Susan Alcorn concert -- Chile, 9/11/1973

[Susan Alcorn (deceased)]

For anyone who might be interested, I and three other musicians will be giving a concert of our approach to Chilean folk music. Chilean folkloric music is exceptionally beautiful and very deep (as all folk musics are). For those who are able to come out, I would really enjoy meeting you. This performance will be my first performance with a group in several years.

Below is the blurb written about the concert:

“Remembering the Dream”
Chile: the “other” September 11th”, 1973.

Thirty years ago this month, on Spetember 11th, the United States government funded, instigated, and directed a military coup against the longest running democracy in Latin America -- the Republic of Chile. As a result of this coup, more than 5,000 people including president Salvador Allende lost their lives while many more went into exile. Chile was plunged into a Dark Ages of cultural and social despair that lasted for over twenty years.

The Pauline Oliveros Foundation is proud to present a concert by avant-garde musicians Susan Alcorn, David Dove, Juan Carcamo, and Chris Cogburn -- the Culture in Movement Quartet, performing their interpretations of Nueva Cancion Chilena -- the Chilean folk music renaissance -- the music of Violeta Parra,Victor Jara, Inti-Illimani, Illapu, including the the first ever Houston performance of Astor Piazzolla’s work, “Salvador Allende”.

The concert is in homage and memory to the victims of the September 11th coup, to the beautiful mysterious music of Chile, and to the aspirations of living things everywhere for peace, social justice, and dignity.

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Of the victims, perhaps one of the best known was the Chilean musican Victor Jara, the “Bob Dylan” of Chilean folk music. Proceeds from this concert will go to benefit the Plaza Victor Jara,in Pudahuel, Santiago, Chile.

Sunday, September 14, 2003
8:00PM,

Super Happy Funland
2610 Ashland
Houston, Texas
$5

call Supper Happy Funland at 713-880-2100
or go to http://www.superhappyfunland.com
call POF Houston at 713-928-5653
or go to http://www.pofinc.org/houston <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Susan Alcorn on 02 September 2003 at 10:55 AM.]</p></FONT>

[Susan Alcorn (deceased)]

This is a little bump for the message, and . . . if anyone gets the Sundance channel on cable, there will be a show about 9/11 (1973) in Chile. It is very informative.

And again, if you are able to attend our concert, please come and say hello.

-- Susan

[Graham Griffith]

By my calculations, there's a few lucky individuals who can still make it to this concert.

Get there and show some support for a fine musician who's obviously also a thinker.

Good on you Susan.

Graham