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Flaming Lips & Taj Mahal Added to Tibet House US Benefit

MARCH 3, 2011 AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK; TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Tibet House US is thrilled to announce that
The Flaming Lips and
Taj Mahal have joined the
bill of their 21st Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2011. The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal will join
an esteemed line-up of artists curated by artistic director Philip Glass. The bill to date includes Michael Stipe, The
Roots
, Patti Smith with Jesse
Smith and Michael Campbell, Angelique
Kidjo
and James McCartney.

The Tibet House US Benefit Concert commemorates the Monlam Prayer Festival traditionally held at the time of the
Tibetan New Year. The festival drew vast numbers of monks, citizens and pilgrims from all over the country who
gathered to pray for world peace and prosperity. Tibet House US is a non-profit organization founded in 1987 at
the behest of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that serves as a center for the preservation and presentation of the
endangered Tibetan culture.

Concert tickets are $33 to $89 and can be
purchased by calling Carnegie Charge at 212.247.7800 or in person at the Carnegie Hall Box Office. For more
information
or to reserve tickets for the concert and reception call Tibet House US Monday- Friday, 10 A.M.- 5 P.M. at
212.807.0563 or visit www.tibethouse.us.


Burial battle intensifies in Nepal

nepal flagScores of demonstrators flocked to the holiest Hindu shrine of Pashupatinath Monday to protest against the newly enforced ban on burying non-Hindus on the temple’s forested land even as the former Hindu kingdom’s culture minister warned the state would take tough steps to uphold the ban. “Today’s protest is just a symbolic one,” said Yograj [...]

Weekend News Recap

SEVEN STORIES YOU JUST GOTTA KNOW ABOUT

Welcome back to our weekly digest of the top stories to hit JamBase in the past week, along with a little bonus stimuli.

1. Trey Anastasio Acoustic/Electric Winter Tour.

2. Stockholm Syndrome Tour In February

3. Bass massters Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten To Tour Together

4. Mountain Jam 2011 Lineup

5. Coheed and Cambria 10th Anniversary Tour

6. Of Montreal Spring Tour

7. Tibet House Benefit Concert In March


Tibet House US Announces 21st Annual Benefit Concert

MARCH 3, 2011 AT CARNEGIE HALL; TICKETS ON SALE NOW


Philip Glass

Tibet House US will hold its 21st Annual Benefit
Concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Philip Glass, the concert’s Artistic Director, once again brings together an exceptional line-up
of artists including Michael Stipe, The Roots, Patti Smith with Jesse Smith and Michael
Campbell, Angelique Kidjo and James McCartney with more performers
being confirmed soon. Tickets are on sale now and available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office. Special packages that
include tickets to the concert and a fundraising reception following the performance with the event’s Honorary
Chairpersons and artists are available through Tibet House US.

The Tibet House US Benefit Concert commemorates the Monlam Prayer Festival traditionally held at the time of the
Tibetan New Year. The festival drew vast numbers of monks, citizens and pilgrims from all over the country who
gathered to pray for world peace and prosperity. Tibet House US is a non-profit organization founded in 1987 at
the behest of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that serves as a center for the preservation and presentation of the
endangered Tibetan culture.

For more information or to reserve tickets for the concert and reception call Tibet House US Monday- Friday, 10
A.M.- 5 P.M. at 212.807.0563 or visit www.tibethouse.us.


It’d be quicker to wok

Next time you happen to be stuck in a queue, spare a thought for the residents of Beijing, who have apparently just had to endure a nine-day traffic jam.

Motorists were caught up in an extraordinary 100km logjam that wasn’t exactly helped by road works and broken-down cars on the Beijing-Tibet road.

China’s phenomenal economic growth is all very well but consumers are going to start falling out of love with cars if they’re constantly crawling or at a standstill.

However, one of the reasons for China’s huge economic success is its resourceful population.

It appears local residents along the highway were offering noodles at four times the usual price to hungry truck drivers.

It’s an ill wind…

15 Of The Oddest Video Game Bans

Because video games don’t have the artistic weight of books or movies, it’s far more frequent to find them banned by nations the world over. Sometimes it’s for reasons that make a certain degree of sense — like being grossly racist or offensive. Other times, it’s so damned arbitrary, it just leaves you scratching your [...]

Wavy Gravy’s All Star Jam | 6.13.10 | SF

YOU’VE GOT GRAVY IN YOUR EYES!

