It has been a busy time as the post-production of TURKEY CREEK has gone into high gear and the development of The Bridge Project has become a major focus.
I have been working with the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health to lay the groundwork for The Bridge Project. In July I met [...]
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Gulf Coast human rights activists are heard in DC
Coast activists take demands to D.C. Sun Herald Washington Bureau June 1, 2009 WASHINGTON — With a FEMA trailer strategically parked across the street, a coalition of Gulf Coast activists stood outside FEMA headquarter[...]
“Turkey Creek” and The Bridge project receive funding
In March I learned that the W. K. Kellogg Foundation will be making a grant to support “Turkey Creek” and the launch of The Bridge Project. I’ll be posting something soon about what this will mean, but [...]
Celebration of Howard Armstrong’s Centennial
National treasure Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong would have turned 100 on March 4, 2009. The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville and other venues around the country will celebrate his centennial with screenings o[...]
Birthday party for Howard in his hometown
Bill Claiborne, of the Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee, emailed photos of the birthday celebration for Howard that took place in his hometown of LaFollette on March 6. He and the other locals there phone[...]
John Cephas will be missed
I learned yesterday that Piedmont blues guitarist John Cephas died on March 4 at the age of 78. He and his musical partner Phil Wiggins spent time with Howard Armstrong at the Centrum Country Blues Festival in Port Towns[...]
Howard’s flag Sitting On Top of the World
When Howard’s parents named him William Howard Taft Armstrong on March 4, 1909, they named their son after the U.S. President inaugurated that same day. I heard from Bill Claiborne (of the Louie Bluie Arts and Musi[...]
It’s not about a hurricane. It’s about America.
I received this letter from a network of groups organizing a campaign around the Oscar nomination for the incredible documentary “Trouble the Water.” Please go to: www.troublethewaterfilm.com/congress and [...]
Aging Gracefully in San Francisco
Today a San Francisco TV show called “View from the Bay” featured a clip from SWEET OLD SONG and invited me to speak along with Nader Shabahangi on a segment called “Five Elements of Healthy Aging.̶[...]
New chapter to HOLDING GROUND
More than a decade after HOLDING GROUND was on public TV I ran into Jason Webb at a meeting in New Orleans. Jason was a young teenager when we filmed him declaring that he’d dedicated half his life to Boston’[...]
