-Our 1970 HAIR musical experience and why it still matters today
As we move towards world peace through economic justice we will also start organizing a musical concert in Ireland modeled after the 1985 Live Aid concert for famine relief in Africa. The sponsors of Live Aid took an issue nobody cared about, put it in front of 2 billion people through music and raised $127 million. But today millions are still at risk from famine.
This exposes the truth that focusing on famine relief was never going to be a remedy for famine. Our concert will promote a genuine solution through creating an economy of peace as the foundation that will address all human-made problems and that will lead to world peace.
Our musical inspiration comes from the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical HAIR. In its time HAIR was the center of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement; delivering a riveting political and social awakening. We lived our experience with HAIR when we became a part of the Boston production in 1970. HAIR's anti-war theme was shared by millions of Americans. Its finale song Flesh Failures Let the Sunshine In was an anthem for the peace movement that still stirs the soul today. Our effort towards peace through economic justice, dialogue and music will free us from the spell of endless war.
The concert will also help bring back the peace movement robbed from our generation by forces manipulating the Anti-Vietnam War Movement from behind the scenes. Changing the tone will re-orient people's thinking from war to peace.
By connecting to our shared past through the land that gave birth to the Fitzgerald legacy we will be stirring the spirit of the mythical Gear??id Iarla whom legend tells will rise from the dead at the end of time to free the Irish people from empire. Now is the time for the fulfillment of that prophecy.
The perfect setting to build a world peace consciousness through music is at the 5500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site north of Dublin known as Newgrange. In the Celtic calendar, August 1st was the Feast of Lughnasa in honor of the Irish god Lugh-- brother of the Dagda - the chief god of the Tuatha de Dannan-- And Newgrange was his home.
We were first brought into the vortex of this megalithic passage tomb on August 1, 1997, at Dublin airport when the driver of the shuttle bus posed a question after reading the name tag on our luggage. Who's the Fitzgerald? He asked. We are our son responded . Well so am I he said. That was the first hint that something unusual was happening.
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