[Oe List ...] FW: "The Singing Revolution" - In over 60 cities and more to come!

Thu Jun 5 16:41:25 EDT 2008

Very moving Ed, Thanks, Dick

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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:21:57 -0500
From: edfeldmanis at gmail.com
To: oe at wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] FW: "The Singing Revolution" - In over 60 cities	and more to come!

Hi Lynda,

Thank your efforts to tell us all about this film. Thank you for your beautiful spirit and good energy.  I have not yet seen it but will when the opportunity avails itself.

The whole story and drama of it touches me personally.  Of course  I was raised in the  U S by a mother who intended that I live in a completely different place.  Her dream was that I would go to Riga. And 0f course, it was an impossible dream since it took over 50 years for the iron curtain to fall.  

I am a grandfather today but as a child I never met my grandparents.  They were victims of the "Red Train" and the gulags. My own dad was on a death list and my mom and dad narrowly escaped arrest, torture and eventual death. I heard the unbelievable beautiful stories of how our Baltic people held hands across three nations Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia symbolizing that it was time for a change.  All three countries have their singing tradition and participated in what now was called The Singing Revolution.  A change of regime without the blood bath.

I cried when Yeltson got on a tank and asked the Russian soldiers not to shoot people.  I was also moved to tears when Latvian grandmothers walked up to armed Soviet troops and gave them flowers, saying, "I love you. All we want is freedom."

Now, over a decade ago when I visited Riga, I saw the bullet holes where Russian troops opened fire on buildings and their occupants.  Thankfully, the eventual cool heads prevailed and suggested this is a war that could not be won and the "battle" was not worth winning.

I visited a site at an intersection where the trains stopped.  People had driven short pieces of rail into the ground.  Each rail had painted on it a destination of a gulag in Siberia.  This intersection was where people were herded off of trucks and forced into cattle cars to be taken to concentration camps.

I could not stop crying.  My tears seemed to have no end.

Ed

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Lynda Cock <llc860 at triad.rr.com> wrote:

See 
if your city is listed.  Be sure to watch the 5 minute trailer.  We 
are planning to drive to Cary, NC to see this amazing sounding film.  
They are holding it over for another week in Cary  because of the 
response.  Lynda Cock

From: maureen at singingrevolution.com 
[mailto:maureen_singingrevolution.com at mail.vresp.com] 
Sent: Monday, 
June 02, 2008 4:11 PM
To: llc860 at triad.rr.com
Subject: "The 
Singing Revolution" – In over 60 cities and more to come!

Dear Friends, 
IT'S WORKING!  Thank you 
for continuing to spread the word about The 
Singing Revolution.  The film has been embraced in 
over 60 cities in the U.S. and Canada so far, with more theaters coming 
soon.  Last fall we thought the theatrical run might go through April or 
May, but the film is still being booked into August!  Theaters are seeing 
the fantastic, steady results in each city we've opened in so far, and are now 
contacting us to book the film.  Word of mouth is 
how it's happening, but the power of this remarkable 
story is why it's happening.  Please help us keep 
the momentum going.      
We're also excited that the film will be playing in 
Riga, Latvia in June & July.  Full European 
distribution is in the works and will follow the North American theatrcial 
run. 
Below are the latest 
theaters the film is opening in, and more are being booked each week… 
Details are available on the website: www.singingrevolution.com.  And please continue to get 
your friends to sign up on our website.  That's the best way to hear about 
the new theater openings, and also to hear about the DVD release when it comes 
out after the theatrical run is complete…. 

NOW CURRENTLY PLAYING IN: 

Abbotsford, BC Canada (now playing)
Baltimore, MD (now 
playing)
Cary, NC (now playing)
Ocean, NJ (now playing)
Santa 
Fe, NM (now playing)
Victoria, BC Canada (now playing, again!) 

OPENING SOON IN: 
Atlanta, GA (opens 6/20-6/26)
Austin, TX (opens 6/27-7/3)
Bellingham, 
WA (opens 6/13-6/19)
Boston (Cambridge), MA  (opens 
6/6-6/12)
Calgary, AB Canada (opens 6/20-6/26)
Cape May, 
NJ (opens 6/20-6/26)
Cincinnati (Southgate, KY), OH  (playing 
6/24-6/26)
Dallas, TX (opens 6/13-6/19)
Edmonton, AB Canada (opens 
6/20-6/26)
Hartford, CT (opens 6/11-6/17)
Houston, TX (opens 
6/13-6/19)
Hudson, NY (playing 6/5-6/8)
Las Vegas, NV 
(opens 7/18-7/24)
Minneapolis, MN (opens 6/27-7/3)
Mt. Vernon, WA 
(opens 7/18-7/22)
Newport, RI (playing 6/10-6/12)
Ottawa, ON 
Canada (opens 7/11-7/14)
Overland Park (Kansas City), KS (opens 
8/1-8/7)
Palm Desert, CA (opens 6/27-7/3)
Pittsfield, MA (plays 
7/17)
Riga, Latvia (opens 6/14-7/4)
Sacramento, 
CA (opens 7/18-7/24)
Sag Harbor, NY (opens 6/27-7/3)
St. Louis 
(Frontenac), MO (opens 6/6-6/12)
San Diego, CA (opens 
7/11-7/17)
Vancouver, BC Canada (opens again 6/6-6/12)
Waterloo, ON Canada 
(7/18-7/22)
Waterville, ME (opens 6/20-6/26)
Williamstown, MA (plays 
7/7)
Winnipeg, MB Canada (opens 6/13-6/19)            

Thank you for helping us share this uplifting story of peace & 
freedom.  

Maureen and James Tusty 

Producers/Directors of The Singing 
Revolution
www.singingrevolution.com 

PS – It's proving physically 
impossible to keep up with the volume of emails we receive regarding the 
film.  Please know that each email is read, and timely or urgent ones are 
responded to as quickly as possible.  Ultimately we are trying to respond 
to all, but there are hundreds backed up and we're trying to come up with a 
system to better handle it.  When someone writes a personal note about what 
the film meant to them, or how their grandfather died in a Soviet gulag and now 
they understand so much more of his life, it just doesn't seem right to hand 
that off to an intern to reply to it.   Please know that we're doing 
our best to keep up with it.
m & j 

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