Widespread Panic featured on "Save Darfur" CD


“Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur,” the new global “Make Some Noise” project from Amnesty International, seeks to mobilize millions around the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. It combines the power of John Lennon’s music recorded by some of the world’s best-known artists, together with cutting-edge forms of instant activism enabled by Internet and mobile technologies.

More than 50 musical artists have joined this international effort that combines John Lennon music, technology, and human rights activism. The CD, “Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur,” will be released by Warner Brothers Records and arrive in stores the week of June 12th.


Artists included on the CD are:

Aerosmoth featuring The Refugee All Stars “Give Peace a Chance”

Ben Harper “Beautiful Boy”

Ben Jelen “Woman”

Big n Rich “Nobody Told Me”

The Black Eyed Peas “Power To the People”

Christina Aguilera “Mother”

The Deftones “Jealous Guy”

Fab Faux “I Dont Wanna Face It”

Flaming Lips “Starting Over”

Green Day “Working Class Hero”

Jack Johnson “Imagine”

Jacks Mannequin featuring Mick Fleetwood “God”

Jakob Dylan “Gimme Some Truth”

Lenny Kravits “Cold Turkey”

Los Lonely Boys “Whatever Gets You Through the Night”

Matisyahu “Whatching the Wheels”

Maroon 5 “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”

Meshell Ndegeocello “Imagine”

OAR “borrowed time”

Postal Service “Grow old With Me”

Regiba Spektor “Real Love”

REM “No 9 Dream”

Trevor Menear “John Sinclair”

Widespread Panic “Crippled Inside”

Willie Nelson “Imagine”

Yellowcard “Oh My Love”


To learn more about this project or
to PRE-ORDER the $21.98 CD please logon to

http://www.instantkarma.org/index.html


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Win Tickets to Bonnaroo


Don't miss your chance to attend Bonnaroo 2007 to see Widespread Panic!


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You could win any of these greats prizes including the Grand Prize of 2 tickets to the 2007 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN (June 15-17, 2007)
or
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or CDs from participating artists.

Contest ends June 4th.

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Widespread Panic offers WIDGET

:: WIDGET EXPLANATION ::

The Widespread Widget is a small computer program that runs on your computer desktop providing you with up-to-date Panic News. Updated daily, it let’s you know such things as: when a new tour date is posted, a ticket on-sale date is approaching, door time changes, and any other information you may need to know before heading to a show. The Widget also provides general Panic news updates with links to the exact location on the site where you can find all the details. Each news item the widget supplies links to a webpage with full details. You don’t have to sift through the entire site to find the latest news post. The Widespread Widget is comprehensive, compact, and runs on your desktop.

The Widespread Widget is the ultimate tool to keep you informed.

Example 1: "Las Vegas OnSale date this Friday at 10am PDT!"
Example 2: "Don't forget! PreSale for the Upper Darby, PA show ends at 5pm EST Thursday!"
Example 3: "Ticket price $XX.XX added to the New York City tour date"
Example 4: "Showtime for Charlotte show changed to 6pm"
Example 5: "Orange Beach performances now available at LiveWidespreadPanic.com!"



:: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ::

-Windows:
Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, or Vista

-Mac:
Mac OSX 10.3.9 or greater




:: DOWNLOAD ::

The Widespread Widget runs off of the Yahoo! Widget Engine. You must download and install the Yahoo Widget Engine in order for the Widespread Widget to run on your PC or Mac.

DOWNLOAD THE YAHOO! WIDGET ENGINE HERE:

WINDOWS (10.7MB)

MAC (7.9MB)



DOWNLOAD WIDESPREAD WIDGET 1.0 HERE:
WIDESPREAD WIDGET 1.0 (95KB)



Leave a comment and tell us what you think of the Widget!

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