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This evening of dialogue features perspectives and memories shared by three Oregonians — a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian — who for almost three decades have been struggling together from their common faith, to work, pray, and strive for peace in the Middle East.
Event Type: Special Event, Panel Discussion, Online VideoAudience(s): Family-friendly
Rabbi Joshua Stampfer, Mr. Frank Afranji, and the Rev. Dr. Rodney Page first traveled to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza in 1988, during the first Intefada (uprising). They then founded the Oregon Inter-religious Committee for Peace in the Middle East. On New Year's morning in 1990 they started Cavalcade for Peace in the Middle East just before the first Gulf war. The Cavalcade continued, on New Year's morning, for many years. Join us for an evening of reflection on the ways they have worked together in Oregon to increase interfaith understanding and foster peace. Jan Elfers, new Executive Director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, will moderate the panel. Questions will be taken from the audience.
Frank Afranji was born and raised in Ramallah, Palestine. He received his B.S. & M.S. engineering degrees in Illinois and his M.B.A. from Portland State University. Mr. Afranji has long been active in the area of Middle East peace and Palestinian-Israeli dialogue. He has served on the board of the Interreligious Committee for the Peace in the Middle East, Board Member of the City of Portland's Harmony Commission, and as Advisor to the Oregon Chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Rev. Dr. Rodney Page holds Doctor of Divinity degrees from Texas Christian University and Northwest Christian College. He came to Portland in 1962, when he became Associate Minister at First Christian church and Campus Minister at Portland State University. In 1981, he became the Director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, which initiated many significant programs under his direction. He was elected to the position of Executive Director of Church World Service in 1996 and participated in several international projects. Having retired in 2000, he currently serves as Chair of the Elders of First Christian Church and had taken a leadership role in Kiwanis.
Rabbi Joshua Stampfer was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and moved with his family moved to the United States as a young child. His father served as a rabbi in many U.S. cities. Joshua Stampfer graduated from the University of Chicago, received his M.S. from the University of Akron, his M.H.L. from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and his D.H.L. from the University of Judaism. He received an honorary doctorate from Pacific University in 1987. He served Congregation Neveh Shalom in Portland, Oregon, from 1953 to 1993 and is currently the Rabbi Emeritus there.
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LucyT rolls the DICE for Wyatt
It is little wonder that Wyatt Roy has established such cultural affinity with the Israelis given the man's innate and bountiful chutzpah.
Whatever you think of the Assistant Minister for Innovation (and he does have his detractors), you have to admire his ability to get things done. And chutzpah is the secret weapon.
Of course, it doesn't hurt to have friends in high-places either. So when he was looking for an inaugural Patron for his just-announced DICE Kids program, asking the Prime Minister's wife (the already very busy and impeccably-credentialled Lucy) became an option.
Power Group: Wyatt Roy, Lucy Turnbull, Michaelia Cash and Sarah Pearson
DICE Kids is a not-for-profit that aims to foster and encourage digital and entrepreneurial skills among children – to give Australian kids exposure to the commercial world early. DICE stands for Digital, Innovative, Creative, Entrepreneurial – entirely on-message for this government.
The first DICE Kids initiative – a National Lemonade Day – was one of the ideas to come out of Mr Roy's Policy Hack. In fact, it won the Policy Hack pitching contest, and attracted immediate support from a couple of the judges, including CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall.
Six weeks later and DICE Kids is a funded reality with Lucy Turnbull as its Patron. That's a very cool turn-around time.
Ms Turnbull said: "We need to nurture in our very young people the belief that everyone and anyone can be innovators … empowering them to believe that with skill, passion and hard work, every Australian has a real chance to put their great ideas into action."
The DICE Kids' National Lemonade Day is meant to encourage young kids to set up, market and run a lemonade stand for a day, giving them early exposure to what it's like to run a business, and to understand the inputs and outputs of the commercial world.
DICE Kids will be headed by Melbourne-based Erin Watson-Lynn, a PhD candidate and delegate to this year's G20 Youth Summit. She led the team which came up with the Policy Hack pitch, which was based on the highly-successful Lemonade Day USA.
Ms Watson-Lynn said a pilot program on a day to be determined next year would target 180,000 primary school participants.
"It will be a nationally-coordinated day delivered though community organisations and schools," Ms Watson-Lynn said.
"It's about inspiring young people and that cultural shift towards entrepreneurship – giving them the belief that they're able to do it. It's about planting the seed of innovation early."
And finally, just to revisit the issue of chutzpah. The Foreign Minister Julie Bishop – a Western Australian MP – was on hand at Mr Roy's Christmas party and office opening in Brisbane this week.
We'll just say that again – the Foreign Minister and deputy Liberal leader from WA helped open Wyatt's new office in Queensland in the same week he was able to entice the incredibly experienced Prime Minister's wife to be Patron of a passion project.
How does he do it? Chutzpah.
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Hispasat, Reintel and Elewit have demonstrated that satellite terminals can be installed on high voltage towers to roll out connectivity bubbles in rural settings, which will contribute to bridging the digital divide in Spain.
The project has made it possible to verify the proper operation of satellite terminals in the highly unique electromagnetic environment of high voltage towers.
MADRID, 19 October 2021. The Red Eléctrica Group, through HISPASAT, the Spanish telecommunications operator, Red Eléctrica de España, the electrical system operator and transporter, and Elewit, the Group's technological platform, has carried out a pilot project on the Red Eléctrica's substation in Galapagar (Madrid) to demonstrate the viability of the use of high-voltage electrical infrastructure to provide satellite connectivity that extends cellular and broadband coverage in rural and remote environments that the power lines run through.
The three-month long pilot project has made it possible to verify the proper operation of satellite terminals in the highly unique electromagnetic environment of high voltage towers. Additionally, the project has shown that using solar panels to generate isolated photovoltaic electricity can be a sound power source for these terminals.
Thanks to all this, the project has also demonstrated that satellite terminals can be installed on Red Eléctrica's high-voltage towers, which boast extensive connectivity throughout Spain, to roll out connectivity bubbles in rural environments. This solution will contribute to bridging the digital divide and implementing solutions linked to the daily work in rural areas, such as crop and livestock monitoring and fire prevention. Based on these findings, the group is already working on defining a new pilot project aimed at analysing the viability of this model to create 4G/5G bubbles via satellite on high-voltage towers.
This initiative is proof of the many possibilities that HISPASAT's satellites offer to bridge the digital divide in Spain and ensure connectivity in every region, including those where other infrastructures cannot reach. The operator boasts universal coverage over 100% of the country which allows it to offer connectivity to any point in Spain. With this solution Hispasat can promote digitalisation in remote areas, which is the basis to provide social stability and ensure digitalisation without leaving anyone behind. Digital connectivity allows the rural world to access a wide variety of solutions, including high speed broadband access, while also digitalising universal rights such as education and healthcare. Connectivity also promotes development in sectors such as agriculture and forestry and facilitates access to government entities without the need for travel by making it possible for people to handle their administrative processes online. For its part, Elewit works intensely on technological oversight, coordinating innovation within the group and analysing and detecting optimal solutions for every case.
HISPASAT is the leading satellite operator in Spain and a driver for innovation in the aerospace sector. The company is the main communication link between Europe and America as a broadband and connectivity service provider in America, Europe and North Africa through its companies in Spain and Latin America, where its Brazilian subsidiary, HISPAMAR, is located. HISPASAT is the leader in broadcasting and distributing multimedia content in Spanish and Portuguese, including broadcasts from major digital Direct to Home (DTH) and High Definition Television (HDTV) platforms. These activities make it one of the top companies in the world by revenue in its sector and it forms part of the Red Eléctrica Group.
