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Noriko Shintani & Rattlesnake Annie: PEACE CONCERT to support PEACE IN ASIA & ARTICLE 9, Nov. 30

Okinawa moon shine your light on me
I’m your bright red flower
Growing in the sea
Okinawa moon dancing on the sea
Let your light of love shine on me
Thank you for the gift of life you gave me
Thank you for the palm trees and the sand
Thank you for our kind and gentle ladies
Thank you for our babies
Thank you for our dreams
Okinawa moon dancing on the sea
Let your love light shine Okinawa moon
— Rattlesnake Annie

I just found news on this event at the Tokyo Korean YMCA featuring Noriko Shintani and Rattlesnake Annie, a singer from our original corner of the world, at fellow Southern American, Winnie Shiraishi's, wonderful new arts and engaged scholarship blog: The Paleonymy Project.

Then I saw it listed at another great site run by an increasingly dynamic nonviolent social change group: People for Social Change <>(great site for progressive events).

Then again (with the notice that it's not an "official" DAJ event) at the Democrats Abroad Japan website.
This is going to be a great concert from every perspective: PEACE CONCERT FOR SUPPORT OF PEACE IN ASIA AND JAPAN'S PEACE CONSTITUTION: The singers are Rattlesnake Annie, and Noriko Shintani.

Noriko Shintani, a Catholic Christian originally from Hokkaido, uses her music as a force for peace and social justice. During the height of the Vietnam War era, in 1969, her peace song "Francis no Baiwa" sold over 800,000 record albums. This moving song, about a young girl during the Vietnam War, touched the hearts of many who listened to it. Noriko does volunteer work and charity concerts, focusing now on concerts for peace throughout Japan. She will sing with a piano accompaniment.

Rattlesnake Annie a Cherokee-Scot-Irish American was born on a cotton-tobacco farm in Paris, Tennessee (between Nashville and Memphis). In the 1960's, Rattlesnake moved to Texas where she began a friendship and musical collaboration with Willie Nelson. Her songs resulted in three Billboard charted singles. Rattlesnake became the first American recording artist to be produced in-house by Sony-Tokyo, resulting in a continuing relationship with the release of multiple albums and concert tours. She has collaborated with some of Japan’s greatest artists including Kato Tokiko, Minami Kostetsu and Kosaka Kazuya.

In 1993, Rattlesnake Annie came with a group of Cherokee children to Shinshuu Japan International Exposition and Rattlesnake Annie`s song, "Mother Mountain," was the theme song. Rattlesnake Annie also gave concerts in Kobe, Japan for the victims of The Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. She sings while she plays her guitar and sings original and well known songs in her own style which is a mixture of blues, country, spirituals, gypsy, and jazz. She has lived off and on in the Andalusia area in southern Spain and Mexico where she does music with Latin American musicians. Her schedule shows she spent many months in Japan in 2007.

Date: Friday, November 30, 2007
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Cost: 4000 yen (students 2000 yen)
Place: KOREAN YMCA HOTEL
(The website tells the story of the hotel's rich ongoing history of supporting Japanese Koreans and Korean independence)
2-5-5 Sarugaku-cho,
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 101

Nearest stations (JR or subway) Suidobashi or Ochanomizu stations
There's a map at the website.

Tickets should be purchased or reserved in advance
For details, please contact Toshi Yamamoto by E-mail: Fax: 03-3204-9495
E-mail: general@ncc-j.org
RSVP limit: Only 20 members (including guests) can RSVP 'Yes' or 'Maybe' for this event.

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