Jade'an Jourden Updated Bio + Links

[Jade'an "Blue Jay" Jourden]

Jade'an "Blue Jay" Jourden

Co-Founder of The WORLD FREEDOM PROJECT

http://theworldfreedomproject.org

http://theworldfreedomproject.ning.com


Is a Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace 2009 Board Member Inductee

http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1671


He also is a member of Toronto Pictures Inc.

http://torontopictures.ning.com/profile/BlueJay


A scheduled performer for this years' Annual Nashville Peace Festival, June 26th, Nashville Tennessee opening for Essra Mohawk,

http://essramohawk.com

He just played the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock "West Fest" 1969-2009

Concert in San Francisco, California, Oct. 25, 2009 and and is working

on the video for his new Song "WORLD FREEDOM SONG (Together We Are One)"

and preparing for his upcoming MYSTIC LOVERS TOUR 2010....



Consulting and performing on two other video projects with worldwide

distribution already in place....he has just formalized a film project

with a major film company to produce music for as well as act in an

upcoming film........



Currently co-producing the INTERNATIONAL BENEFIT FOR THE BEARS CONCERT

SERIES for/with URSA FREEDOM PROJECT



http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/



where he is the Worldwide Music Manager.



He is also very active internationally in many areas and aspects of

Human and Animal Rights and works diligently in every area of THE WORLD

FREEDOM PROJECT as he seeks to help change the planet for the better

through his Arte........



Jay Jourden is a songwriter's songwriter. He always has a way of

connecting his listeners to whatever he's singing about. From his early

dance tracks of the late 70's (Dance, Dance, Dance, With Me 1979) to his

current folk/rock/blues/country/pop political tribute songs of today,

he reaches you and you get the message.



He has appeared in concerts nationwide and world wide, appeared on radio

and television, at hundreds of benefit shows for such diverse

groups/causes as The American Indian Movement (lifetime member), The

National Society For The Prevention Of Blindness, No Nukes, Ross Perot,

New Jersey & National GOP, Rainy Day Inc., the list goes on... After

writing the song "Wounded Knee" (1972), he performed at all of the

Wounded Knee and The Longest Walk concerts (1972-1978) for The American

Indian Movement in Woodstock, New York, Washington, DC, and around the

country.



At the No Nukes Concerts Series, he performed his hit "No More Nukes"

the song he wrote for the shows.



He has also appeared with and/or knows Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bonnie

Raitt, Essra Mohawk, Peter Yarrow, David Santos, Ron Burton, Rahsan Roland Kirk, Joe

Texador, Jimmy Hopps, Richie Havens, Stevie Wonder, Buffie Saint Marie,

The Thunderbirds, Michael Cornett and The Flow Family Band, The Allen

Harris Band, The Jim Atlee Group, The Band, Chango (Bearsville Records,

1973, Woodstock NY + ABC Dunhill Records),Robbie Dupree, Dr. John, Ricky

Skaggs, Muhammad Ali, Gerardo Velez, Martha Velez & Jerry Moore,

Don Moore, Raif Denktas,(Gorrilla Guru, 1979), Rob Turner (Life

Force),Otis Smith, Michael Royal, Hott Traxx ( Dance, Dance, Dance, With

Me & Don't Get Lost In The Dark 1978), and others.



In the late 80's and early 90's he began branching out with his musical

endeavors with political support radio/tv commercial soundtracks for

various PACS and other Republican Party Coalitions with the songs

"Florio Has Got To Go" 1989, and later all of the "Florio Free In '93"

commercials for the Christine Todd Whitman Gubernatorial Campaign that

she won. It was reported in the press that his songs helped win that

election. During this time, he also formed Rainy Day Inc. a not for

profit corporation with the specific mandate to put on concerts and

musical events for natural disaster victims and their families.



Working with FEMA, the American Red Cross and other agencies, he put on

the Disaster Relief '96 Concert Series Tour where headliners from across

the country performed. The hit "When The Rains Came" was written at

this time and received substantial airplay nationally. For these

efforts, and other projects he has worked on over the years, he has

received numerous letters of recognition/support/commendation from such

notable political figures as Rudolph Guliani, Former New York Govenor

George Pataki, the late Senator Pat Moynihan, New York State Senator

Charles Cook, Bill Clinton, and others.



When Ross Perot ran for president, he called upon him, a fellow Texan,

to write for, produce, and perform at his rallies. He wrote the working

man's theme song "Enough's Enough" (1993) He performed at a rally at

Flemington Int'l Speedway, Flemington, New Jersey that drew 43,000

supporters and received extensive national media coverage. Bob Dole also

had music produced for his campaign, however, because of

technicalities, couldn't be released in time for the GOP.



Deriving his talent from a background of incredibly diverse situations,

he has constantly improved his songwriting abilities and honed his craft

on the American public's ears chasing that songwriter's elusive dream.

"I'll always write and perform no matter what. I love music. All kinds

of music. It's what the world needs to heal. It's in my blood, I grew up

around and in music because my mother was a famous Jazz singer in the

50's - 2007 when I lost her to old age."



Jay Jourden had the good fortune to grow up on the road around some of

the real heavy weights of "Old School" Jazz. Greats like Ornette

Coleman, Rahsan Roland Kirk, Pharoh Sanders, Randy Weston, Dizzy

Gillespie, Yusef Lateef, Elvin Jones, Billy Mitchell, Dexter Gordon,and

too many others to mention. "My mother took me to all the famous Jazz

clubs when I was very young, whenever she was singing, like the Five

Spot, and Slugs on the lower east side of NY." "



These people were all my mother's friends and the jam sessions at our

house(s) were amazing! I soaked it all up like a sponge and that's why

my music is so diverse. When you really listen to my music, you can hear

many different genres, melodies, and rhythms." Jourden says he feels

blessed and extremely lucky to have gotten the influences he has at such

an early age. It's helped shape his life as a performing artist,

survivor, and an activist in whatever cause he has at the moment.



Watch for his next move.



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