tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29003574597160614022024-03-14T04:04:36.340-04:00Mycroft Masada HolmesMycroft Masada is a nonbinary trans and queer faith leader with 30 years of experience.Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.comBlogger396125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-83220255029484849262021-08-13T16:07:00.004-04:002021-08-13T16:07:56.911-04:00MMH 45 records August 2021 for BNG<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mycroft Masada’s 45 records</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7cf0aa69-7fff-963b-7070-d359b274d90c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 2021 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For Buy Nothing Gaithersburg</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columbia case</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top grey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bottom cream</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very bottom grey again</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metal findings -- somewhat rusty </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gray plastic handle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leather-look paper over wood</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RCA Victor</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perry Como</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St. Patrick’s Cathedral Boys Choir</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitchell Ayres</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organ Accompaniment</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ave Maria (Schubert)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lord’s Prayer (Malotte)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mother Dear O Pray For Me</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy God We Praise Thy Name (Traditional)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decca</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Todd Duncan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anne Brown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eva Jessye Choir</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Folk Opera “Porgy & Bess”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Ira Gershwin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra w/ Alexander Smallens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Got Plenty O’Nuttin’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buzzard Song</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bess, You Is My Woman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It Ain’t Necessarily So</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decca</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overture and Summertime</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anne Brown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Woman Is A Sometime Thing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edward Matthews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both Assisted by Harriet Jackson with Eva Jessye Choir</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introducing: Summertime -- Act 1, Scene 1</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Folk Opera “Porgy And Bess”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Ira GErshwin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra under direction of Alexander Smallens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s A BOat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Act 3, Scene 2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AVa Long and Anne Brown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Porgy’s Lament and Finale</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Act 3, Scene 3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Todd Duncan with Eva Jessye Choir</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decca</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Man’s Gone Now (Act 1, Scene 2)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anne Brown with Eva Jessye Choir</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It Take A Long Pull To Get There (Act 2, Scene 2)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edward Matthews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Loves You, Porgy (Act 2, Scene 3)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Todd Duncan and Anne Brown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Requiem (Act 3, Scene 1)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eva Jessye Choir</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columbia Masterworks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">House Of Flowers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Book - Truman Capote</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Music - Harold Arlen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lyrics - both</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Musical Director - Arlen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestrations - Ted Royal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waitin’ (Harper, Moore, Mosier)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Man Ain’t Quite Enough (Bailey)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Never Has Seen Snow (Carroll)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t Like Goodbyes (Bailey)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">House Of Flowers (Carroll, Spearman)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two Ladies In De Shade Of De Banana Tree (Moore, Mosier)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What Is A Friend For? (Bailey)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slide “Boy” Slide (Hall)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Sleepin’ Bee (Carroll, Harper, Moore, Mosier)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bamboo Cage (Harper, Moore, Mosier)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m Gonna Leave Off Wering My Shoes (Carroll)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Has I Let You Down (Bailey, Harper, MOore, Mosier)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dunhill ABC Records</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wingate Music Corp.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honest John Music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lou Adler</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mamas & Papas</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For The Love Of Ivy (John Phillips, Denny Doherty)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trousdale Music Publishers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strange Young Girls (John Phillips)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AA Records</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wonderland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">London Bridge -- See Saw Margery Daw</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride A Cock Horse -- Dr. Fell</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goosey Goosey Gander -- Dickery Dickery Dare</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sandpipers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitch Miller and Orchestra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arthur Norman Golden Orchestra & Chorus</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Little Bird</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thirty Days Hath September</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THere Was A Maid</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There Was Once Two Cats Of Kilkenny</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I was Goin To Saint Ives</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sandpipers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jim Timmens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Golden Orchestra</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mercury</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harms</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Vaughan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poor Butterfly (Hubbell-Golden)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hal Mooney & His Orchestra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April Give Me One More Day (Shanker-Singer-James)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Carroll & His Orchestra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 25th, 1957</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columbia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jo Stafford</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s Almost Tomorrow (Buff, Adkinson)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul Weston & His Orchestra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If You Want To Love (You Have To Cry) (Roberts, Hague)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PW & HO + The Starlighters</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RCA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ross Bagdasarian</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Janice Karman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mills Music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THe Chipmunks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sleigh Ride</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(A Chipmunk Christmas album; Mitchell Parish, Leroy Anderson)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monarch Music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Chipmunk Song</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Ditto; R. Bagdasarian, Sr.)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decca</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jones Boy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Vic Mizzy, Mann Curtis)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mills Brothers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sy Oliver & His Orchestra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She Was Five And He Was Ten</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Mike DiNapoli, June Burnett, Sherm Feller)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ditto</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C.S. Hammond & Company </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talking Map</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helion</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ZTV 106250 and 106251</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beltona (Great Britain)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decca</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scotland The Brave (Traditional)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colonel Burney’s Farewell TO The Gordon (Trad., arr. Ramsay)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John McDonald (Center, arr. Ramsay)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue BOnnets (Trad.