Photos by Susan J. Weiand

On Sunday, June 13th, various All-Star musicians converged on stage at The Great American
Music Hall to benefit the Seva Foundation. The
cast of characters included Steve Kimock, Mark Karan, Billy
Kreutzmann
, Melvin Seals, Papa Mali, Lebo, Dave Brogan,
Bo Carper, Reed Mathis, Matt Hubbard, special guest Bobby
Vega
and Wavy Gravy himself.

The evening started off with a set by Lebo, Carper and Brogan performing “Spike Driver’s
Blues”, “Pallet on your Floor” and Old Crowe Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” joined by Karan & Seals. The band played
on for a Dave Brogan tune “Infinite Eye” before Vega joined in for a soulful offering of Allen Toussaint’s classic “On
Your Way Down”.

Steve Kimock then took the stage with Vega, Seals & Brogan for an epic version of
the Zero fan favorites “Cole’s Law” > “Tangled Hangers”. The first set then closed with a
ripping rendition of Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” featuring Karan, Lebo, Brogan, Kimock,
Seals & Vega.

Set two featured 7 Walkers: Papa Mali, Billy Kreutzman, Steve Kimock, Reed Mathis and Matt
Hubbard along with a variety of the aforementioned musicians joining in a setlist that
included “Jam” >
“Sugaree”, “He’s Gone”, “Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues”, “Bertha”, “Jump Back”, “Mr. Charlie”
and “Lovelight” amongst others.

Photographer Sue Weiand was on hand to document the experience for your visual enjoyment.

JamBase | Bay Area


Thank to various helpers for piecing together the setlist. Pardon any omissions or
errors.

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Seva Foundation was founded in 1978 by a group of people who helped eradicate
small pox,
and inspired by that achievement, joined together to alleviate other suffering caused by
poverty and disease. Seva’s public health programs in India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia
Bangladesh and Tanzania work to eliminate curable blindness. Over two million people have
received sight-restoring surgeries. In Mexico and Guatemala Seva assists indigenous
communities with training and resources to attain literacy and economic self-sufficiency.
In the United States, where diabetes claims Native American lives at four times the
national average, Seva offers diabetes prevention and small grants programs, created and
directed by Native Americans.

Wavy Gravy, activist clown, former Ben & Jerry’s flavor, hippie-icon, flower-
geezer, is a
founding board member of the Seva Foundation. He is the creative director of Camp
Winnarainbow, a circus and performing arts camp in Northern California.


Varanasi girl crowned Miss Tibet 2010

Tenzin Norzon, the 23-year-old Varanasi girl was crowned Miss Tibet 2010 at the event organized at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA).
Norzon received a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000.
Four Tibetan eves vied for the title of Miss Tibet 2010, as the Tibetan beauties put their best foot forward at the grand finale of the [...]

James Cameron says sci-fi author’s ‘Avatar’ lift-off claims are ‘baseless’

James Cameron has said that a sci-fi author’’s lawsuit against him alleging that he lifted ideas for ‘Avatar’ from her book is completely ‘baseless’.
Kelly Van, who penned ‘Sheila the Warrior: The Damned’ is suing Cameron for allegedly stealing the idea for ‘Avatar’.
The book has only been published online and Cameron has claimed that he’’s never [...]

Jessica Biel Is Going to Climb on Mt. Everest

After having climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro (Africa’ a highest peak), Jessica is all set to do something bigger i.e. climbing to the top of Everest.
She is planning to trek to the Mount Everest base camp. This is a kind of next goal, she declared this in 13th Annual EIF Revlon Run/Walk for Women in [...]

No impact of Chinese dam on Brahmaputra: Krishna

China has assured India that a hydroelectric dam it is constructing on Tsangpo river in Tibet will not impact the downstream flow to Brahmaputra, parliament was informed Thursday.
“It is a fact that when we met in Beijing, the question of the power station did come up. The Chinese foreign minister assured me that there would [...]

Chinese dam will not impact Brahmaputra: Krishna

China has assured India that a dam it is constructing on the Tsang Po river in Tibet for generating power will not impact downstream flow to the Brahmaputra, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said Thursday.
“It is a fact that when we met in Beijing, the question of the power station did come up. The Chinese [...]