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Mindfulness therapy works as well as some drugs: study
Mindfulness involves training the brain to deal with negative emotions using techniques such as meditation, breathing exercises and yoga.
29th Apr 2016 7:02 AM
Therapy based on the controversial concept of 'mindfulness' works as well as some anti-depressant drugs, according to a major new study.
Inspired in part by Buddhist philosophy, mindfulness involves training the brain to deal with negative emotions using techniques such as meditation, breathing exercises and yoga.
Some critics have claimed mindfulness techniques can bring on panic attacks and lead to paranoia, delusions or depression.
But the new study - the largest-ever analysis of research on the subject - found mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) helped people just as much as commonly prescribed anti-depressant drugs and that there was no evidence of any harmful effects.
People suffering from depression who received MBCT were 31 per cent less likely to suffer a relapse during the next 60 weeks, the researchers reported in a paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Professor Willem Kuyken, the lead author of the paper, said: "This new evidence for mindfulness-based cognitive therapy … is very heartening.
"While MBCT is not a panacea, it does clearly offer those with a substantial history of depression a new approach to learning skills to stay well in the long-term."
He stressed that different people required different treatments and mindfulness should be viewed as one option alongside drugs and other forms of therapy.
Professor Kuyken, an Oxford University clinical psychologist and director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, and other experts around the world have set themselves an ambitious target.
"We need to do more research, however, to get recovery rates closer to 100 per cent and to help prevent the first onset of depression, earlier in life," he said.
"These are programmes of work we are pursuing at the University of Oxford and with our collaborators around the world."
He stressed that while mindfulness may share a "lineage" with Buddhism and other "contemplative traditions", the way it was used in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was "entirely secular".
"It makes complete sense to me that this wonderful faculty of thinking can both get us into trouble and also get us out of trouble," Professor Kuyken said.
"It's a sort of mental training. It's about training the mind so people can see negative thoughts, negative feelings, the early signs of a depressive relapse, and learn the skills to respond to those in a way that makes them more resilient."
A woman in one of his classes would start to have thoughts such as "I'm no good, I'm not a very good mother, I'm going to mess up my children and they are going to suffer from depression as I do", he said.
But, after the training, Professor Kuyken said the woman was "able to recognise her negative thoughts as negative thoughts not facts, and not engage with them as much".
"She developed a metaphor of a wrecking ball. Instead of being knocked over, she'd stand back and let the wrecking ball swing through her mind," he added.
Mindfulness has won the backing of NHS advisory body, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), and the Mental Health Foundation research charity. A study published in the Lancet last year also found mindfulness could be as effective as drugs.
However, the book The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You? by psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Dr Catherine Wikholm argued there was a need to look into the "dark side" of mindfulness.
"Mindfulness can have negative effects for some people, even if you're doing it for only 20 minutes a day," Dr Farias told the Guardian last year.
"It's difficult to tell how common [negative] experiences are, because mindfulness researchers have failed to measure them, and may even have discouraged participants from reporting them by attributing the blame to them."
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Q: Masonry with Infinite Scroll - jQuery code is not working after the 1st page I'm using Masonry with Infinite Scroll for my project. My content is dynamically generated via php. I have images inside div's that do some things when they (div's) are clicked.
Here is my jQuery code:
$(document).ready(function(){
function vote(direction, media_id) {
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The code above is executed when div .voteup is clicked. All is working fine, but only for the 1st page. When I load second page via Infinite Scroll and click on some div with .voteup class nothing happens. My jquery code is not working for all the elements loaded from the second page.
Here is my code for Masonry and Infinite Scroll:
$(function(){
var $container = $(".gwrap-splash");
$container.imagesLoaded( function(){
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        itemSelector : ".gimg-splash",
        isAnimated: false,
        cornerStampSelector: ".side-block-splash"
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});
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    loading: {
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},
function( newElements ) {
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    $newElems.imagesLoaded(function(){
        $newElems.animate({ opacity: 1 });
        $container.masonry( \'appended\', $newElems, true );
    });
});

});
Please, help!

A: I have been able to solve this.
The goal was to add function vote()inside $container.infinitescroll()


Tyler and I will be out of town from Tuesday the 25th of May until June 8th. If you have any questions, please email us and we will try and check in from time to time and answer your questions. All business will be taken care of when we return, and unfortunately we won't have access to our phones while overseas. So: have a great two weeks!
Here, finally, are some results of our goPro workshop's wedding details shoot. This whole thing was organized by Sharisa Hutchins of Outstanding Occasions, and we were WOWed by her insane talent with details. The setting was amazing; I couldn't have asked for a better setting to photograph. If you are getting married and are looking for a wedding planning firm, contact Sharisa. She is amazing, as is her team.
The amazing florals were by Ellen Fukumoto, 'Flowers By Ellen'. You can find her work here.
Slowly we are rolling out all of the shoots we had at our goPro workshop... thanks to all the models who came out for our attendees to practice on. Your patience has been appreciated!


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Digital Barriers announces Sharon Cooper to its Board as CFO
November 28, 2013 By Talent4Boards Team Comments are Off Board - Europe
– UK, London – The Board of Digital Barriers plc (AIM: DGB) (the "Board"), the specialist provider of advanced surveillance technologies to the security and defence sectors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sharon Denise Cooper (formerly Collins) (37) to the Board of Digital Barriers as Group Finance Director with effect from 3 March 2014.
Sharon is a Chartered Accountant by training, having started her career at Ernst & Young in 2000, and has subsequently served in a number of senior finance roles with Sophos Limited.
Sharon is currently VP, Commercial Finance at Sophos Limited having previously served with the organisation as Group Financial Controller. Sophos Limited is a Network security business providing software security to businesses globally. It has offices in 20 countries and annual revenues of approximately £250 million.
Sharon graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Accounting and German and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Tom Black, Executive Chairman, commented: "I am delighted to announce the appointment of Sharon to the Board of Digital Barriers where I am sure she will become a valued member of the senior management team. Sharon's finance experience in a global company naturally qualifies her for the job but it is her enthusiasm and ability to work in a dynamic, growing company such as ours that makes her an excellent fit with our existing senior team. I look forward to working with Sharon as we move the Group to the next phase of its development.
I would also like to thank Paul Bergin for his significant contribution to the Group as Interim Finance Director. Paul will leave the Group following an appropriate handover to Sharon in Q2 2014."
About Digital Barriers
Digital Barriers provides advanced surveillance technologies to the international homeland security and defence markets, specialising in 'edge-intelligent' solutions that are designed for remote, hostile or complex operating environments. We work with governments, multinational corporations and system integrators in the defence, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, transportation and natural resources sectors. Our surveillance technologies have been successfully proven on some of the most demanding operational and environmental deployments around the world.
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The UK Department for International Trade has announced it will host the Africa Investment Conference on 20 January 2021, bringing together UK and African businesses for a one-day virtual event to explore the opportunities for partnership and investment.
The conference comes one year after the UK-Africa Investment Summit hosted in London by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, where 27 trade and investment deals worth £6.5bn and commitments worth £8.9bn were announced.