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Rowan Tree (Watt, arr. Ramsay)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Watch Polka (Ramsay)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Highland Whisky (Trad., arr. Ramsay)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Left Handed Fiddler (TaR)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">De’il Amang The Tailors (TaR)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THe Fairy Dance (Traditional)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mrs. MacLeod Of Raasay (TaR)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Glory</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryden Music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Tarriers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Banana Boat Song (Arkin, Carey, Darling)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No Hidin’ Place (ditto)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imperial</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chappell & Co., Inc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fat Domino</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blueberry Hill (Lewis, Stock, Rose)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HOney Chile (A. Domino, D. Bartholomew)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the American-International Picture “Shake, Rattle And Rock”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brunswick</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Down Beat and Steve Allen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Little Red Riding Hood</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Grimm Fairy Tale For Hip Kids</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An Adaptation By Steve Allen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Told By Al “Jazzbo” Collins</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Lou Stein at the piano</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three Little Pigs</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columbia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heartaches By The Number</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">H. Howard</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guy Mitchell</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra under the direction of Joe Sherman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M. Curtis and Goehring</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dot Records</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M. Witmark & Sons</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pat BOone</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra conducted by Billy Vaughn</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April Love</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the 20th Century Fox Production</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fain, WEbster</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When The Swallows Come Back to Capistrano</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leon T. Rene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jubilee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Benell Music Co.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THe Swingin’ Shepherd Blues</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moe Koffman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moe KOffman Quartette</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hambourg Bound </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moe Koffman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moe Koffman Septette</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top Rank International</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EMI England</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quality Records Ltd.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donald Where’s Your Troosers?</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stewart, N. Grant</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the White Heather Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Directed by Robert Wilson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dancing In Kyle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arr. Annie SHand Scott</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the White Heather Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Directed by Robert Wilson</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top Rank International</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., Great Britian</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">United Artists Music Ltd.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1961</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tunes Of Glory</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stewart, Grant</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the Michael Sammes Singers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra conducted by Frank Cordell</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mozart Allen Mecolico</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Battle’s O’er</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trad. words A. Stewart, Arr. Iain MacFayden</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the Michael Sammes Singers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra conducted by Bernard Ebbinghouse</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top Rank International</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quality Records Ltd.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra conducted by Bernard Ebbinghouse</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Scottish Soldier / Green Hills Of Tyrol</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Stewart</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parlophone</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecolico</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Great Britain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1957</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Sing In THe New Year”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scotland The Brave</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Kerr</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uist Tramping Song</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecolico</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re No Awa’ Tae Bide Awa’ </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traditional</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jimmy Shand And His Band</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Chorus</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Guid New Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Auld Lang Syne</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jimmy Shand And His Band</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Chorus</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parlophone</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Made In England</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Kerr</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mozart Allan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bayley & Ferguson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecolico</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waltzing Thru’ Scotland (in strict tempo)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intro : Jock O’ Hazeldean</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’d Better Bide A Wee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Nannie’s Awa’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Auld Scotch Song</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INtro : Within A Mile Of Edinburgh Toon</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scotland yet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sound THe Pibroch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s Nae Luck About The Hoose</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jimmy Shand And His Band</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Kerry</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boosey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bosworth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecolico</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waltzing Thru’ Scotland (in strict tempo)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intro : The Auld Hoose</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rothsay Bay : Bonnie Gallowa’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Braes Abune Bonawa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ho Ro My Nut Brown Maiden</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intro: Loch Lomond</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Westerning Home</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jimmy Shand And His Band</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mercury</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bourne Inc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Little Shoemaker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revil, Parsons, Turner</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gaylords</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three Friends And A Stranger</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With George Annis and his Orchestra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arranged by Hugo Peretti</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecque, Mecque</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gaylords</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Number 7 Theme</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With compliments of No. 7 Cigarettes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Music by Bob Hahn</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orchestra and Chorus under direction of Mitchell Ayres</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RCA Victor</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philosophy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hal Borne, Sid Kuller</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tony Martin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accompanied by Hal Borne and his Orchestra and the Jud Conlon Singers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorcas Cochran, Harold Grant</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tony Martin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Henri René’s Orchestra and Chorus</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">London</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full frequency range recording</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ravel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conductor Ernest Ansermet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2 of 4 sides, another record has the other 2)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philips</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imprimerie - J. Marx and Cie, Paris</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Made In France</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mohamed Alami Aziz</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">N’Fdki Ya Ghzali</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Samra Malka El Ghozlane</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ezzine Moualef</span></p></span>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-29977334105831147692020-11-28T17:00:00.000-05:002020-11-28T19:50:44.606-05:00Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire ~ 78th anniversary (1942 - 2020)<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCXF57D5wSA/VpaVm6XZ6hI/AAAAAAAANzs/mmFO6M8C5CU/s1600/IMG_8757.