February 18, 2005

De La Soul Doing College Tour

Veteran rap trio De La Soul will embark next month on a speaking and performance tour of U.S. colleges. Dubbed the Past, the Present, the Future trek, it will begin March 2 at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and run through March 30 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The outing will be sponsored by Toyota.

“We’ve wanted to do something like this for awhile,” group member Pos says. “We’re fans of hip-hop and to have the opportunity to talk to young people about what’s so powerful in hip-hop — its history and what’s going on right now — is the coolest thing we could be doing.”

Tickets to the shows will be available for just $1.20, while the symposiums are free of charge. At each stop and on Spitkicker.com, attendees can enter to win four scholarships underwritten by proceeds from the tour.

De La Soul has also lined up several special guests for the shows, including A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg, Scarface, Raphael Saadiq and Dwele, and promises additional surprises.

The group is out in support of its fall 2004 debut for Sanctuary, “The Grind Date,” which peaked at No. 10 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart.

Here are De La Soul’s tour dates:

March 2: Washington, D.C. (Blackburn Center, symposium)
March 2: Washington, D.C. (Lincoln Theatre, performance)
March 3: Baltimore (Morgan St. University, symposium)
March 4: Philadelphia (Lincoln University, symposium)
March 4: Philadelphia (Kimmel Center, performance)
March 6: New York (Spirit, performance)
March 7: Newark, N.J. (Rutgers University, symposium)
March 8: St. Louis (Washington University, symposium)
March 8: St. Louis (Fox Theatre, performance)
March 9: Detroit (African-American Museum of History, performance)
March 10: Detroit (Wayne St. University, symposium)
March 11: Houston (Texas Southern University, symposium)
March 11: Houston (Jones Hall, performance)
March 20: Chicago (Museum of Contemporary Arts, performance)
March 21: Chicago (Columbia College, symposium)
March 23: Atlanta (Clark University, symposium)
March 23: Atlanta (Woodruff Arts Center, performance)
March 28: Las Vegas (UNLV, symposium)
March 28: Las Vegas (Ra, performance)
March 30: Los Angeles (USC, symposium)
March 30: Los Angeles (Director’s Guild of America, performance)

Source billboard.com.

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Tori Amos To Launch Solo Piano Tour

Tori Amos has confirmed plans to open a solo piano tour April 1 in Clearwater, Fla. The month-long Original Sinsuality theater outing has 14 confirmed dates, closing April 25 in Los Angeles.

Amos last toured behind 2002’s “Scarlet’s Walk,” which featured her on piano and organ backed by drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Jon Evans. “We always like to change it up a little,” Witherspoon adds. “So we’re going back to purely solo for the first time since 2001.”

The April dates come in support of “The Beekeeper,” due Tuesday (Feb. 22) via Epic. Fans can expect to find Amos accompanied by her B

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Online Charity Auction For Station Nightclub Survivors And Families of Victims

John Langenstein, Director of Security for several prominent bands has teamed up once again with David Shulman and The Mimi Fishman Foundation to raise money for The Station Family Fund (SFF).
The newest auction, which coincides with the 2nd anniversary of the horrific fire, will be the fifth in a series of fundraisers organized by Langenstein/Shulman. To date their efforts have raised over $50,000 for the SFF.

The Station Family Fund is an all-volunteer, 501 c 3 recognized, tax exempt, nonprofit organization, founded to offer assistance and relief to people directly affected by the fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island. 100 people perished, close to 200 severely injured, and more than 60 children lost one or both parents in the horrific fire on Feb 20, 2003.

Todd King, a survivor himself of the fire, is the VP of the Station Family Fund. “As we approach the 2nd anniversary the story is further removed from people’s minds. The needs of the victims are a great as ever. It’s vital we don’t forget the families left behind. The Station Family Fund was formed to help those families, as well as the survivors”, said King.

The auction features items donated by a bands and musicians and represents a wide variety of musical tastes. In addition, every item is signed. Highlights include items donated by Paul McCartney, The String Cheese Incident, Jackson Browne, Eminem, CSN, Sting, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, BB King, and many others. A few non-musicians such as Tom Hanks are represented as well.

Historically, the auctions have featured items donated by jambands, which limited the auction’s exposure. This time will be different.
“With over thirty wonderful auction items, there is certain to be something for everyone’s taste,” says Shulman. “We are reaching out beyond the jamband audience in an effort to raise as many funds as possible for the SFF”.

The Station Family Fund will distribute every dollar raised by the auction in an effort to address the needs of the survivors and the families of victims.

“We have been overwhelmed by the support we have received, both from those donating items as well as those bidding on them. Working in the music industry, this tragedy hit me right in the heart. My desire to help those affected by the fire has only strengthened and I am more determined now than ever to help out the survivors and the families of the victims”, said Langenstein.

For more information the auction can be viewed at mimifishman.org.
Information on the Station Family Fund can be found at stationfamilyfund.org

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