Fran McKendree: Links
Really Helpful Organizations
- Sawyerville Work Project
- This is a wonderful, ongoing project...life changing.
- Doctors Without Borders
One of the best...
- Heifer Project
- One of the best in the world...please visit the site and make a difference!
- Free Wheelchair Mission
These folks are doing GREAT things. When you donate, please note that it should go through Joseph Prickett Participant ID; # 224795909
Joseph is a teen ager who I met recently in NE. He's raised an amazing amount for this very worthy and life-changing group.
Thanks for your generosity!
http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/site/c.fgLFIXOJKtF/b.5610021/k.B5AE/Be_the_Light_Popup.htm
- Save the Polar Bears
Very important work. Please give as generously as you can!
- Bread for the World
When you're looking for a way to help...
- Music Maker Relief Foundation
helping older bluesmen and women from the south through tough times, and doing a great job of it.
- Science and Spirit
very interesting stuff here...
- Woodstock Chimes
These folks make beautiful sounding wind chimes, and they are currently donating a healthy portion of sales to the Clearwater Sloop, supporting its mission of protecting the Hudson River. The Hudson River Chime, which I was recently given by a friend, has chimes which sound the 5 note pentatonic scale of Pete Seeger's 'My Dirty Stream.' Here's a photo I took of a sunrise over the Hudson, looking out from the Holy Cross Monastery, about an hour north of NYC.
- Center for Progressive Christianity
The Center for Progressive Christianity site is a wonderful resource for folks looking for fresh ideas about liturgy, language, art and creative expression of all kinds. They have recently developed a new curriculum for Sunday school called 'A Joyful Path,' which looks great. Check them out, and drop them an email to let them know you've visited.
musicians
- Charles Milling
Charles is an amazingly gifted musician and dear friend. I had the joy of playing a bit of dulcimer on his first release 'Soul Mother,' and he produced my latest cd 'Rise.' Please visit his site, order 'Soul Mother,' and spread the word!
- Lindsey Blount
She's incredible!! Voice of an angel. If Earl [Saving Grace] could sing, he'd sound like this!
- McKendree Spring
McKendree Spring, the band I was in thru most of my 20's...dear friends and brothers, Marty and Michael. We reunited in May of '06 for a reunion show at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, OH, which we recorded. It's the live recording everyone always told us we should do!
- Jean Gauthier
Jean has a powerful voice and unique style. I had the pleasure of producing her latest cd 'Feels Like Home.' Jean lives in the Boston area. Please visit her site, and support this gifted and wonderful woman.
- The Red Wellies
I co-produced and engineered at my Teerivane Studios a cd for an incredibly talented Irish traditional group, The Red Wellies, who live in the Asheville, NC. This recording will have you feeling like you're sitting next to them in a pub on a misty night in Ireland.
As Randall Bays, the noted Irish player, has said:
'The Red Wellies,' a new cd of traditional Irish fiddles and bouzouki, is that rarest of recordings that combines superb musicianship, great feeling, and a rock solid sense of rhythm and style. Fiddlers Beanie Odell, Duncan Wickel and bouzouki player Vincent Fogarty have made a wonderful debut cd that will be enjoyed by any fan of Irish music. They may not be known [yet] outside their mountain home in North Carolina, but their music is in a league with the very best of Irish traditional music.www.ossianusa.com
www.myspace.com/redwelliesirish
- River Guerguerian
- River is an inspirational musician...unique and visionary, fun and profound. I experienced the joy of working with him during the 2008 Advent conference that I co-coordinated at Kanuga. Please visit his site, and treat yourself to his music.
- Yehudit Lieberman
dear friend and fantastic violinist. We've worked together over the years doing community building workshops for the group 'the Foundation for Community Encouragement.'
- www.eliotwadopian.com
Eliot is a bassist extraodinaire! Dear friend and all around incredible musician.
- www.thewaybacks.com
Great group...longtime friend and colleague, Chuck Hamilton is the drummer in this very unique band.
- Kira Small
Kira is a fantastic, soulful singer in Nashville, TN. Her song 'I Will Raise My Voice' is a masterpiece! Please visit her site, and buy her cds!
wise ones
- www.johnphilipnewell.com
My dear friend and teacher...visit his site...you'll be in the company of a wise and wonderful visionary.
- SignChiDo
Dr. Anne Borik has created a wonderful and unique combination of movement and prayer. Breathe deeply, be calm and be present...
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Life changing insights from this incredibly gifted writer/teacher
- Read the Spirit
David Crumm has created a wonderfully rich and insightful site here. Tons of information, stories and interviews that you won't find anywhere else.
friends and colleagues
- Jenifer Gamber
- Jenifer is an author and teacher, doing great work in the field of the faith journeys of youth and adults. Please visit her site for more information.