Many of the musicians mentioned throughout these pages have websites of their own (you can find some of them on the Recordings page). I encourage you to visit their sites and, more important than that, their music. The same goes for the venues mentioned on these pages; someone whose music you love might be appearing there!

Here are some online places I think are worth knowing about followed by, at the end of the page, a peek at my "other life":

Serious Stuff

So many organizations do important work. My list of favorites would take pages and pages, so I’ve included mostly some that may not be widely-known. . . but should be:

Airline Ambassadors
Founded by American Airlines flight attendant Nancy Rivard, AA provides humanitarian aid, including crisis response, to children and families around the world.

Beads For Education
Through this miraculous organization, founded by Debby Rooney, you can send a Kenyan girl to school, and have the wonderful opportunity to correspond with and get to know the young woman you sponsor! The picture at right is of Lilian Kanamba, the girl I sponsor. (Click here to read the story of Florence, one of the first sponsored students.) BEADS also works respectfully with communities to develop alternative (to FGM) coming of age ceremonies. Many ways to get involved: become a sponsor, make a one-time donation to help BEADS grow, join the next Walkathon (in Kenya!), shop for gorgeous beaded handicrafts made by the Dupoto Women's Group (many of whose members are mothers of the students; profits go back to the women and are a primary source of income).

Women For Women International
Through Women For Women you can sponsor a woman in any of several countries affected by conflict so she'll the opportunity to participate in a year-long program that provides rights education, training for finding employment or starting a business, information about family health, voting, and more. Correspond with and get to know the woman you sponsor; alternatively, you can make a donation to help WFW run its programs, or shop for beautiful handicrafts that benefit the women served.

Save Darfur
How can we allow yet another genocide to continue? Take a simple action, and learn more about this grave humanitarian crisis at the website of this inter-faith, multi-organization coalition.

Equality Now
Amnesty International
Two absolutely essential human rights organizations; get informed, get involved, take action.
Click here to visit Equality Now's Women's Action Network.
Click here to send a letter on behalf of a prisoner of conscience.

Myanmar Informed Travel Project
Amnesty International USA's NYC Myanmar Action Team created a project to raise awareness of the human rights crisis in Myanmar (Burma) and explore the debate over whether tourism hurts or benefits ordinary citizens. Find out more about Myanmar, and take a simple action on behalf of prisoners of conscience.

Project Vote Smart
A great resource for U.S. voters, Project Vote Smart provides comprehensive, unbiased, non-partisan information about the political process, elected officials, candidates, etc.

The Jazz Foundation
The JFA Emergency Fund helps jazz professionals (especially older musicians, who may have no health insurance, pensions, or retirement funds) through hard times.

Society of Singers
The Society of Singers benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide and awards scholarships to students pursuing an education in the vocal arts.

Fun Stuff

I have no affiliation with any of these sites; I just like them:

TV Be Gone
I hate sitting in an airport or waiting room and being forced to listen to a TV with the volume turned way up. I haven’t bought one of these devices yet. . . but I’m tempted!

Bulbo
New old-fashioned cartoons.

Shibumi
Perhaps the most important, potentially life-changing site on the internet.

Music Stuff

So many sites; here are just a few:

International Women In Jazz
I'm a past president and longtime board member.

Big Apple Jazz/EZ's Woodshed
"New York City's jazz club authority" - plus lots more!

Jazz Women/Jazz USA Foundation
Read about more than 700 jazz women!

Book Stuff

Selections from my writing days:

"Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives"
ed. Julie Stone Peters and Andrea Wolper (Routledge Press, 1994)
The first-ever collection on international women's human rights.

"The Actors City Sourcebook:
A Comparative Guide to America's Best Places to Work and Live As a Performing Artist"
My first book (Watson-Guptill, 1992).

"But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art As Activism"
By Nina Felshin (Bay Press, 1995)
I contributed an essay on The Artist and Homeless Collaborative.