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Jackson Browne and Phoebe Bridgers Team Up for “Christmas Song” Cover

November 30, 2018

Courtesy: Pitchfork.com

“It’s not that often that I hear a Christmas song that doesn’t make me want to quit music” — Phoebe Bridgers”

Phoebe Bridgers has shared a new cover of McCarthy Trenching’s “Christmas Song” featuring vocals from Jackson Browne. Hear it below. In a statement, Bridgers writes, “The first time I heard this song it hit me like a ton of bricks. A lot of McCarthy Trenching songs do that. It’s not that often that I hear a Christmas song that doesn’t make me want to quit music.” She continues:

I played a show in L.A. around the holidays last year where I covered it for the first time. Jackson Browne was there, and he came up to me after the show to tell me how much he loved the song. A couple days later, Dan [McCarthy] got a Bandcamp notification on his desktop computer that someone paid 50 bucks for his record and wrote a nice note and signed it Jackson Browne. He thought someone was fucking with him. So when I decided to record a version of the song, I knew who I wanted to sing on it. Plus, I have wanted to make music with Jackson as long as I’ve wanted to make music.

Celebrate Seva’s 40th Anniversary, Saturday, January 12th at the Fox Theater in Oakland!

November 7, 2018

Pre-sale tickets are available Wednesday, November 7 at 10:00 AM PST

An estimated 253 million people live with vision impairment: 36 million are blind and 217 million have moderate to severe vision impairment. Thankfully, 75% of all vision impairment can be prevented or cured. In fact, half of the world’s blindness is caused by cataracts, a condition that can be reversed with a 15-minute operation.

When you give sight back to one person, you give two people back their lives. 75% of visually impaired people are assisted with everyday living by a relative, neighbor or a child. By preventing blindness and restoring vision, children can go to school and adults can return to work. When more people are able to lead productive lives, entire communities have a chance at a better future.

Please join us in celebrating Seva’s 40th Anniversary, Saturday, January 12th at the Fox Theater in Oakland!

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All VIP packages include a copy of Sing Out for Seva, 40 Years of Music for Social Change, a limited-edition, signed and numbered, hard cover coffee table photo book documenting Seva’s rich history of benefit concerts and the programs they support. See a preview of the book.

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Join Jackson Browne for two benefit performances for The Actors’ Gang!

November 5, 2018

Performing with Jackson on December 3 and 4 are longtime vocalists Chavonne Stewart and Alethea Mills and multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz!

All proceeds from tickets will support The Actors’ Gang’s mission to make theater accessible to all, provide arts education to thousands of student in 16 LAUSD schools and rehabilitative programs for  incarcerated women, men and teenagers in 15 California prisons, juvenile and reentry facilities.

“For five decades Jackson Browne has been an inspiration and a guiding light, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist that not only has created great music that has inspired millions throughout the world but has consistently nurtured and supported young up and coming musicians in Los Angeles and across the globe. In addition to that Jackson has, throughout his career, stood at the forefront of progressive social change and given freely of his talents to raise money and awareness for people and organizations in need. We are honored, blessed and grateful to welcome Jackson Browne, a great friend and longtime supporter of The Actors’ Gang, to our stage.” 

Tim Robbins,
Artistic Director
The Actors’ Gang Theater

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Jackson Browne Announces Benefit Concert On November 16, 2018

October 26, 2018

At All Saints Church In Pasadena On November 16, 2018

Singer Songwriter Jackson Browne announces a benefit concert at the All Saints Church located in Pasadena, CA on Friday, November 16, 2018 at 7:30 PM. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday, October 27 at 12 PM (Pacific Time) through https://jacksonbrowne.brownpapertickets.com

Proceeds from the concert will benefit the non-profit organization Exposher.  Exposher provides mentoring to inner city girls. The focus is to expose girls to life and culture that will be conducive to their development from girls to young women through various mentoring programs. 

“Our mission is to help change the lives of young girls by empowering them to reach their full potential by overcoming internal and external barriers in their lives,” says founder Chavonne Stewart. “We also want to help girls build a positive self-image, motivate them to take responsibility for their future, and coach them in understanding their value to themselves and their community.”

