added by request of our co-sponsor, the venue)
UMCOR - THE UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF is one of the most effective and longstanding NGO's working in disaster response. UMCOR guarantees that 100% of gifts designated for Haiti go directly to relief and development efforts. United Methodists have had a long-standing relationship with Haiti through the Methodist Church of Haiti. UMCOR is well known for being present for the long term, recognizing that effective response to this disaster will last for months and years.
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Our goal is to raise as much as we can for the people of Haiti and for the relief workers who are doing so much there, often working with so little in a place with such overwhelmingly great need.
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BMZ Performance Schedule 
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 5 - 10 pm, New Orleans Cajun-Creole Cuisine, 140 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach, CA. Reservation required. Please call 310 347-5184.
 Sunday, February 14, 2010,
11 am - 2 pm,
Sweet Baby J'ai &
Bonne Musique Zydeco,
Renaissance Hotel & Spa,
Twist Restaurant on 2nd floor,
(Hollywood & Highland)
1755 North Highland Avenue,
Hollywood, CA
Fat Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 5 - 10 pm, New Orleans Cajun-Creole Cuisine, 140 Pier Avenue,
Hermosa Beach, CA. Reservation required. Please call 310 347-5184.
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Live 365.com
 KDEN Zydeco & Americana
Americana, Cajun/Zydeco, Tejano
DJ Dennis Gurwell is a product of the Bakersfield, CA area. He has been playing in various types of bands since the mid-60's. He moved to the Los Angeles area in the late 1960's and has been there ever since. He has played in a variety of Rock, Country, Celtic and Zydeco bands during that time. He plays accordion in the Los Angeles-based group Bonne Musique Zydeco. This is his first foray into the world of internet broadcasting.
Broadcaster Comments:
Hope you all enjoy the music on my show. It's made up of a large dose of Zydeco, along with some Blues, Country, Americana, Hawaiian, Tex-Mex, and Celtic. If I've left anything out, please let me know. I will try to update my playlists as often as I can. Recent additions to my playlist are cuts by guitar greats Pete Anderson and Gregg Wright, as well as new music from Danny Trashville. Artists, if you have any music that you would like to have played on my station, please send me a copy. If I feel that it fits in with the general direction of this station, I will be happy to play it. Enjoy, Dennis
Click here to get the station . . . .
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 Bayou Talk
For more information, or to submit an article to Bayou Talk, contact Louis Metoyer |
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“The King of Zydeco,” Clifton Chenier grabbed Andre Thierry by the arms at the age of three and deemed him a future accordion player. Thierry’s French Creole roots are grounded in Louisiana. Thierry’s mother, Olivia Guillory is from Basile, Louisiana and father Gregory Thierry from Jennings, Louisiana. Andre Thierry’s childhood was deeply influenced by his late grandfather Houston Pete Pitre (Pa-Pa as they called him) from Basile, Louisiana and his loving grandmother, known to all as Mama Lena Pitre from Soileau, Louisiana. Andre Thierry released the first CD “It’s About Time!” in 1999. Thierry has raised the bar for Zydeco-Cajun musicians nationwide. Thierry has been labeled as the Jimmy Hendrix of Zydeco Music, a legend before his time. Andre is an exceptional multidimensional self taught musician who has embraced his ability to merge traditional Zydeco-Cajun music with hip-hop, blues, jazz and rock. As quoted from an article published in Eh Toi magazine 2002, “There is no accordion player in Zydeco that uses his left hand as well as Andre Thierry. ”Andre Thierry released his second CD A Whole Lot of something in 2004. Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic will capture your attention with his melodic fingers as they embrace the brass buttons of his accordions, creating music that will captivate your souls, soothe your minds and have your feet dancing all night long. As Clifton said once, that " if you have arthritis you won’t have it no more."