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCXF57D5wSA/VpaVm6XZ6hI/AAAAAAAANzs/mmFO6M8C5CU/s1600/IMG_8757.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Tonight is the 78th anniversary of the fire in Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which took the young lives of my paternal grandparents Adelaide (Addie) and Theodore (Ted) Wasserman (pictured, probably on their honeymoon in Bermuda), and great-aunt Sarah (Sadie) Levin. Sadie’s husband, my great-uncle Benjamin “Ben” Levin, was with our party at the Grove, but survived. </b><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">(*Yes, Sadie was a Levin who married a Levin!)</span><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b></b>My father and his two brothers were orphaned, and two of their cousins lost their mother; my father was two, and his brothers were in infancy and seven. On the night of Saturday November 28th 1942 -- havdalah (the end of Shabbat) of Thanksgiving weekend that year -- corruption and other choices led to the deaths of almost 500 people, and injured more than 160 others. </span>May their memories be blessings -- ones that call us to pursue justice, justice -- and blessed be the True Judge. <br />
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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">When my father's parents and aunt were killed, they were much younger than even their youngest grandchild my brother is now. And my brother Ted was named after this grandfather. The Wassermans had recently moved from Portland Maine to Brookline Massachusetts -- a suburb of Boston where my father, and much later my brother and I, spent part of our childhoods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another of Adelaide's sisters, Lillian "Libby" (Levin) Finn, and her husband Irving Finn, were part of the family party in Boston that night, but as usual Libby and Irving chose to go to a performance at Symphony Hall instead. They began to find out about the fire after they left the Hall and saw all of the emergency <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">vehicles. Libby wrote a letter about the night not long afterwards, which I hope to read someday. Libby and Irving adopted her sister Addie's three orphaned sons, their nephews.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e79a8ba8-04ad-5328-a354-753a1c4adb2d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two months after the fire, on January 31st of 1943, Adelaide and Sadie’s eldest brother, Major Clarence “Clarry” Levin, was killed by a German landmine in North Africa, during World War II. Brothers </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harold and Dr. Sydney Levin survived for many years. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today there are very few Grove survivors left -- one died just this year -- and much of what they and their fellows knew has been lost. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I do belie</span>ve that this is a social in/justice story -- and indeed, I believe that all stories are – especially as the fire was largely the result of corruption and other choices within and between the club management and the City, and the deaths and injuries largely due to the club’s furnishings releasing extremely toxic gas when overheated. And this is the primary reason why there has been so much silence around the Grove. And as far too often, even though many positive changes resulted from the fire, the corruption and silence has led to the forgetting and thus repetition of history -- for instance, the Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island's West Warwick in 2003. Too, climate change is increasing and worsening wildfires, in California and elsewhere in our country and world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, the 70th anniversary of the Grove fire in 2012 inspired more acknowledgement and even some action, including the formation of the <a href="http://www.cocoanutgrovefire.org/" target="_blank">Cocoanut Grove Coalition</a> -- though I'm not sure how active they've been since. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2013, for the 71st anniversary, there was an official ceremony at the site followed by a reception at a nearby hotel, and I attended both with my father; this included survivors and their families as well as the unveiling of a street sign saying “Cocoanut Grove Lane”, which joined a plaque in the sidewalk that had taken many years to install and had long been the only marker. There was also an official event for the 75th anniversary, three years ago in 2017.</span></span><br />
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</span><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h1lz-R9zoPc/WDy0D6MM0nI/AAAAAAAAO1g/mPt2HZLBWN0Y53ixQEy6AALhqHhxASuqwCLcB/s1600/FullSizeRender.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h1lz-R9zoPc/WDy0D6MM0nI/AAAAAAAAO1g/mPt2HZLBWN0Y53ixQEy6AALhqHhxASuqwCLcB/s320/FullSizeRender.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In January 2014, I moved to Gaithersburg Maryland (Montgomery County, bordering DC) after a lifetime in the Boston area, to begin living with my spouse <a href="http://bigtallbutchstyle.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Julia</a> (who has always lived in this area, and needed to remain here). I have missed my usual annual visit(s) to the Grove site, where I would leave flowers and/or other small gifts. My father continued to visit, but then moved out of state to join my brother -- who is a firefighter and an EMT. My father and I have been visited Boston a few times since we moved, and he has visited and photographed the Grove site. </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">These two photos are by my father, Bill Wasserman, a lifelong professional photographer (who doesn't have a website). </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I have been angered and saddened to learn that since I moved, luxury condos have been built on the Grove site -- and how much more so that their management, some tenants and others have added insult to injury by complaining about having to remember the Grove fire, and have managed to have the commemorative plaque removed and moved down the street. But, I am glad to hear that this mishigas prompted the mayor to announce that he supports the installation of a full-on memorial. Too, an old friend of our family called the mayor's office to complain about the plaque's move, and the person who took the call said that they have been receiving a lot of calls about it and most if not all were also complaints. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A great thing that happened in the last few years was that I connected online with Jessica Pollard Lantos, <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Research and Outreach Coordinator </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">at <a href="http://www.mainejews.org/" target="_blank">Documenting Maine Jewry</a>, because she found this blog post through Googling about the Grove (I'm not sure if her comment or the other will still appear here, after this update). Her grandparents and parents were friends and neighbors of my grandparents, in Massachusetts and Maine -- indeed, her grandfather was called from Portland to Boston to identify my grandfather's body. Jessica has her father's World War II journal and photographs, and has posted them on Facebook, and two entries mention my family (one when he hears about the fire, and the other when he hears about the death of his fellow soldier Great Uncle Clarry). </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">She has written an article about the fire for DMJ's newsletter, and I look forward to reading and sharing it. As she says, while the Grove was never a </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jewish place or filled with Jewish people, the loss of Jewish and other lives there was a significant loss for the Jewish communities in Auburn and Portland Maine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>And just last year, Jessica discovered that her mother had a photograph of my late grandfather, and gave it to my family -- to the left of Ted is Theodore Bernstein, who also died with his wife, Amelia, at the Grove (the Bernsteins lived less than half a mile from the Wassermans in Portland). </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is a new documentary about the Grove fire -- <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Zachary Graves-Miller's </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://sixlockeddoors.com/" target="_blank">Six Locked Doors : The Legacy Of Cocoanut Grove</a>; my father, another family member, and a friend of mine attended a Boston Public Library event about it last year. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, not too surprisingly, "Six" is not the only movie about the Grove in progress. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is also</span> a newish play about the Grove fire -- James Hansen Prince's "<a href="https://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/03/01/cocoanut-grove-inferno-play">Inferno : Fire At The Cocoanut Grove 1942</a>", which premiered on the 72nd anniversary in 2014; </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Prince's grandfather-in-</span>law Jimmy Jenkins died a<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">t the Grove (and Jimmy's aunt Mary Tittle was 103 at the time of the premiere!). I have heard some good things about the play, and hope to at least read it soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And I intend to read the old and new books about the fire -- especially now that eBook technology is making them much more accessible; though it turns out that a photo labeled as having Sadie in the background and Adelaide and Ted in the fore is incorrect about at least the latter. <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over the years, I have also been to presentations about the Grove at the Brighton and Boston Public Libraries. