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Help The Sway Machinery Get to Mali!

The Sway Machinery has put together a very special fundraiser to help them along in their pilgrimage to Mali for Festival Au Desert, and that is taking place 12/12 at The Sixth Street Synagogue in NYC:

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LIVE AND IN CONCERT
SHAKING THE PULPIT
OF THE 100 YEAR OLD SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE

325 E. Sixth Street (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)

The Sway Machinery
Saturday December 12 @8:30PM
A WILD CELEBRATION of the 2nd NIGHT of CHANUKAH
-A CONCERT FUNDRAISER FOR-
*THE SWAY MACHINERY PILGRIMAGE PROJECT*
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE NOW
$15.00

— OPEN BAR —

Rocker-Cantorial innovator Jeremiah Lockwood accepts an historic invitation to be the first Jewish performer to hit the stage at Mali’s “Festival of the Desert” taking place in the heart of Islamic West Africa
IN 3 AND A HALF WEEKS!

The band needs your $ support to unleash
“THE SWAY MACHINERY PILGRIMAGE”
film documentary, CD recording and fund raising effort with Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Jonathan Hock who will follow The Sway Machinery on an extraordinary journey thru the Sahara desert and Malian recording sessions as ombudsmen of peace, reconciliation and collaborative musical discovery.

“The Sway Machinery Pilgrimage, as they have entitled their Africa project, is a beautiful example for the world of the great role artists can play in building bridges of love and understanding between cultures. This project is of clear importance in establishing new and positive images of Jews and Muslims engaging with each other.”
–Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Chairman, Cordoba Initiative

GOOD NEWS ABOUT JEWS AND MUSLIMS
DOESN’T SELL AS WELL AS BAD NEWS
WHICH IS WHY THE SWAY MACHINERY NEED YOUR HELP
- TO RAISE FUNDS IMMEDIATELY-
AND MAKE SOME NOISE

Golden Ephemera–automatic writings and musical experiments from The Sway Machinery's laboratory

Wild week was last one. Here are some photos from our outing at the Purim Party at Sixth Street Synagogue, taken by our dear friend Christine Sullivan.

Purim Mash 2009 8 by you.

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Purim with The Sway Machinery!

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