Emotions Run High at Katrina Jazz Concert

brettdale

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Sun Sep-18-05 08:41 PM
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Emotions Run High at Katrina Jazz Concert

Emotions Run High at Katrina Jazz Concert

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050918/ap_en_mu/katrina_jazz_concert_benefit

NEW YORK - With the exception of the now-famous Kanye West outburst, celebrity-driven benefits for Hurricane Katrina victims have followed a familiar formula — musicians singing heart-tugging ballads while famous faces implore viewers to give, all in a sanitized, apolitical tone.

Those elements were present at Jazz at Lincoln Center's "Higher Ground" hurricane relief benefit concert Saturday night. But the five-hour concert was also stirring for the emotionally charged performances and speeches that assigned blame for the tragedy.

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babsbunny

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Sun Sep-18-05 08:45 PM
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1. I stayed up as late as I could to see James Taylor

Never saw him, but after I went to bed, I could hear Bill Cosby, and earlier I heard Harry Bellafonte and Danny Glover. It was awesome!

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Melodybe

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Sun Sep-18-05 08:48 PM
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2. That is awesome, please folks sent this article out to your friends

Danny Glover and Bill Cosby rule.

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elfin

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Sun Sep-18-05 08:52 PM
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3. I was gone and missed it - but just got a call

from an 83 year old friend who LOVED it -- and who hates bush.

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understandinglife

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Sun Sep-18-05 08:58 PM
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4. Danny Glover: "When the hurricane struck, ...

.... it did not turn the region into a Third World country ... it revealed one," actor and activist Danny Glover said in a speech with Harry Belafonte in which both criticized the government, not only for the response to the hurricane but for the conditions prior to it.

"Katrina was not unforeseeable," Belafonte said. "It was the result of a political structure that subcontracts its responsibility to private contractors and abdicates its responsibility altogether."

AP Photo: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison reads during Jazz at Lincoln Center's Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit

Peace.

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Trevelyan

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Sun Sep-18-05 09:04 PM
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5. Glad to see some people "allowed' to exercise their RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH

If it was televised, I'm surprised the network didn' switch to something else.

Go Everyone who spoke up to assign the blame where it belongs. In bushco's murdering hands.

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Melodybe

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Sun Sep-18-05 10:06 PM
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6. kick and nominated and awesome!

Edited on Sun Sep-18-05 10:06 PM by Melodybe

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