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will continue to work on this blog post, as well as a fuller piece about this part of our family’s story -- though I think a truly full version may need to wait until after more people pass away. And I don't know how much information I will ever have. Alas, the trauma of the fire intensified the existing issues in our family, as in many others. Which is a large part of why I feel so strongly about something that happened many years before I was born, and about family members, family friends and others who I never met. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is also fascinating and challenging for me -- as a transgender person and advocate -- that the Grove anniversary is a week after the international <a href="https://www.hrc.org/campaigns/transgender-day-remembrance">Transgender Day Of Remembrance</a> (TDOR, November 20th); too, all of November is Trans Month. And November is also Native Month -- and Thanksgiving Day is also the <a href="http://uaine.org/">Day Of Mourning</a> for many Native / Indigenous people and communities. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Baruch Dayan HaEmet</i>, Blessed is the True Judge.</b></span></span>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-7540957223749746912020-10-09T09:00:00.006-04:002020-10-10T13:31:08.678-04:00May Monica Roberts' memory be a blessing!<b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iooDZP1KElg/X4HvbXATwhI/AAAAAAAA2cI/RlMarw1iulg8r4prPeN8cfrJTgq6X3PQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s580/Monica-Roberts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iooDZP1KElg/X4HvbXATwhI/AAAAAAAA2cI/RlMarw1iulg8r4prPeN8cfrJTgq6X3PQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Monica-Roberts.jpg" /></a></div>May <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Roberts" target="_blank">Monica Roberts</a>' memory be a blessing! As we say in Judaism. And one that calls us to pursue justice, justice.</b><div><br />I came home late yesterday afternoon and checked Twitter, to see if there were any trending hashtags I wanted to use in my next posts there and here. And saw “Monica Roberts” trending under Politics, with more than 2,000 Tweets. I hoped -- against hope, especially at this point in 2020 -- that it was good news. And then I clicked -- and saw that “our” Monica Roberts had passed away on Monday. She was only 58. I don’t yet know what happened. </div><div><br />And I don’t yet remember if she and I ever met, offline or on. Maybe at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness (formerly Health) Conference? I know we were in a few on- and offline spaces together, over the years. And some of my closest colleagues were close to her, and I mourn with and for them. And of course I knew Monica through her truly amazing work, as a Black trans leader for social justice, and oh so much more. </div><div><br />Like so many, I especially appreciated her blog, <a href="https://transgriot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">TransGriot</a>. Which I read particularly to better understand the lives and deaths of my many trans siblings murdered in this country (and the rest of our world) every year -- most of them young Black women. (<i>The photo here is the one Monica used for her blog, and her profile picture here on Facebook -- <a href="https://www.ericedwardschell.com/" target="_blank">Eric Edward Schell</a>’s <a href="https://www.prideportraits.org/" target="_blank">Pride Portrait</a> of her.</i>) </div><div><br />She had a feature there called the Shut Up Fool Awards, featuring foolish politicians who especially needed to shut up, due to their transphobia, racism, and other foolishment. And of course many of us were looking forward to that feature more than ever this month and week! At least we can laugh about that, imagining what she would have written! </div><div><br />And as glad as I am to see how much Monica is being appreciated in death, I have to say that more of that should have happened when she was alive. Including from myself. Most Black trans women are appreciated little if at all during their lifetimes. This is also too true for Black trans men and Black nonbinary people. And other trans people of color -- especially our Latinx and Native/Indigenous siblings, and other intersectionally oppressed trans people. And this is all true to a large extent within the trans community, as well as without.</div><div><br />“Give us our roses while we’re still here!” Our living and our dead call out to us, every day. Reminding us that the Transgender Day Of Remembrance (November 20th) is not nearly enough. (Neither is Trans Week or Month (both also November), or our other annual trans “holidays”.) <br /><br /></div><div>You were a rare rose, Ms. Roberts. And you inspired many of your sisters, brothers and other siblings into leadership and other roles in this vital work. May even more of we your extended family answer your call to pursue justice, at the intersection of trans and racial and other oppression. Speedily, soon, and in our time. Amen!</div><div><br /></div><div> <img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tca/1.5/16/1f339.png" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tca/1.5/16/1f339.png" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tca/1.5/16/1f339.png" /></div>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-71953964301625318712020-09-30T13:37:00.012-04:002020-10-10T13:39:20.327-04:00GET YOUR FLU SHOT (if you can)!<b>I GOT MY FLU SHOT THIS MONTH!</b><br /><br /><div>For only the second time ever -- the first was last Fall. I am pro-vax, but it took me a long time to realize that I, like the great majority of other people, should and could get flu vaxxed every year. I plan to keep getting it every year. </div><div><br />I’ve had the flu at least once as a child/youth, young adult, and young middle-aged person. And it meant at least a week in bed, and at least a week more at home, and not being able to do much the whole time -- plus lots of other unpleasantness. And it could mean permanent damage and/or death -- even though I’m almost normatively “healthy”, still young, pretty privileged, etc. </div><div><br />And I need to protect my spouse, especially as she has disabling chronic illnesses, though she gets a shot too. That’s one of the primary reasons to get a shot if you’re in the majority that can -- to help protect the minority that can’t, and all those who have more than enough health challenges already. <br />Too, this year it’s more important than ever due to CoViD-19! </div><div><br />We have Kaiser (Mid-Atlantic), and can get a free flu shot anywhere at their facility here in Gaithersburg (Maryland; Montgomery County next to Washington DC) literally 24/7 -- not somewhere you should go during CoViD if you don’t have to, but they do have a drive-through shot option. </div><div><br />I do get at least a few days of mild flu-like symptoms, and some pain in the upper arm where I got the shot. But at least I know the shot has been done correctly and is working. And if I take good care (which can be a big if, as I’m a caregiver), I am back to Abby Normal within a week. </div><div><br />Nu, get your flu shot if you possibly can! Todah rabah (many thanks)!!</div><div> <img height="24" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t97/1.5/16/1f646_200d_2640.png" width="24" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t26/1.5/16/1f489.png" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t59/1.5/16/1f9a0.png" /></div>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-8384869468030660462020-08-03T17:00:00.000-04:002020-08-04T10:29:28.384-04:00At least 25 trans people have been killed in the US & PR in 2020<b><i>Erev tov</i>, good evening. Although there is a great deal of good news about my trans sisters’, brothers’ and other siblings’ resilience and resistance, many of their lives are still being stolen -- at least 25 of them in 2020, and others have been assaulted or are missing. Most of the US victims are Black, most in Puerto Rico and the rest of our world are Latina/x; most everywhere are women and young.</b><br /><br />And though overall reporting has improved, the reality has also been worsening, and in a particular way since 2016.<br /><br />🕯 <b>Dustin Parker,</b> 25, McAlester, Oklahoma, January 1st.<br />~~~<br />🕯 <b>Neulisa Alexa Luciano Ruiz</b>, age apparently unknown, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, February 24th.<br />~~~<br />🕯 <b>Yampi Méndez Arocho</b>, 19, Moca, Puerto Rico, March 5th.<br />🕯 <b>Monika Diamond</b>, 34, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 18th.<br />🕯 <b>Lexi</b>, 33, Harlem, New York, March 28th.<br />~~~<br />🕯<b>Johanna Metzger</b>, 25, Baltimore, Maryland (an hour from us here in Gaithersburg), April 11th.<br />🕯 <b>Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos</b>, 32, and <b>Layla Pelaez Sánchez</b>, 21, Puerto Rico, April 21st -- <b>Serena</b> and <b>Layla</b> were together at the time.<br />🕯 <b>Penélope Díaz Ramírez</b>, 31, Puerto Rico, April 13th -- killed in prison.<br />~~~<br />🕯 <b>Nina Pop</b>, 28, Sikeston, Missouri, May 3rd.<br />🕯 <b>Helle Jae O’Regan</b>, 20, San Antonio, Texas, May 6th.<br />🕯 <b>Jayne Thompson</b>, 33, Mesa County, Colorado, May 9th -- killed by police.<br />🕯 <b>Tony McDade</b>, 38, Tallhassee, Florida, May 27th -- also killed by police.<br />🕯 <b>Selena Reyes-Hernandez</b>, 37, Chicago, Illinois, May 31st.<br />~~~<br />🕯 <b>Dominique “Rem'mie” Fells</b>, 25, Philadelphia, Pennsyania, June 9th.<br />🕯 <b>Riah Milton</b>, 33, Liberty Township, Ohio, also June 9th.<br />🕯 <b>Brian “Egypt” Powers</b>, 43, Akron, Ohio, June 13th.<br />🕯 <b>Brayla Stone</b>, 17, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 25th.<br />🕯 <b>Merci Mack</b>, 22, Dallas, Texas, June 30th.<br />~~~<br />🕯 <b>Shaki Peters</b>, 32, Amite City, Louisiana, on July 1st.<br />🕯 <b>Bree Black</b>, 27, Pompano Beach, Florida, July 3rd.<br />🕯 <b>Summer Taylor</b>, 24, Seattle, Washington, July 4th -- killed by someone driving into the Black Lives Matter protest they were participating in, which has happened to several dozen BLM protestors this year, though most have survived.<br />🕯 <b>Marilyn Cazares</b>, 22, Brawley, California, July 13th.<br />🕯 <b>Dior H Ova / Tiffany Harris</b>, 32, the Bronx, New York, July 26th.<br />🕯 <b>Queasha D Hardy</b>, 22, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 27th.