Legendary ambassador Bob Ezrin, artist Yusuf, Oscar appointee Thavi Phrasavath, Entertainment Industry controlling Anastasia Brown and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame President and CEO Terry Stewart accomplish up celebrated board console for all-embracing song challenge.
New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 5, 2009 -- Bring Peace Not Pain, an alignment formed to added the bulletin of accord through the efforts of individuals and assorted partnerships and ball programs, appear a celebrated board console fabricated of some of the best accepted talents in the music and blur industry today. The board will play a cardinal role in allotment the acceptable access for the Peace Song Challenge. Open to anyone who aspires to accompany their bulletin of accord through music, the Peace Song Challenge will accolade one admirable cost acceptable aspirant an absolute Gibson Guitar and the befalling to advance the chat of Peace through their actual own words on an all-embracing belvedere of publicity and promotion. The champ will aswell accept the befalling to present their music to a appointment of allegorical producers and music industry aristocratic who anatomy the console of board of this year's contest. All entries for the Peace Song Challenge are due by July 25, 2009. The top entries will be advised and a champ appear on or afore November 25 2009. Several adaptations to the official rules accept been fabricated and absorbed parties should analysis the Bring Peace Not Pain website for data and applications.
The official anticipation console for the Peace Song Challenge includes allegorical music ambassador Bob Ezrin, all-embracing recording artisan Yusuf (Cat Stevens), Oscar appointee Thavi Phrasavath, music industry hitmaker Anastasia Brown and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame President Terry Stewart.
Bob Ezrin's career has spanned 38 years alive with some of the world's arch artists including Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, KISS, Lou Reed, Roberta Flack, Peter Gabriel, Dr. John, Rod Stewart, Jane's Addiction, Nils Lofgren and abounding more. He is co-founder of Music Rising with U2's the Edge and produced the abide caricature in 2006 featuring U2 and Green Day which reopened the Louisiana Superdome afterwards Hurricane Katrina devastated it the year before. Currently in assembly with Peter Gabriel, Ezrin will aswell absolute the accessible 90th Birthday Celebration in NYC of the allegorical Pete Seeger.
Singer/songwriter Yusuf, best accepted for his above date name Cat Stevens is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, drillmaster and philanthropist. He has awash over 60 actor albums and has been on the top of the Billboard and Hot 100 archive abundant times. In the backward 70s Stevens adapted to Islam at the acme of his acclaim and adopted the name Yusuf Islam. He larboard his agreeable career to allot his time to alms and education. He has been accustomed several awards for his plan in announcement accord in the apple including 2003's World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006 he alternate to pop music with his aboriginal album of new songs in 28 years advantaged An Other Cup and just afresh appear his accepted cd 'roadsinger'. As the architect of the song Peace Train and his able acquaintance for Peace accompanying issues and programs, he is a absolute applicant to accompany such added acclaimed judges.
Award acceptable filmmaker Thavi Phrasavath who's a lot of contempo blur "The Betrayal" was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 is a accurate abettor of peace. "The Betrayal" is an alluringly crafted account about a country, a family, and a adolescent man who discovers the ability and animation of the animal spirit and spans 24 years of his accurate activity acquaintance from war broken Laos to the streets of New York. Phrasavath aswell has a actual able accomplishments in association account alive with the NYC Police Department as an analyst and communication to the Laotian Community in adolescence and ancestors crisis intervention. He has aswell won abundant awards for his paintings and illustrations.
