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Jim Neu

A Tribute to Jim Neu

November 20, 2010 at 2:00pm


A Tribute to Jim Neu

New York Times Obituary

PROGRAM

1.  LA MAMA WELCOME – Nicky Paraiso

2.  MC — Keith McDermott

3.  COMMENTS — Carol Mullins

4.  AS THE CLOTHES TURN — Jacob Burckhardt & sk dunn

5.  THE CORNER OF HERE AND NOW from MONDO BEYONDO, sung by     Kristine Lee, accompanied by Neal Kirkwood, music by Neal Kirkwood

6.  COMMENTS — Robert Simonson

7.  VIDEO EXCERPTS – Part 1

8.  HIM OR ME — Ron Jones and Clio Young

9.  BREAKING THE BEHAVIOR BARRIER from OPTIMISMO LOUNGE — Black-Eyed Susan

10. AEROBIA — Douglas Dunn

11. THE OPTIMISMO BLUES Music by Harry Mann, with Deborah Auer, Neal Kirkwood and Harry Mann

All join in for chorus:

check the lounge
check the lounge
check the Optimismo Lounge
check the lounge
check the lounge
check the Optimismo Lounge
next to the No Problemo Café
the No Problem Cafe

12. VIDEO EXCERPTS — Part 2

13. GANG OF SEVEN — Agosto Machado, Chris Moresco, Kristine Lee

14. MUSICAL TRIBUTE — Neal Kirkwood & Harry Mann

15. VIDEO EXCERPTS — Part 3

16. CONTINUISM from MONDO BEYONDO — Roberta Levine

17. ACOUSTIC MOVER from OPTIMISMO LOUNGE — Terry O’Reilly

18. KISS SHOT POSITION vocal, Mary Shultz, music by Neal Kirkwood, text spoken by Charles Allcroft

19. STILL PHOTOS —by Tom Brazil, Jacob Burckhardt, sk dunn, Jessie Dunn-Gilbert, Jim Dikel, Niles Dolbe and many others.

20. NO PLACE I’D RATHER BE from TARGET AUDIENCE vocals and guitar by Deborah Auer, words spoken by Harry Mann, music by Harry Mann, photo by Jonathan Slaff

RECEPTION IN LOBBY

Thanks to all the performers, dancers, actors, designers, videographers, composers, musicians and Jim’s mom who were a part of the video excerpts (edited by Jacob Burckhardt):

John Allaire, Charles Allcroft, Deborah Auer, Roger Babb, Gabriel Berry Black-Eyed Susan, Rocky Bornstein, Rick Brintzenhof, Jacob Burckhardt,  Lavinia Co-op, John Costelloe, Dan Crozier, Charles Dennis, Douglas Dunn, sk dunn, Donald Eastman, Russell Ellison, Bob Feldman, David Fritz, Michael Galasso, Paul Galasso, Mimi Gross, Jennifer L. Howard, Ron Jones, Neal Kirkwood Christopher Knowles, Diane Lambertson, Kristine Lee, Roberta Levine, Keith McDermott,, Agosto Machado, Harry Mann, Hope Mohr, Carol Mullins, John Nesci, William Niederkorn, Jim Neu,  David Nunemaker, Tony Nunziata, Terry O’Reilly, Andrew Perret, Lenny Pickett, Becca Prescott, Richard Rutkowski, Mary Shultz,  Sue Sheehy, Beth Simons, Mary Tepper, Byron Thomas, Terrell Robinson, Bill Rice, Eve Sorel, Mark Tambella, Howard Thies, Michael Thomason, Angela Wendt, Christopher Williams, Bill Wolf, Clio Young, And thanks to all those who worked with Jim, who are not in these video clips.

There is a memorial website for Jim. Please contribute photos or comments and see what others have sent. It is: http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/jimneu

Jim’s regular website is www.jimneu.com designed by Jonathan Slaff, who is also Jim’s Press Representative


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