The News Review:
- Disabled service members gather for Fla. festival
- No Barriers Festival shows off new devices
- Woodstock Box Set Unearths Famous Festival’s Rarities
- Ready set go: Cache Creek Lavender Festival
Disabled service members gather for Fla. festival
MiamiHerald.com
He used to play ice hockey and wants to get back to doing that. Until then though he will settle for a little scuba diving. Miller and a group of 17 service members joined hundreds of disabled people Friday for a four-day No Barriers Festival which includes classes in scuba diving sailing and an appearance by an amputee pony with a prosthetic leg. It is being held at the Shake-A-Leg Miami Sea Base in Coconut Grove. The service members were brought to the festival by the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project which provides year-round sports programs for severely wounded service members and veterans from recent conflicts. “Basically the objective is to give them a sports experience after their injuries” said project manager Julia Ray. “We want to bring them and show them what they can still do.
No Barriers Festival shows off new devices
United Press International
The No Barriers Festival is scheduled for this weekend The Miami Herald reports. ne of those in attendance will be Erik Weihenmayer of Colorado president of No Barriers USA who has been blind since he was 13. Weihenmayer is using one of three prototype BrainPorts which gives him enough vision to make out letters and to see his 8-year-old daughter although so far only in black and white. ”I can’t tell you how amazing and surreal it has been” Weihenmayer said of the BrainPort. ”This sort of technology is not just ahead of the curve it’s miles ahead of anything we’ve seen before.
Woodstock Box Set Unearths Famous Festival’s Rarities
Billboard
The set which lists for $79. 98 also restores full-lengthperformances of Canned Heat’s “Woodstock Boogie” (to a whopping 30minutes) and the Who’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and it includesthe never-released Woodstock performances of Arlo Guthrie’s “ComingInto Los Angeles” and Mountain’s “Theme For an Imaginary Western”which were replaced by better-sounding recordings from otherconcerts for the original “Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music”soundtrack. The track lineup is accurate to the actual running order of thelegendary 1969 festival and it also includes stage announcements(you still need to check the brown acid apparently) Wavy Gravy’sannouncement of “breakfast in bed” for the crowd estimated at500000 Max Yasgur’s famous speech to the crowd and audio of AbbieHoffman’s encounter with Who guitarist Pete Townshend. “This will be the most comprehensive collection of Woodstock musicyet” Rhino Vice-President of A&R Cheryl Pawelski tellsBillboard. “The goal was to make it as real as possible.
Ready set go: Cache Creek Lavender Festival
San Francisco Chronicle
A great introduction to the valley’s agricultural soul is next weekend’s Cache Creek Lavender Festival expanded to two days this year. During Saturday’s open house visitors can pick their own lavender and buy plants and lavender products. Sunday adds live music wine tasting crafts demonstrations field tours and food made with lavender.
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