A fund raising site has been set up by MusicTracks Multi-Media Corporation and the Fey family to go toward building and construction of a full-sized statue of the late legendary concert promoter Barry Fey. 100% of all monies donated to the MusicTracks Barry Fey Statue fund, minus all miscellaneous credit card and bank fees, will go to the Barry Fey Statue Fund account at Wells Fargo to be used for this purpose.
This fund will be overseen by a third party that will collect all the funding for this project.
Any and all proceeds in excess of the cost, development, and placement of this statue will go to the Barry Fey Foundation for suicide prevention in the entertainment industry.
The placement goal of this statue is to be placed inside the Red Rocks Amphitheatre where Barry Fey held over 960 concerts.
Barry Fey was an iconic American concert promoter based in Denver, Colorado and was best known for bringing prominent musical acts to the United States and around the globe, some for the very first time.
Barry Fey promoted shows with The Rolling Stones, The Who, U2, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller, The Doors, and Bob Dylan among countless others, and on December 26, 1968 Barry Fey promoted the first Led Zeppelin show in North America.
In June of 1969, Feyline presented a 3 day Denver Pop Festival, which featured the final performance of The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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BARRY FEY MEMORIAL STATUE PLACEMENT AT RED ROCK AMPHITHEATRE
The MusicTracks Multi-Media Corporation and the Fey Family in Colorado USA are petitioning the City and County of Denver and the Denver Arts and Venues in Colorado, USA to allow the placement of a life sized bronze statue in the likeness of renowned concert promoter Barry Fey at the Red Rocks Park Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado.
Barry Fey was an iconic American concert promoter based in Denver, Colorado and was best known for bringing prominent musical acts to the United States and around the globe, some for the very first time.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/barry-fey-statue-memorial-placement-at-red-rocks
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ROMANIA: NIGHTCLUB DEATH TOLL TO RISE ‘SIGNIFICANTLY’
“Those who do not study history are bound to repeat it”
Bucharest, Romania (AP) — Romanians wept, cursed and prayed Sunday as they mourned the victims of a fire in a nightclub, while doctors warned the death toll could rise “significantly” because so many of the injured have severe burns.
As the nation entered its second day of mourning, thousands paid their respects at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest’s 4th district — the scene of Friday’s tragedy that so far has killed 29 people [updated to 32, including 3 members of the band] and left dozens badly burned.
In a separate show of grief, thousands walked silently through the capital city of 3 million Sunday afternoon, carrying flowers and photographs of the dead.
Over 140 people are still hospitalized around the Romanian capital and 90 of them are in serious condition, said Raed Arafat, an emergency situations official. He added that the death toll could double.
Treating victims of a nightclub fire is more complicated than treating someone for a localized burn, Arafat said.
“Many sustained burns to their trachea and lungs, aggravated by the kind of noxious gasses you find in foam and furniture which give off toxic substances such as cyanide. Also many people were trampled on,” he said. “From this point of view, the prognostic and chances (of survival) are reduced.”
Ioan Lascar, a doctor at the Floreasca Emergency Hospital agreed the death toll could rise “significantly” because so many of the injured have severe burns.
“Treatment for burns is the most complex and costly treatment imaginable,” he said. “We are talking about long-term hospitalization: a month, a month and a half, two, sometimes even more.”
Lascar said the emergency hospital had performed 11 tracheotomies over the weekend to help victims of the accident breathe because they had suffered burns to their lungs. The procedure involves an incision being made to the windpipe, and a tube is inserted which is connected to a ventilation machine, which provides more oxygen to the lungs.
As doctors announced that two more people had died Sunday, mourners gathered outside the shuttered club, some weeping, others standing silently, apparently dazed by the tragedy, the biggest of its kind in Romania. Journalists and police officers, who were working, also appeared visibly moved by the outpouring of grief and emotion.
People laid down white and yellow chrysanthemums, one wrapped in a musical score, and placed red and white candles to create a sea of tiny flickering flames, in an echo of the inferno that erupted at the basement nightclub in the shabby four-story building during a rock concert with the band Goodbye to Gravity.
Meanwhile, forensic experts began the first autopsies of victims.
Amid the tears, there were bursts of anger and calls for punishing those deemed responsible for what happened. Witnesses said the fire started as a pyrotechnics show ignited foam, which lead to a stampede to a single exit from the club.
“The owners of the nightclub and authorities should be punished for allowing this to happen,” said Anne-Marie Duminica, 36. “I hope they rot in prison.”
There has been widespread anger that the club had only one exit door, the rock band used fireworks in its repertoire, and the ceiling and pillars were clad in flammable foam. Criticism has also been raised against Romania’s lax fire regulations.
Law enforcement officials are still collecting evidence from the scene.
Duminica, a government adviser for small business, comforted her weeping friend Alexandra Sivu, whose best friend, blogger and photographer Claudiu “Bubu” Petre, died in an ambulance after he had returned to the raging fire to try and save others.
“Tell the world that Bubu went back to save people. He is a hero,” Duminica said. “Rockers are not bad people as some say. He had a wonderful heart.”
In churches around the fervently religious country people, churchgoers prayed, and a moment of silence was held in some churches.
On Saturday, the government declared three days of mourning.
By Alison Mutler | Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/autopsies-begin-victims-romanian-nightclub-fire-085249387.html
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Colectiv Nightclub Fire Kills 32, Including 3 Members of the Band – See “In Memoriam”
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PRIME MINISTER OF ROMANIA VICTOR PONTA RESIGNS IN LIGHT OF CORRUPTIONS ALLEGATIONS AND SUBSEQUENT TO THE COLECTIV NIGHTCLUB FIRE
Victor-Viorel Ponta is a Romanian jurist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania from being appointed by President Traian Basescu in May 2012 until resigning in November 2015 following the Colectiv nightclub fire. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader from 2010 to 2015, he was also joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL).
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Particularly after allegations of corruption (during 2007 and 2008, while he was a lawyer) in June 2015, he faced widespread calls to resign. Although Ponta denied any wrongdoing, he was charged with fraud, tax evasion and money laundering on July 13, 2015. Since that time, President Klaus Iohannis repeatedly called on Ponta to step down because of the corruption scandal.
On 4 November 2015 Ponta announced his resignation, after a disastrous fire in a nightclub a few days earlier had led to street protests, with demonstrators calling for Ponta to resign, linking the existing allegations of government corruption to the inadequate safety supervision which allowed the fire to take place. “I’m handing in my mandate, I’m resigning, and implicitly my government too,” Ponta stated, adding, “I hope the government’s resignation will satisfy the people who came out in the streets.”
Ironically, it is likely that the Social Democratic Party party (though without Ponta) will remain in power until the scheduled elections in December 2016, according to the Toronto Star. The President will name a new, interim prime minister. Since the party dominates parliament, its leader will likely get the chance to form a government, and parliament will likely approve it. It’s only if parliament rejects the government twice that new elections would be called in the near future.