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which is an album of music that Mickey loves and has inspired him throughout his career.

"This site is breaking ground for the future of the music industry in the world today, where music lovers can discover or rediscover the very best music the world has to offer in any genre. A website that represents a standard of music that will ensure the development and re-establishment of a healthy music industry. A site where great music is guaranteed and where recognised, and unknown artists are showcased. My hat off to Charles E Compton Sr for creating this arena for musicians and great music.:"
Chris Dair
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To connect to Compton's site and the world he is opening up go to http://reefriderproductions.com where you will find a whole host of information, music, websites and all the information on the new Mickey Thomas album.

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For immediate release:

Mickey Thomas is one of rock music's best kept secrets. 'Marauder' plunders Thomas Rock legacy with Starship and Elvin Bishop to pay tribute to his musical influences, peers, and followers. Featuring fourteen incredible tracks, 'Marauder' showcases Thomas vocal genius and leaves no doubt that his voice is among rock music most treasured.

'Marauder' is Thomas fitting tribute to his musical influences such as
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Joe Cocker. As lead singer for the popular 80's hitmakers, Starship, Mickey Thomas was the voice of some of the biggest hits of the 80's including
We Built This City, 'Sara' and 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'. With 'Marauder', Thomas showcases the amazing range of his voice on classics as Paul McCartney's 'Maybe I'm Amazed', AC/DC's 'Moneytalks', Snow Patrol's 'Chasing Cars', and Muse's 'Supermassive Black Hole' among others.

Available at
Amazon.com

Hawkeye Herman returns to Festival Blues sur Seine for the fourth time.
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Blues musician/educator Michael "Hawkeye" Herman, recipient of the Blues
Foundation's "Keeping The Blues Alive" award for achievement in education in
1998, will return to Mantes la Jolie, France (www.blues-sur-seine.com) for
the fourth time in the last five years. Hawkeye will perform in concert, in
schools, and he will be presenting his two-day 'master class'/seminar,
"Teaching the Teachers," for French teachers and musicians interested in creating
their own unique in-school blues educational program(s) according to their
personal background and musical skills. This will be the third time Hawkeye
has presented this popular seminar for the Blues sur Seine Festival.
(http://www.blues-sur-seine.com/item/434-formation-construire-un-projet-peda
gogique-autour-du-blues.html)

After his work at the Blues sur Seine Festival is completed, Hawkeye will
be visiting Venice/Italy, Dubrovnik/Croatia, Ephesus/Turkey, and the Greek
> Islands of Santorini and Corfu.

Hawkeye has been very busy bringing blues music and blues history to
students. In October he was on Lopez Island, WA for a three-day Blues In The
Schools residency on behalf of the Lopez School Music Advocacy Foundation
(www.LiveMusicOnLopez.com), followed by BITS presentations in 14 schools in five
days for the Colorado Blues Society (http://www.coblues.com), a concert in Ft.
Collins, and a blues gutiar workshop at Swallow Hill Music Assoc. in Denver.

If any of our Blues Foundation members or affiliates have not viewed the
programs, please do so. The video is a top-notch production that is both
highly informative and entertaining:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3129446
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Hawkeye always welcomes email inquiries, questions, and comments regarding
the initiation and maintenance of Blues In The Schools programs. He can be
reached through his web site:
http://www.HawkeyeHerman.com

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News Flash: KABF Blues Show Aug 13. Support Blues Radio
Good Blues Update with Chet Cannon
Details at www.bluesguitarnews.com

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Thanks to;
Mike Dollins August 5 at 5:37am Reply
Blues Guitar News www.bluesguitarnews.com August issue is on line now. 43,000 blues fans have visited our site. Thanks to all, for the encouragement and accolades it is greatly appreciated. Deemed the "Mother of All On Line Blues Mags" we'll take that recognition. Thousands of links to blues worldwide. Also visit "Arkansas Blues Legends."

My good buddy friend, Liz Lottmann, has got one hot video on YouTube that will knock your socks off. An old favorite Sly and the Family Stone tune, that will take you higher, and higher. Great band, super horn section, solid rhythm section and superb vocals too. What else do you need to rock your night away. Check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RcvSuZRBYI

Another good buddy, Michele Lundeen, editor of Blues Festival Guide, is up for a very prestigious award. Well deserved in our books, for this first lady of blues in Southern California. Check her out at: www.michelelundeen.com and www.youtube.com/user/queenofsteam
Michele Lundeen is nominated for s San Diego Music Awards 2010 "Best Blues" Please help spread the good word to Vote at www.sandiegomusicawards.com/nominees.html.

Joe Pitts and I want to thank all the 3,593 blues fans that have viewed our joint video on YouTube, and another 1,200 on FaceBook. Gosh, the comments were just great to hear. We deeply appreciate all the wonderful feedback. Thank you Shelli Russell, for capturing this at Denton's Trotline. Joe always makes me sound good. He makes anyone sound better, and is my number one guitar brother to jam with. www.youtube.com/user/CruizeBrothers (Born Under A Bad Sign)www.joepitts.com (New Blues CD Release Coming Out. Press Release to follow)

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I just wanted to let you know that I'll be in Iowa in April or May of 2011 to do a week of Blues In The Schools programs in the Quad Cities for the Mississippi Valley Blues Society in Davenport, IA (my place of birth and home stomping grounds ;-)

The specific dates are not set yet, but when they are, I'll let you know and perhaps you'd like to 'audit' my work in the schools by accompanying me to some of the schools? I'll be giving a couple of concerts in the Quad Cities area that are associated with my educational residency in the schools.