Anastasia Brown's career has been about breaking the industry mold. In just 4 abbreviate years back acceptable President of 821 Entertainment Group, Brown has created a Nashville-headquartered media aggregation that is costs and bearing 16 Heartland affection films over the next six years in affiliation with some of Hollywood's top producers and studios. Brown, who began in Nashville as Miles Copeland's accomplice area they managed such megastars as Sting, Peter Frampton and Junior Brown, apparent and developed Keith Urban afore transitioning out of administration and into blur and television. Her credits cover music administrator of AUGUST RUSH, which becoming both Oscar and Grammy nominations for music, and BILLY: THE EARLY YEARS, for which she becoming a Dove Award nomination. Over the years, Brown's accolades accept included "25 Most Beautiful," "Top 40 Most Powerful Under 40," "Women of Influence," one of 4 women featured in Fitness & Muscle's "Women of Strength" (September 2007) and Variety featured her a allotment of their Multitaskers (November 20, 2006). Brown afresh bound "Make Me A Star" and is generally interviewed as an industry expert. She aswell served as celebrity adjudicator for three seasons of "Nashville Star."
Terry Stewart has been President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for added than a decade. As CEO, he has led the Museum's efforts to aggrandize its ability nationally and internationally with traveling exhibits, technology, collaborations and digital facilities, while at the aforementioned time architecture its home abject in Cleveland via exhibits, programming and the development of a world-class Library and Archives analysis center. With the Museum's added focus on bringing music into the classroom, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's educational offerings accept now become one of the a lot of acclaimed and award-winning activities of its affectionate appearing from a accomplished arts building in the U.S. Prior to entering the nonprofit music world, Stewart served in arch controlling positions at Marvel Entertainment Group and was aswell called the CNBC Marketing Executive of the Year. Terry is able-bodied accepted as an ardent beneficiary of pop ability memorabilia. His all-encompassing accumulating includes a world-class almanac collection, concert and cine posters, autographs and jukeboxes.
Bring Peace Not Pain is a multi-faceted grassroots initiative, which began as a aloof eyes by Suzi Conklin Nance of New England and has advance through all credibility of the globe. Through its efforts both on the arena and virtually, Bring Peace Not Pain brings calm a all-around afterward from all walks of activity with one accepted cilia - that of which holds accurate the actuality that calm we can accompany about a peaceful world. The alignment was afresh featured at this year's Sundance Film Festival area VIPs, actors and blur industry admiral enjoyed acquirements added about the alignment at the Gibson Lodge amid on Main Street. For added advice or data on the campaign's blur series, apostle programs, blogs and alternate website or accessible contest and contests amuse go to www.bringpeacenotpain.com.
The challenge is accessible to able and abecedarian musicians who ambition to allotment their feelings, hopes and dreams about accord through an aboriginal song, soundtrack or music score. The acceptable access may aswell become the official song of the alignment and be acclimated for all calm and all-embracing campaigns. Some of the entries will be acquaint on the website and after may be acclimated for publicity and added promotional efforts. Rules and regulations alternating with an access appliance is accessible on the website.
The Grand Prize champ will accept an absolute Gibson Guitar from the world's arch agreeable apparatus manufacturer, an official "Agent of Peace" bleed jacket, admittance in a above publicity advertisement and announcement of their song on the Bring Peace Not Pain's website and YouTube. The champ will aswell be featured in an all-embracing account adventure and may accept the befalling to accomplish his/her song at several accessible contest and be accustomed the befalling to advance his/her music as the official song of the campaign. Five runner-up entrants will accept an official "Agent of Peace" bleed anorak and acknowledgment on the website.
Submissions for the challenge are due by July 25, 2009 and have to be submitted with a active Official Entry form, archetype of the Rules and Regulations, a CD of the song and accounting lyrics. All have to be active and anachronous by the aboriginal artisan and be accompanied by a letter advertence that they are aboriginal works. (this is handled in the Rules and Regulations) Each access will not be returned. Winners will be appear on or afore November 25, 2009 For an official access anatomy and Artist Release alternating with a complete account of rules and regulations, absorbed individuals can email PeaceSongChallenge @ bringpeacenotpain.com
CONTACT:
Suzi Conklin Nance
401-835-1736
suzinancebpnp @ yahoo.com
Caroline Galloway
615-423-4904
caroline.galloway @ gibson.com
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