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Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 Nominated for Two 2010 GRAMMY Awards
The Green Family Foundation (GFF) is honored that the 2010 GRAMMY nominees recently announced include the Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 Box Set. The project is an initiative of the The Association for Cultural Equity, and the Alan Lomax Archive in partnership with Harte Recordings, The American Folk Life Center of The Library Of Congress and the Green Family Foundation. The set is nominated for two prestigious GRAMMY Awards in the categories of Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. We especially congratulate compilation producers Anna Lomax Wood, Jeffrey A. Greenberg, and David Katznelson, mastering engineers Warren Russell-Smith and Steve Rosenthal, and professor and ethnomusicologist Gage Averill who wrote the nominated album notes for the collection.
The full list of nominees in the Best Historical Album category are Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 (Various Artists), The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings), The Complete Mother's Best Recordings...Plus! (Hank Williams), Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More (Buddy Holly), and Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Various Artists).
The full list of nominees in the Best Album Notes category are Gage Averill for Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 (Various Artists), Robert Gordon for Keep An Eye On The Sky (Big Star), Ashley Kahn for Side Steps (John Coltrane), Doug Seroff for There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II And His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916 (Fisk University Jubilee Quartet), and Will Sheff for True Love Cast Out All Evil (Roky Erickson With Okkervil River).
We congratulate all the nominees. Final voting is up to National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) members, who may vote in up to eight fields but are encouraged to vote only in their fields of expertise. Ballots are then tabulated by a major independent accounting firm. The winners will be announced at the Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 13, 2011 on CBS.
The Green Family Foundation is proud to be part of the Haiti Repatriation and Cultural Preservation Project that continues to bring Haiti's music back to her and preserve its heritage for future generations.
To purchase a copy of the Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 box set from Harte Recordings, click here. Amazon users can buy it here. The music is also available in the iTunes store.
World AIDS Day 2010
December 1, 2010
December 1 is World AIDS Day. There are 33 million people in the world who live with HIV/AIDS. It is a global health issue that affects men, women, and children. Many of them have no access to health care and the medications that would allow them to continue living with the disease. Now and in the past, the Green Family Foundation (GFF) supports AIDS organizations and develops projects that are involved in HIV/AIDS research,strive for access to appropriate health care and informational outreach.
At the University of Miami's Global Institute we instituted the Green Family Foundation Initiative in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology and International Health through the Green Family Health Initiative. In 2008 we partnered with musician Alicia Keys, co-founder of Keep a Child Alive (KCA) to sponsor the second annual KCA College Student AIDS Summit. Members of Youth Expressions, a South Florida-based not-for-profit program committed to helping at-risk urban youth, performed various artistic pieces at colleges around the country as part of the event. The struggle for dignity in the face of HIV, featuring a young man named LaRochelle who was ostracized by his family in Haiti for being HIV-positive, as well as the difficulty Haitians face to obtain basic health care are main topics in Once There Was a Country, a documentary GFF President Kimberly Green created and produced.
We applaud the work that international organizations like Partners in Health, Doctors Without Borders, and Haitian organization GHESKIO (Group for the Study of Karposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) are doing on this World AIDS Day. We encourage you to DONATE to these or your favorite HIV/AIDS organization to continue the fight for universal health care access and human rights.
Be Selfish, Be Generous
We saw this video on the DailyGood.com website. We believe in its message.
From their site: "As we consider all the things we are grateful for on this Thanksgiving Day, we also reflect on how we can turn that gratitude in action. What does it mean to be generous? Why do we feel inspired to give? And what can we share with the world? What follows is a five-minute video montage of CharityFocus volunteers reflecting on how being truly selfish leaves us with no choice but to be generous."
Article About Haiti's Peligre Dam, Once Set to Cure Haiti's Electricity Ills
A writer for TheStar.com, the online version of Canada's Toronto Star newspaper, wrote an informative article this week about the Peligre Dam in Haiti. The Peligre is a hydroelectric dam located off the Centre Department on the Artibonite River of Haiti. It is the largest dam on the island of Hispaniola consisting of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At one time it was envisioned that the Peligre Dam would create electricity for parts of Haiti, including the Central Plateau area.
More than 50 years later, the dam has fallen into disrepair. The 54-megawatt dam, the largest in the country, is currently operating at half capacity, which largely explains how the country’s electricity generation has fallen by more than 30 per cent in the past six years. Haiti's electrical shortages are well-documented and a source of much of the country's proverbial poverty. Green Family Foundation's Kimberly Green produced a documentary in 2006, entitled Once There Was a Country, narrated by former U.S. poet laureate Dr. Maya Angelou. The documentary film examines the causes of Haiti's health care crises and provides examples of how innovative programs can alleviate poverty and disease in the country's most isolated regions. The history of the Peligre Dam is featured in the film. Visit the film's website here.
Photos from the Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year Event at the Green Library
On November 11, 2010 Florida International University's Steven and Dorothea Green Library was the site of a dinner and ceremony honoring the 24 finalists of the inaugural Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Program.
The nominees were evaluated according to strict enterprise criteria, including the company's strategic direction, financial performance, record of innovation, and -- crucially, given the perilous state of Haiti -- its impact on the wider community.
The ceremony featured Haitian art and artifacts loaned specifically for the event, plus a four-course dinner and Haitian drumming. The award finalists were at the university on a three-day CEO retreat sponsored by the school. Florida International University President Mark B. Rosenberg, Ambassador Steven J. Green, Green Family Foundation President Kimberly Green, and Digicel's Director of Human Resources Bryan Gonzales were among the speakers.
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