SO I MISSED THIS BECAUSE MY MIND'S BEEN ON RAFA AT THE US OPEN

JUST PLAIN MISSED THIS

I simply love youtube. Because it just makes the world so small.

I was thinking Oprah opened her season next week.
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Uploaded by heppinyc

National TV Broadcast: Black Eyed Peas performed "I Gotta Feeling" and officially opened Oprah's 24th Season (2009-10) along with 21,000 fans dancing on Michigan Avenue (Chicago, Illinois) on Tuesday, Sept 8th (2 days before it aired nationwide).

The producer, Australian Michael Gracey, was also responsible for a famous flash mob dance at a Liverpool train station that was used for a phone commercial, but Tuesdays event was much larger in scale.

And in order to pull it off, late last month local casting agencies were enlisted to look for dancers.

This is being touted as the World's Largest 'Single-City' FLASH MOB event ever held, thanks in part to T-Mobile! Watch in HD Quality if available.

(Lyrics)

I gotta feeling that tonights gonna be a good night,
That tonights gonna be a good night.
Lets live it up.
I got my money,
Lets spend it up.
Go out and smash it.
Like Oh My God,
Jump off that sofa.
Lets get get OFF,
I know that well have a ball,
If we get down,
And go out,
And just loose it all.
I feel stressed out,
I wanna let it go,
Lets go way out spaced out,
And loosing all control.
Fill up my cup,
Mozoltov,
Look at her dancing,
Just take it off.
Lets paint the town,
Well shut it down.
Lets burn the roof,
And then well do it again.

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So, this is what I like to dance to.....
and have twice at Waterplace Park in Providence, Rhode Island

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Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca- Mambo Yoyo
Love this band. So much fun! Can't sit still when the conga rules.
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Click post title to go to Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca website.

Song Mama Kiyelele - starts at 45 seconds

Fourth video on my sidebar has the song São Salvador by Ricardo and Makina Loca

DOWN AND OUT - WHEN GIVING EVERYTHING ISN’T ENOUGH

I am feeling down. And sometimes, I just need to give myself permission to feel the feelings that are undeniable. Today two things have gone badly with the Rhode Island statewide Darfur event that I am producing.

If I am feeling down, then how do those feel who have been forced to live in refuge camps?

When you step up and organize a big event for Darfur totally without funding and it all falls to you to get everything done it can be overwhelming. That is sort of where I am. So I need to pick myself up and I thought of the music of Ricardo Lemvo and the Makina Loca. YouTube has a lot of Ricardo but the sound leaves a lot to be desired on most.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w96LWd9Tr7g
Makina Loca & Ricardo Lemvo @ Summerdance in Chicago: 6/28/07.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJr6d3uuUBY

Continues the above Youtube
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZOpB8ITpaw

Interview and "Le Rendez-Vous" on The Today Show March 11, 2000.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdYyA1kp6U
Intro and "Boom Boom Tarara" on The Today Show

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vdHP4LYSA
RICARDO LEMVO: "Mama Kiyelele"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRLsuUVCAv8
This shows the fun that is contagious of this band.

Genocide. People I ask if they know about Darfur, often do. But often they don’t also. Someone asked me if it was a disease recently. When I ask people if they know what genocide is – many give me a blank look that is trying not to give away that they don’t. I take the opportunity to explain when this happens.

Then I hear what Bush has been doing about HR 180 the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act – that he doesn’t want it passed. Also, Bush doesn’t want Congress to pass the non-binding resolution that acknowledges that what happened to the Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915 was genocide. This is detestable. Who IS this guy?

US Congressional Committee Approves Armenian Genocide Resolution
By Dan Robinson
Washington
10 October 2007
article at:
http://voanews.com/english/2007-10-10-voa50.cfm

Armenian National Institute
Dedicated to the study, research, and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/

Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 11 October 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3047633.ece

Turkey appeals to US to kill Armenian genocide legislation
HISTORY: The dispute involves the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1917, which Turkey refuses to call a genocide
AP, WASHINGTON
Thursday, Oct 11, 2007, Page 7
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/10/11/2003382677

AFRICAN CUBAN MUSIC. YOU HAVEN’T LIVED UNTIL YOU DANCE TO RICARDO LEMVO and MAKINA LOCA

MUSIC AND DANCING – EVERYTHING ELSE IS WAITING UNTIL YOU CAN

First, I love the conga.

I love strong bass rhythms.

I love music that you just have to get up and move to.

I first heard Ricardo Lemvo’s band, Makina Loca, two years ago outside in downtown Providence, Rhode Island at a free Friday night concert at Waterplace Park. I adore this kind of music. It has the African and Cuban rhythms brought to life with conga, bongos, drums, bass guitar, keyboard and the wonderful horns, trumpet and trombone and the occasional maracas played by Ricardo himself. And then there is Ricardo’s rich voice. The fun starts in the spirit of the rhythm of the music and in the melodies. As much as I love the upbeat stuff, the slow, mellow, swaying far-too-few songs really get in my body. One I heard two summers ago is on none of their CD’s. I asked them. But a couple are: Sao Salvador and Elbette.

Ricardo and his band, Makina Loca played July 6, last Friday night. Fantastic. Ricardo sings in multiple languages, including Portuguese, Swahili and now Turkish, too. And in his CD Mambo YoYo’s jacket the notes say it well: “If you want the ultimate cure for depression, see Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca perform live.”

Check his website for their dates. Do not miss your opportunity to experience this band in person. I love the four CDs that I own, but they are better because I can summon up the feelings dancing to their music under the summer sky alongside the water.

I’d like to take them home and have them play in my backyard. Though there is nothing like them in person, I wouldn’t post without a taste of them right here. So below is the best of what was posted on Youtube. And Ricardo’s website is: www.makinaloca.com

A very short clip of the band I have had the pleasure of seeing and meeting in action:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r20SkHzb13U

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Mama Kiyelele – Good quality sound Youtube, but the entire band is not on this clip:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=92vdHP4LYSA

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"This last video was shot in Havana, Cuba. A real priest of the 'Santeria' religion was used during the shooting performing the ancient African rituals. From the Kongo basin to the hills of Havana via Los Angeles. Ricardo and Makina Loca's Salsa perform the song." This is really worth you taking a look and a listen.(more)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lbqNaCc506Y

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Dancing is the best when done to African/Cuban music.

From the inside cover of his CD Sao Salvador, it reads: “When Ricardo Lemvo was a child living near a beer garden in Kinshasa, Congo, he was bombarded day and night by Congolese rumbas and Cuban music. In Kinshasa music is everywhere…it feels like you are walking on music….What is even more exciting (on the Sao Salvador CD) than the mix is the happiness and joy this record exudes…By presenting a colorful palette of his musical imagination he takes us back to the African roots of Latin music.” I agree.

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Get a voice or be willing to be voiceless.

We need to act like free people.

Freedom needs to be exercised

or you don’t have any.

When people hear that I am an activist about Darfur, they thank me

Like I’m Enough.

But I’m Not Enough.

Without you,

we have one less voice for justice.

We have one less voice for equal opportunity.

We have one less voice for the voiceless.

It is time to stand up and claim our rights.

Call President Bush and tell him

to live by his words regarding GENOCIDE:

“Not on My Watch”

His telephone number:

202-456-1111

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What good is a democracy that loses its moral compass?

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STOP AND PREVENT GENOCIDE

Darfur Families Need Our Attention and Action NOW

IT’S THE HUMANE THING TO DO

“Never Again” means what exactly?

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