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For one week - 12th-18th February 2007 - the Channel will be showing a fantastic range of colourful music documentaries.
Click here to watch the Music Week trailer
 46664: The Message (2004) - Monday, February 12th @ 6pm (repeated on Friday, February 16th @ 9pm)
This programme takes us behind the scenes of the 46664 concert, which was held in Capetown in 2003 for the launch of Nelson Mandela’s 46664 AIDS Campaign to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS as a human rights issue – 46664 was Nelson Mandela’s former prison number.
We learn why performers like Beyonce, Bono, Annie Lennox and Ms Dynamite took part in the concert and what their concerns are for the future of people with AIDS, as well as their personal highlights from the amazing day that brought the cream of the music world together.
We Jive Like This – Monday, February 12th @ 9:30pm (repeated on Sunday, February 18th @ 1pm)
We Jive Like This celebrates the dance, poetry, theatre and music of South Africa’s streets and backyards. After each period of social unrest there is a flood of creativity amongst African communities. Since 1976, hundreds of ‘culture clubs’ have sprung up in every kind of available space – backyards, garages or empty schoolrooms.
They provide a kind of street education and outlet for self-expression, and a celebration of the everyday. Against the familiar backdrop of social and political deprivation, the kids of townships are taking things into their own hands and creating new work – because, in the words of one of the poets featured in the film, "To celebrate is a must.”
Joseph Emidy: The Lost Composer Tuesday, February 13th @ 9pm (repeated on Saturday, February 17th @ 11pm)
“This remarkable man was the most finished musician I ever heard of…where this great talent came from was always a mystery to me…” William Tuck, Reminiscences of Cornwall, circa 1850.
Reading like the synopsis of a Hollywood epic, Joseph Emidy’s life story spans three continents; overcoming slavery, kidnapping, imprisonment and prejudice to build himself a career in the west of England as the most successful musician and composer of his day.
Including musical performance, inspired by Emidy’s experiences, from a quartet led by acclaimed jazz musician and composer Andy Sheppard, this film brings to life the previously unknown tale of one man’s triumph against all odds.
Down & Dirty in Glastonbury (2004) Tuesday, February 13th @ 10pm (repeated on Wednesday, February 14th @ 7pm)
 46664 Concert
With wit, fun and initiative, it’s volunteers and their charities that make Glastonbury what it is renowned for, synonymous with the idea of a better world. Down and Dirty looks beyond the music and the mud, and follows four volunteers from four different charities – Caroline (WaterAid), Sam (Oxfam), Lisa (Charity Festival Medical Centre) and Zephyr (Greenpeace) – as they experience Glastonbury in a different light.
46664: The Concert (2005) - Wednesday, February 14th @ 9pm (repeated on Sunday, February 18th @ 7pm)
Spearheaded by 46664 ambassadors Annie Lennox, and rock legends Queen with Paul Rodgers, the second 46664 Concert, 46664 South Africa, helped focus attention on the vital role of women in the frontline to stop HIV/AIDS by featuring a host of international female stars, including India Arie, Katie Melua and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Will Smith presented the event, which also showcased an array of local artists including Mafikizolo, Prime Circle, Kabelo, Blk Sonshine, Karen Zoid, Art Matthews and 46664 South African ambassadors Johnny Clegg, Danny K and Mandoza.
Four to the Floor - Wednesday, February 14th @ 11pm
Narrated by black Britain’s best known music producer Jazzie B, Four to the Floor follows four young people trying to break into music industry and highlights the hard work, late nights and passion they put into their music to
achieve recognition.
Dread Beat n’ Blood – Thursday, February 15th @ 7:30pm (repeated on Sunday, February 18th @ 11pm)
 Down and Dirty - the real experience
Johnson’s themes are wrongful arrest, the ‘suss’ laws, urban violence, the need to engage in hard political activity. Johnson himself is articulate and almost gentle, but his poetry has hard muscle. Produced and
directed by Franco Rosso, the film is an uncompromising warning of the danger of ignoring the specific problems of Britain’s young blacks. It does not pull its punches.
The Soul of Stax – Thursday, February 15th @ 9:30pm (repeated on Sunday, February 18th @ 10pm)
 Dread Beat n' Blood
The pure, emotional sound of soul music is one of the most enduring manifestations of Black American culture and became the voice and mirror of Black American politics in the sixties and early seventies. Memphis, Macon and Muscle Shoals in the southern states of the USA were the home of a musical revolution: of small buccaneering, individualistic music labels that created the Southern Sound, changing the world of popular music forever. The best known of all these labels is Stax.
From its launch in 1960, the Stax label quickly developed into a family of black and white musicians with backgrounds in R&B, Gospel and Country & Western. This eclectic cocktail gave rise to a distinctive sound, initially targeted at a black audience, but soon spread around the world. Early hit records by Carla Thomas and her father Rufus were soon followed by recordings by a roster of artists such as William Bell, Booker T and the MG’s, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding and Issac Hayes.
 Soul of Stax
On the opening day of Glastonbury Festival 2005 festival goers were greeted with torrential downpours that submerged hundreds of tents; flooded marques, stages and beer tents and threatened to put an end to the infectious ‘Glastonbury High’.
Within these few hours, the festival’s must have items went from flip-flops to Wellington boots. Glastonbury High charts how the simple Wellington boot became the most important fashion accessory following the torrential rains and how international development agency Oxfam benefited from this situation by selling more than £13,000 of ‘wellies’ and waterproof coats, alongside numerous companies with less altruistic intentions.
For Press tapes, images or interviews, contact:
James Matheson 020 7874 7651 / 07891 763002 / jamesm@communitychannel.org Frances Cherry 020 7874 7908 / francesc@communitychannel.org
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