November 2011.....$10. 
Food For Thought.
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So beautiful, that's the music I love 
Very nice!
I'm reading a marvelous book titled, "An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals" and would like to share one excerpt:
Folksinger Holly Near, on how music involves politics:
I happen to think that music, the right music at the right time, is probably the most powerful invitation to change that there is. I’m trying to think of anything that competes with it. People can remember what song was playing the first time they got kissed. I mean, it’s so powerful. People can come to a concert and hear music that doesn’t even have lyrics and walk out altered.
There is that wonderful story about a cellist in Sarajevo who went out into the town square and the bombs were dropping, and he began to play the cello. And someone from the press ran out and said, “Sir, why are you playing your cello while they’re dropping bombs?” And he says, “Why are they dropping bombs while I’m playing my cello?”
And I tell that story from the stage and you can feel the audience shift. Just them imagining the music. They’re not even hearing the cellist. They’re imagining the cellist. And you can feel the whole room just go ahhhh. Imagining the cellist saying, “We’re asking the wrong question. The natural thing is not the dropping of the bombs. The natural thing is my playing. Now let’s get these priorities straight.”