RTP-area local music and culture

[Heather LaGarde <hlagarde AT intrahealth.org>]

Global non-profit IntraHealth International is launching a major  
campaign out of Chapel Hill to raise funds and awareness for the  
IntraHealth OPEN initiative, a program created to address the most  
critical health issues in Africa by putting the latest open source  
technologies directly in the hands of health workers.

The campaign's first step is the roll out the release of a charity  
album in partnership with Grammy Award-winning artist Youssou N’Dour.   
The album titled “OPEN Remix” features remixes of N’Dour’s song “Wake  
Up – It’s Africa Calling” by Nas, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Duncan Sheik,  
Toubab Krewe with DJ Equal and Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets,  
Afrissippi, Beef Wellington, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Gavin Hardkiss,  
Swamburger  and other headline artists and is being released by major  
distributors including Rhapsody, iLike and Amazon MP3 as free  
downloads - a global remix contest will be launched with Indaba Music  
in April.

Executive producer is Heather LaGarde better known locally as  
coordinator of the Saxapahaw Rivermill Music Series - the producer is  
Aaron Keane of Blazing Music and Sound in Raleigh and Brent Lambert at  
Kitchen Mastering mastered the release.  All artists, engineers,  
studios, mastering, labels, distribs, graphic design, web development,  
advertising etc worked pro bono on the project.

Multimedia release 
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Intrahealth-948359.html

To help shepherd the growing initiative, IntraHealth has assembled an  
OPEN Council made up of supporters and leaders in the fields of  
entertainment, technology, and public health. OPEN Council members  
include top recording artists like Nas and Mark Ronson and  
representatives from VH1, MTV Europe Foundation, ONE, Wikia, AEG Live,  
Rhapsody, iLike, Bowery Presents, Indaba Music, Red Hat, Tech Soup  
Global, inSTEDD, The Linux Foundation, GNOME Foundation, Creative  
Commons, Open Source Software Institute,  OSU Open Source Lab,  
O’Reilly Media, Motorola, Novell, Brightkite, The David and Lucile  
Packard Foundation, D-Tree International, Ushahidi, the Center for  
Children and Technology and Reseau Africain de L’education Pour La  
Sante.  The group is seeking private partners to help expand the  
program to meet the current demand.

Please help spread the word.

http://www.intrahealth.org/open