unBILLievable

I met Bill McCarthy in the late 70's, and we liked jammin' and songs of peace & love, and since the days of the Dead and Starship & Quicksilver and free concerts in GG Park, he's been at the helm of his creation The Unity Foundation, and cranking out their monthly cable show Positive Spin on local cable access.

It was Bill and a handful of others that designed and got out the www.peaceday.tv/ livestream broadcast that got picked up by 2,000 websites (last count) including the U.N.'s official website. He encouraged me to make a video of Where There's A Will, and offered to post it on both the peaceday broadcast and Positive Spin (Nov). I visited him in Santa Monica, and we did some open mic, and checked out the John Lennon birthday celebration (30 years since his passing), in front of the Capitol Records tower, with Beatle stars on the sidewalk, and enjoyed all the lovely people.

fall equinox and peaceday 2010 music video

Wow. I'm trying not to feel too bad about being such a negligent website manager/updater/blogger etc while working on the next CD and many other things, including a music video, just completed, of the title cut off the last one, "Where There's A Will." I've teamed up with my friends Damon Malloy, of Dirksen-Malloy productions, and Bill McCarthy who runs the Unity Foundation, to get this video onto the www.peaceday.tv/ global live stream broadcast currently running (9/17 thru 9/21).

Damon is a film maker & videographer, and among other things, does the tech part of Unity Foundation's monthly cable show "Positive Spin." Bill started Unity foundation, and his own production company years ago. He's one of San Francisco's humble heros,and an ongoing tour de force of peace, culture awareness and charity. He'll show the video on an upcoming Positive Spin. After this event, I'll have a You Tube link on this website where it can be watched.

DO check out the Peaceday broadcast, and see all the wonderfull people and organizations involved in this ten year celebration of The Millenium Campaign and it's 8 development goals. Bioneers gathering coming up in San Rafael, Calif., mid Oct. I'll get back with more on that later.

Peace & best wishes to you all!

Tedwin

Bridge of Hearts

This past summer I met Jes Richardson at a local festival in San Geronimo, with his amazing Gandhi puppet, and he told me about the bridge he's building between the hearts of Americans and the hearts of Iranians, and the film that he and film maker Scott Calhoun have in the works. I simply had to lay the latest CD on him, since one of the better lines in the title cut is a nod to Gandhi's amazing contribution to India (and the world, for that matter). Months later, when he and Scott contacted me asking to use some of the music for their film in progress, I was delighted, and the rest is history unfolding. He hopes to get to Iran later this year. Don't you love it? People NOT mired in politics and hand-me-down baggage of agendas and prejudices.