India closely watching China’s border infrastructure: Krishna

India is keeping a close watch on China’s military modernisation and infrastructure in the border regions in Tibet and has taken necessary measures to safeguard its security, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Wednesday.
He also said in the Lok Sabha that Beijing has denied any plan to divert the Brahmaputra river by digging a [...]

Fault lines

Earthquakes in China’s Qinghai province kill hundreds of people

POWERFUL earthquakes on the Tibetan plateau have killed hundreds of people and injured many thousands of others. The disaster presents the Chinese authorities with the challenge of another large-scale relief effort following an earthquake in neighbouring Sichuan province in May 2008 that killed more than 80,000 people. The remoteness of the affected area will make it all the harder.

The earthquakes, the strongest of which been reported as magnitude 6.9 or 7.1, began to strike early in the morning of Wednesday April 14th. They were centred on Yushu county in Qinghai province near the border of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Most of the buildings in the county seat, Jiegu, were damaged or destroyed. Yushu has a population of around 100,000, many of them Tibetan herders. A teacher in the adjacent county of Golog some 350 km (220m) to the north-east says he has been trying to console his weeping students since they learned that relatives in Yushu had been buried in rubble. He says Tibetan monks in Golog have been praying for the dead. …

Hu, Obama discuss China-US ties

Chinese President Hu Jintao and US President Barack Obama have exchanged views on bilateral relations and other important world and regional issues of common concern on the sidelines of a Nuclear Security Summit held here, a media report said Tuesday.
“We had a talk over phone recently, and have maintained contact through phone calls and letters,” [...]

Polish president admired Dalai Lama

Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in an air crash Saturday, was an unabashed admirer of the Dalai Lama and always met the Tibetan spiritual leader when he visited Poland.
The president’s soft corner for the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959, was matched by his distaste for China.
Chinese [...]

Bob Dylan Asia Tour Cancelled

Bob Dylan’s trek across Asia is “blowin’ in the wind.”
The music legend has scrapped plans to tour Asia this month after he was reportedly refused permission to play in China.

According to Celebrifi.com, the “Times They Are A-Changin’” hitmaker had planned to take his “Never Ending Tour” overseas for stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, [...]

Dalai Lama’s Washington visit angers China

The Dalai Lama is holding talks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington – a meeting that has angered Beijing. China – already seething over U.S. plans to close a four billion euro arms deal with Taiwan – sees the Dalai Lama as a separatist who is fomenting unrest in Tibet.

Speaking too softly

Relations between America and China may chill over a meeting with the Dalai Lama

IT IS bound to be a controversial meeting. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, goes to Washington, DC, this week and will sit down with President Barack Obama for the first time on Thursday February 18th. American presidents have long been happy to meet the Tibetan leader and to tolerate subsequent angry huffing from China, not least as a means of responding to public concern over human rights without doing anything serious to jeopardise trade or other ties with Beijing.

But in Mr Obama’s case, with China increasingly assertive internationally and the American president perceived in many quarters as cautious, even timid, in foreign policy, the encounter with the Dalai Lama has assumed extra significance. Mr Obama will be studied closely. Human-rights activists will listen with care to the language that the American president uses, straining to hear whether he goes further than merely suggesting more dialogue between Tibetans and the Chinese leadership. Might the president dare to deliver real criticism of repression and human-rights abuses in Tibet? …

The week ahead

European finance ministers meet to discuss bailing out the Greek economy

• EUROPE’S finance ministers meet for two days, beginning on Monday February 15th, to discuss the details of a plan to support Greece as it struggles with its public finances. A political deal pledging support for Greece, agreed at a summit of European leaders in Brussels, was intended to reassure financial markets fearful of a default and the doubt it cast over the long-term prospects for the euro area. But after a vague promise of aid for Greece did little to lessen uncertainty, finance ministers will be expected to produce more concrete measures.

• RELATIONS between America and China, already frosty over arms sales to Taiwan, sanctions on Iran and China’s weak currency, could worsen. Barack Obama will meet Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, during his two-day visit to Washington, DC, that starts on Wednesday February 17th. Mr Obama cancelled a meeting in October ahead of his first official trip to China to avoid annoying his hosts. China routinely condemns any meeting between the Dalai Lama and foreign leaders as an unwarranted interference in its affairs. How China reacts to this meeting may be instructive. China’s president, Hu Jintao, may possibly rethink a planned visit to Washington in April. …