By Syndicated Content
Feb 12, 2021 5:00 PM Just a reminder that the star-studded virtual charity concert Food for Love is taking place this Saturday, Valentine s Day Eve, February 13. The event, which will raise money to help feed hungry people in New Mexico, will include performances by Jackson Browne , ex- Talking Heads frontman David Byrne , Doors drummer John Densmore , The Grateful Dead s Mickey Hart and dozens of others. The show is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET on February 13, and will stream at FoodforLove.org and the Food for Love YouTube channel . The program will be available for viewing for 48 hours after it first airs.
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The Chicks is one of more than 50 musical acts to perform as part of the “Food for Love” concert, benefiting New Mexico food banks. (Courtesy of The Chicks)
The word is out about “Food for Love.”
That excites Jo Harvey Allen.
The online concert was organized by country singer Terry Allen and his actress wife, Jo Harvey as a benefit for New Mexico food banks. The couple resides in New Mexico. More than 50 performers are donating their time to the cause, which has picked up national attention. Recently, Rolling Stone wrote about the event and David Byrne mentioned it in his weekly newsletter to millions of fans.
Viewers may stream the event until midnight on Feb. 15.
There is no charge to watch the event, but donations are encouraged.
FARMINGTON A Farmington jazz, funk and hip hop quartet will debut the video for a new single during the Food for Love virtual benefit concert Feb. 13 that features such performers as The Chicks, David Byrne, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Jackson Browne.
Farmington s DDAT will be featured in a video for the single Coming Home, one of the songs off the group s Born in an Odd Time album that was recorded in August at Frogville Studios in Santa Fe.
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Says Byrne: “On February 13 (Valentine’s Day Eve), some musician friends of mine, and many I’ve never met, are doing a virtual concert to raise money for meals for New Mexico’s hardest hit. New Mexico ranks almost at the bottom in poverty (49th) in the US and the Navajo and other Native American lands have long been short of basic health, jobs and education services- so the impact of Covid on these folks has been devastating.
“How in the world are they going to fit all these folks into one show? We’ll see.
Mutual appreciation
“Now for some folks my connection to these musicians might seem a little odd – we don’t exactly make the same kind of music – but I sense there exists some mutual appreciation – it’s certainly there from my end. I met Terry Allen, the artist and musician who helped put this together, in the mid eighties when I was making the