“BETTY” The Workshop Series, with special guest-Carol Jenkins.

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An evening of alternative rock, humor and seriousness.  This was the 3rd performance in the BETTY workshop series of social justice jams with fierce prominent activists working for change in America.  BETTY rocked to a full house at the 92Y Tribeca, NYC.  The audience was clearly enjoying the performance of songs that were varied in their subject matter, a little something about life for everyone.  No matter what you took from each song or how it related to you, seriousness was evident when Carol Jenkins joined the band to perform a spoken word piece titled “Remaking America?/O Beautiful” .  In her piece Jenkins reflects on her own racially diverse family, Trayvon Martin, New York’s stop and frisk law and Barack Obama, our biracial President, the poor and the vulnerable.  Carol Jenkins is an Emmy award winner and former television anchor and correspondent, with WNBC-TV in New York.  Jenkins is the founding president of the Women’s Media Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization for women pursuing visible careers in media all the way to the highest levels.

Def Jam’s photo exhibit. The Last Great Record Label

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Thursday April 12th I attended the (Kings Of Rock) photography exhibit commemorating the Beastie Boys by Sunny Bak and Def Jam artist management photos by Talib Adbul HaqqThe reception was preceded with a presentation and book-signing devoted to “Def Jam:  The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label,” featuring Bill Adler and Dan Charnas — the book’s authors — along with Cey Adams Def Jam’s founding Creative Director and the book’s designer. Dj Jazzy Jay was also on hand to sign copies of the book.  The Beastie Boys recorded their first album, Licensed To Ill, for Def Jam.  The evening was informative about the things that went on in the background, a little Reminiscent  of the Motown family of artists on the road.  The impression was of a time before artist beef was a tool to sell records.  The event was certainly time well spent.