<br /><br />In addition to gun violence and police brutality, trans people are at high risk for CoViD-19, HIV and other STIs, addiction, incarceration, family and partner abuse, mental illness, suicide, healthcare discrimination, poverty, homelessness, and more -- how much more so when we are in other oppressed groups. We still lack full legal protection in most states, and several states have anti-trans laws or bills -- and the Trump administration continues to undo trans rights progress nationally.<br /><br />Too, little attention is given to the many murdered, missing and assaulted Native / Indigenous people -- especially girls, women, and/or Two Spirit people.<br /><br />May all of my trans siblings’ memories be blessings -- and call us to act! May we make Black trans lives matter more! May we schlep ever closer to <i>tikkun olam</i>, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other rays of the rainbow of justice! AMEN!<br /><br />(Attached is a collage I made -- photos of everyone except Lexi, Penélope, Selena and Tiffany, and my photo of a trans symbol pendant / tealight / river rocks, on a purple background.)<br /><br />#BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #LatinxLivesMatter #LatinxTransLivesMatter #NativeLivesMatter #NativeTransLivesMatter #TwoSpiritLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #TDOR #TDOR2020 #TransDayOfRemembrance <div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-17328904265041560012020-07-13T17:00:00.000-04:002020-07-13T17:53:33.620-04:0021+ trans people have been murdered in the US & PR in 2020<b><span style="font-size: large;">Erev tov, good evening. Alas, although there is much good news about my trans siblings’ resilience and resistance, many of their lives are still being stolen. More have been killed at this point in the year than ever before.</span></b><br /><br /><b>At least 21 of them, and I am seeing initial reports of at least a few more. And there have been several assaults, and disappearances. Most of the US victims are Black, most in Puerto Rico and the rest of our world are Latina/x; most everywhere are women and young. And though overall reporting has improved, the reality has been worsening, and in a particular way since 2016.</b><br /><br />🕯 <b>Dustin Parker</b>, 25, McAlester, Oklahoma, January 1st.<br />🕯 <b>Neulisa Alexa Luciano Ruiz</b>, age apparently unknown, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, February 24th.<br />🕯 <b>Yampi Méndez Arocho</b>, 19, Moca, Puerto Rico, March 5th.<br />🕯 <b>Monika Diamond</b>, 34, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 18th.<br />🕯 <b>Lexi</b>, 33, Harlem, New York, March 28th.<br />🕯<b>Johanna Metzger,</b> 25, Baltimore, Maryland -- an hour from us here in Gaithersburg, April 11th.<br />🕯 <b>Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos</b>, 32, and <b>Layla Pelaez Sánchez</b>, 21, Puerto Rico, April 21st -- Serena and Layla were together at the time.<br />🕯 <b>Penélope Díaz Ramírez</b>, 31, Puerto Rico, April 13th -- killed in prison.<br />🕯 <b>Nina Pop</b>, 28, Sikeston, Missouri, May 3rd.<br />🕯 <b>Helle Jae O’Regan</b>, 20, San Antonio, Texas, May 6th.<br />🕯 <b>Jayne Thompson</b>, 33, Mesa County, Colorado, May 9th -- killed by police.<br />🕯 <b>Tony McDade</b>, 38, Tallhassee, Florida, May 27th -- killed by police.<br />🕯 <b>Selena Reyes-Hernandez</b>, 37, Chicago, Illinois, May 31st.<br />🕯 <b>Dominique “Rem'mie” Fells</b>, 25, Philadelphia, Pennsyania, June 9.<br />🕯 <b>Riah Milton</b>, 33, Liberty Township, Ohio, June 9th.<br />🕯 <b>Brayla Stone</b>, 17, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 25th.<br />🕯 <b>Merci Mack</b>, 22, Dallas, Texas, June 30th.<br />🕯 <b>Shaki Peters</b>, 32, Amite City, Louisiana, on July 1st.<br />🕯 <b>Bree Black</b>, 27, Pompano Beach, Florida, July 3rd.<br />🕯 <b>Summer Taylor</b>, 24, Seattle, Washington, July 4th -- killed by someone driving into the Black Lives Matter protest they were participating in, which has happened to several dozen BLM protesters this year, though most have survived.<br /><br />In addition to gun violence and police brutality, trans people are at high risk for CoViD-19, HIV and other STIs, addiction, incarceration, family and partner abuse, mental illness, suicide, healthcare discrimination, poverty, homelessness, and many other things -- how much more so when we are in other oppressed groups. We still lack full legal protection in most states, and several states have anti-trans laws or bills -- and the Trump administration continues to undo trans rights progress nationally.<br /><br />Too, very little attention is given to the many murders of, assaults on and disappearances of Native / Indigenous people -- especially girls, women, and/or Two Spirit people.<br /><br />May all of my trans siblings’ memories be blessings -- and call us to act! May make Black trans lives matter more! May we schlep ever closer to <i>tikkun olam</i>, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other rays of the rainbow of justice! Amen!<br /><br />(The attached image is a collage I made today -- photos of everyone except Lexi, Penélope and Selena, with my photo of a trans symbol pendant / tealight / river rocks, on a purple background.)<br /><br />#BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #LatinxLivesMatter #LatinxTransLivesMatter #NativeLivesMatter #NativeTransLivesMatter #TwoSpiritLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #TDOR #TDOR2020 #TransDayOfRemembrance ⚧💔🕯<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-37069127352311385042020-06-12T09:00:00.000-04:002020-06-12T11:39:11.808-04:0012+ trans people have been murdered in the US/PR in 2020<b><i>Boker tov, boker or</i> (good morning, morning light) -- and mourning light. Today is Friday June 12th of 2020 (20th Sivan 5780) -- the twelfth day of LGBTQ+ Pride Month. And at least twelve of my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings have been murdered this year here in the mainland US and Puerto Rico, joining dozens in the rest of our world.</b><br /><br />And there have been non-fatal attacks, including on <b>Iyanna Dior</b> in Saint Paul, Minnesota on June 1st. Most of the US victims are Black, most of the Puerto Rican and worldwide ones are Latina/x; most everywhere are women and young. And none of this is new -- though overall reporting has been improving, the reality has also been getting worse, since 2016 and long before.<br /><br />Yesterday I began to see initial reports of at least two more murders, of Black trans women. But for now, this is the list:<br /><br /><b>Dustin Parker</b>, 25, McAlester, Oklahoma, January 1st (New Year’s Day).<br /><b>Neulisa Luciano Ruiz</b>, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, February 24th.<br /><b>Yampi Méndez Arocho</b>, 19, Moca, Puerto Rico, March 5th.<br /><b>Monika Diamond,</b> 34, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 18th.<br /><b>Lexi</b>, 33, Harlem, New York, March 28th.<br /><b>Johanna Metzger</b>, Baltimore, Maryland (an hour from us here in Gaithersburg), April 11th.<br /><b>Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos</b>, 32, and Layla Pelaez Sánchez, 21, Puerto Rico, April 21st; Serena and Layla were together at the time.<br /><b>Penélope Díaz Ramírez</b>, Puerto Rico, April 13th.<br /><b>Nina Pop</b>, Sikeston, Missouri, May 3rd.<br /><b>Helle Jae O’Regan</b>, 20, San Antonio, Texas, May 6th.<br /><b>Tony McDade</b>, Tallhassee, Florida, May 27th*.<br /><br />Too, very little attention is given to the many murders of, assaults on and disappearances of Native / Indigenous people -- especially girls, women, and/or Two Spirit people.<br /><br />We also lose many trans siblings to suicide -- the attempt rate in our community is over 40%. And there are unreported trans deaths, and reported deaths where the victim is not identified as trans. Trans people are not included in even basic civil rights laws in most states, and several states have anti-trans laws or are attempting to pass them -- and the Trump administration continues to undo trans rights progress on a national level.<br /><br />Trans people are also more likely to die of CoViD-19 -- how much more so when they are in other oppressed groups.<br /><br />And while I say little here or elsewhere about the death details -- primarily to avoid further traumatizing my trans followers, especially those living at similar intersections as the victims -- it is vital to say that the great majority are shootings, and that this is yet another reason we desperately need gun control, and it is an LGBTQ+ and racial justice issue. *Too, <b>Tony McDade</b>, a Black trans man, was killed by the police, and he is far from the first trans person -- especially Black/of color -- to die that way.<br /><br />May all of my trans siblings’ memories be blessings -- and call us to act! May we act to make Black trans and queer lives matter more! May we schlep ever closer to <i>tikkun olam</i>, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other rays of the rainbow of justice! Amen!<br /><br />(The attached image is a collage I made with Adobe Spark yesterday -- photos of everyone except Lexi and Penélope.)<br /><br />#BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #LatinxLivesMatter #LatinxTransLivesMatter #NativeLivesMatter #TwoSpiritLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #TDOR #TDOR2020 #TransDayOfRemembrance<div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-79597371883418254812020-03-01T09:00:00.000-05:002020-03-16T14:07:47.255-04:00"OTHERWISE CHRISTIAN 2 : STORIES OF RESISTANCE" INCLUDES A PIECE BY ME!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Yesterday was the last day of my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarah.perrycorreia/posts/10220165714323447">Sarah B. Guest Perry’s 4th annual Theatrical Set Designs & Other Fripperies</a>!</b> THANK YOU, Fripperies fans, for all of your Likes/Reacts, Comments, Shares, tags, submissions, suggestions, etc.! Your participation makes the show possible, successful and worthwhile, especially as it is free, and it helps support our other work. Sarah also has a <a href="https://sarahbguestperry.blog/">blog</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarah.perrycorreia">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahguestperry">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sbgpcorreia/">Pinterest</a>, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15238385">Patreon</a> and books. </div>