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Filed under: Leadership,Sports,Teamwork — Tags: adversity, Belgium, Buccaneers, Dennis Green, diversity, football, Herm Edwards, Japan, Jon Gordon, Power of Positive Team, Red Devils, Senegal, soccer, teamwork, Tony Dungy, World Cup — Nathan @ 11:02 am
It's true – I've been watching this year's World Cup. Watching a lot of it. Of course, other than now knowing the term "set piece" and appreciating the cleanliness of the Japanese and Senegalese fans, I must confess to still not grasping the intricacies of the game.
But one thing is clear; teamwork is critical.
I was fascinated to see the comments of Roberto Martinez, the coach of Belgium's team (the "Red Devils"), on the necessity of his squad to work as a unit. "Individual skills and talent are important, but in these tournaments, it's absolutely necessary to play as a team," he said. "The last thing you want at international football is to see a group of individuals hoping to get a result."
So true, not only in international football, but also in other sports, as well as corporations and any team settings. A team is completely different than a group of individuals.
Three points jumped out at me from the comments of Martinez, who led Belgium to the Cup semifinals:
They needed the right roster configuration. As the late (American) football coach Denny Green said, "I want the right players on the roster, not necessarily the best players." Martinez, likewise, spoke of needing the right mix of attackers, defenders and others, even if that meant some of the players who "grab the headlines" didn't make the team.
That roster configuration included diversity for the benefits it brings. Youth and young blood bring "bravery and naivety," but Martinez also sought the benefits that veterans who had played in high stakes international competitions brought. Tony Dungy tackled this with his first Buccaneers coaching staff, hiring the blunt, fiery Herm Edwards as his Assistant Head Coach to complement Tony's soft-spoken approach. Neither needed to become something they weren't, but both needed to appreciate the other.
Belgium had to become a team that could handle adversity. And the only way to learn to handle it is to experience it. "We must become a team that can suffer when it's needed to be a winning team…." Martinez explained. It's certainly no fun when it's happening, but it's a part of growth. For the Red Devils, or your team. As my friend Jon Gordon notes, maintaining a spirit of positivity helps us press on through bad times.
So as you work within your team – and teams are all around us, in our families, businesses, churches, sports teams, and organizations (including my wife's Junior League!) – remember Martinez' words of wisdom. At the end of the day, teams can accomplish more, but only if they are a team – not merely a collection of individuals.
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Showcasing their talent the Soulbillies shake San Quentin
October 23, 2019 by David Ditto
A Bay Area band stirred the souls of a hundred San Quentin prisoners with a high-energy Sunday night concert on Aug. 25.
Fliers posted in the cell blocks promised "A Night of Classic Soul." The Soulbillies delivered with a whirlwind performance that spurred the audience to dance, sing, laugh and clap for two hours of not-so-pure enjoyment.
The five musicians, dressed in all black, took the stage in the prison chapel and began with a couple of cover grooves, including Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools." Lead singer Shelley Flint belted out the lyrics as drummer Dan Babior and keyboardist Melinda Borello backed her up with the "Chain-chain-chain…" The energy had the audience nodding their heads and tapping their feet.
The five friends, who worked together at a nearby high school, formed Soulbillies in 2015. "We're from just up the road a bit. We're teachers. That's what we do," said bassist Ian Sethre. Sethre is also an instructor in the Prison University Program at San Quentin. On this night he brought in the whole band for their prison debut. "We do covers and some original stuff. Some are not appropriate for church—for example this next song. …"
Soulbillies broke into their original mambo "Another Lost Soul," getting the audience swaying again.
"How many of you have had Ian as a teacher?" asked Flint, as several hands went up. "Now you get to hear him sing."
"I don't think that's why they came, but it's going to happen anyway," replied Sethre as he flipped his silver-and-black hair back and took the microphone for another Soulbillies original, "Almost Rock Bottom." The country sound had the crowd bobbing, clapping, and singing along. Every face in the chapel was smiling, from the stage to the last pew.
Soulbillies shifted next to rocking out with "Hard to Handle." Flint was back on lead vocals. "Baby, here I am, I'm the girl on the scene / Come on baby, let me light your candle / 'cause I'm sure hard to handle now…" Her silver-blonde hair bounced as she danced, and Mike Sloan tore into a solo on his bright red electric guitar. Borello followed with a solo on the keys, her long, dark-brown ponytail swinging down to the bench. Applause roared through the chapel.
The next song slowed the tempo down a bit with, "You tell me that you love me / It's a good thing you don't hate me…"
"If you haven't figured it out yet, most of our songs are about relationships gone wrong—they're a lot more fun than the other kind," said bassist Sethre. Soulbillies then took the crowd on a four-song journey, beginning with a cover of "Midnight Rider." The chapel swayed to the grooves. Then Flint pulled back her hair and straightened her blouse.
The band ripped hard into "Tell Mama," their biggest hit of the night. The audience yelled and cheered to Flint's "Mama'll make everything all right…" while she and Sethre danced to the hard-driving rhythm. The energy in the room crackled and the San Quentin crowd burst into thunderous applause.
A couple songs later, Babior sang the lead on a rendition of a Joe Cocker hit that had the crowd dancing, clapping and "Feelin' All Right."
"How much time do we have left?" Sethre asked the crowd. "We got life!" one concert goer yelled back. The band and inmates laughed out loud. "Let me rephrase that," interjected the bassist. "What time is it?" Time for a dozen more songs, it turned out.
One of the crowd favorites was "Voodoo Woman," which featured soulful vocals, an energetic drum solo and a groovy guitar solo by Sloan—all to uproarious applause.
The debut of the Soulbillies original duet "Damned If I Do," co-written by Flint and Sethre, kept the audience fired up. Then musician Jeffrey At- kins jumped up from the audience on to the stage with the band, introduced as "The sixth member of The Jackson Five." He and Flint danced and sang to the band's lively rendition of "I Want You Back."
The groove culminated with two soul-satisfying encores that sparked standing ovations.
"That was awesome—really good energy!" said one concertgoer named Robert. "She knocked that Aretha Franklin out of the park!" commented another.
The inmates, in their prison- issued blue pants and shirts, approached the Soulbillies on stage to meet and mingle. "I had a great time," said drummer and vocalist Dan Babior. "When the crowd enjoys us so much, then we enjoy it even more." He said they play at area bars and events in Marin, Sonoma and San Francisco regularly.
"We've never played in a church before," said keyboard- ist Melinda Borello. "We've never played for a crowd so in- teractive with us. That was re- ally awesome!"
Lead singer Shelley Flint responded to a fan asking what inspires her to sing: "This may sound funny coming from a white girl. As a young girl, I used to sing the theme from The Jeffersons, 'Movin' On Up,' into my hairbrush. Later, I started singing Janice Joplin." Flint continued, "Now, I enjoy singing as an opportunity to release 'the beast within' and express myself."
Soulbillies will perform at Hotel Utah in San Francisco on October 19. Some of their recorded music is available at Soulbillies.com.
The soul-fulfilling concert was coordinated by Bread & Roses, a nonprofit, volunteer- based organization that brings "Hope and Healing Through Live Music" into San Quentin and other Bay Area institutions. "I just love bringing music in and seeing all the smiles," said organizer Lisa Starbird after the concert.
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World class musician returns to SQ after long hiatus
October 23, 2019 by Kevin Sawyer
Blues harmonica player Mark Hummel, 63, returned to San Quentin State Prison in August to discuss his music and to play a few tunes for the men in the guitar workshop.
