Dan Freeman Jaffe and Kansas City jazz musicians Mike Ning, keyboard, and Victor Perelmuter, drums, entertained the new Charter Participants of the Homestead Innovation Congress Saturday, October 10, 2009. Jaffe’s poetry and the jazz combo honored homesteaders past and present with a five part blues movement that embodied the journey of homesteaders from the late eighteen-eighties to today. The dinner, hosted at Beatrice Valentino’s restaurant, was the Friends of Homestead way of saying thank-you for supporting the new Homestead Innovation “160 Acres-160 Dollars” program. There is still time to join the program as a charter member as all donors giving gifts of $160 or more during 2009 will be known as Charter Participants. Gifts will be recognized on the Levels of Giving Recognition Board at the entrance of the Homestead National Monument Heritage Center.
The Homestead Innovation Congress is a group within the Friends of Homestead organization that is dedicated to increasing communications and awareness of Homestead National Monument of America. The sponsor gift for the Homestead Innovation Congress is $160 per single (couple). Please make checks payable to the "Homestead Congress" and mail to:
Friends of Homestead
8523 West State Highway 4
Beatrice, NE 68310
Ning at left on keyboard, Jaffe center mic, Perelmuter at right on drums
http://web2.umkc.edu/bkmk/interviews/jaffed.html
Playing the World jazz poems by Don Jaffe
http://web2.umkc.edu/bkmk/catalogue/1-886157-34-0.html
Jazz Times
http://jazztimes.com/articles/19855-blues-for-bird-martin-gray
Familiar name visits Homestead
By Chris Dunker/Daily Sun staff writer
Monday, Oct 12, 2009 - 10:23:43 am CDT
http://www.beatricedailysun.com/articles/2009/10/12/news/local/doc4ad3462206255035776306.txt