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<br /><b>Fripperies is one of Sarah’s three free annual art shows here on Facebook (and Twitter), and I’m among her art assistants. </b>Every morning for two months (!), she publishes a multi-image post, complete with a creative intro and object label style descriptions. And we can tag you in the comments.<br /><br /><b>Her 4th annual Dollhouses & Other Miniature Worlds starts April 1st,</b> the 7th annual Eerie Art September 1st, and the 5th annual Fripperies December 1st -- along with my 5th annual Mycroft’s Menorah Mishigas. Thanks again, and we'll see you in the Spring!<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fripperies2019?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG">#Fripperies2019</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fripperies2020?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG">#Fripperies2020</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/miniart2020?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG">#MiniArt2020</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/eerieart2020?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG">#EerieArt2020</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tdb/1.5/16/1f3a8.png?_nc_eui2=AeE0hL51aO8-DlArn5yI8C2xsobiTxyWMOUY-A3_KwBMB197thnxQof9OGDd2vreFambLYI-77RAbIhXn2pgPUBb64yZXbi4PXrcthcg35yd-g"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🎨</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t7/1.5/16/1f3ad.png?_nc_eui2=AeHjLk90ksjqxHL3Bit0usWOJm60AuxqNHMWH8_Os2yT8T2ff2kpf4mMoCSzS7Th5HOc_tOzW32zWpZvvboV6MHFb5KtoByC4yp3c92pXaAvpA"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🎭</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td7/1.5/16/1f52c.png?_nc_eui2=AeE2vNedO0Y0C9AjkUNSx_fhzZDHObMXFkuWi__WKwrvGds7f1m2FFQjxNN-Q9n2zDS_GFwCK0kzqVP_3xOyDlum_PXFSKRLALMRBkjIu_3_Eg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🔬</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tdf/1.5/16/1f383.png?_nc_eui2=AeHEM-c2UpgUP1LFuJnFRpi9T15wA-don-4mY1EpFMtVP_4uwjEl7qrwQ2ozAX9lU-5Hwu_ZmkHRGqhQ-DBrlaMx4fQSrF32bODsj3uuPwTwMQ"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🎃</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta7/1.5/16/1f5bc.png?_nc_eui2=AeEF6q1vdzUCMd3fypvnAsxLjQJEsdJRJazuzGr2l501CLvUUbBfKkmShNUpuq_j5C4gGm92XOLbjHAeUMEQULPdYgyUF47xvHvelSIhLvSrRA"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🖼</span></span></div>
Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-72174501497121990222020-01-25T17:00:00.000-05:002020-03-01T14:18:36.208-05:00I was featured on Goodwill Of Greater Washington's blog!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Another highlight was that one of my fellow thrifters found a pair of 70s/80s women’s multicolored leather sandals, and they had some butterfly stickers on the bottoms that looked like they were from the same time, and intended for children. And that threw me back to a happy memory of my late mother.<br /><br />In the early 80s, when my little* brother and I were very young children, and my mother would go out for the evening, she would wear a pair of dressy white leather sandals. And to help us be happier with being left at home, she let us put some of our stickers on the heels. I can still picture that -- I think at least one of them was a puffy lenticular sticker, maybe in a sports theme. And of course the 80s were a huge time for stickers, especially for children and youth. (And I know I’m not the only one here who never got over that!) If I ever knew what became of those shoes, I don’t remember it now. Hopefully my mother or another was able to enjoy them for the rest of their lives. Maybe they were thrifted into a good home!<br /><br />My Goodwill experience made me realize that I’ve always thought this was a fairly common thing, but I’ve rarely talked with anyone about it. What do you think?<br /><br />(*Now 6’5” to my 5’7”, but I’ll always be three years older!) </span></b></div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-53570637324027216382020-01-23T17:00:00.000-05:002020-03-01T13:45:37.015-05:00"Is that the man-lady?"<b>Dear Diary, and social media --<br /><br />Today I was in Target, and a young girl kept asking her mother “Is that the man-lady?” -- because “they look like the man-lady”. Nu, I knew I was _a_ man-lady, but _The_ Man-Lady? I must be moving up in the world!<br /><br />Yours truly, and Trewly<br /><br />Lord-Lady / Lady-Lord Mycroft Masada Holmes-McCrossin<br />Of Gaithersburg-Upon-Washington<br />Lately Of Boston-By-The-Sea<br /><br />P.s. This is not to say that I don’t also find these experiences challenging -- and many of my fellow trans and gender nonconforming people find them more so (and some find them less). How much more so as they happen every time I leave my house. But, especially as a trans Jew, or Trew, I also need to find the happiness and humor in them. </b><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6/1.5/16/1f478.png?_nc_eui2=AeFicEC7oAk4qK5ELBzkq1KRxa7dcY92J5ibnbSHjo7O__WI_2IZ0UPqqdCliw7Gr6IacTHY2dFpysds3wuos6CEevOMkNjN24F3j7UpD-y9kA"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">👸</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td9/1.5/16/1f3f3_200d_26a7.png?_nc_eui2=AeGUM6LOpI5HZGzUNZ8iSty8FlI02Yf1N9-7UEOK_gLPibNnEVPF7FJfjeESGhdPOG3-vIwfQaISkqyU2fYfc8e7uGy5m58JCd5mCQmHiqhZew"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🏳️⚧</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tcb/1.5/16/1f934.png?_nc_eui2=AeHoBfMrY6CW4eK5XTDTH0WOjbUMVj1bgK7XHUy02J7BF9T5Z4H-Y5xLuaw9uTSAjTHJT3apKMEwMxYJ-td5Ted7pR7OC_amzV6ZqZOSAwy9wg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🤴</span></span>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-79008249707698977032020-01-15T09:00:00.000-05:002020-01-17T13:04:02.102-05:00Black Trans Prayer Book’s 2nd annual Transphobia Is A Sin campaign<div style="text-align: center;">
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In 1998, the murder of Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman, in my hometown of Boston, led to the creation of this Day. The other trans people murdered in my home state of Massachusetts that we know of are Denise Pugliesi, Georgette Hart, Diane Carter, Monique Rogers, Debra Forte (the aunt of a trans colleague), Chanelle Pickett, Monique Thomas, and Lisa Daniels. I also remember CJ Garber, the trans son of two ally colleagues (one of whom has since </div>
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<li><b>Dana Martin</b>, 31, Montgomery, Alabama, January 6th.</li>
<li><b>Jazzaline Ware</b>, age unknown, Memphis, sometime in March.</li>
<li><b>Ashanti Carmon</b>, 27 -- like Zoe, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, March 30th*.</li>
<li><b>Claire Legato</b>, 21, Cleveland, shot April 15th and died May 14th.</li>
<li><b>Muhlaysia Booker</b>, 23, Dallas, May 18th -- having survived a transphobic attack by a group on April 12th.</li>
<li><b>Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington</b>, 40, Philadelphia, May 19th.</li>
<li><b>Paris Cameron</b>, 20, Detroit, May 25th -- Alunte Davis, 21, and Timothy Blancher, 20, both Black gay men, were also killed, and two other people were injured.</li>
<li><b>Chynal Lindsey</b>, 26, Dallas, June 1st**.</li>
<li><b>Chanel Scurlock</b>, 23, Lumberton, North Carolina, June 6th.</li>
<li>*<b>Zoe Spears</b>, 23 -- like <b>Ashanti</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, also in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, June 13th.</li>
<li><b>Brooklyn Lindsey</b>, 32, Kansas City, Missouri, June 25th.</li>
<li><b>Denali Berries Stuckey</b>, 29, North Charleston, South Carolina, July 20th.</li>
<li><b>Tracy Single</b>, 22, Houston, July 30th.</li>
<li><b>Bubba Walker</b>, 55, Charlotte, North Carolina, end of July.</li>
<li><b>Kiki Fantroy</b>, 21, Miami, July 31st.</li>
<li><b>Jordan Cofer</b>, 22, Dayton, August 4th -- by his own brother, along with eight other people and almost many more.</li>
<li><b>Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe</b>, 24, Allendale County, South Carolina, also on August 4th.</li>
<li><b>Bailey Reeves</b>, 17, Baltimore -- only an hour from us here in Gaithersburg.</li>
<li><b>Bee Love Slater</b>, 23, Clewiston, Florida, September 4th.</li>
<li><b>Jamagio Jamar Berryman</b>, 30, also Kansas City, September 13th.</li>
<li><b>Itali Marlowe</b>, 29, Houston, September 20th.</li>
<li><b>Brianna “BB” Hill</b>, 30, also Kansas City, October 14th.</li>
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**<b>Johana ‘Joa’ Medina</b>, 25, a Latina trans woman from El Salvador, also died on June 1st, in El Paso, Texas -- just hours after being released from ICE custody. <b>Layleen Polanco</b>, 27, an Afro-Latina trans woman, was found dead in her cell at Rikers (Island Jail, New York City) on June 7th.</div>
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We also lose many siblings to suicide -- the attempt rate in our community is over 40%. And there are unreported trans deaths, reported deaths where the victim is not identified as trans, non-fatal assaults and much more. Trans people are not included in even basic civil rights laws in most states, and several states have anti-trans laws or are attempting to pass them -- and the Trump administration is attempting to undo trans rights progress on a national level.</div>
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And while I say little here or elsewhere about the death details -- primarily to avoid further traumatizing my trans followers, especially those living at similar intersections as the victims -- it is vital to say that the great majority are shootings, and that this is yet another reason we desperately need gun control, and it is an LGBTQ+ and racial justice issue.</div>
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May all of my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings’ memories be blessings (as we say in Judaism) -- and call us to act! Today and every day, may we schlep ever closer to tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice! May we never forget that white supremacy has always included cis and male supremacy! Amen!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gmar chatima tova -- may we be inscribed for good!</b> Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (At-One-ment), the Shabbat of Shabbats, begins at sunset, with Kol Nidre, All Vows...and ends tomorrow at sunset with a festive break-fast meal. And my tradition teaches that our fates for the next year are written on Rosh Hashanah and sealed on Yom Kippur, in the Book of Life.<br /><br />I took these four photos last month at sunset, as I sat on a bench outside the Gaithersburg Aquatic Center (also known as the Middle School, which my Julia and her mother attended) after my swim, waiting for my Bashert <a href="https://bigtallbutchstyle.tumblr.com/">Julia</a>. She loves to help me by picking me up on her way home from work -- I enjoy walking home, and the weather is usually good enough for me to do that, but I’m also usually quite tired and hungry at that point, and her schlepping gives us some rare time alone together, and enables us to come home together.<br /><br />These clouds make me think of the Gates of Heaven, and how they are especially open to us during these High Holy Days. And how ever since I was a child, I’ve looked at heavenly clouds and felt especially close to my loved ones in the next life. And how we are drawing near to Samhain, when my Julia’s Celtic tradition teaches that the border between our world and the next is most easily crossed.