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2014 worldOnefestival promo video here !  

See “Fest 2014”  tab above for Main Stage schedule July 3+4 2014 and map  …  low back chairs , no dogs (though we love them ,sorry!)  bike valet ! shade tents /umbrellas must be placed only beside and behind sound tent.   

La Vida Es Carnaval .. herewith, a sparkling morning visual sonic whirligig of SF Carnaval 2014 . thanks and xo to all who greeted and mingled with such calentura humana .. Luke!Mon and Fam, Maisa Duke, Jade Itiene, Tambores de Colombia, Mario + Kantuta , Lisa+Paula SambaFunk, Ryan + Rueda con Ritmo, BananaJazMan! solo and that BiiiG HUUG from a newBromano deAnudaMadre! .. 

 

The above are images gently invited and recorded by my beloved wife Debra Sue. For my part, I follow my ears ? l o l ?  …  the street was throbbing and pulsing and primping and fluffing, feathers and sequins and fish-nets oh my … Father Sun peeked over the Vics and Edwardians to illumine the tributes of the Aztec dancers.. and I, for my part .. was going going gonnie …. swooning .. copal, prayers to the four directions .. all generations .. and I could hear them .. feel them … echoing across time … no drugs … just natural magic … invoked ..  from the Center of 24th and Bryant in the Heart of La Mission.  All shimmered and shook las cuerdas palpably and powerfully .. Good Axe and Amen!

Carnaval is for ALL .. genuine festivals ( not commercial spectacles) are fountains of pyche-spiritual renewal …   the streets + parks + citizens + foods + flora + fauna + flavors + murals + families > flower-burst into grander dimensionality …. connection …   understood and supported by the creative kinetic arts-participants and citizens, or alas, systematically misunderstood and under-appreciated, thus displaced by the pressures of gentrifications, corporatizations, greedia, landlordovers, surreal estate, skinnier jeans, smartalec phones.. with all due respect to all the preceeding …. its a great day to think and feel indigenous, feel communally, community-connected  ..  a chance to Open UP Our Minds and Hearts …. and Celebrate, Acknowledge, Give Thanks to Flowering Flowing LIFE .. Giving Ourselves to Life by Immitating and Honoring IT .. with all its glorious texture and color and music and sense and playfull sexi sensuality. A chance?  if not a happy, life-affirming obligation.

And yes, the sweat to Shake our Beauty and the sweat to make it happen , is the best perfume. Speaking of which, we just implemented our second SYB event at El Cerrito High School .. kultimulchural dayclub social-style worldance .. everyone dances with everyone ..  to great results and viBz allaround.. Ms. Kronenberg and Dance Production ROX!

 

in a similar exuberant feeling … JLO + PitBull + Claudia Letitte lead us in this Copa Anthem WE ARE ONE …

 

“show the world where you’re from .. show the world we are One !”  It’s all connected … and it can be so much more beautiful for more and more of us every day … if we will Let it Be and actively help Make it So … keep a positive thought in your mind and heart… make OneLoveGalore your intention and sound track … Ask for Patience, Wisdom, and Guidance ….  Trust Jah’s Ways and Prepare to be Amazed …  and see y’all soon at worldOnefestival 2014 …

We are juiced this week to have chatted / communicated personally with Sister Carol on the subject of Live No Evil, Jenna Mammina re: new releases in multiple genre, and Andrew/Interchill re: Firedance Kaya Project .. you’ll be finding it all in the mixology at www.worldoneradio.org .. like worldOneloves Odilon + Michael in Brazil .. press p l > a y on the website or take us with you via the  free app TuneIn : search “worldoneradio” ..  worldOnelovesoulsoundunity  = ; ) ~

 

 

 

 

Thank You! Appreciation Mr. Marley and Tuff Gong .. more inna minute …

And Thank you, Salamat ! Mr. We ! for hand carrying seed-dees of Tinikling musics back from Pilipines!

