Third Annual Ray Korona Song Night
Saturday April 8, 8pm
at the PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE Community Church, 40 E 35th (near Park), NYC 10016
contribution $20 • subscribers $12 • no one turned away
raykorona.com • peoplesvoicecafe.org
flyer to share • facebook event to share

“We need more Ray Korona songs!” We hear this a lot from people struggling to survive the Trump regime. It is ­striking how many of his songs are more relevant today than ever. “It’s Still the Sixties” for sure. Ray wrote songs about jobs, Social Security, health care, war and the nuclear brink, water, the environment, prisons, ­homelessness, women’s rights and more. Perhaps what we need most now from Ray’s music is his optimistic ­vision of the future. His songs encourage us and empower us to fight back!

Please join us for our third annual concert of Ray Korona songs since he passed away. The band – Ivice, Barry ­Kornhauser, Ellen Davidson, Gina Tlamsa and Sharon Abreu — augmented by Laura Liben and Chris Owens – will ­present a ­number of his songs. Interspersed will be guest performances by Steve Brant, Joel Cohen, Suzanne Cohen, Lydia Adams Davis, Lisa Garrison, Emma Graves, Sharleen Leahey, Adele Rolider, Ben Silver, Steve Suffet, Mercy Van Vlack and Lindsey Wilson.

We encourage you to bring flyers about your activist events. Our program is packed, so we will have extremely limited time for announcements from the stage.

See you in a few days, and in the meantime, check out the many videos on the Ray Korona Band website:
http://raykorona.com/videos.htm
In Solidarity,
Ruthie Indeck and the Ray Korona Band

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Saturday April 8, 8pm

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
at Community Church
40 E 35th (near Park), NYC

contribution $20, subscribers $12, no one turned away

peoplesvoicecafe.org
raykorona.com

Featuring

The Band
Ivice, Barry Kornhauser, Ellen Davidson & Gina Tlamsa
augmented by Laura Liben & Chris Owens

Guest Artists
Steve Brant, Joel Cohen, Suzanne Cohen, Lydia Adams Davis,
Lisa Garrison, Emma Graves, Sharleen Leahey, Adele Rolider,
Ben Silver, Steve Suffet & Lindsey Wilson

More information, plus photos, coming soon!

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
at Community Church
40 E 35th (near Park), NYC

contribution $18, subscribers $10, no one turned away
peoplesvoicecafe.org
raykorona.com

Featuring

The Band
Ivice, Barry Kornhauser, Ellen Davidson, Gina Tlamsa & Sharon Abreu augmented by Dave Tarlo, Rick Ulfik, Laura Liben, Chris Owens & Paul Stein

Guest Artists
Mercy Van Vlack, DuPree, Joel Landy, Liz Zelvin, Laura Warfield, Jenny Hurwitz and Talbot Katz, Julie Weiner, NYC Street Singers, and Marie Mularczyk O’Connell, Doreen D’Amico and Kathy Devine

More information, plus photos, coming soon!

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For those of you who don’t know, I am Ray Korona’s Life Partner. I wanted to make sure everyone listed in his email address book received this note, so please excuse duplication if you have already received it. Also, I tried to send to the whole list yesterday and that didn’t seem to work, so I’m sending again in smaller batches.

I hope eventually everybody will think about Ray and get the usual happy feeling, but for now I am sad to say that Ray passed away at 6:00 pm Thursday, Oct. 16, at Hackensack UMC. I was there, along with his brother and sister and in-laws, some nieces and nephews, and several friends. We played Ray’s cds. Gina Tlamsa, a friend and member of the Ray Korona Band, added great beauty and peace to the day by playing the flute.

Ray was diagnosed with Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma about a year ago, and after chemo as part of a clinical trial, he was feeling pretty good most of last winter and spring. He went into remission and was able to perform in the annual Ray Korona Band show in April. In May he had  a stem cell transplant, which was supposed to give him a much better chance of staying in remission. In August we learned that the cancer had come back. He tried one kind of chemo and felt good for several weeks, but then it didn’t seem to be working well enough.

Two and a half weeks ago Ray checked into the hospital because his doctor wanted to investigate some blood test results. His immune system readings were also low, and he had been needing transfusions periodically. He had also just had the first infusion of a different chemo drug. We thought this would be a routine visit to fix a few things and continue as an outpatient, but various symptoms, like shortness of breath, started to get worse. Monday Ray got Sepsis and was moved to the ICU. Tuesday he seemed to be getting better, but after that things got worse again and Thursday the doctor called us all in. In short, this was a very strong and aggressive cancer. There have been a lot of new developments in its treatment in recent years, but apparently not enough.

A lot of you have been asking me what you can do to help. I’m not really sure at this point, but on a personal level I will certainly take some of you up on your offers. The main thing I can think of is something Ray cared about deeply: sing Ray’s songs and try to get his music heard by as many people as possible. (http://www.raykorona.com)

Community Church (home of the Peoples’ Voice Cafe), will be hosting a public celebration of Ray, hopefully within 2 months. And members of the Ray Korona Band will be singing a few of his songs as part of the Peoples’ Voice Cafe 35th Anniversary Celebration, November 22.

Thank you again for all your support over the past year and a half, and your continuing support now.

With love,

Ruthie Indeck

soapbox@comcast.net

Good News loved Ray Korona.  We did many Peace and Water Shows with him, he was the most sincere loving men we ever met.  He always made you feel good and special, but he always was the one who was SO SPECIAL.  We loved  him and know he and his music are still and will always be around us.

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Children & Adults Wanted: For Super Duper FREE Pumpkin Party With Pete Seeger & Friends. Come Halloween Day To The Wonderful Pier On 26th St. NYC. At Night A Free Spooky Fun Fest

New York, NY: On Halloween October 31st there will be two parties, one for children (costumes optional, first 100 get Hugg-A-Planet) from 12 noon-5PM headlined by Pete Seeger & Friends, at night 9PM, in costume, a spooky dance party fun fest.

Pete Seeger & Friends – The folk music icon, founded the environmental organization the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. The Clearwater is an enjoyable and educational sailboat, reaching out to and used by school children state-wide. The event will benefit the NY Friends of the Clearwater. http://www.nycfriendsofclearwater.org/halloweenpumpkinparty.htm

www.goodnewsbroadcast.com is a media corporation whose mission is to find, receive and create life affirming, thought provoking good news, entertainment and events. GNB has over 5,000 Good News Original Shows. This event will also benefit their not for profit 501 C 3 dedicated to helping young and old to understand the media, as well as internship and humanitarian programs.

Appearing will be Victorio Roland Mousaa Ray Korona Joel Landy Cy Adler, Caitlin O’Heaney Chris Lang Emma Graves Harvey Newman Jenny Hurwitz Dan Einbender Pat Lamanna Steve Suffet Anne Price, Anna Rose, C . Eule Dancers perform “The Faucets are Dripping”, Mary Poppiins & her “Spoons”, Gloria Waslyn & her “Parrots For Peace”, Jacob Bernz Sarah Armour and Paul Sladkus of Good News will host.

The day and evening event will become an annual event, so dont miss it. Super Barbecued Food and Refreshments will be available

The entire program will broadcast on www.goodnewsbroadcast.com at all later date.

Donations in honor of this Good News Broadcast event have been made to: Children Affected by AIDS Foundation by Toys R Us for $25,000.

Thanks to Auster Events (Event Marketing) and World Water Rescue Foundation.

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