From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V6 #74 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Thursday, November 27 2003 Volume 06 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Subway Artists Press Release [K3285@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:31:26 EST From: K3285@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Subway Artists Press Release Once again I am taking this from another list I am on. Thought some folks here might be interested. Melissa >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE To: News Departments; Arts Departments, PSA Departments From: Stephen Baird, Executive Director, Community Arts Advocates 617-522-3407 Regarding: MBTA new guidelines which bans most subway performances When: Open Public Demonstration, Friday, November 28, 2003, 11 AM-3 PM Informational picket and petition signature drive Where: Boston Common, Park and Tremont Street, Boston, MA Who: Subway performing Artists: Mare Streetpeople (guitar/singer) 781-316-0090 mares02@rcn.com John Westerfield (banjo) - 617-623-2618 Gerry Mack (keyboard/singer)-gmack1928@earthlink.net or 401-253-5121 Michael Borkson 781-321-1720 (guitar/singer)nosanctions@yahoo.com Tom Bianchi (bass player/singer) 24t@24hourtom.com Carlos Romero (classical guitar/latin music/singer) 781-397-2936 Alfredo Valaskque (guitar/panpipes) 617-386-2030 Lisa Housman (guitar/singer) 617-320-6202 lisahousman@hotmail.com Meg Hutchinson (guitar/singer) redhenmusic@yahoo.com John Bigelow & Lorraine Saltre (classical guitar/singer) 617-731-3257JonLorPro@aol.com On December 1st, without due process or public comment, the MBTA will put into effect discriminatory and unreasonable new restrictions on subway performances. These new regulations, which overturn an 18-year working agreement between artists and the MBTA, will: Ban all, even modest, amplification and all electric instruments Greatly limit locations and hours of performance including rush hours 4-6 pm Totally eliminate certain types of instruments including all keyboards, horns, wind instruments The new regulations violate constitutional freedoms of both artist and commuter, threaten the livelihood and safety of subway performers, and ultimately diminish the artistic and cultural quality of life in the Boston Metro area. This demonstration is a response to the threat posed by the MBTA regulations to the tradition of diverse expression in the subway. The MBTA is obligated to include community input on decisions affecting performance. It is our hope that the MBTA will rescind their new policy and allow the artists to continue to perform. For more detailed information -- including copies of the new MBTA regulations, correspondence to and from the MBTA, the legal and cultural history of public subway performance, and stories from the performing and listening community -- please visit the SABA website: http://communityartsadvocates.org/saa-mbta-subway.html # # # # # ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V6 #74 *********************************