 

And a Thank you SoleyJah and Working Company for allowing us to premier this Roots video “AftaHurricaine” by Bhy2R…

 

While keCg Youth Crew, my daily charge, have all kinds of supraG rubadubbermade lov, bOuNce, ran dom nes  s, NRG, and curiosity … along with broadly self-reflective, admitted generational laziness, distraction and/or procrastination …  arrgh!! +  XOALL! And Just being h u e m a n, adolescing, Earth, Bay Area, WE Day 2014.

Well, whod’a guessed. I suppose it’s more than time … lol !?           

We have been honored in several recent Recogntions and a Precious conversation: 

–   2013  Contra Costa County AC5 Fine Arts Award (Oct)      

–   unite4good Award  innovation : hero  ( Jan 2014)

–   Hometown Hero  (Feb 2014)  http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_25275220/hometown-hero-el-cerrito-high-teacher-makes-difference  

When we began this worldOneradio+festival Musical Odyssey nearly 20 years ago ( Hey! a musical ! ), with all the elements of a proper Odyssey/Journey .. Corey honestly b e l i e v e d that Listeners, Artists, Sponsors, Soccer Moms, Labels, Industry Executives, Administrators of various stripes would receive our proposal and intention happily and enthusiastically, virtually immediately… it all seemed so fresh, upwelling , present. new and old, musipoetically interesting, eclectic, culturally nuanced, educative, affirming, and natural. That last part? is what apparently has taken nearly 20 years to catch on? amidst all the erstwhile socio-cultural inertia or spasms and deepening clamor, titillation, stroboscopes and weapons of mass distraction, TMI, information-overload of Modern Times, Race Babbling. (Our particular one-more-radio-and-festival-option is certainly one kind of those).

20 years ago was when I had plenty of dark thick braided hair + a strong radio industry resume, and a car/van that was 20 years younger, to boot.  Well y’all know Corey felt compelled to immerse in Public Education, and simultaneously been “declined” by erstwhile industry radio, found a home for worldOneradio in little FM’s 88.1 keCg 97.7,(Thanks Phil, Prentice, Jeanie ) and @10 years subsequent, of course, online. The “Radio Industry” per say, was momentarily piqued, but ultimately unmoved by worldOne overtures, internally reactive and broadly convulsive (due to the emergence of internet), to the point where, today, I hardly recognize it, and likely vice versa. Life is a River and the river has moved on. Are you ridin’ in the river in you tiny canoe ? Are you sittin on the sidelines watchin the view?  (Speech)

Just perhaps … perhaps akin to a JAZ musician who, perhaps, finds a somewhat broader and receptive/appreciative audience, after a few decades, usually afar, and sometimes nearby ?

And perhaps, Akin to Gandalf, who having battled, tilted, exhausted and surrendered … transcending and travelling across space and time returned (to you,us ) as Gandalf the White (Ifa/Obatala) .. 

–  Youth Crew Iview with Ziggy David Nesta Marley(March2014) 

   

 

Thank you Mr. Marley and Tuff Gong ! http://tuffgong.com/  FLY RASTA! engaging lively and direct with th keCg Youth Crew 

Corey is taking a Spring Break moment here to again invite, an ALL Call to AllaYall .. to contribute, listen, feel, taste, dream, support, enjoy, dance, sing, work, sweat (the best perfume), cook, muse, swim, hike, bike … in some more perfect harmony … with Endless Appreciation to all our Community Friends, Families, Volunteers, Landlords, Framily, City, County, WCCUSD, ROP, Artists, Labels, Doug Wendt , Gregg Mcvicar, Recordists, Collaborators, Inspirators, VW Vanagon Mechanics, Butterflies BrrdsNBees, Earth and Sky, Ancestors, and my Beloved ceaselessly caring caressing Debra Sue …

who have supported and nurtured us this far …  through decades of Bright Blessed Days and Dark Inky Sacred Nights .. All Star All Right ..

Ziggy / Fly Rasta … ” I don’t want to live on Mars”  …

so .. where do we go from here? 

worldone a GO GO ! Go  Magic  Go! Go  Logic  Go! Go  Love  Go!

