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Disaster Recovery, Photography

Rainbow Over New York City

Art connecting the world & supporting healthcare heroes! After seeing my rainbow photo on Twitter a few weeks ago, an artist in the UK named

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Disaster Recovery, Feel the Music!

At the White House: FEMA Think Tank on Innovating in Disasters

On August 25, 2013, I attended an all-day FEMA Think Tank on "Innovating in Disasters" at The White House Eisenhower Building in Washington, DC. With

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Disaster Recovery, Open Letter

Open Letter to Google: Gmail Tabs Segregates Communications from Nonprofits and the Arts

Dear Google, As an independent musician/recording artist and a nonprofit director, I am writing an open letter to Google to protest Gmail Tabs and the resulting

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Concerts, Disaster Recovery, Music, Songwriter's Beat

HURRICANE SANDY BENEFIT CONCERT: Songwriter’s Beat Nov 15, 2012

  With the overwhelming needs post-Sandy, we are organizing a HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF BENEFIT CONCERT with our November Songwriter's Beat, to benefit people directly impacted by

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Disaster Recovery

NYC’s Westbeth Artists Housing Severely Damaged by Hurricane Sandy

SEE BELOW for Nov 12 WESTBETH UPDATE Westbeth Artists Housing, my home in the West Village of New York City, has been severely damaged by Hurricane

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Voted! Early voting in NYC is phenomenal. Arrived Voted! Early voting in NYC is phenomenal. Arrived 45 mins before polls opened & lines already blocks long, yet everyone patient & respectful. A special line for elders, free ‘pizza to the polls’, fantastic and generous! Inside was organized and smooth. Very proud of my city and fellow New Yorkers, the 3 hours I waited flew by. 

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Well alright now!! Awesome review & video premiere Well alright now!! Awesome review & video premiere for GET FUNKAY Live in Lockdown!! 🤩 Thanks CelebMix!!! 🙏❤️🙏 

"Electrifying funk riding an infectious rhythm"!!! Yessss that's Jerome "blistering" Buigues, François "brawny" Gomez & Fred "finessed" Alfonsi! Love you guys!!! 

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A great light has gone out in Paris. My beloved, r A great light has gone out in Paris. My beloved, remarkable cousin, Dimitri Vicheney has passed away at age 96. I am heartbroken. We spoke last week on the phone & he sang a blues melody, promising next time we spoke I would play piano and he would sing. As memories flood I weep, and at the same time feel immense joy & gratitude for the gift of his presence on earth and in my life. Here we are together when I went to Paris to see him, he came to our concert full of life & joy!

For me Dimitri is, was, a miracle, a living breathing connection to my long-lost family in France, a brilliant, elegant & refined gentleman who remembered my grandmother & my great uncle when everyone else was gone, a passionate musicologist & historian of American blues music. Until 2010 I didn’t even know he existed! Yet once we met, my heart exploded. I had the inexplicable feeling something larger than both of us had brought us together so many years after our families were separated.

Dimitri is the reason I traveled to Paris so often in recent years, to spend time with this miraculous person, literally a walking encyclopedia both of the blues and of our family history. Name any blues song & he would tell you who wrote and recorded it, who was in the band & in what year. Kindred spirits in music, Dimitri introduced me to blues singers and gave me dozens of CDs, pointing me towards women pianist/singers/songwriters he thought would fit my voice. Always asking me when was I going to make a blues album? I took notes as he spoke, trying to keep up with his vast knowledge that spilled out of him so naturally. He couldn’t believe his lifelong love of blues & gospel echoed my own path in music, and each time we were together he mentioned what a remarkable turn of events that we would meet in this lifetime, asking how was it possible we hadn't met sooner?

Dimitri will live on in my heart & in my music for the rest of my life. I love him too much to say goodbye, instead will say au revoir Dimitri, until we see one another again & you can sing while I play the piano. Je t’aime. Toujours. Full tribute: valghent.com #dimitryvicheney #jacquesdemetre #blueshistory #family #life
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