Indi checking my choice...
Wow, just in time !
90 ! (next july 18th)
Friday's concert (in Hyde Park) coincides
with the 20th anniversary of London's
Free Mandela concert, held to demand
he be freed from prison.
He was released in 1990 after 27 years
behind bars, and was elected South-
Africa's first black president in 1994.
(more)
A Nigel Parry's preview on what's going to happen
in Hyde Park...
... Royalty and politicians from both sides of the Atlantic, leading names from
business, sport, film and entertainment -- and some of the most successful
musicians of the past twenty years -- make up the birthday list for three days
of celebrations, culminating in a three-hour evening concert in London's Hyde
Park on Friday June 27, The 46664 Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90...
(all)
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Launched in 1982 by the French Ministry for culture, the Fête de la Musique is held in more
than one hundred countries in Europe and over the world.
(click on image to see other international posters)
The MUSIC DAY in PARIS, LONDON, ROME, NY, BERLIN, BARCELONA,
KATMANDOU, QUEBEC...
G@tto's Fief Programme
Les Echos de la Fête > LIVE IN PARIS
with pics, videos and music of course !
What happens at : La Villette ? What about La Bellevilloise
and La Maroquinerie ? and around the Nouveau Casino in Oberkampf ?
Tonight around the best Paris clubs, check LastFM !
La Fête de la Musique was launched in 1982... (more)
Read about the SPIRIT of "Fête de la Musique"...
Tonight, June 15th, was the end of 'Paris Onze Bouge' Festival...
[Paris 11 or Paris onze, gives 'on se bouge', for let's move, let's swing... In short,
let's say Swinging Eleven !
FireTongue featured at La Bellevilloise tonight with 9 other
very good musicians and... the whole concert was like a hellish
ride on a motor unit, with the brass section embroidering their
phrases around the leading beat which rumbled through your
stomach from the beginning until the end !
Unfortunately, no one seems to have published a video of the performance, nor did I
because of memory card problems... but the atmosphere is the same in the following
videos. Enjoy it.
More on Charles Delangue: AfroBeat/Swing and Spiritual Beats, and for a good info
page, go to African Path.
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in a whirl outside !
... just before the concert.
and...
Why nobody asks the essential question :
Ireland would it be alone now rejecting the
Lisbon treaty if this one had been submitted
to a referendum in the other countries ?
Probably not.
French people said no in 2005, when asked by referendum and so did
Holland. These people are not against European Union, they just refuse
an anti-democratic European Constitution, now called Treaty to be more
easily accepted.
"You don't say yes to something you don't understand" said
Hugo Brady, analyst at the Centre for European Reform thinktank.
John Barrys' point of view.
All style waistcoats & vests in NY streets.
For once, the new unisex fashion trend
seems to spread spontaneously
out of any fashion dictat.
(Intl HT - Bill Cunningham)
A fashion addict view...
G@tto's fond of feline records, especially from vintage shots !
17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat,
complete with furry tail, and dances on wine bottles.
[June 1958].
Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for
eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance.
(BBC)
Photo: Carlo Polito/BIPs/Getty Images
What else ? Oh, yes, the Pasłęka (Passarge is as German as Bianca)
is also a river of the north of Poland !
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An open air exhibition in Piazza San Carlo, Torino,
presents the work of 3 photographers who followed
the coffee trail... and made a book with the pictures
of their fabulous journey.
(ptoto by Fabrizio)
You're free to take a look to the Coffee Roots book, promoted by Lavazza.
I did it - in my quality of coffee lover - and found something curious in the Indonesian
coffee, the kopi *luwak brand.
The Coffee Critic tells you the story.
You maybe want to fly to Java tomorrow and taste it. If you like it, there are two possibilities:
you breed a luwak at home for your daily kopi or, which is easier but more expensive, you
buy your kopi at AnimalCoffee, 
*Kopi luwak is a unique gourmet coffee
that is processed in the stomach of a wild
animal, after which it is hand collected
from the floor of the Sumatran jungle.
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Here you are at the alley's bottom, on your left the Polka Gallery 
(Sorry, the gallery moved)...
... and that's all folks, for the moment. as Dylan said in 1967
and today...
Obama Wins Historic Presidential Nomination
By the way, both candidates, a "Woman" and an "African American" represent a real turning
point in american history.
Obama for President and Clinton as vice President could be the good choice to forget the
disaster of the Bush administration and restore the former US reputation.
Now let's wait and see what's going to happen in November...
