AS you all know me this is a definite Neal OY!! Volume of the ROM Community Blog, all totally positive!!!! Promise.
I do want to thank your continuing donations to the ongoing Concert for Japan Relief Fundraiser. Checks which are tax deductable may still be made out to: Ma-Conference UCC and in the Memo line please write Japan Relief for direction of your donation to the People of Japan directly. Please mail your donations to:
Japan Relief
C/O Roslindale Congregational Church
25 Cummins Highway
Roslindale Ma. 02131
I do want to thank our most recent Feature at ROM, Satoru Nakagawa!! He did an awesome job and played to a large and talent filled audience, that does mean all of you that were present for Satoru's long awaitied and wonderful Feature. Thanks so much Satoru. It was a totally wonderful Feature.
Our next Feature at ROM is coming up this Monday 4-25-11. I know it will be a well attended and another greatly anticipated feature, (which of course), always includes all of you, our Wonderful Community of ROMulins!!! This next ROM will Feature the wonderful Chris Thompson. if you wish to take a preview of this incredible artist take a peek: (www.cmthompson.com)
I do have many annoucements I do wish to share with you that I personally feel I would love to have as large a ROMulin presence at: The first of which is this coming Thursday 4-21-11 our wonderful Host of ROM and it's heartbeat, Mike Delaney will be featuring with Mr. extraordinary in so many aspects of ROM and (then some), Ken Porter at:
Rick's Music World
421 New State Highway (Rte 44)
Raynham, Ma. 02767 (www.ricksmusic.com)
If you have not been to the Community Rick Santos has built this Thursday with Mike & Ken As the Feature performers, the time for your first visit is NOW!!!
Mike & I do want to wish all a very:
Happy Passover and a Happy Easter!!
On Easter Sunday which is this coming Sunday 4-24-11, Junko Ogawa, (www.junkosings.com)
has a Feature at the wonderful & talented dear friend Don White's,
Walnut St. Cafe
157 Walnut St.
Lynn, Ma. 01905
The Open Mike runs from 7PM-11PM
It will be a wonderful event. If anyone may wish to join me to go to either of the noted 2 Venues, I will be going to both, I can easily meet anyone at the home of ROM and then either do a car (wagon train), to each Venue as I, (oddly enuf), do know how to get to both of these venues. Please just contact me at my ROM email address: (neal@roslindaleopenmike.org)
My final event I do want to let you know about is for a June 11, 2011 Fundraiser for a disease & epidemic I had never heard of called, (Obstectric Fistula) yet our wonderful friend, M.F. Daisy has taken to her heart. This is a huge undertaking and I am going to copy and paste the info that MF has shared with me. This event for her 1st Fundraiser for a currently planned 3 Venues.
This 1st Fundraiser I am so honored and proud to say will be held at Roslindale Congregational Church our home of ROM!! I/we have been so very blessed with the RCC Church as our home base and sponsor now to so many timely and precedent setting Fundraisers as well as the home of some ongoing internal funraisers and Community involvements organziations. To take a peek at the Chruch website it is: (www.roscon.org), Thanks again to RCC our home and a place to watch and to keep on your to do help items as the Church has aked me to assist with an upcoming Fundraiser for the Church which of course I said tell me when and where: With what I am going to now add for MF Daisy's Fundraiser, you will see how well organized her intent is for her Fundraiser. Please do contact MF with any help you can be as much or as little as it can be!! No legit offers of help will be turned away and there is much need! I thank MF in advance for giving us a great guide to follow when setting up Future Fundrasier's in a systematic way!
Words from MF Daisy:
"Dear friends,
My commitment to helping eradicate obstetric fistula began with writing the song
“You Are Not Alone.”*
Listen to You Are Not Alone at http://www.myspace.com/mfdaisy
About Fistula
Though obstetric fistula is virtually non-existent in countries where cesarean sections are widely available, approximately 2,000,000 women are currently suffering from this devastating condition, mostly in Africa and Asia. Most of them are adolescents, some as young as 11. Without corrective surgery, a simple procedure, these women are condemned to a life of shameful isolation. Thanks to the efforts of organizations like The Fistula Foundation* thousands of women have been able to get the necessary surgery and been restored to a life of dignity.
Read more at http://www.fistulafoundation.org/
About Dignity Productions
This year, I founded Dignity Productions, an organization devoted to raising awareness and funds for The Fistula Foundation. We will be hosting a number of fund-raising events including three, You Are Not Alone Concerts. The first of these, will take place on Saturday, June 11,th, at 2:30pm at the Roslindale Congregational Church. The second will take place in early fall at the Theodore Parker Unitarian/Universalist Church in West Roxbury and the third will follow in November in Montreal.
We are in desperate need of volunteers of all kinds. Are you good at organizing? We need you, Got experience at putting together raffles and/or silent auctions? We need you. Have you run a pot-luck or food concession? We need you. Are you a wordsmith? WE need you. Here is a partial list of all the people we need.
Organizers
Production Assistants
Graphic Artists
Installation Artists
Photographers
Videographers
Sound Engineers
Publicity volunteers
Ad Sales
Set Up/Break Down/Clean-up CREW
Tech CREW
People to fluent in Sign Language
Please join with us in letting these women who so need our assistance know,
They Are Not Alone!"
My heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you for all you are and have added to our wonderful ROM Community of Fine Artists and Supporting friends which is: The great success we have been blessed with at, Roslindale Open Mike. It is, always has been and always will be you, our Foundation of The ROMulin Community that will keep our Community always on the move, always learning to remain flexible to change as any changes we hear from you to continue to make sure we do continue the answer the wishes and any hopes you may have for the remainder of ROM 2011 as well as any hoped changes for our busy 2012 ROM year already in our sites and always being thought about. Mike & I would like to request that if any of you may have any COMMENTS pro and con alike, we would appreciate you directing them a bit more to our Website Guest-book comment section. This will enable those outside our ROM Community see what issues are addressed and how they are dealt with. WE will greatly appreciates seeing the website being used more so that those that simply watch it, make the decison to join us as we are always hunting for new wonderful and talented ROMulins to help move old guys, like me back into being, "just the Pix guy"!!!
I love you all for who you are and thank you all for your Support of ROM of course but for so much of the personal side ROM has truly blessed and honord me with. I look forward to seeing each and every one of you this coming Monday at ROM for Chris Thompson's Feature. Also before then, the Thursday Mike Delaney/Ken Porter feature at Ricks Music World and on Easter Sunday Junko Ogawa's Feature at Don White's Walnut St. Cafe!!! C Ya, soon, Always, Neal :)))
