notloB Music has a great deal to be thankful for

Not everyone celebrates the upcoming holiday. However, many people do take time to focus on gratitude and things/people they are thankful for. The following is offered in the spirit of gratitude as notloB Music has a great deal to be thankful for.

notloB Music is fortunate to be able to present in four wonderful listening rooms, each of which is chosen to best suit the artists:

124	02/12/14	4TET (Jordan Tice, Brittany Haas, Cleek Schrey and Nic Gareiss)
125	02/19/14	Pickin' Party
126	02/28/14	Evie Ladin and Keith Terry
127	03/21/14	Elizabeth and Ben Anderson
128	03/30/14	10 String Symphony and Tattletale Saints
129	04/02/14	Simon Chrisman and Jordan Tice
130	04/13/14	Joe's Truck Stop
131	04/19/14	Molly Tuttle Trio featuring John Mailander and Brittany Karlson
132	05/14/14	Fresh Haggis
133	05/16/14	Lady Rogo and Friends
134	05/31/14	Jenna Moynihan and Mairi Chaimbeul
135	06/11/14	No Bones About It
136	09/06/14	Blue Hat, Yeah!
137	10/04/14	Tannahill Weavers w/ Fresh Haggis
138	10/08/14	Blanca and Chuchi
139	10/09/14	Rushad Eggleston w/ Elizabeth and Ben Anderson
140	10/10/14	Andy Reiner, Jason Anick and Mali Obomsawin
141	10/18/14	Adrianna Ciccone & Allison DeGroot
142	11/06/14	The Katie McNally Trio featuring Neil Pearlman and Shauncey Ali
143	11/12/14	Nate Sabat and Elise Bouer/Sumaia Jackson and Friends
144	11/19/14	David Greer, Mike Barnett and Dominick Leslie
145	11/30/14	Mr. Sun
146	12/06/14	Tony Bird
147	01/18/15	Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss

notloB Music is fortunate to be able to present in four wonderful listening rooms, each of which is chosen to best suit the artists:

Davis Square Theater, 255 Elm Street, Somerville

Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, 1581 Beacon Street, Brookline

Carriage House Violins of Johnson String Instruments, 1039 Chestnut St, Newton Upper Falls

Outpost 186, 186 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge

(see our website for more complete descriptions).

notloB Music is thankful for our intrepid volunteers, Doug and John, our public face doing production operations, and Wes, who has brought our ticketing and mailing services into the 21^st century and is working on a new website! Their passion for music makes our presentations run smoothly.

notloB Music is fortunate to have been able to present 21 concerts so far in 2014, with three more announced.

Concert #150 is projected for February, 2015.

Last but certainly the most important, notloB Music is thankful for our fabulous patrons and your continued support! We receive email, Facebook messages and phone calls on a regular basis with feedback from you. Thank you for taking the time to let us know what is important to you and that you care. We're nothing without the support of a discerning patron base!

With gratitude,

Jeff Boudreau 

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The National Day of Mourning

The National Day of Mourning

On Thanksgiving Day, many Native Americans and their supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, for the "National Day of Mourning."

The first National Day of Mourning was held in 1970. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts invited Wampanoag leader Frank James to deliver a speech. When the text of Mr. James' speech, a powerful statement of anger at the history of oppression of the Native people of America, became known before the event, the Commonwealth "disinvited" him. That silencing of a strong and honest Native voice led to the convening of the National Day of Mourning.

The historical event we know today as the "First Thanksgiving" was a harvest festival held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors and allies. It has acquired significance beyond the bare historical facts. Thanksgiving has become a much broader symbol of the entirety of the American experience. Many find this a cause for rejoicing. The dissenting view of Native Americans, who have suffered the theft of their lands and the destruction of their traditional way of life at the hands of the American nation, is equally valid.

To some, the "First Thanksgiving" presents a distorted picture of the history of relations between the European colonists and their descendants and the Native People. The total emphasis is placed on the respect that existed between the Wampanoags led by the sachem Massasoit and the first generation of Pilgrims in Plymouth, while the long history of subsequent violence and discrimination suffered by Native People across America is nowhere represented.

To others, the event shines forth as an example of the respect that was possible once, if only for the brief span of a single generation in a single place, between two different cultures and as a vision of what may again be possible someday among people of goodwill.

History is not a set of "truths" to be memorized, history is an ongoing process of interpretation and learning. The true richness and depth of history come from multiplicity and complexity, from debate and disagreement and dialogue. There is room for more than one history; there is room for many voices.

Article courtesy of the Pilgrim Hall Museum

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