The MAMA 2010 Nominee Announcement Party will be held Saturday, March 27th at the Brink Lounge.

The Nominee Announcement Party is more than just revealing, for the first time, who the nominees are for the final round of voting. It is an exciting evening of live music, television coverage, celebrity guests, plus a silent auction, door prizes and raffle items. This is the second largest event next to our annual awards show and is just about as much fun.

MAMA 2010 Nomination Party
Silent auction, raffle, appetizers, entertainment, 2010 MAMA Nominees announced

$10 at the door

7pm  Waunakee Fiddle Band – Waunakee High School students
8:15pm  Chick Songwriters – Beth Kille , Julia McConahay and Katelyn Adzima (accompanied by Jaye Barbeau)

9:30pm  Madison County

On Sunday morning, Matt and Rick went on NBC15′s Weekend Live morning show to promote Local Sounds and the upcoming fundraiser this Friday, January 15th at the Frequency in Madison.  The show starts at 9:00pm and the door charge is $6.00.  Performers for the evening include Sexy Ester and the Pretty Mama Sisters, Mike Droho and The Compass Rose, and Fermata.

Local Sounds will host a fundraiser at the Frequency Live Music Venue (121 E. Main St., Madison, www.madisonfrequency.com ) on Friday, January 15th beginning at 9 PM. Scheduled to perform are: Fermata, Compass Rose (featuring Mike Droho) and Sexy Ester and the Pretty Mama Sisters. Proceeds from the event will help cover the legal expenses of seeking nonprofit status for the Local Sounds organization. Cover at the door will be $6.  Come down and join us for an evening of good music and to show your support for a local organization helping our local music scene!

Madison, Wisconsin rockers The United Sons of Toil announced their first extended re-education campaign, The Shining Path Tour.  Below is a list of the stops on the tour:

THE SHINING PATH TOUR
Oct 15 – Minneapolis @Sauce with Build My Gallows High
Oct 16 – Sioux City IA @Jefferson SD Community Center
Oct 17 – Omaha @Sydney
Oct 18 – St. Louis @Illegal Tone Recordings
Oct 19 – Lexington @Chaosome
Oct 20 – Cincinnati @Southgate House
Oct 21 – Cleveland @Now That’s Class
Oct 22 – Detroit @The Factory
Oct 23 – Louisville @Skull Alley
Oct 24 – Indianapolis @The Dojo with Rooms
Oct 25 – DeKalb IL @7th Street Space

If you’re able to make one of the dates listed above, go down and check out their show.  If you can’t make it, the band will be posting updates from the road via the following channels:

Twitter: @sonsoftoil (http://twitter.com/sonsoftoil)

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theunitedsonsoftoil

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-United-Sons-of-Toil/52737684606

Stephanie Rearick, Madison musician and Director of the Dane Co. Timebank, will host a press conference on Wed. Sept. 23, 4:30-5pm at Mickey’s Tavern to let Madison and Dane Co. press and residents know how a local effort is resonating with people worldwide and helping forward an effort to shift our economy to a friendlier, more caring and more efficient model. She’ll also play a couple tunes.

Rearick is honored to have been invited to speak at the 2009 Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma CA. Rearick follows the author Riane Eisler (The Real Wealth of Nations, The Chalice and the Blade), illustrating Timebanking as a real-world application of Eisler’s theories on building a caring economy and showing how it can be applied to achieve greater levels of social and economic justice. People around the country and around the world recognize the Dane Co. Timebank as a model of timebanking on a large and diverse scale and are taking steps to replicate the program, including a group of dozens of service organizations in Roseburg, Oregon where Rearick will conduct a Timebank training following the conference.

Rearick has built a cross-country music tour around her conference appearance and will bring her keyboard and loop-based classical/cabaret/pop extravaganza to the masses in Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Austin TX, Tucson AZ, LA, San Francisco, Sonoma, Portland, Boulder and Des Moines.

Along the way Rearick will use the opportunity to forward the message about Timebanking as a tool to develop a caring economy that rewards creative activity, caregiving and civic engagement.

http://www.economicsofpeace.net/
http://stephanierearick.com
http://myspace.com/stephanierearick
http://facebook.com/stephanierearickmusic
http://twitter.com/stephanierearic

For more information, press photos, music samples, etc, please contact Jon Hain at 259-1030 orjon@uvulittle.com.