<br /><br />May we have meaningful fasts, and feasts -- however we define those things! And may we be mindful of those who are not fasting, and those who are harmed by shaming, shameful words around fasting and feasting -- especially fat people and those with eating disorders. May we encounter, experience and expand teshuvah, tefillah and tzedakah -- re/turning, prayer and justice! Amen!<br /><br />#YomKippur #YomKippur5780 #YomKippur2019 #ErevYomKippur #KolNidre #GmarChatimaTova</span>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-85193989070389493782019-09-30T09:00:00.000-04:002019-10-10T15:42:38.721-04:00SHANA TOVA (GOOD YEAR)!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SHANA TOVA!! Good Year!! Today is Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year’s Day -- last night at sunset we entered Erev Rosh Hashanah, New Year’s Eve, transitioning (ha) from 5779 to 5780.</b><br /><br />Today is also my second first wedding anniversary with my Bashert <a href="https://bigtallbutchstyle.tumblr.com/">Julia</a> -- we married last year on September 10th, which was then Rosh Hashanah (because the next day was the ninth anniversary of our first in-person meeting); the two calendars rarely align, so we will almost always have two wedding anniversaries every year (and two of most everything else).<br /><br />Nu, here is a gift my Julia gave me during the first September of our partnership, ten years ago. We first met in an online fat community in July of 2009 -- she had always lived in Maryland or DC and I had always lived in Boston, and that September she visited me for the first time. I took her to my hometown of Brookline (Massachusetts), and she bought me this pendant at <a href="https://www.israelbookshop.com/">Israel Book Shop</a>. It combines two of my most favorite Jewish symbols, the Magen David and the pomegranate (and the latter is a significant symbol of Rosh Hashanah and the rest of the High Holy Days). It’s pewter with enamel, 2 1/4" including the first bail (I added the second), and was <a href="https://www.israelbookshop.com/magen-david-rimon-jewish-metal-keychain.html">originally part of a keychain</a>. And it has a bit of Hebrew on the back -- transliteration: <i>l'mazal bri-ot l'hatzlachah</i>, translation (loosely): luck for health and success.<br /><br />May this year be your sweetest, fruitiest, best beJeweled yet! This year and every year, may we schlep ever closer to tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQI+, climate, immigration, racial, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other shades of the spectrum of justice! Amen!<br /><br />#ShanaTova #RoshHashanah #RoshHashanah2019 #RoshHashanah5780 #MagenDavid #pomegranate #rimon #Jewelry ✡️🍏🍯🍎🔯</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-14018280217833828792019-09-23T09:00:00.000-04:002019-10-10T15:31:15.547-04:00Best Wishes for Bi Day 20BiTeen!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Merry Bi Day 20BiTeen from Maryland! </b>Did you know that <a href="https://www.routeoneapparel.com/">Route One Apparel</a> has bi flag <a href="https://www.routeoneapparel.com/products/bi-crab-sticker">stickers</a> and <a href="https://www.routeoneapparel.com/products/bi-crab-magnet">magnets</a>?! They also have trans and rainbow flag ones, and we have both on our car.<br /><br />#BiDay #BiVisibilityDay #CelebrateBisexualityDay #BiWeek #BiMonth #20BiTeen #BiDay2019 #RouteOneApparel #biflagcrabcrab #bicrab #Marylandcrab #bluecrabs #crabs ❤️💜💙🦀</span></div>
Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-27581581136288424192019-09-07T17:00:00.000-04:002019-09-09T13:48:55.734-04:0017 trans people murdered in 2019 in US - 16 Black trans women!<b>Erev tov, good evening. This erev, this evening, is the first havdalah of September 2019, Elul and Tishrei, when we transition from Shabbat to a new week. Near the end of this month, we will transition to a new season, with the Fall Equinox. At the end of this month, we will transition to a new year, from 5779 to 5780, with Rosh Hashanah.<br /><br />And yet my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings continue to be taken from this life. Here in the US at least 17 have been stolen -- and all but one are Black trans women -- and they join dozens more in the rest of our world. This past Monday September 2nd, Labor Day, Bailey Reeves, 17, a Black trans teen, was shot to death in Baltimore -- only an hour from us here in Gaithersburg.</b><br /><br />Our 16 other stolen siblings are <b>Dana Martin</b>, 31, Montgomery, Alabama, January 6th.<br /><b>Jazzaline Ware</b>, age unknown, Memphis, sometime in March.<br /><b>Ashanti Carmon</b>, 27 -- like <b>Zoe</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, March 30th*.<br /><b>Claire Legato</b>, 21, Cleveland, shot April 15th and died May 14th.<br /><b>Muhlaysia Booker</b>, 23, Dallas, May 18th -- having survived a transphobic attack by a group on April 12th.<br /><b>Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington</b>, 40, Philadelphia, May 19th.<br /><b>Paris Cameron</b>, 20, Detroit, May 25th -- Alunte Davis, 21, and Timothy Blancher, 20, both Black gay men, were also killed, and two other people were injured.<br /><b>Chynal Lindsey</b>, 26, Dallas, June 1st**.<br /><b>Chanel Scurlock</b>, 23, Lumberton, North Carolina, June 6th.<br />*<b>Zoe Spears</b>, 23 -- like <b>Ashanti</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, June 13th.<br /><b>Brooklyn Lindsey</b>, 32, Kansas City, Missouri, June 25th.<br /><b>Denali Berries Stuckey</b>, 29, North Charleston, South Carolina, July 20th.<br /><b>Tracy Single</b>, 22, Houston, July 30th.<br /><b>Kiki Fantroy</b>, 21, Miami, July 31st.<br /><b>Jordan Cofer</b>, 22, Dayton, August 4th -- by his own brother, along with eight other people and almost many more.<br /><b>Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe</b>, 24, Allendale County, South Carolina, also on August 4th.<br /><br />**<b>Johana ‘Joa’ Medina</b>, 25, a Latinx trans woman from El Salvador, also died on June 1st, in El Paso, Texas -- just hours after being released from ICE custody. <b>Layleen Polanco</b>, 27, an Afro-Latinx trans woman, was found dead in her cell at Rikers (Island Jail, New York City) on June 7th.<br /><br />Again, the great majority of our stolen siblings here are Black, women, and young -- elsewhere, they are Latinx trans women and transfeminine people. Too, very little attention is given to the murders, assaults and disappearances of Native / Indigenous people -- especially girls, women, and/or Two Spirit people.<br /><br />We also lose many siblings to suicide -- the attempt rate in our community is over 40%. And there are unreported trans deaths, reported deaths where the victim is not identified as trans, non-fatal assaults and much more. Trans people are not included in even basic civil rights laws in most states, and several states have anti-trans laws or are attempting to pass them -- and Trump administration is attempting to undo trans rights progress on a national level.<br /><br />And while I say little here or elsewhere about the death details -- primarily to avoid further traumatizing my trans followers, especially those living at similar intersections as the victims -- it is vital to say that the great majority are shootings, and that this is yet another reason we desperately need gun control, and it is an LGBTQ+ and racial justice issue.<br /><br />May all of my trans siblings’ memories be blessings (as we say in Judaism) -- and call us to act! Today and every day, may we schlep ever closer to tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice! May we never forget that white supremacy has always included cis supremacy, misogyny and transphobia! Amen!<br /><br />#TDOR #TDOR2019 #TransDayOfRemembrance #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #LatinxLivesMatter #LatinxTransLivesMatter #NativeLivesMatter #TwoSpiritLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter <div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF MY FRIEND <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarah.perrycorreia">Sarah B Guest Perry</a>’s 6TH ANNUAL EERIE ART! </b></span><div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-54510162241342263072019-08-30T17:00:00.000-04:002019-09-04T11:20:38.763-04:00Shabbat Shalom<br /><b>Shabbat shalom.<br /><br />For this Erev Shabbat, something unusual and unpleasant, yet also important. My photo of a display at the <a href="http://cbmm.org/">Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum</a>, taken during my <a href="https://bigtallbutchstyle.tumblr.com/">Julia</a>’s and my first visit (as the centerpiece of our first visit to <a href="https://www.stmichaelsmd.com/">Saint Michaels</a>) on Monday August 5th. A black and white photo of a woman posing in front of a big “GENTILES ONLY” sign somewhere on the Chesapeake Bay (photo courtesy of the <a href="https://msa.maryland.gov/">Maryland State Archives</a>). And a police badge from Anne Arundel County’s Beverly Beach. Both from circa 1950. The Museum has also added a little sign asking “As the Chesapeake Bay became a tourist destination, was it the buyer or the seller that first suggested segregation?” </b><div>
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<b>Happy 20th Birth Day to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_flags">Transgender Flag</a>, and happy Trans Flag Day to everyone else! The trans flag was created on August 19th of 1999 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Helms">Monica Helms</a> (todah rabah, many thanks). And five years ago today, August 19th of 2014, it was donated to the <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/">National Museum of American History</a> (part of the Smithsonian).</b><br /><br /><div>
