Moving Mountains CD Produces First Grant — Get Yours Today
Aug 31st, 2009 by admin
We’re excited to announce that our friends at Aurora Lights have produced an amazing CD to raise awareness about the issue of mountaintop removal as well as highlight the beauty and culture that make Appalachia so important.
Thanks to all those who worked on this CD project — and if you haven’t yet, pick yours up today! Proceeds go towards coalfield justice work.
From Aurora Lights:
Aurora Lights is happy to announce that with the help of many volunteers, we have sold enough CDs to give our first grant! Our first grant is going to support the kitchen that feeds the volunteer action team in Rock Creek. It take a lot of people to keep the tree sitters in the trees! Please help us to raise money for another grant by purchasing Still Moving Mountains, or by helping to sell them!
A unique combination of music, visuals, and community involvement, “Still Moving Mountains: The Journey Home” unleashes the passion and urgency empowering the coalfield justice movement in Appalachia at this critical time. Still Moving Mountains combines interviews with local residents impacted by mountaintop removal with a mixture of local and well-known artists: Kathy Mattea, Del McCoury, Blue Highway, Everett Lilly and the Lilly Mountaineers, Great American Taxi, and Andrew McKnight. The CD goes hand in hand with Journey Up Coal River, a multimedia website featuring interviews, photographs, maps, and lesson plans centered around the Coal River Valley in southern West Virginia.
All proceeds from the album will be used for educational and charitable purposes consistent with Aurora Lights’ mission to raise awareness of the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. The album is a sequel to 2004′s successful “Moving Mountains,” a musical compilation of artists and residents released by Falling Mountain Music which raised more than $6,000 for local grassroots work.
Please help us get the word out! Click here for code tailored to your website to embed the CD graphic.
Reviews:
New soundtrack/website rocks the coalfield justice movement | Grist, Jeff Biggers
Music Review : Still Moving Mountains “The Journey Home” | Head-On Radio Network, Jon Fox
