Updates

While I was travelling through RI, a few interesting news articles and links sprung up related to some of my previous blog topics:

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration from Madison Square Garden: "We Shall Overcome"(taped in May) started airing on PBS and their site has some footage of the concert. I was disappointed to miss that show live, so was overjoyed to see him last weekend in Newport along with other folk music icons (hear his set and the others here)! Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Arlo Guthrie still inspire with their music and poetry, and all look and sound terrific. The younger artists who also performed at the festival are ensuring an eclectic future to this beloved music genre. I am going to go set my Tivo now to catch this historic and loving birthday concert tribute.

Ken Burns appeared at the Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour to promote his The National Parks: America's Best Idea doc with park ranger Shelton Johnson, who is one of the key and engaging faces of the film. The film is set to premiere on PBS in September.

And the gods must have been listening to me, because at the same event, PBS announced an upcoming American Masters biographical doc, Joan Baez: Sing Me Home. She still sounds and looks beautiful, so I can't wait for this tribute to premiere in October.

The Smithsonian just acquired Julia Child's wall of copper pots that originally hung in her iconic Cambridge, Mass. kitchen during her years there on and off camera, and were on loan to another museum. Her husband had traced the outline of each pot on the wall so Julia could return them to their proper place after use. Julie & Julia opens today to good reviews, and the outlining moment is sweetly captured in the film.

Docs are always in the news!