Kurt Huget, who teaches guitar on Thursday afternoons, introduced Hummel to the class before playing a blues tune as Hummel played improvised riffs on one of five harmonicas he brought with him to entertain and teach the class.
Hummel described the different techniques for playing the harmonica in first position, second or cross position, and third position. Then, he demonstrated as Huget played a Jimmy Reed blues tune on acoustic guitar.
"That's how Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie played," Hummel said about playing first position. "A lot of stuff I do when I play is called tongue blocking."
That is a technique that involves using the tongue to ob- struct air passing through the holes of the harmonica.
"He's the gentleman of the blues," said Huget.
He also said Hummel has been wanting to come back to San Quentin for years. "He's a busy man."
Hummel travels all around the world to play harmonica, but when he had a window of opportunity he returned to the guitar workshop. It was his second visit to the guitar work- shop in five years.
"I've been going to Europe since 1986," said Hummel. He said that sometimes his band tours with him or he'll use some of the European bands and that the Finnish bands are really good. "Playing in Russia was one of the high points."
"I'm self-taught by listening," said Hummel. "As a harmonica player, we play by ear."
Hummel played the song "St. James Infirmary" on the harmonica in the third position, in the key of A minor, as Huget accompanied him on guitar. The class listened, observed and applauded when the two finished.
"That's a real hard position to play in because you're start- ing on a bent note," said Hummel, adding that all the music theory he knows is in relation to the harmonica. He said he uses chromatic and diatonic harmonicas.
"You can play four or five keys on harmonica if you know what you're doing," said Hum- mel. He also played octaves and said, "It gives kind of like an accordion effect."
It was a show-and-tell performance where Hummel ex- plained drawing (sucking in air) on the harmonica, and blowing (pushing out air), blows and bends, how to change keys, and how he "learned a lot of what (he) know(s) by listening to re- cords" from artists such as Little Walter, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Sonny Boy (both of them), Jimmy Reed, Paul Butterfield and many others.
To share his experience, Hummel has written a book, Big Road Blues: 12 Bars on I-80.
"I called it that because that's the road we'd start a tour on and end a tour on," he said. "We've played hundreds of bars along I-80."
Hummel said the book title has a double meaning because it could mean 12 bars to drink at along the Interstate 80 free- way or 12-bar blues on High- way 80.
"It's always better when I practice," said Hummel, but he admitted he doesn't play every day. Two and a half years ago he suffered a heart attack but said he's proud of the fact that he's experienced 34 years of sobriety. "You gotta stay in shape to do this."
Inmate Gary Harrell, 64, was the only one in the room who played harmonica. "It was awesome," said Harrell. "The theory and concept and commitment to the harp. He was willing to share (his knowledge). It humbled me. It made me know that people care."
"You guys are really fun to hang with," said Hummel. "I love comin' here to talk music with you." But he cautioned, "If you get out (of prison) and are thinking of making a liv- ing playing harmonica—good luck!"
Hummel said a blues show audience in the United States is usually older, but that's not the case in countries such as Russia. "Blues really needs a young audience to help us survive," he said.
Hummel is also one of hundreds of musicians who work with the organization Bread and Roses, founded more than 40 years ago. The follow- ing week he was scheduled to start a tour in Edmonton, Canada; Alameda, Calif.; Martinez, Calif.; Providence, R.I.; and Hartford, Conn.
"One thing about the blues," said Hummel, "if you don't know them, you'll learn them."
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The sounds of Woodstock filled the Catholic Chapel
August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia
Courtesy of Tom Lapinsky
Kurt Huget's guitar workshop for San Quentin inmates did it again—this time bringing the music of Woodstock to the SQ Cath- olic Chapel for a mostly acoustic ensemble perfor- mance.
No one remembered ex- actly whose idea it was to celebrate the iconic con- cert's 50 year anniver- sary—but they all agreed it was a perfect theme for their June 23 showcase.
"Woodstock means a lot to the older generation," said incarcerated guitar stu- dent Thomas Washington, age 74–a trained jazz saxo- phonist who has learned to play guitar over only the last year. "I was there in Greenwich Village back in that era. We had a formula for world peace back then, but the media threw a whole monkey wrench in it."
Lisa Starbird, coordina- tor for the volunteer mu- sic organization Bread and Roses, booked the chapel for the performance, and the guitar guys took it from there.
Huget spoke briefly be- tween songs to give the event a little historic per- spective. "We're keeping it real," he said. "Why not pay homage to the greatest con- cert in rock history?
"Even though you make mistakes in life, you always have a chance to make re- demption. That was sort of the underlying message be- tween Woodstock and the war."
The set list included a wide range of songs written or performed by the legend- ary artists who made the August 23, 1969, concert
so ground breaking—Joan Baez; Creedence Clearwa- ter Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jimi Hen- drix; Mountain, The Band, et al.
"Every one of these groups has written songs I've played here before," said Huget.
"Even though you make mistakes in life, you always have a chance to make redemption"
Joining Huget on the cha- pel stage, his students Louis Calvin, Billy Dooley, Doug- las Ingram and Washington plucked and strummed on their acoustic guitars. Kev- in D. Sawyer contributed the sound of an electric gui- tar to round out the night's full harmony.
Sawyer's guitar notes stood out on songs like Santana's "Black Magic Woman," where Washing- ton provided lead vocals and harmonica player Gary Harrell came out of the au- dience to join in.
"I'm really proud of these guys," said Dooley after- ward. "I just love playing together with all of them."
Incarcerated chapel tech- nician Dwight Krizman ended up being the percus- sion man on a spur-of-the- moment invitation. He sat hitting bass drum notes on a cajon—or wooden box—during most of the performance, also playing an assortment of handheld rhythmic devices, sort of
like tambourines and bon- gos, that he called an "af- uche, cabasa and djembe."
Ingram sang lead on "Me and Bobby McGee."
"I'm not singing it like Janis (Joplin) did, trust me," he said after Huget intro- ducedhim.
"This is the last song she ever recorded," added Huget.
"I had a blast," Ingram told SQNews later. "We've been working hard—Billy, Louie and me. It's been a real challenge for me.
"Some songs were out- side what I normally play. These guys helped me over the rough spots, and it paid off."
At multiple times over the last couple of months, vari- ous configurations of the ensemble members could be seen practicing together in nooks and crannies all over the facility—wherever they could gather for a little while to hammer out their song list.
"It helps strengthen my memory—all the practic- ing," said Washington. "Playing all these different tunes does a lot for your music comprehension. For me, it's great to be able to add another instrument to my repertoire."
Hypercritical Sawyer no- ticeably flubbed his "Star Spangled Banner" licks, and was none too happy about that. It's a song he's played and performed
many times in the past.
"I should have kept my eyes on the sheet music, but I tried looking away from it," he said. "I'll have to try that again."
The set ended with Joe Cocker's version of the Traffic song, "Feeling Al- right."
"Come on everybody— sing along, stomp your feet, whatever you want to do," urged Huget.
All the guys on stage mo- tioned for Starbird to finish the concert by getting on
a mic. She reluctantly— but with a constantly wide smile—joined the men in song.
"Being able to bring music into your lives, whenever we can, means everything to us,"
Starbird said when the music ended, and all the gear start- ed to get removed from the stage. "We took a trip down memory lane with these guys.
"Goodnight—we see you and appreciate you."
