We are honored to announce that the To Touch the Stars CD is now available for sale at the National Air & Space Museum's gift shop in Washington DC.
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Selected News Archives [2005] To Touch the Stars at the Smithsonian
June, 2005 We are honored to announce that the To Touch the Stars CD is now available for sale at the National Air & Space Museum's gift shop in Washington DC. [2004] Alabama Aerospace Celebration Liftoff!
December, 2004 At the Alabama Aerospace Celebration Liftoff on November 18th, the 4th Grade of the Mixon School and Mr. Greg Brown led a rousing performance of "Now's the Time to Touch the Stars" from the To Touch the Stars CD. Hundreds of kids joined along on the choruses. Stan Clardy also made a guest appearance, performing "Big Blue Sky". More Magazine Articles, NASA licensing
April, 2004 You'll find a review of the To Touch the
Stars CD in Popular Science and Smithsonian/Air
& Space on newsstands. An in-depth interview about
the CD can now be downloaded on The
Space Show. "Pioneers of Mars" aired — on Mars!
February, 2004 We are honored to announce that the JPL flight team has aired Pioneers
of Mars from the To Touch the Stars
CD as sol 20 (February 14th) wake-up music for the Mars rover Opportunity! To Touch the Stars in the Media...
February, 2004 To Touch the Stars was recently featured in
the Seattle
Times, the San Francisco Chronicle,
SPACE.com,
Science-Fiction
Weekly, Discovery Channel Canada's
"Daily Planet", and on CBC
Radio One's "Here & Now" and "Quirks and Quarks".
[2003]
To Touch the Stars: Now Shipping!
December 30th, 2003 The long-awaited To Touch the Stars CD is now shipping! Produced in partnership with the Mars Society and the National Space Society, this inspiring anthology album celebrates the history and future of human space exploration. Click to download full-length MP3s and learn more!To Touch the Stars: Pre-Release Woody's Children Airplay
December 7th, 2003 "Dog on the Moon" and "Fire in the
Sky" from To Touch the Stars were aired
today on Rob Sherman's long-running Woody's
Children folk program. Woody's Children has helped launch the careers
of Christine Lavin and Julie Gold, among others.
Buzz Aldrin Endorses "To Touch the Stars"
September 8th, 2003 "As someone who has actually set
foot on the threshold of space and experienced firsthand its majesty
and the incredible potential it holds for the human race, I am thrilled
by this new collection of original songs celebrating the beginnings
of our great endeavor to reach for the stars."
— Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Terminus Est Music Video Available for Downloading
September 1st, 2003 Per Malm's award-winning music video of Terminus
Est (from Julia Ecklar's Divine Intervention CD)
is now available for your viewing. This video received first place at
Conestoga 7's film contest (Fantasy category), second place in the KAN
film festival, and was also screened at ROC*KON. Click to view in Windows
Media Format.
Divine Intervention Reviewed on SFSite.com & SCI FI Magazine April 6th, 2003 Julia Ecklar's Divine Intervention
CD received positive reviews by Rob Kane on SF Site, and by Jeff
Berkwits in the June 2003 issue of the Science Fiction Channel's SCI FI
magazine. Preliminary information about the sequel CD to Divine Intervention,
Indistinguishable from Magic, is also available.
To Touch the Stars: CD Update April 6th, 2003 Mars Society
president Dr. Robert Zubrin and NSS
Executive Director Brian Chase have completed their respective introduction
and afterword to the CD project. Julia Ecklar is now completing an editing
run on the CD booklet. Divine Intervention producer
Michael Moricz contributed a track featuring New York folksinger Garry
Novikoff, "Dog on the Moon".
[2002]
Julia Ecklar's Divine Intervention CD and T-shirt now shipping! December 10th, 2002 Julia Ecklar's long-awaited Divine
Intervention CD and limited-edition companion T-shirt are now back
from the duplicators and shipping from the Prometheus Store. If you buy
just one filk CD this decade, trust our customers — you'll want
Divine Intervention!
Experience "Roxanne" from the Divine
Intervention CD August 31st, 2002 You can now hear Julia's final Roxanne
bonus track from the Divine Intervention CD,
as well as an Internet-only instrumental mix. The final album mastering
sessions have also been reserved at AAM Studios for early September.
[2001]
Roundworm Radio Updates January 14th, 2001 Acoustic
Eclectic aired December
of Cambreadth from Roundworm for their December 18th holiday special.
December of Cambreadth was also aired by Prairie Ceilidh (Winnipeg, Canada) on November 26th and December 24th, and by Fox's Minstrel Show (Atlanta, Georgia) on December 24th. Nobody's Moggy Lands was aired by WFDU's Traditions (Alpine, New Jersey), on January 14th. Free Software Foundation posts "Eternal Flame" January 7th, 2001 Richard Stallman posted a freely-distributable Ogg/Vorbis
recording of Bob Kanefsky's Eternal Flame (or "God Wrote in Lisp")
to the Free Software Foundation's humor site. This is also the first filksong
made available in Ogg/Vorbis format that we know of.
Dragonsgate Publishes My Favorite Sings Outtakes January 7th, 2001 Dragonsgate
Music released a double-CD edition of Kathy
Mar's two THOR albums. This reprint includes new recordings of Ship
of Stone, Ghost, and Old Souls,
originally slated for Kathy Mar's My Favorite Sings
CD.
[2000] More Roundworm Airplay
December 27th, 2000 On October 15th, Atlanta-area 100,000 watt community
station WFRG aired Wise Men Feared to Tread from Roundworm,
on Fox's Minstrel
Show!
Mutant Generations from Roundworm was aired September 30th, on PBS WCVE's The Electric Croude! Nobody's Moggy Lands from Roundworm received airplay in Eric Bogle's homeland of Australia. It was aired on Come All Ye, which is also the longest-running folk music program in Australia! Roundworm continues to receive airplay on folk and novelty radio programs, including Music with Moskowitz, Acoustic Eclectic, Midnight Special, and the Pab Sungenis Project. © 1997-2008 Prometheus Music. All rights reserved. |