Indie Roots tour coverage (UPDATE)

The Washington Post and the Associated Press covered the Indie Roots tour over the weekend. This makes the tour a success -- many more people will read these than we could reach playing city to city.

The Washington Post ran a photo of me and a photo of The Dance Party in the print edition, and video of Analog Jetpack on the online edition. That's Mick of The Dance Party singing backup vocals with me.

Story / Video

The Associated Press covered our meeting with celebrity via Colbert Report, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Story

And today I'll be singing on the National Mall, at the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol. I'll go on around 4:30 pm:

www.votingrightsmarch.org

UPDATE: The crazy wind and rain didn't stop the march, but it did restrict the activities at the Capitol reflecting pool. The scheduled 2-hour program was reduced to a few speakers, including Mayor Fenty, and then there was a mixer or something with Joe Lieberman in the Dirksen Senate Office Building afterwards. So I didn't get to sing, but I braved the wind and rain to get down and see the crowds of a thousand or so. Good times.

The DC Voting Rights Tour 2007 leaves in one week!

Brothers and sisters!

One week from today, The DC Voting Rights Tour 2007 smashes the proverbial bottle of champagne over its metaphorical hull as we set off for Philadelphia! We've been inundating the press and buzzing the social networking sites, and we want you to help us get the word out. We've got one week left to generate a turnout -- not just for amazing indie music, but to baptize the unwashed heathen with the gospel of DC voting rights!!

Aside from being District citizens, we love this issue because it is inherently non-political. Everyone can support voting rights for the DC citizens, because it's the American way. It's why we revolted against Great Britain: to have a say in the government that taxes us, makes laws and wages war. And we're 580,000 people like you that don't have that vote. The blinding irony, of course, is that we are the seat of power of history's greatest democracy.

Do you have any friends or family in the cities listed below? Old college pals? Fickle internet acquaintances? You can let them know by forwarding this email, blogging about the tour, posting it on message boards, IM'ing, texting, calling, and sending a postcard. We recommend all of these in rapid succession. If you want to use our tour posters, you can download all three of them or link to them here:

http://www.indieroots.org/thenationaltour/indierootsoldgeorge.gif
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Finally, and most importantly for our friends in the DC metro area, the DC voting rights tour culminates in DCVote.org 's Voting Rights March on the Capitol (www.votingrightsmarch.org ) April 16th, at which I'll be singing a new song called "Three Red Stars", an anthem for the District in support of the two-century old issue of voting rights. I'll be joined by some of the members of the bands on the tour below, and we hope you'll come out to take place in this historic celebration.

However you can help us get the word out, we'd love you for it! On behalf of Indie Roots, myself, Max, Dan, Gist, The Dance Party, Analog Jetpack and Telemetrik, thanks for your help in making this historic change. Check out our lineups below and read more about everything at www.indieroots.org.

yrs,


rob getzschman
Indie Roots DC, Inc.
www.indieroots.org


Tuesday, April 10th
The Manhattan Room - Philadelphia, PA
http://themanhattanroom.com/
11:00 - Gist
10:00 - Analog Jetpack
9:00 - The Dance Party
8:30 - Telemetrik

Wednesday, April 11th
Cafe Nine - New Haven, CT
http://cafenine.com/schedule.html
9:00 - Analog Jetpack
8:15 - The Dance Party
7:30 - Gist
7:00 - Telemetrik

Thursday, April 12th
T.T. the Bear's - Boston, MA
http://ttthebears.com/public/calendar.php?month=4&year=2007
12:00 - The Dance Party
11:00 - Gist
10:00 - Analog Jetpack
9:00 - Telemetrik

Friday, April 13th
Firehouse 13 - Providence, RI
http://www.firehouse13.org/index.php
11:00 - Analog Jetpack
10:00 - Gist
9:00 - The Dance Party
8:30 - Telemetrik

Saturday, April 14th
Galapagos Art Space - Brooklyn, NY
http://www.galapagosartspace.com/events2.html
9:00 - The Dance Party
8:00 - Pawns
7:00 - Analog Jetpack
6:30 - Telemetrik

Tour poster #3 from Pocheco

Are you ready to rock (falsetto scream)??? The Indie Roots tour rolls in one week!!

due gratitude to Pocheco for the art to guide us on our travels.

H.R. 1433 passes the House...

... and Bush's advisors are urging the President to veto it. There's a showdown brewing...



Gist
Analog Jepack
The Dance Party
Telemetrik



(from the Indie Roots blog)

Hear ye!

Dig a new song on the Indie Roots profile page, and all ye with ears to listen:

grazi to Pocheco for the design!

Our response to "DC is not a state"

The Bush administration intends to veto the House bill which would give DC citizens a vote in the house. To that, we say



grazi to Pocheco for the design!

DC Vote eBulletin covers Indie Roots

Got some love today from the authority on DC voting rights, DCVote.org! Having their support is great, because they know DC voting rights from Adam. Read up:

http://www.dcvote.org/library/bulletin.cfm?bulletinID=38#tvspfeevwa

Exclusive soft launch: indieroots.org!!

MySpacers et al:

Today I offer a salve to all the slandercasts, sloganeering and slacktivism of the last 7 years. Some DC friends and I have formed a non-profit with a specific mission: to realize voting rights for the District of Columbia.

It's my feeling that effectively no one in America knows that DC citizens have no Senator nor Congressman. Congress has "exclusive" power over the city of DC, but we don't have a vote in Congress, even as we pay taxes and serve in the military. It's been like that since 1801.

Our remedy for these ails is to take a tour of DC bands coast to coast to let America know.

Please read all about it at

www.indieroots.org

The site is still in development, but we're starting to spread it underground to get the word out. And then we'll release a firestorm of sexxy press releases on the mass media. And then we'll be on Good Morning, America.

We feel like this issue is a no-brainer. Who can say 580,000 citizens don't deserve voting representation in Congress? That's why it's a cure for the slacktivist flash-animation blog assassinations of the political '00s, because this is something we can all believe in, without an ill word toward any party involved. Dig more on the site, and here on MySpace, you can add us at myspace.com/indierootsdc!