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Two Marin professional classic musicians join Zuill Bailey to perform at San Quentin
June 25, 2019 by Kevin.Sawyer
Jeremy Constant, Zuill Bailey and Jenny Douglass performing at San Quentin Protestant Chapel
Grammy Award winning cellist, Zuill Bailey, returned to San Quentin State Prison's Protestant Chapel for a third time to perform for an audience of inmates, staff and outside guests.
"Thank you for taking me out of prison for a while," an inmate in the audience said.
It was by far the best turnout for one of Bailey's performances. The audience kept growing during the performance as inmates and staff trickled into the chapel for the noontime show.
It was a sunny afternoon at the prison, so Bailey was competing for attention with men playing basketball and activities on the Lower Yard while others waited for the performance to begin.
Bailey opened with a solo performance of the The Swan by Johannes Sebastian Bach, written in 1717. He followed with a piece by Tchaikovsky, and the audience quietly listened as they watched the emotion Bailey displayed as he played his 326-year-old Stradivarius cello.
Cellist Zuill Bailey for the third time at SQ
"Thank you," Bailey said in a humble greeting to the audience. "It's really great to be back." Remaining consistent with his prior engagements at the prison, he spoke candidly on the stage about his path to music.
"I didn't ask to play the cello," said Bailey. "It was destiny." He shared a story of his first run-in with the cello at age four when he accidentally knocked the instrument out of a girl's hand at a concert and broke it.
Moving through his selection of songs, he played faster and used more of the instrument's fret board to demonstrate the auditory range of the instrument from high piercing notes to low bass tones.
"You smoked Eddie Van Halen," one inmate in the audience called out, arousing laughter.
"Don't tell him," Bailey responded with a smile.
Some parts of his next slowly played melodic composition sounded sad, then picked up with quick striking phrases that morphed into a range of what sounded like an ensemble of musicians. When he was done, the applause that filled the room was anything but obligatory.
"Pretty cool, huh?" Bailey asked the audience. "The slow parts are the hardest to play," he said.
At age 19, Bailey said he was told by an accomplished musician, "Congratulations, you can play the cello. Now go get a life so people will care."
Because of his age and years of dedication playing the cello, Bailey said he had not experienced hardship and "didn't even have a girlfriend." He said unlike many kids of that age, he didn't know loss, suffering and other things life brings to someone, so he had to get some life experiences to play some songs well. Now he says: "It's not what I do but how I feel is what sticks with me."
Halfway through the show, Bailey welcomed Jeremy Constant, Marin Symphony's concert master and Jenny Douglass, Marin Symphony's principal violist to the stage to play violin and the viola respectively.
The trio performed three parts of a five-piece movement, reading from charts. The first movement opened with a strong attack, filling the chapel with centuries-old sounds; the second was a pleasant piece played with single low notes from the cello that supported the high notes played by the violin and viola.
In the third movement, the cello growled as Constant and Douglass played the violin and viola, at times in what sounded like a call-and-response style. "You have to be able to read together," said Bailey.
"The key is to let yourself go there," explained Bailey. "Music lets me know I'm alive."
"Have you named your cello?" an inmate in the crowd asked during a brief question and answer session after the show.
"I've considered calling it Rose," said Bailey, referring to the rose painted on the centuries-old instrument. He told the audience they're lucky to hear such an old cello because most are in museums.
Constant played a 1850 violin. "It's amazing to be able to play borrowed instruments," he said. "In a sense, these are our voices."
It was Douglass' fourth visit to the prison and her second time performing at San Quentin with Bailey. She is the Director of Education at Marin Symphony. She said the program trains children, ages 8 to 19, in orchestral ensemble. She's been playing the viola since age four.
"When the three of you played, it seemed like there were more of you," an audience member told the group. "When are you coming back?"
"This is my personal third time," said Bailey. "I guarantee we'll be back."
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Kim Kardashian helps formerly incarcerated obtain jobs
April 30, 2019 by lloyd payne
Kim Kardashian is working to help formerly incarcerated people obtain jobs as part of her involvement with criminal justice reform.
Kardashian appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote her makeup line but ended up discussing criminal justice reform, according to instyle.com on Feb. 8.
"I think there's such a stigma on people hiring formerly incarcerated people," she said. "There's so many people that are incarcerated for life. For murder, that maybe they were just next to someone, and there was a group of people, and a fight broke out and somebody unfortunately died.
"But they didn't even hit the person, didn't even have a weapon and were serving life," she said.
Kardashian thinks that people who are pardoned should be given a second chance. "I would love to hire formerly incarcerated people," she said.
Early this year she visited San Quentin prison, where she talked with men who were sentenced to extremely long sentences, including life imprisonment.
While at San Quentin, she listened to the music of people who committed crimes as juveniles and lifers. This music was produced by the Swedish Grammy nominated music producer David Jassy.
Jassy is a Swedish-born, Gambian-Estonian descendant. He is serving a life sentence for an altercation following an award show in Hollywood.
Kardashian heard about Jassy and the San Quentin Mixtape Vol. 1 through Van Jones and Jessica Sloan of #Cut50. Together Jones, Sloan and Kardashian helped Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender get pardoned by Pres. Donald Trump last summer.
She believes people like Johnson should be given a second chance. Jassy said she shared the same belief about those featured on the mix tape. He said they also spoke about second chances, reentry, and bridging the gap between incarcerated men in the music program and executive producers in the industry.
After listening to the mix tape, "she was impressed, willing to support the mix tape and supported the fact that we don't use profanity,"Jassy said.
"I could learn something from it," Kardashian said, according to Jassy.
The mix tapes can be followed on Instagram @ Sanquentinmixtapes.
Filed Under: Human Interest, Music, Prison Media Tagged With: criminal justice reform, David Jassy, Kim Kardashian
Curb Service shares truth, harmony and love
March 24, 2019 by Joe Garcia Leave a Comment
Rob Woods, Aaron Davis and Chris Balderas on stage performing
From an Oakland street corner to San Francisco's "Tenderloin" district to San Quentin State Prison, the music of freestyle collective Curb Service screams of power, truth, harmony and love—lots of love.
They arrived at the prison on Feb. 22, six men and one woman who would soon erupt from their quiet demeanors to become superstars for an hour and a half in SQ's Chapel B.
"I could feel the energy when I walked through the gate," said Kalin
Freeman, who goes by the stage name "KJ Focus." He's the high-voltage saxophonist.
During the band's warm-up and mic check, everyone stopped what they were doing to listen while Freeman went off on drums and Curb Service's young "Drummer-boy" Aaron Davis riffed an impromptu bass line.
David Chapman, one of their two managers, smiled and said, "See that right there—that's the freestyle vibe we all try and emulate. Everyone in Curb Service gets down like that."
Freeman, Davis and frontman Rob Woods started performing together on a neighborhood street corner near Lake Merritt. "We started on the curb," Chapman said. "That's why we go by 'Curb Service.'"
Woods, the creative force behind the lyrics, found his true voice while serving a prison sentence at Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary. He put performing at SQ on the top of his bucket list after reading about the great musicians that have played here in the past, like Johnny Cash, Santana and Metallica.
"I want people to see that no matter what the situation is, whatever the problem— even if you think it's the lowest point in your life—just channel your energy into good intentions," Woods told SQ News. "More doors will open for you as soon as you leave these gates—be prepared.
"Guys talk about wanting to get out of here, but you gotta use these times as the motivation. Make a mental picture of these moments so you know to never return to them."