Also, as I did in 2009, I've been asked to return to perform and to teach a blues songwriting class for the Oakdale Correctional Center (minimum-security prison) prison/community choir, in Oakdale, IA, very near Coralville/Iowa City. A truly great concept; a music professor at Univ. of Iowa, Prof. Mary Cohen, volunteers her time to direct the choir that includes prisoners and along with community members. Prof. Mary Cohen is received the Iowa Governor's Group Volunteer of the Year Award for 2010. (I believe the 'ceremony'/award presentation was this past week, on 7/22/10).

I formerly performed many times in Cedar Falls on the KUNI Monday night program "Live From Studio One" with Karen Impola ... but my touring schedule in the past few years has not brought me close to Cedar Falls ... but I did perform at the blues fest in Davenport in 2009.

If you haven't visited the many Hawkeye videos that are up online that include performance, in-school presentations, and interviews, please check 'em out if you have a chance free moment:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=HawkeyeH&view=videos

I have a great deal of touring to keep me busy in the months ahead; in Aug. and Sept. I'll be performing in concert and at festivals in California, Oregon, and Washington, and doing in-school multi-day blues educational residencies in schools in Washington and Colorado in October.

On Nov. 1st I go to France/Europe for about a month ... first for a week at the two-week long Blues sur Seine Festival in Mantes La Jolie, France (40 miles west of Paris) where I'll perform a concert in a church that was constructed in the 13th Century, two days of Blues In The Schools in French middle schools, and I'll be presenting my 2-day 'Master Class'/'Teaching the Teachers' seminar for teachers and musicians interested in creating their own unique in-school blues educational program according to their background experience and skills.
http://hawkeyeherman.com/pdf/BITS-Reader-10-07.pdf
This will be my 4th visit to the Blues sur Seine Festival in the past five years.

In the photo link below is interesting Castle La Roche Guyon, where my 2-day "Teaching the Teachers' seminar has been held in the past ... it's right on the banks of the Seine River, a lovely place, a beautiful castle, and so 'strategically located' that it was Nazi Field Marshal Rommel's headquarters during WWII. No more of that! ... these days it's 'Hawkeye French Blues Headquarters' ;-)
http://hawkeyeherman.com/photo_gallery/Gallery8/02.htm

After my work at the Blues sur Seine Festival (www.blues-sur-seine.com) is completed, I'll be performing and traveling in France, Spain, Italy, and possibly Croatia.

I'll let you know when my schedule for being in the Heartland in April/May of 2011 is 'solidified' ... in hopes of perhaps meeting up with you while I'm in Iowa.

Michael "Hawkeye" Herman
www.HawkeyeHerman.com
Blues Foundation's 1998 Keeping the Blues Alive" Award recipient for acheivement in education
Iowa Blues Hall of Fame/2004 inductee

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A message to all Blues and Blues Rock Lovers, Derek Miller Live Online! (Free)
For those unable to make it to Washington DC Friday (July 2nd), the National Museum of the American Indian will be streaming the concert LIVE ONLINE at 5 – 6 PM EDT @ http://www.nmai.si.edu/webcasts/

In conjunction with opening of “Up Where We Belong”: Native Musicians in Popular Culture, guitarist and singer/songwriter Derek Miller (Six
Nations) will perform a mix of blues and rock including many songs by
musicians featured in the exhibition, including Link Wray, Jesse Ed
Davis, Peter LaFarge, Jimi Hendrix, Redbone, Robbie Robertson, and Buffy
Sainte-Marie.

Please visit the website on Friday, and forward/ repost the link to your networks!

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Bob Dylan August 6 at 8:25pm Report
Bob Dylan and His Band are now on tour throughout the western United States.

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My Friends in Radio, Press and Music...Please spread the word, post to your sites, whatever you can do to help this charity I am absolutely delighted to be a part of. Please be a part of it too :)))))

Sir Bob Geldof heads a list of musicians who are donating music tracks to a one off CD being produced by Tina McBain and Ian Gibbons in collaboration with the Mayor of Tamworth (UK) Lee Bates, for the charity CHILDREN IN CRISIS www.childrenincrisis.org.

Sir Bob Geldof, Phil Bates and Mik Kaminski of ELO and ELOII fame (now of The Orchestra), Midlands Singer/Songwriter Eddy Moreton, from France Blues Guitarist Chris Dair and American Blues icon Mark Ringler have all agreed to donate tracks. Accoustic artists Barry and Chloe Hunt, Jem McAuley and Martin Kelly, Jo and Rosie Bates have also answered the call.

It will be released in November with 300 copies produced at £10 each plus post and packing. If anybody would like to pre-order a copy of the Mayor of Tamworth Children in Crisis Album email Tina at tinamcbain29@btinternet.com

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Amongst other upcoming festival performances ... I'll be performing at these two:

Willamette Valley Blues & Brews Festival
http://wvbbf.org
(please check out the logo/artwork by my wife for the above event)

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