Yearly Archives: 2018

TIGERBEAT: A new album protesting gun violence includes students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school performing the original song, ‘Shine.’

The students of Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are raising their voices for good. In February, the lives of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students were changed forever when an active shooter took the lives of 17 students and staff within the school. Since then, the survivors have launched the March [...]

TIGERBEAT: A new album protesting gun violence includes students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school performing the original song, ‘Shine.’2020-11-20T18:07:09+00:00

GRATEFUL FOR THE PEOPLE I’VE WORKED WITH

I’d been at Kenney’s house the day before.  Back then we had lived near each other out in The Richmond. He knew a secretary at Warner’s that would send him new releases every month. Like clock work. Kinda pissed me off but we would sit and listen to some stuff while we talked and drank [...]

GRATEFUL FOR THE PEOPLE I’VE WORKED WITH2020-11-20T18:07:09+00:00

FORBES MAGAZINE: Jim Pugh On Building Empathy Through Diverse Music Of Little Village Foundation

As the major record label system continues to evolve, different sounds and different artists have become more marginalized than ever before, thanks to the never ending search for the quickest, easiest hit record possible. Songs get more and more formulaic and homogeneous sounding and artists are cast aside quickly, easily disposable in a world where [...]

FORBES MAGAZINE: Jim Pugh On Building Empathy Through Diverse Music Of Little Village Foundation2023-05-22T21:18:17+00:00

Raise Your Voice

MAKE A DONATION TO THE RAISE YOUR VOICE PROJECT LISTEN TO THE ROUGH DRAFT DIARIES PODCAST VARIOUS ARTISTS - RAISE YOUR VOICE The courage and moral clarity shown by the student survivors of the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida struck [...]

Raise Your Voice2023-06-25T05:53:33+00:00

RAISE YOUR VOICE: The Sound of Student Protest

MAKE A DONATION TO THE RAISE YOUR VOICE PROJECT The courage and moral clarity shown by the student survivors of the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida struck an immediate emotional chord with the American public, bringing home the reality of [...]

RAISE YOUR VOICE: The Sound of Student Protest2018-11-10T00:17:22+00:00

SF CHRONICLE: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass offers politically charged musical weekend in the park

On the Bandwagon stage earlier in the day, students from all over the country came together to perform songs and poems featured on “Raise Your Voice,” an album released nationally on Friday, Oct. 5, by Jim Pugh‘s nonprofit Little Village Foundation, written in response to the recent spate of school shootings. Madison Yearsley of [...]

SF CHRONICLE: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass offers politically charged musical weekend in the park2023-05-22T20:37:25+00:00

KEVIN BURT: LVF To Release The Debut ‘Heartland and Soul’ October 29th

We’re very excited to share this huge musical talent to the world with this much-anticipated, stunning debut recording from Kevin Burt - HEARTLAND & SOUL out October 29th on Little Village Foundation Records! The Iowa based Burt’s vocals are absolutely amazing – extremely powerful, rich, warm, expressive and exploding with SOUL!! Another killer sounding album [...]

KEVIN BURT: LVF To Release The Debut ‘Heartland and Soul’ October 29th2018-09-27T06:12:28+00:00