Hello everyone,
Tomorrow, August 13th, is Dan's birthday. If you can, at around 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time USA, take a moment wherever you are to mentally join hands together with the rest of us who miss him, in remembrance. Take a quiet moment, or play his music ~ I'll be playing "The Reach", and picturing him sailing on a perfect day, with the wind in his sails and the sun on the sea.
And don't forget the "Quest" lapel pin will be for sale at the Prostate Cancer Foundation website to raise money for prostate cancer research and awareness in his name.
My best wishes,
Jean Fogelberg
www.mcall.com/entertainment/all-fogelberg.6530643aug10,0,2387014.storyA Tribute to Dan
Troubadour Fogelberg to be remembered at benefit concert organized by Berks musician
By Geoff Gehman
Of The Morning Call
August 10, 2008
Dan Fogelberg is Tom Hampton's musical north star. Inspired by Fogelberg, he switched from drums to guitars, began writing songs that mattered and became a professional performer with a conscience.
Fogelberg helped lead him from a primitive life in Tennessee among ''single-celled, small-minded beings who only knew the dirt under their feet and their assigned duties and identities.''
Hampton was terribly sad when Fogelberg died in December from prostate cancer. The next month he thanked his mentor in a volcanically passionate, deeply autobiographical blog.
On Wednesday night he'll honor Fogelberg again in ''Leader of the Band,'' a prostate-cancer fundraiser he organized at the Sellersville Theater, where the 43-year-old Berks County resident has backed a half-dozen acts on a half-dozen stringed instruments.
A half-dozen Fogelbergians will play songs by the romantic minstrel, angry prophet and probing pilgrim on what would have been his 57th birthday.
Jim Photoglo, a bassist-vocalist for three Fogelberg tours, including his last in 2003, plans to perform ''Same Old Auld Lang Syne,'' Fogelberg's bittersweet account of meeting a former lover in a grocery store during a holiday. Craig Bickhardt, who has written tunes recorded by the Judds and Ray Charles, expects to play ''Part of the Plan,'' Fogelberg's first hit and one of his many internal-rhyming, philosophical pop-rockers. ''Morning Sky,'' a cheery bluegrass kiss-off, will be finessed by the Refugees, a trio of female singer-songwriters with two members who opened for Fogelberg.
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