Go  Ecology  Go! Go  Peace  Go!  Go  AllaWe  Go !   = ; ) ~

 

We’re apparently on some kind of roll, magic carpet ride here? … an overnight sensation ! after @ 20 years .. lol !  GRATEFUL!  

It will mos def go to our hearts and not go to our heads .. still just makin the rent for our blessed home/office/heartquarters .. and el Caballo Rosado (88 VW COMBi) is just getting older  ….

 http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25275220  

Last month  .. Richmond’s Craneway Pavillion played host venue for unite4good Bay Area .. the continuing and evolving tour which is calling for a global consciousness and movement to do and be precisely, and manifold that.. united intention of goodness .. no small endeavor .. round the ol’ worldOneradio corral … we finna roll widdaT .. we finna shout boutiTst! .. no doubt boudiTst! .. after all, so-much-trouble-in-the-world, much unnecessary negative stress and grief in the world .. Really …. what is there left, what else? to do ?

We met many beautiful, dedicated, talented, UPful people faallin UP! while the tour was here .. precious and fast moving,  while unite4good surveyed glocal life on the ground on the East Bay Rim .. the tour actively deliberated and chose Richmond as its destination after NYC and Miami (Respect! to SF or LA) .. and among others, unite4good chose to acknowledge djworldOnelove (Corey) and WCCUSD 88.1 keCg 97.7 as the recipient of a community “Hero” award… for our works of nearly 20 years in musicultral Arts and Education. We are honored . Thank you and GO !  unite4good.

To wit .. of late, and for iver, a thematic song on-air with us, is the onederful inspiratorial shuffle +  by Nightmares on Wax … i do be .. … ” be the most magnificent.. live a life that’s benvolent .. be the highest of the highest or anything equivalent .. i do be  .. “   Thank you and Respect ! dj Ease / George Evelyn + N o W crew  .. ROOTS! SOUL! ROKON! 

These last several weeks have demanded some of the heaviest lifting and full engagement in recent memory … as an urban amorista edjujucator ..

so I especially appreciate some LIFT like this .. getchoself some Pharrell Williams kind of happy … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM&feature=kp .. and speaking of happiness … sometimes you have to be your own sunshine .. and sometimes, like NYE, My Beloved She, is Giving Me the Ooh~La~ La !

worldOnefestival 2014 is now on the summer horizon ..  herewith announced for your enjoyment and planning .. 

 

and thus we have much for which to be Grateful and much to look forward to .. yaymen !

When worldOneradio was concieved @ ’94 ish .. I asked a consumately talented jazz friend, Mr. Rich Sigberman, to render his fine craft as Artist to create a modest, sincere invocation.. like a ketubah .. to visualize the intention for worldOneradio .. it resides in the center of our home sanctuary … along with images of objects that Rich observed while visiting in our thence SF home … a  micromacro image including Nike (the Goddess), a decahedron, cruciform, a cosmic dancing Tara, supernova heart + double bass ..  it is inscribed …. Raise Divine Sparks ..  

excerpted from innerfrontier.org  … 

Isaac Luria, the renowned sixteenth century Kabbalist, used the phrase “tikkun olam,” usually translated as repairing the world, to encapsulate the true role of humanity in the ongoing evolution and spiritualization of the cosmos. Luria taught that God created the world by forming vessels of light to hold the Divine Light. But as God poured the Light into the vessels, they catastrophically shattered, tumbling down toward the realm of matter. Thus, our world consists of countless shards of the original vessels entrapping sparks of the Divine Light. Humanity’s great task involves helping God by freeing and reuniting the scattered Light, raising the sparks back to Divinity and restoring the broken world.

it takes a village to raise child …

it takes a world ? to raise our selves and our world ? toward G– ? 

Start living on a higher vibration

Now we take it to the heights of creation

Perfection of divinity
Is everyone’s duty
Don’t waste your time
Living for the vanities

We are creatures of faith
Victims of destiny
Which we create

Now we living on a higher vibration
‘Cause we take it to the heights of creation

Ziggy Marley – Higher Vibration .. 

livealohalive ..  

the next and shortest poem in all poetry?  ..

Go YOU ! GO ! Me ! Go ! WE !        = ; ) ~