Besides its core three members, Chapman explained how Curb Service incorporates other artists into the mix, like vocalist Ama, keyboardist Jelani, bass player Chris Balderas and guitarist Joshua Parada. Depending on their individual schedules, the line- up flips and evolves from day to day and venue to venue.
Jelani, KJ Focus and Chris Balderas jamming at the Protestant Chapel
Ama gets caught in the moment and sings amongst the crowd
Ama moved to California recently, collaborating with Curb Service for the last six months. She entered the SQ chapel with a rich smile of warmth and compassion. "It's all about love," she said. "I don't care what situation we in—always love."
Before the set began, Woods talked about the playlist and about the two songs he wrote while incarcerated, "Long Gone" and "That'll Be Cool".
"You'll be able to hear and feel that fire, that good energy," he said about those songs. "My mind was at its sharpest during that time."
Rodney Rederford popped into the chapel to peep the scene before running late to his college class. As soon as he and Woods made eye contact, Woods stopped the inter- view for a brief moment.
"Hold up real quick," Woods said as he turned to a photographer. "Can I get a shot with my boy right here?" Rederford and Woods quickly stood together.
"Just from right here right now," Woods said later, when asked how he knew Rederford. "I felt that connection."
Rederford agreed. "I didn't give it too much thought," he said. "It was probably the energy or something." After listening to the first half-hour of the show, Rederford reluctantly hurried off down the hill to his class.
"I ain't gonna lie," he said on his way out the door. "Dude be tearin' that mic down, for real."
Before his first song, "Real Love," Woods told the crowd, "I feel like I'm back home. It wasn't too long ago I was inside."
"Time is more than just a word," he said. "It's years… It's summers…It's missed phone calls."
Woods called SQ's music director and sponsor, Raphaele Casale, onstage to thank her for inviting Curb Service into the prison.
Casale shared her first experience with their sound. "I was in the Tenderloin off Market Street. I literally just came out of Macy's with bags in my hands, and I heard this music."
"I never stop, but as soon as I heard these guys, I thought, 'I gotta go talk to them.' I never do that. I introduced myself to Ama, then Rob, and right away I knew I had to ask, 'Do you wanna play San Quentin?'
"With them, it's all heart. They're here tonight because they want to play for you."
Curb Service immediately captured the SQ crowd with an undefinable sound of their own. Was it Hip Hop or NeoSoul? Rock 'n' Roll, or maybe Jazz Fusion? These elements were all in play, yet the dynamic hybrid proved far greater than the sum of its parts.
About one hundred onlookers sat spread throughout the chapel at the start of the show. After each song, more and more of the crowd stood in appreciation and cheered, while men from North Block and H-Unit filled the space to its 373-seat capacity.
"I feel y'all standing up for me," Woods said between songs. "You better watch out—I'm going to have to start actin' up."
A man of his word, Woods fed off the growing crowd's energy, strutting up and down the aisle while unabashedly spitting his lyrics left and right and putting his vocal arsenal on full display.
Near the end of the first set, Woods took a break while KJ Focus blasted through a saxophone solo. The riff-filled rollercoaster ride had everyone pumped up and on their feet. Balderas, Davis and Parada all got individual turns to show off as well.
When Woods returned, he slowed the tempo down to strike a more serious note. "I want y'all to understand: I couldn't have done these things without the time," he said. "I know that's hard to hear."
After Woods' eight songs, vocalist Ama rose from the choir side area to perform three songs of her own. Casale came onstage with her to give a quick shout out to Big Giant Lighting, the San Francisco-based stagelighting crew that came into SQ with Curb Service.
"I'm gonna smooth it out for y'all now,"Ama said, smiling at the crowd and Casale. "See, with women, we love—that's what we do."
Ama's resonant voice got most of the crowd dancing up from their seats during her first song, "Fool Over Love." Some guys bounced into the aisles so they'd have more space to really get down.
Hamisi X. Spears has been incarcerated since 1995, the last four years at SQ. He became overwhelmed by the infectious rhythms and Ama's vocals.
"They say music calms the savage beast, and that's what this music did," said Spears. "I enjoyed myself so much that I had to get up and dance."
Feeling the vibe herself, Ama grooved her way down from the stage and continued singing from amongst the men.
Surrounded by blue shirts and happy faces, she let the crowd know: "I met some amazing men here today. You guys are powerful.
"Don't ever forget, my brothers, wherever your mind goes—you go. Let your mind go to prosperity…to the light…to the truth… That's where you're gonna be.
"No matter where you are, where you're going is gonna be so much greater. Trust me, I've been down before. When you're down, you can only go up." Woods rejoined the band to close the show and encourage the audience about life beyond incarceration: "If you do nothing but think good, talk good, look good—smell good, then you are good."
He pointed to his father, T.L. Woods, who made the trip to SQ.
"My dad's the one that showed me: You may be in the dark, but you're never in the shadows," Rob Woods said.
It was the very first time T.L. Woods had ever seen Curb Service perform. "Music sure can take your mind away," the proud father told SQ News. "You see how positive it is in here? Outstanding."
A retired officer for the California Department of Corrections, T.L. Woods worked most of those 22 years at Folsom. "My first day coming to work, that's when it was still CDC, before it be- came CDCR," he said. "Even back then, I always looked at the men for who they are. Prison is made up of people's families—my family, your family—not bad people, just people who made mistakes."
"There are more people in CDCR that think the way I do than those that think the negative "guard versus inmate" mentality thing."
After it was over, Curb Service had all the lights turned on in the chapel, and Woods asked all the men to gather up front to take a panoramic photo to commemorate the event.
Filed Under: Music, Performances
Eight emerging artists turn chapel into raucous concert hall
January 31, 2019 by Joe Garcia Leave a Comment
Students in the Kurt Huget guitar class
On an otherwise quiet Sunday evening, nine guitars rang out in harmony and transformed San Quentin's Catholic Chapel into a raucous concert hall.
"This was a great opportunity for us to communicate musically with no boundaries and just let our hair down," said volunteer instructor Kurt Huget. He showcased eight emerging artists from his weekly guitar clinic as they all plucked and strummed their way through a handpicked playlist of crowd favorites.
"I just love these guys," Huget said. "They're so dedicated and open to learning from each other."
The World Series and Sunday Night Football notwithstanding, a sparse but enthusiastic audience showed up to enjoy the Oct. 28 event. The intimate performance was sponsored through Bread and Roses Presents, an organization that coordinates over 1,000 volunteer musicians with more than 50 venues each month.
"We believe in the healing power of music," said Lisa Starbird of Bread and Roses. "It always lifts my spirits, and that's why we try and bring music to those that are isolated."
Starbird said that this was the first Bread and Roses performance comprised solely of inmate volunteers. She's anxious to keep this new tradition alive at San Quentin.
"It just makes me feel good to come to San Quentin and jam with the class each week," Huget said. "It's the most relaxed three hours of my life – believe it or not."
Several artists also braved the spotlight to sing lead vocals.
First up was Treyshawn McCarthy, who sang Ben E. King's "Stand By Me". "I was nervous at the beginning," acknowledged McCarthy. "I didn't think we were ready for this, but after the first song, I knew that we were."
Gary Harrell, a guitar student who was not performing, emerged from the front row to join in and spice up the tune with his harmonica. Huget graciously shared his mic stand so Harrell's harp could get some amplification.
McCarthy equally contributed his pipes to whistling chorus notes energetically in support of Huget's vocals on Otis Redding's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay".
