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Tommy Morgan (harmonica) began his star-studded career playing for the Andrews Sisters in 1950. He has over 500 feature film soundtracks to his credit, and has played on many TV shows, including Green Acres, Sanford and Son, The Waltons, The Rockford Files, The Dukes of Hazard, Newhart, and China Beach. Tommy has performed on hit records with The Beach Boys, The Carpenters, The Hollies, and Paul Simon, among others. Dave Stone (bass) has played on TV shows, including Lost and King of the Hill; and motion picture soundtracks, including Ratatouille, The Incredibles, National Treasure, The Color Purple, and Mrs. Doubtfire. He has recorded with pop artists Barry Manilow, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond, Jennifer Warnes, and Brian Wilson. In the ‘70s he traveled with the big bands, including Harry James, Woody Herman and Stan Kenton; Ray Anthony’s lounge show; and singers Nancy Wilson, Debbie Boone and Bobby Vinton. Gabe Witcher (fiddle) is a “first-call studio fiddler with a big sound and immaculate intonation, whose credits include the soundtracks of the movies Cars, Brokeback Mountain, The Notebook, and Without a Paddle,” according to Strings magazine. [1] Founded in 1981, ASCIA is the The New York Institute of Technology’s Theater-in-Residence in Old Westbury, Long Island. The NY Times says ASCIA’s “operas are presented with the ... grandeur that only talent and true artistry can supply," and notes that ASCIA “is one to watch." www.asmallcompany.org [2] In a hate crime that made headlines around the world in 1998, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die, because of his sexual orientation. Now the Matthew Shepard Foundation works to “Replace hate with understanding, compassion and acceptance.” www.matthewshepard.org [3] www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/record/2261.html
www.merylannbutler.com Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison as well as two signers of the Articles of Confederation among her ancestors. Mary Ball, mother of George Washington is in the ancestral lineage of Butler's great grandmother, Blanche Ball. Grateful to know that the blood of America's founding mothers and fathers runs in her veins, Butler has been newly filled with matriotism as a direct result of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Lest she appear too uppity, it should be revealed that she also has family ties to James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill. Butler has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled enlightenment for the past two decades. A native of NYC, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006). They don't call quilts "comforters" for nothing! www.90minutequilts.com Butler was faculty advisor for "The Love for All Mankind/Anti-Apartheid Quilt" project at ENMU (1993), now in the collection of the Hon. Nelson Mandela. As Arts Advisor for the Center for Improving U.S.- Soviet Relations (CIUSSR) Baltimore, MD; her activities included the "First U.S.-Soviet Childrens' Peace Quilt Exchange" (1987-88), an historic project chronicled in the media of both countries. Citizen diplomacy trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1987 and 1988 included lectures and presentations to fashion designers, craftspeople and artists in Odessa, Moscow, Kiev and St.Petersburg, in which she focused on the topic of creating global peace through international art exchanges. Butler is the proud mother of a daughter and seven stepchildren (all grown), and a passel o' grand younguns. It is to these new generations that she dedicates her political activism. Archived articles www.opednews.com/author/author1820.html Older archived articles, from before May 2005 are here.,
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