Hey, thanks for showing up.

Just a big welcome to everyone who is new here this week. And, if you joined us in Central Park this past weekend and are now reading this in another part of the country or another part of the world, keep in touch, okay? And, tell your friends about this site. We're gonna have some cool stuff comin' up.

This past weekend I had one of those great weekends of sharing music with you good people in the coolest city in the world and the feeling went really deep. I'm still feeling it.

Thanks.

"The Hill" in Central Park

Listen... before anything else. If you live in or around New York City, I'm gonna be over at Chelsea Pier tonight between 8:00 and 10:00 as part of a huge benefit concert and gathering to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. New Yorkers will come together starting at 6:30 pm, at Pier 63 to show their empathy for victims of Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and beyond. There is a thread or topic in the message board over there ("Forum") all about it. Maybe I'll see you there later, okay?

And, by the way, if anybody has been thinking of buying an extra copy of "Common Ground" or "Crazy on the Same Day" or the single "JesusLand"... for now, go get it from this company, CD BABY... and EVERY NICKEL of my profits goes to the relief effort on the Gulf Coast.

Okay!

This past weekend... man!

Were you there? In Central Park!?

I've been asking people to email their photos from my concerts on "The Hill", and so I'm getting a whole bunch of really great shots these days. Here is a little angel that just needed to get up and sing a Beatles tune with me on Saturday.

Very cool.

Y'know, when I look into the face of this little girl, so happy, soooo serious about the song she's singing, so open-hearted... as I walk around the streets of Manhattan seeing kids just like her, I can't help but think of the children exactly her age who are suffering so terribly because of the war in Iraq. Thousands of kids just like her, with slightly browner skin, who are living in the midst of unspeakable fear and violence.

That's why this weekend in the park I actually approached some of you on "The Hill" personally to ask if you want to help out with the VOICES TOGETHER Concert in January. Please email me and let me know if you really do want to help out with producing this gig. I will meet you for coffee, and sit down, and listen to what you think you can bring to the party. Right now, we need to raise about another 10 to 15 thousand dollars. It's so cool... already, the "People on the Hill"... you guys... have raised over $10,000. Maybe we'll find that one or two angels among us who can afford to give $1,000 or $5,000 or more. IT'S ALL TAX-DEDUCTIBLE so that oughta help!

If you don't know what I'm talking about... this concert is part of a sincere effort to get as much help as we possibly can directly to the innocent civilian families, especially the children, who are living through the war in Iraq.Voices Together website as a concert "producer". Because that's exactly what you are!

This is gonna be a very special night, sometime in January here in New York City. And, like I said, you are welcome to be a real part of it. Help us produce this concert so that we can help some very special people who are doing some very remarkable work in that part of the world, okay?

And, it'll feel good to help. And... it'll actually be fun.

Y'know what!? Click on this logo and visit the new website...

...and, find out how you can be a real part of the VOICES TOGETHER concert. Really make a difference for the better in this world, when ordinary people here reach out to help the ordinary people of Iraq. Please help make a very real and direct difference. Don't you think it would be so much harder to hate someone if they were bandaging your child's head? Don't you think we'd create one less enemy if we flew somone's wife or brother to the United States to get medical treatment for that leg that was blown off, or those eyes that were so badly burned? It is just the right thing... no... the Good thing to do. There are children being hurt and horribly injured every day in Iraq with nearly no one to help them. Ordinary people... civilians, every day, whose lives are being torn apart by this war.

They need help... period.

We need to raise $50,000 in the next week or so.

Can you help?

Hope so.

Okay... again... thanks for stopping by.

Feel free to email me through the "Contact" button if you feel like it... with song suggestions, or whatever. To share what's on your mind, you can jump into the "Forum", too. (But, all I ask is that you be cool in there, okay?)

Maybe I'll see you at Chelsea Pier tonight.

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Thanks again.

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