Joining Jackson Browne on November 16 to benefit Exposher, are longtime band mates and backing vocalists Chavonne Stewart and Alethea Mills and multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz.

All Saints Church’s mission is to make God’s love tangible through Spirituality, Community and Peace and Justice. When the world is hungering for communities to reach across all divides, All Saints Church is a place committed to the deep truth of the interconnectivity of all people, where we joyfully and energetically challenge one another, and the church at large, to follow Jesus’ call to be beacons of love, justice and compassion, and to respect the dignity of absolutely every human being. Visit online at https://allsaints-pas.org/.

Jackson Browne to Receive 2018 Gandhi Peace Award Presented by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

September 5, 2018

On September 14 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will introduce Jackson Browne as he receives the Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace at the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts starting at 7:30 pm. 

Kennedy, the second son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is an American environmental attorney, author, and activist who serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999.

Dr. Joseph Bertolino, president of Southern Connecticut State University, will greet the audience, as will Andrew Wolf, New Haven’s Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism. Ben Grosscup and Luci Murphy of the People’s Music Network will begin the evening with musical tributes. Chris George of IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) and Frida Berrigan, columnist for Waging Peace and daughter of Philip Berrigan, will also speak.

Jackson Browne is the first artist to receive the Gandhi Peace Award. He is being honored for extraordinary contributions of time and talent to the inseparable causes of world peace, environmental harmony, and social justice. The Award comes with a cash prize and a medallion forged from peace bronze composed of metals salvaged from the control systems of U.S. nuclear missiles. The Award Ceremony will feature short musical tributes by local performers, an appeal for action on the local and planetary levels, and the presentation of the Award itself. Consistent with tradition, Browne has been invited “to present a message of challenge and hope” to those in attendance. 

The Gandhi Peace Award, named after Indian anti-imperialist and nonviolence advocate Mohandas Gandhi, derives its international renown from those who have accepted it over the years, beginning with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960. Among the other 53 awardees are Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King, Jr., Norman Thomas, William Sloane Coffin, Benjamin Spock, Wayne Morse, U Thant, Dorothy Day, Daniel Ellsberg, Kay Camp, César Chávez, Marian Wright Edelman, and George McGovern. Since 2011 the Award has been accepted by Arik Ascherman (Rabbis for Human Rights), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Bill McKibben (350.org), Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), Omar Barghouti (BDS), and Ralph Nader (Public Citizen).

Jackson Browne has composed and performed songs widely regarded as among the most literate and moving songs in popular music, defining a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion, and personal politics. Inducted in 2004 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and in 2007 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he has three albums counted among Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 greatest albums of all time and Rolling Stone numbered him among the top 40 “greatest songwriters of all time.”

Browne has organized or participated in numerous benefit performances to support the environment, social justice, and human rights as well as causes such as music and arts education in public schools and has worked with two former Gandhi Peace Award recipients, Amnesty International (1978) and the Children’s Defense Fund (1990). He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College for “a remarkable musical career that has successfully combined intensely personal artistry with a broader vision of social justice.”

Several of his albums, such as Lives in the Balance, World in Motion, Looking East, and Standing in the Breach, directly challenge imperialist foreign policy, environmental short-sightedness, and corporate greed, and question the sustainability of the present civilization. The title track of Lives in the Balance calls out the “shadow on the faces / Of the men who send the guns / Of the wars that are fought in places / Where their business interest runs” in civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

In response to the Three Mile Island nuclear near-catastrophe in 1979, Browne co-founded the groups Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) and in more recent years, Nukefree.org. During the 1980s he was active in the Central America solidarity movement, co-organizing concerts in Nicaragua, Cuba, and elsewhere.  Lately he has turned his attention to the seas as a founding member of the advocacy group Ocean Elders.

Last December Browne released the moving song “The Dreamer” to shine light on the new deportation threat under the Trump administration for those who have been protected temporarily under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Reservations are recommended for the September 14th ceremony honoring Jackson Browne with the 2018 Gandhi Peace Award and can be made at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gandhi-peace-award-2018-tickets-48315261247