Thomas Washington hit all the high notes on "Under the Boardwalk", with Johnathan Smith baritoning the title hook. Washington also sang lead on Santana's "Black Magic Woman", the Commodores' "Easy", and the Drifters' "On Broadway".
"It's hard to sing and play at the same time," Washington explained after the show. "That's something I have to work on; it was part of our repertoire in guitar class.
"I'd like to do it again. Every time you perform, it's like a feather in your cap."
The lone player of an electric guitar, Kevin D. Sawyer, unassumingly sprinkled twangy flavor throughout the entire performance, as well as being the featured soloist for "The Star Spangled Banner". Huget introduced the national anthem as one of the most challenging songs for a guitarist to play.
Douglas Ingham sang the only original piece of the set, describing his "San Quentin Blues" as a tune dedicated to his late wife, Jackie, who passed away in 2008. "The song was actually written for her," stated Ingham. "I was thinking the blues would make a great old lady, but they'll only leave you crying.
"I played that song one time in class, and Kurt said 'We have to do that one in the show'."
He said he has written between 15 and 20 songs, some with lyrics.
Ingham also took the lead for Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome".
The audience jubilantly sang along and offered by far the biggest round of applause for Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". Harrell again splashed through with animated harmonica licks.
Louis Calvin, Billy Dooley, and David Farber rounded out the ensemble to give the corps of acoustic guitars its full-bodied punch.
Covering a total of 20 songs, the group played until it was time to vacate the chapel. The set ended with Bill Withers' "Lean On Me", and everyone joined in on the lyrics.
"Who booked this gig?" mused first-time performer Calvin. "It turned out to be a real sausage fest."
Filed Under: Featured, Music, Prison Programs Tagged With: music
Native Hawaiian Religious Group holds annual feast
December 29, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright Leave a Comment
San Quentin was treated to a Hawaiian celebration of food, laughs and music.
About 75 prisoners and two dozen Bay Area community members enjoyed the annual feast of the Native Hawaiian Religious Group (NHRG).
"This is the second best thing to having a spread on the yard," said inmate Romeo Pacos. The gathering reunites Asian and Pacific Islanders and created a spirit of companionship beyond any normal prison experience, said Pacos.
The broad smiles of the Pacific Islanders were evident as they dined, danced, chanted and sang at the Sept. 27 event.
The feast honors the tradi- tion that three months out of the year, war was forbidden, and it was a time for renewal and celebration, explained the group's sponsor, Patrick Makuakane.
Each of these three promoters leads a group that contributed to the feast:
ORIGAMI GROUP – JUN HAMAMOTO
The tables were decorated with white cloth covers and assorted color origami flowers made by the San Quentin Origami Group.
"This group gives me guidance"
"Without her support, we wouldn't have any programs," said a number of members.
SPIRITUAL CHANT & DANCE GROUP – PATRICK MAKUAKANE
Makuakane teaches chants, which further complement the singing and dancing to the upu heke – a double-headed gourd played like a drum.
Men entered the chapel floor with a Hawaiian call and stood on either side of Makuakane as he welcomed the guests. Next, the men performed a dance with swinging hips and dexterous arm movements like shooting arrows in various directions.
Ukulele Group – Adel Serafino
Serafino, known by Auntie Adel, runs the music group that engages the men in singing and playing the four-stringed ukulele and the eight-stringed ukarere.
"What you need to know is how dedicated these guys are. I'm so proud of them. Our hope is that their performance will inspire others to join with our community," said Auntie Adel.
"I found out about the group from my godbrother, and he invited me to a concert of the program and I got hooked to learn how to play," said Jerome Hermosura, imprisoned since 1995.
He is the newest member of the group, but was still invited to play a three-song set. "Auntie Adel gives us of her time and culture, and we are so grateful. She brings a sense of peace in a tough environment," Hermosura said.
Auntie Adel invited all of San Quentin to join the group on Saturday afternoons in the chapel area. "We now have plenty of donated ukuleles; come join us," she said.
After the mandatory prison count, the feast was served, consisting of Tara root, sweet potatoes, barbecued chicken, peas, lettuces, chow mein, coconut and Tara tapioca deserts, topped off with assorted cookies.
The Native Hawaiian Religious Group reports it guides multicultural prisoners on a path toward self-discovery and is open to all inmates.
The group's members presented different elements of the Pacific Islander traditional and with a confirmation that "This group gives me guidance to understand all races, not just my own."
The highlight of the feast was Makuakane's outside dancers. Some of them have danced for his troupe for 25 to 30 years. The dancers moved gracefully and mesmerized the audience as their upper bodies swayed like seaweed underwater, their lower bodies like waves clashing onto the shore. A ukulele played and guided their movement as if their bodies were strings of the instrument.
Each dancer wore a floorlength colorful dress with multiple seashell necklaces and a blossom in her hair. They all shared an open smile. It was the dancers first time performing in a prison.
Hula dancers performing at Makahiki 2018
As an encore, the incarcerated men and dancers lined up together, dancing in tune and out of tune, mimicking a hot iron dipped into cold water. Perfection was not an expectation and fun was shared as the audience shouted encouragement to all the dancers as they moved to the music.
—David Lȇ contributed to this story. Boatwright
Filed Under: Arts, Music, Recently Posted Tagged With: Asian Prisoner's Support Community, Hawaii
Young inmates are creating positive rap music at San Quentin State Prison
December 25, 2018 by Kevin.Sawyer Leave a Comment
Young inmates are creating positive rap music at San Quentin State Prison, under the guidance of hip-hop artist and music producer David Jassy. Because of that, he's captured the attention of corrections officials and the prison reform organization CUT50.
They all came together at the prison in August to learn more about the young men in the Youth Offender Program (YOP) who are using music to tell honest stories with constructive messages as a form of rehabilitation.
In the Arts in Corrections studio loft, Jassy played a video for the group that explained what the SQ Music Program is and how his youth music project came about. Greg Wells appeared in the video. He's a music producer for Katy Perry, Adele and Pink, among others. Film and music producer Quincy Jones III also appeared in the video.
As the group watched the video, some tapped their feet to the music. Jassy explained how explicit rap content influences the behavior of the youth. He said when he told the young men not to use profanity in their rap lyrics, it gave them a different insight.
"I really believe they want to change," he said.
Not writing negative rap with profanity and lies glorifying street life is what spawned what some well-known names in the music industry have come to know as The YOP Mix Tape.
Jassy said he had the idea to spearhead the program as a way to redirect the younger inmates' energy in a positive direction.
"In the beginning it was more of an informational meeting," he said. "I wanted to tell our stories."
"Thanks to CUT50," Jassy said, the YOPs received some celebrity shout outs about their music.
Alex Gudich, deputy director of CUT50, said he's been working with Jassy for two years to "build support to do great stuff." He said the YOP's will have transferable skills upon paroling from prison.
"It's not just a program for kids," said Jessica Sloan, CUT50 national director and co-founder. "It's a cool program and culture is such a driver."
She said she has another view on rehabilitation: "Humanization and legislation."
Jassy said when some of the young inmates saw Jones III on the video praising the mix tape it gave them encouragement.
"Quincy Jones III told me I can be somebody," he said one young man told him.
The video contained music that Jassy produced at San Quentin. One song had a track featuring YOP inmate Daniel "Dinero G" Gutierrez. His lyrics revealed a common reality for many young men in prison: I never listened to advice I got from my mother…Now I'm in the same prison as my grand- father.
The song ended with Gutierrez saying if he could go back he would change everything, and he would listen.
