Edge with Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados Cateura

"Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados Cateura"     is a Paraguayan orchestra of young musicians whose instruments have been made out of material taken from garbage and then recycled. They are currently on tour previous to the premiere of the documentary film "Landfill Harmonic"  which tells the story of how and why this orchestra was formed. In Los Angeles, they met The Edge among other artists:

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No Grammy for U2

Once again the Best Rock Album Grammy at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards,  was not for U2, this time the winner was Beck with Morning Phase.. U2 last won in this category in 2005 for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and in 2001 for All That You Can't Leave Behind. 

iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour

This is the new promotional video of the upcoming tour (Europe and North America leg):

U2 contribute to new Irish Hospice Foundation book

Celebrating the "unique relationship" between a man and his child, Sons+Fathers is a new book from the Irish Hospice Foundation with a large number of A-list contributors.

It takes its inspiration from Bono, who has donated drawings of his father towards the end of his life for the anthology. Also offering personal contributions from the world of music will be the other members of U2, Paul McGuinness and his son Max, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Julian Lennon and Gavin Friday.

From film and stage: John Boorman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gabriel Byrne, Neil Jordan, Paul Cusack and Colin Farrell. 

Writers include John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Robert Fisk, Paul Auster, Mick Heaney, Colum McCann, Joseph O’Connor and Salman Rushdie, while Colm Tóibín pens the introduction.

From the political world there are contributions from President Clinton, Alastair Campbell and Bobby Shriver.

Sons+Fathers is set to be published this summer to coincide with Father's Day (Sunday June 21) and proceeds will go towards The Irish Hospice Foundation’s Nurses for Night Care Programme, a service which provides over 1,400 nights of free nursing care at home annually to people with a non-malignant terminal illness.

Irish Hospice Foundation CEO Sharon Foley says:

"Bono planted the seed for this book with his generous gift of the drawing he made of his father when he was dying.  He asked if they could be used to raise money for The Irish Hospice Foundation, so we decided on a book, and the net was cast wide and far. We were blown away by the response and generosity of the participants, all who are very busy, well-known people."

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Bono's daughter Jordan Hewson steps into the limelight - as a journalist

Bono's daughter Jordan Hewson is following in her father's footsteps in the international fight against poverty.

The 25-year-old graduate of New York University has this week been unveiled as the online editor of Global Citizen, an organisation aiming to eradicate extreme poverty.

Jordan has largely avoided life in the limelight, while her younger sister Eve has pursued a career in acting, she is slowly entering public life to highlight the cause championed by her famous father.

Jordan and Eve Hewson  at 2014 Global Citizen Festival

"We're really working against the injustice of extreme poverty," she told Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post.

"It's rarely a privilege we know how to access easily," she said.

After the Global Citizen Festival, a concert headlined by Jay-Z and No Doubt  in September of last year, the cause was given a new high profile platform.

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Feedback Kitchen - Mario Batali with The Edge

Celebrity chef's new web series also features interviews with Patti Smith, Perry Farrell and Josh Groban.




Feedback Kitchen - Mario Batali with The Edge... por FeedbackKitchen

"Music, it drives me almost more than food," celebrity chef Mario Batali tells U2's the Edge early in their conversation together. As a way to bridge and explore his two passions, Batali created Feedback Kitchen, an online interview series where the chef and artists like the Edge, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Patti Smith, Perry Farrell and Josh Groban "explore creativity, creation and the similarities between food and music." 

In the Edge's visit to Feedback Kitchen's industrial setting in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the guitarist recounts the time when the riff for U2's "Desire" spontaneously came to him. The Edge kept strumming the riff again and again on his acoustic guitar when, suddenly, his doorbell rang. As the Edge tells Batali, he refused to answer the door, as he was worried the chords would leave him if he abandoned his guitar without at least recording the melody.

Edge renders a very interesting acoustic version of "Running to Stand Still"

While the conversations usually revolve around music, halfway through these interviews, Batali hits the kitchen to make some lunch for his guests. 

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The Edge’s first guitar to be sold at Dublin auction

U2 guitarist learned to play on ‘modest little’ instrument expected to fetch up to €1,800

A classical guitar that launched one of the most successful careers in Ireland’s musical history has turned up at auction.

The “learner’s classical guitar” was originally bought by the late Gwenda Evans, a Malahide primary school teacher, in the 1970s for her son David. He later joined a band called U2, styled himself “The Edge” and became one of the best-known rock guitarists in the world.

But, according to Whyte’s auctioneers in Dublin, “he left his first guitar behind at his mother’s house”.

Teaching colleague

Stuart Purcell, a spokesman for Whyte’s, said “around 1980, when a teaching colleague of Gwenda’s in Scoil Íosa, Malahide [a community school in north Dublin], mentioned that she needed a guitar, as she was beginning lessons, Gwenda offered to sell her The Edge’s old one for the price she had bought it for”.

Mr Purcell said the unnamed woman, who paid about £20, later abandoned the lessons but kept the guitar.

Then, “years later she met The Edge who signed the guitar”.

She has now decided to sell it and consigned it to auction. It will go under the hammer in Whyte’s sale of “Rock, Pop & Movie Memorabilia” in Dublin on March 15th and has been assigned an estimate of between €1,200 and €1,800.

David Evans (53), of Killiney, Co Dublin, and known as The Edge or, simply, Edge, was born in England but moved to Ireland with his family during early childhood.

‘Mrs Edge’

He joined the band which became U2 while a pupil at the Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Clontarf in 1976.

Following the death of Gwenda Evans in 2012, U2’s lead singer, Bono, referred to her as “Mrs Edge” and recalled she was the band’s “first roadie” who had driven the schoolboy rockers to various gigs in her orange Volkswagen car.

In 2007, The Edge donated a cream-coloured Gibson Les Paul guitar to a charity auction in the United States, held to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which sold for $240,000.

Whyte’s said that guitar had been regularly used in live U2 performances and had been seen by millions of concert-goers worldwide, whereas the Malahide instrument was “a modest little guitar”.

http://www.irishtimes.com/