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And yet no observance can be complete without our stolen sisters and other siblings -- at least 16 trans people have been murdered in 2019 in the US (joining hundreds more elsewhere), and 15 are Black trans women. Dana Martin, Jazzaline Ware, Ashanti Carmon, Claire Legato, Muhlaysia Booker, Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington, Paris Cameron (along with Alunte Davis and Timothy Blancher, Black gay men), Chynal Lindsey, Chanel Scurlock, Zoe Spears, Brooklyn Lindsey, Denali Berries Stuckey, Tracy Single, Kiki Fantroy, Jordan Cofer, Pebbles LaDime 'Dime' Doe. We have also lost siblings to ICE, prison, suicide, and other plagues. May their memories be blessings -- and call us to act! Amen!</div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-1768923583725242022019-08-11T17:00:00.000-04:002019-08-11T19:54:26.604-04:0015 trans people murdered in 2019 in US - 14 Black trans women!<br /><b>Erev tov, good evening, on this second Sunday of August 2019, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B'Av">Tisha B’Av</a> is ending and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha">Eid Al-Adha</a> beginning.<br /><br />My mourning, prayer and work includes two more of my trans siblings murdered here in the US since my last post of this kind -- and there have been dozens more in the rest of our world. The total in this country in 2019 is now at least fifteen -- and all but one are Black trans women. Jordan Cofer, 22, was among the nine victims killed in the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, last Sunday August 4th -- and was the brother of the shooter. Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe, 24, was killed in Allendale County, South Carolina, that same day.</b><br /><br />The other stolen sisters are <b>Dana Martin</b>, 31, Montgomery, Alabama, January 6th. <br /><b>Jazzaline Ware</b>, age unknown, Memphis, sometime in March. <br /><b>Ashanti Carmon</b>, 27 -- like <b>Zoe</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, March 30th*. <br /><b>Claire Legato</b>, 21, Cleveland, shot April 15th and died May 14th. <br /><b>Muhlaysia Booker</b>, 23, Dallas, May 18th -- having survived a transphobic attack by a group on April 12th. <br /><b>Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington</b>, 40, Philadelphia, May 19th. <br /><b>Paris Cameron</b>, 20, Detroit, May 25th -- Alunte Davis, 21, and Timothy Blancher, 20, both Black gay men, were also killed, and two other people were injured. <br /><b>Chynal Lindsey</b>, 26, Dallas, June 1st**. <br /><b>Chanel Scurlock</b>, 23, Lumberton, North Carolina, June 6th.<br />*<b>Zoe Spears</b>, 23 -- like <b>Ashanti</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, June 13th.<br /><b>Brooklyn Lindsey</b>, 32, Kansas City, Missouri, June 25th.<br /><b>Denali Berries Stuckey</b>, 29, North Charleston, South Carolina, July 20th.<br /><b>Kiki Fantroy</b>, 21, Miami, July 31st.<br /><br />**<b>Johana ‘Joa’ Medina</b>, 25, a Latinx trans woman from El Salvador, also died on June 1st, in El Paso, Texas -- just hours after being released from ICE custody. <b>Layleen Polanco</b>, 27, an Afro-Latinx trans woman, was found dead in her cell at Rikers (Island Jail, New York City) on June 7th.<br /><br />Again, the great majority of our stolen siblings here are Black, women, and young -- elsewhere, they are Latinx trans women and transfeminine people. Too, very little attention is given to the murders, assaults and disappearances of Native / Indigenous people -- especially girls, women, and/or Two Spirit people.<br /><br />We also lose many siblings to suicide -- the attempt rate in our community is over 40%. And there are unreported trans deaths, reported deaths where the victim is not identified as trans, non-fatal assaults and much more. Trans people are not included in even basic civil rights laws in most states, and several states have anti-trans laws or are attempting to pass them -- and Trump administration is attempting to undo trans rights progress on a national level.<br /><br />And while I say little here or elsewhere about the death details -- primarily to avoid further traumatizing my trans followers, especially those living at similar intersections as the victims -- it is vital to say that the great majority are shootings, and that this is yet another reason we desperately need gun control, and it is an LGBTQ+ and racial justice issue.<br /><br />May all of my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings’ memories be blessings (as we say in Judaism) -- and call us to act! Today and every day, may we schlep closer to tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice! May we never forget that white supremacy has always included cis supremacy, misogyny and transphobia! Amen!<br /><br />#TishaBAv #TishaBAv2019 #TishaBAv5779 #TDOR #TDOR2019 #TransDayOfRemembrance #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #LatinxLivesMatter #LatinxTransLivesMatter #NativeLivesMatter #TwoSpiritLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter<div>
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<br /><b><i>Laila tov,</i> good evening.<br /><br />Two more of my trans siblings have been murdered here in the US this year (and dozens more in the rest of our world), bringing the total to twelve -- and all twelve are Black trans women. Brooklyn Lindsey, 32, Kansas City, Missouri, June 25th; Denali Berries Stuckey, 29, North Charleston, South Carolina, this past Saturday July 20th.</b><br /><br />The other ten stolen sisters are <b>Dana Martin</b>, 31, Montgomery, Alabama, January 6th. <br /><b>Jazzaline Ware</b>, age unknown, Memphis, sometime in March. <br /><b>Ashanti Carmon</b>, 27 -- like <b>Zoe</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, March 30th*. <br /><b>Claire Legato</b>, 21, Cleveland, shot April 15th and died May 14th. <br /><b>Muhlaysia Booker</b>, 23, Dallas, May 18th -- having survived a transphobic attack by a group on April 12th. <br /><b>Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington</b>, 40, Philadelphia, May 19th. <br /><b>Paris Cameron</b>, 20, Detroit, May 25th -- Alunte Davis, 21, and Timothy Blancher, 20, both Black gay men, were also killed, and two other people were injured. <br /><b>Chynal Lindsey</b>, 26, Dallas, June 1st**. <br /><b>Chanel Scurlock</b>, 23, Lumberton, North Carolina, June 6th.<br />*<b>Zoe Spears</b>, 23 -- like <b>Ashanti</b>, who she knew, right here in Maryland, in Prince George’s County’s Fairmount Heights at the DC border, June 13th.<br /><br />**<b>Johana ‘Joa’ Medina</b>, 25, a Latinx trans woman from El Salvador, also died on June 1st, in El Paso, Texas -- just hours after being released from ICE custody. <b>Layleen Polanco</b>, 27, an Afro-Latinx trans woman, was found dead in her cell at Rikers (Island Jail, New York City) on June 7th.<br /><br />Last year in 2018, more than 30 trans people were murdered here in the US, and well over 300 others elsewhere in our world. And the great majority of our stolen siblings here are Black, women, and young -- elsewhere, Latinx trans women and transfeminine people. Too, very little attention is given to the murders, assaults and disappearances of Native / Indigenous people -- especially girls, women, and/or Two Spirit people.<br /><br />We also continue to lose many siblings to suicide -- the attempt rate in our community is over 40%. And there continue to be unreported trans deaths, reported deaths where the victim is not identified as trans, non-fatal assaults and much more. Trans people are not included in even basic civil rights laws in most states, and several states have anti-trans legislation in process -- in addition to the Trump administration’s attempts to undo trans rights progress on a national level.<br /><br />And while I say little here or elsewhere about the death details -- primarily to avoid further traumatizing my trans followers, especially those living at similar intersections as the victims -- it is vital to say that the great majority are shootings, and that this is yet another reason we desperately need gun control, and it is an LGBTQ+ and racial justice issue.<br /><br />May all of my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings’ memories be blessings (as we say in Judaism) -- and call us to act, particularly at trans justice’s intersection with racial, immigration and economic justice! This month and every month, may we schlep towards tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQ+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice! May we never forget that white supremacy has always included cis supremacy, misogyny and transphobia! Amen!<br /><br />#TDOR #TDOR2019 #TransDayOfRemembrance #BlackLivesMatter#BlackTransLivesMatter #LatinxLivesMatter #LatinxTransLivesMatter#NativeLivesMatter #TwoSpiritLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-72509024953523872922019-07-05T09:00:00.000-04:002019-07-09T12:37:59.634-04:00MY 10TH ANNIVERSARY WITH MY SPOUSE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, on July 5th of 2009, I met my <a href="https://bigtallbutchstyle.tumblr.com/">Julia</a>! In an online fat community. I had always lived in the Boston area, she had always lived in Maryland or DC. A direct message led to e-mails, Facebook, phone calls, postal mail and more. That September, we met in person for the first time, when she came to visit me in Boston. In August 2012, we adopted our dogter <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrsulaTheBugg/">Ursula</a>. We remained long-distance for our first four and a half years (!). In January 2014, I moved here to her hometown of Gaithersburg so that we could begin living together. Last September, we married.</b></div>
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Julia has been and is the most wonderful person and partner, and I am oh so amazed, happy, grateful and proud that she is, and is mine! Her beauty, handsomeness and style are wondrous as well. (Our Ursula has turned out to be all-too-aptly named after the Sea Witch from the Little Mermaid, but thus she has her own <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrsulaTheBugg/">Facebook Group</a>, so we’ll continue that discussion there.)</div>
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Todah rabah, many thanks, for your decade of support, MyJul / JulCroft family, friends and fans!</div>
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Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900357459716061402.post-10416717363449692692019-06-26T17:00:00.000-04:002019-07-09T12:31:43.731-04:00AFSCME Pride 2019 (the union my spouse works for)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I’m so proud of my spouse <a href="https://bigtallbutchstyle.tumblr.com/">Julia</a>, who works at <a href="https://www.afscme.org/">AFSCME</a> and was on <a href="https://www.afscme.org/now/honoring-the-stonewall-uprising-as-we-commemorate-pride-month">their Pride Month committee</a> for the first time this year, working very hard to help organize the in-house Pride programming (which I was privileged to attend)! <a href="https://www.afscme.org/now/pridework-honors-afscme-president-saunders">AFSCME President Lee Saunders</a> spoke, and Julia wrote and delivered remarks to introduce him. There was a showing of “<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/">Stonewall Uprising</a>” (a 2011 episode of PBS’ American Experience), a Pride-themed cake and stickers, lots of other fun food (including ice cream and candy, and much of it was rainbow-y), an LGBTQ history handout, and more.<br /><br />#AFSCME #AFSCMEPride #AFSCMEProud #UnionPride #Union #1U #1UPride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2019 #Pride #Pride2019 #WeMakeAmericaHappen #WeMakeEqualityHappen #StonewallUprising #Stonewall50 #kvelling 🌠🏳️🌈✊</span></b>Mycroft Masadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04073466282503171464noreply@blogger.com0