"He's good," said Warden Janel Espinoza from Central California's Women Facility. "That's really, really good. I like that."
"They have to be honest with themselves," Jassy said as he discussed how a YOP inmate cried when he was allowed to get in touch with himself.
He said another cried when he thought about how he let his mother down.
"If you're alone with a producer there's a whole different truth that's revealed," he added.
Jassy said some YOPs want to appear tough to their friends but also want to say, "I'm sorry" to their mothers. "Music gives them that outlet." He said many of them learn that it's okay to be apologetic.
Jassy and Steve Emrick, San Quentin's community partnership manager, discussed copyright issues and how any money generated from music sales could be donated to nonprofits such as victims' rights organizations.
Jassy also offered to provide music to Warden Espinoza's music curriculum at CCWF.
"I want to change the whole concept of rap," Jassy said. "If it comes from people who've been inside (prison) it has more credibility."
After leaving the music room, the group went to San Quentin's media center to visit San Quentin News, Ear Hustle, First Watch, SQTV, and San Quentin Radio.
"It's more than what I expected," Espinoza said about the podcast Ear Hustle. "You guys are very lucky. It's an outside-of-the-box program. I know CCWF can benefit. I'm a strong believer in transformation. Anyone can change."
They later spoke to Eric "Maserati E" Abercrombie, 25; Greg Sayers, 27; and Thanh Tran, 24. They are Black, White and Vietnamese & Black, respectively.
Sayers played an old guitar, badly in need of new strings. He sang and Abercrombie rapped. Tran joined in on the chorus and rapped. It was obvious the song was something they had all worked on together, written and arranged on the prison yard. The song, "Reality Check," was about their experiences and the lessons they've learned.
"It gives me a purpose," Sayers said. "This opportunity has definitely instilled in me a sense of responsibility. This is a major form of escape,
"It's extremely therapeutic."
He also said he doesn't want to only hang out with his own race, and he also has something to lose if he messes up.
"I was a foster child since I was two years old," Tran said of his painful past. "I lived a whole life of hurt."
He said he couldn't share his life with others until he discovered music. He said he left gang life behind.
"A huge part of it is healing," he added.
These young men didn't know each other before arriving at San Quentin. In many prisons, they may not have had the opportunity to collaborate on a song due to gang and racial politics. Music is their common bond.
Espinoza encouraged them to "hang in there" and thanked the young men for sharing their stories and talent.
"I think he's (Jassy) on the right track, influencing people, thinking outside the box," She said.
She said to see him actually be engaged has a positive influence on the population.
"I believe that music is a very powerful tool for rehabilitation," Jassy said in September 2014 when San Quentin News, published the story "Artist Spends Prison Time Sharing His Many Talents and Experiences."
Four years later, he hasn't stopped believing. Now he's helping to build the prison's music program while helping younger inmates rehabilitate themselves through music.
Filed Under: Music, Profiles Tagged With: SQ Music Program, YOP, YOP mixtape
"I wanted to teach in here because it's such a unique place"
For 11 years, Kurt Huget has been teaching a guitar workshop at San Quentin State Prison.
On a Thursday afternoon in August, he was explaining to a new student what bars and beats are. He handed out chord charts to the student, showing him how to place his fingers on the guitar's fret board.
"I wanted to teach in here (San Quentin) because it's such a unique place," Huget said. "I knew the guys would appreciate it."
According to Huget, Steve Emrick, San Quentin's community partnership manager, noticed him coming in to play concerts for the organization Bread & Roses. Emrick asked Huget if he'd like to teach in the prison's Arts in Corrections program.
"I showed up the first night, and about 25 guys showed up," Huget recalled.
"First and foremost, I wanted everyone to have some fun and be creative," Huget told San Quentin News in 2009. "I'm trying to pass along, in a quick and easy way, the things that I've learned over many years of playing."
A decade later, the class is still having fun.
Over the years, dozens of inmates have come and gone. There were 10 students attending the class in August, which has a roster with 11 names on it. Another three names were on a waiting list.
As the class tuned their guitars and warmed up, Huget worked with some of the less experienced students. He handed out sheets of music with instructions on how par- ticular songs were supposed to be played.
A beginning student accidentally broke a string on his guitar.
"Don't worry, guitar strings break all the time," Huget said.
Then he took the guitar, restrung it, tuned it for the student and gave it back to him.
Kurt Huget Guitar Class
"Kurt (Huget) enjoys what he's doing," said inmate Gary Harrell, who plays the harmonica and has attended the class on and off for the better part of a decade.
"I've taught students as young as five and as old as 95," Huget said. "I have more adult students than kids these days I teach a few private lessons, and I've also taught at a music school for low-income Latino youth in the area.
"My teaching philosophy is to keep the frustration level down and the enjoyment level up. I'm self-taught on the guitar, so it took me a long time to figure some things out. I wouldn't want any of my students to have to go through that, so I tell them, I'm going to teach you something in five minutes that took me five years to figure out."
Huget said he first heard of Bread & Roses back in the 1980s.
"They used to put on big two-day music festivals at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley," he said. "The lineup of performers was always amazing. I learned about what the organization does, and it felt good to support them and have a good time, too."
Huget said around that time, he felt he was good enough as a musician to volunteer his services for them.
"I called them up and introduced myself, and they signed me up right away to start doing shows," he said.
That was in 1988. Since then, Huget said he's per-formed at dozens of different venues around the Bay Area such as hospitals, homeless shelters, senior centers, schools, drug/alcohol rehab clinics, AIDS hospice centers, psychiatric centers, prisons, centers for developmentally disabled people and more.
Huget is also a record- ing artist, who has produced many songs over the years. One of his CDs is Rio Lindo, produced about 10 years ago.
"I wrote the songs on that (album) with a guy named Robert Hunter," he said. "He was the lyricist for The Grateful Dead.
"I've released about a dozen CDs of mostly original music. Some titles are Mississippi Sunset, Blue Shadows, Mystery to Me, and Live It Up. "They're all on my own label, Santa Venetia Records."
Instead of a website, Huget said he promotes his gigs on a Facebook page called Kurt Huget Music.
Huget started playing classical piano at age seven. When he was older, he saw the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show and decided he wanted to play the guitar.
"It was fun music," Huget said. "It was exciting, and the girls were screaming."
He said Elvis Presley influenced his decision to play the guitar, too. Besides that, he said the guitar is a portable instrument, unlike the piano.
According to Huget's short biography, he's a performer, songwriter and guitar teacher. His original Americana music contains elements of folk, country, bluegrass, jazz and blues. He's performed, recorded and/or written songs with members of Bay Area bands such as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane/ Starship, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Elvin Bishop Band, Steve Miller Band, Huey Lewis & The News, and many others.
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (by Bob Dylan), Huget said to his San Quentin guitar class. Then he called out the chord progression: "G, D, A minor; G, D, C." He counted them in: "One, two, three, four," and everyone started playing as he sang. When the song ended, he explained chord structure to a student.
Later, the class played a standard blues progression in the key of E minor, followed by Can't You See, by Marshall Tucker.
"We got a request to do Redemption Song" (by Bob Marley), Huget said.
When the class finished playing the song, they were so enthused by Marley's music that they started singing his song Three Little Birds as Huget played guitar and sang with them.
Huget doesn't have a Grammy, American Music Award or a Billboard Music Award, but he said, "The best music award I ever received is one I got this year, from Bread & Roses, for 30 years of volunteering."
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Prison Education
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