..wow...what a great idea......so how can we help??......

(check out http://www.amtrak.com for all the CONO stops).......

What kj said ... we'll help as much as we can. The City of New Orleans (both of them) Lives AND Rocks! I hope we can meet the train at one of the stops; we're going to try to.

HOW COOL IS THIS!!?? What a wonderful idea!! I'm with KJ and Shel -- what can we do to help?? Don't ya just wish you could be on that train for the trip?? I DO!! Tell us, ARLO -- how can we help??

I would love to be a part of this please let me know what I can do...Love to be on that train.....is that possible

Uhh, did I miss this? What's the BIG idea?

Was there an earlier thread, or is this TOP SECRET and therefore censored by the immoderator?

(Pssssstt, it's hidden in the schedule page)

....ssshhhh Petie....and also on that news flash that flies across the front page of the site....like on CNN??..... (hardly ever read those, i'm a unitasker).....

....hey, i don't know any secrets....not my loop....suppose that sooner or later we'll know how to help out.....

good to see ya, Petie.....

If it moves, I don't read it.



Or eat it...

Try checking the schedule... the new dates in December... there's a pop-up when you mouse-over the dates...

But really, Arlo, something bigger on the Announcements page would be cool. It took me a while to figure out what people were talking about, too!

I saw it right away, as soon as I went to this site. But I couldn't read it. It's too small, fancy font and scrolls too quickly.... maybe slow it down a little bit? And change the font to Arial or Times New Roman?

My sister wants to make the trip! We have a piano to donate, but don't know how we'd get it to where it would need to be gotten to. It's an OLD semi-upright (well, a shorter than average upright)... black... old, did I say old? Needs to be tuned, also.... but it's free if you want it.

Ellen has 2 of my dad's saxophones... she's getting them appraised tomorrow.... maybe a clarinet too... not sure yet. How can we donate these items?

HEY!!!,..... I played one like that in my high school marching band!!!

I found this article on it online:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... eb287028_1

Christmas on the City of New Orleans with Arlo Guthrie and Friends Are Bringing Back the Music - Benefiting Victims of Katrina

Tue Sep 20, 3:00 AM ET

(PRWEB) - Sebastian, Fla.(PRWEB) September 20, 2005 -- Arlo Guthrie and friends will travel from Chicago, IL, to New Orleans, LA, on Amtrak"s "The City of New Orleans," performing at train stations and venues along the way to benefit the small venues destroyed by Katrina. They plan to depart Chicago on Dec. 5 and arrive in or near New Orleans on Dec. 17.


Focusing on small clubs and venues, Arlo and friends will collect and deliver pro music related gear (sound boards, cables, lighting, staging, etc.) to New Orleans and throughout the disaster area from Hurricane Katrina, to help them get up and operating as quickly as possible. So far everyone in the music community and elsewhere that has heard about it has been very supportive. Artists and locations for benefit shows along the track will be announced early October.

Note From Arlo:

When I think of New Orleans, I think of music. The City of New Orleans is America's first music city. New Orleans is the city that truly began America's contribution to the history of music world-wide. Without it, there'd be no popular music as we know it today.

When I wonder what they might need in New Orleans to get back on their feet, the stuff that gets ruined under water, I think of all the sound boards, the cables, the lighting, the microphones, the instruments; I think of the stuff you need in the hundreds of little clubs and bars that bring the music to the street - the street that brings the people to the city. And I think of the many thousands of people who depend on those people for their livelihoods.

I am determined to help restore all of those little places and bring the music back as soon as possible. I am contacting Amtrak to help us take the train 'The City of New Orleans' from Chicago all the way down to New Orleans. We'll take two weeks beginning in early December and stop along the way at depots or high schools or performance centers of all shapes and sizes. And we'll contact the manufacturers of the very stuff we're talking about and arrange to bring a Christmas present to all the small venues within the city - we'll purchase the gear as close to cost as we can, many will undoubtedly make substantial contributions.

Will you help me bring the music back? Working together with our friends in manufacturing, retail, transportation, the venues, the promoters, the press, the agents and managers and the artists - we can help deliver the stuff that helps make New Orleans sing its own uniquely American song. I'm going ... join us on the train, at the depot, from your office or home, but join us.

For info contact my office:
Rising Son Records
10741 US Highway 1
Sebastian, FL 32958.

Love as always,
Arlo Guthrie

Christmas on the "City of New Orleans" with Arlo Guthrie & Friends (Bringing Back the Music - Benefiting Victims of Katrina) in partnerships with a variety of music related companies and you will help provide "the stuff" to keep one of America"s cultural treasures alive.

Thanks Cheryl for finding that story!!! Somehow, I KNEW you'd be the one to locate the info!!! That puts it all into perspective!! Ya just gotta LOVE Arlo ... what a sweetheart!!! Wish I could be ON that train or at one of the stops but all are too far away for me!

I'm in Chicago and would love to be a part of this!
Hope to hear more soon.

Glad to share my accidental finds on here. I too am too far away to go but wish I could. We can dream tho. An idea occurred to me that since those folks need food & clothing, maybe folks could donate food & clothing along the way of the tour. That is if they have the room on the train. If I was able to go I'd help with that. I think I have a few things that don't fit anymore that need to be donated when I can get a chance to find them...