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Now Forming: A Zany New Song Force for Peace-Keeping

Posted by Lyndsey Scott on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment


Recently I was sitting in a Cherokee Street Business Association meeting doodling during the local police’s update on the neighborhood.  I tuned in when he mentioned “keeping the footbeat” . . . . a live imagination-animation jumped up and did a jig in my mind, a new strategy for “crime-prevention”:::::::::::  funky souls enlivening this world where song-lines keep the peace — beyond language, the sounds heal the street…….

So I called up songstress Celia, conductor extraordinaire of Celia’s Yuletide Express (the train that does this during Christmas season)…. and she’s up for the experiment!

Together we’ve stitched together a set list with feel-good favorites like:
The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Lean on Me, Cielito Lindo, OOh Child, This Land is Your Land, Whatever Gets U Thru the Nite, and Celia’s very own “My Project For the New American Century.”


The FOOTBEAT will  perform at the Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo festival on MAY 2, with the People’s Joy parade and on the Loveorama stage.
www.cincodemayostl.com

Rehearsal is a fun place to meet neighborhood peeps === our first practice included a crazy parade-expert from the Banana Bike Brigade, and a local preacher prepping a sermon on “Today we meet in Paradise” , and an entrepreneur for Green Cleaning, not to mention a Red Hot jam on OOH Child ….”right now…..” !

Next Monday’s early rehearsal will be kid-friendly so come prepared to  play with some of the sweetest young ones on the blocks.

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NOW FORMING: The Cherokee Street FOOTBEAT
a joyful noise brigade bringing harmony to life

seeking soulful singers, fiesty rappers, harmonica-blowers, maraca-shakers, tambourine-dancers, break dance beatboxers, cloggers, country line-dancers, jokers, funny face-makers

any manner of putting good vibrations OUT THERE

COMMUNITY REHEARSALS:
* Wednesday April 8 from 8-10pm *completed
Monday April 13 from 5-7pm
Saturday April 25 from 4-6pm
Monday April 27 from 9-11pm

Rehearsals @ the Community Art and Media Project
3026 Cherokee Street

Contact Lyndsey Scott for more info @ 217 898 3777
seehere@seehere.info


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