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Anniversary of Jeff's Birthday 
Online Website Celebration 
November 17 
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"...and what do I want people to get from the music?
Whatever they want, you know...whatever you like."
- Jeff Buckley

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SHARE YOUR STORY: HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE JEFF? (LET US KNOW !)

November 17th marks the anniversary of Jeff Buckley's 43rd birthday. We'd like to ask you to share with us the unique ways in which *you* celebrate Jeff and how you share the Golden Promise in your life, be it through poetry, music, art, attending tribute events, listening to your favorite Jeff CDs or anything in between. We'd love to hear about it and we may include your stories on this site. Send them to us at newsletter@jeffbuckley.com Join us in sharing with Jeff's fans around the world. Also, you can light a candle for Jeff at The Jeff Buckley Community. 

JEFF BUCKLEY TRIBUTE EVENTS-WORLD WIDE
Tribute events have taken place in New York, Texas and Kansas City and coming up in Chicago, Los Angeles, Colorado, Italy & Ireland. We want to thank everyone for organizing, performing at and attending the celebrations around the world. We hope to have photos, music and/or video to share with you of these concerts. 

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The first-ever Jeff Buckley Tribute Event, sponsored by the family of Jeff Buckley Music takes place tonight in Los Angeles at the Little Room at Largo Coronet Theatre. Proceeds benefit Silverlake Conservatory of Music. Event is SOLD OUT !!!  Charity auctions are also now taking place, featuring "Grace Around The World" DVD artwork. Auctions feature never before available items: 

Grace Around The World Hoodies, T-Shirts & Spaghetti Strap Tanks

These items are only available exclusively through
these charity auctions before they are available for sale anywhere.

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"MAKE A GOLDEN PROMISE DAY"- EVENT ON FACEBOOK

In honor of Jeff's 43rd Birthday today, The Road Home is featuring  a "Make A Golden Promise Day" today, November 17th, from midnight to midnight EST. Please take a moment to join this event and participate today on Facebook. The event features photos, videos and stories about Jeff's amazing talent and humanitarian spirit. Read More about The Road Home and how Gabrielle Price is inspired by Jeff Buckley here.  

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PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESENTATION: "BIRTHDAY PHOTOS OF JEFF"

Jeff's mother, Mary Guibert, is sharing her personal family photographs from Jeff's birthday's throughout the years. Come and share this special day of

  celebration with Jeff & family. 

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CANDID NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTO PRESENTATION

We have a presentation of Candid photos of Jeff Buckley. Courtesy of Jack Bookbinder, Alison McKelvie, Christopher Rees & Luisa Cotardo. Presentation features never-before-seen photos of Jeff including European Fanzines, UK Tour Posters & Press Coverage, backstage at Glastonbury 95, Rare Live in the UK performance photos, performance photo from the Grace tour, momentos and ticket stubs from Leeds & Manchester Events, Luisa Cotardo interview in Correggio, Italy and more. Log on here to view presentation.

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ARTISTS INSPIRED BY JEFF BUCKLEY

 Devendra Banhart                                                       Rocco DeLuca

THE MAKING OF GRACE: VIDEO FEATURES 

We have streaming video of "The Making of Grace". The full catalog of Jeff's videos are available online for viewing in Peyote Radio Theatre featuring "Grace" and "Sketches" EPK, Jeff's videos for "Grace", "So Real", "Last Goodbye" and "Everybody Here Wants You". Also, we have Jeff performing with Alim Qasimov both backstage and on stage performances as well as an interview with Phillip Cornet in Antwerp that was filmed for RTBF, Belgian Television in 1994. Additionally, we're still streaming the full video of "Forget Her"  from the Legacy Edition Grace release. 

JEFF BUCKLEY DOWNLOADS:
Additionally, we have some limited downloads available at this time. You can get a Jeff Buckley "Widget" , featuring Jeff's videos, music, ringtones and Bio. We've created a screen saver featuring the photos of Mikio Ariga. An archival presentation of flyers and artwork that Jeff created for some of his early performances. Just click on the image to make the artwork larger. A lot of you have written to us and asked for specific files and for a short time, we'll have them available again at the following links: The Sin-e banter out-takes, "Strawberry Street", the bonus track from the Grace Legacy Edition, exclusive to the Australian and Japan releases, The Jeff Buckley AIM Icon, Jeff's Guitar Lesson and Jeff's Book List. 

JEFF YOUNG PENS JEFF BUCKLEY TRIBUTE SONG:
 Jeff Young is the lead guitarist on Megadeth's platinum selling classic, So Far, So Good…So What! (1987 Capitol Records). In Jeff's new eleven song solo debut, "Equilibrium", he pens a song inspired by Jeff Buckley, entitled "Always Remember Me". You can hear the track on Jeff's MySpace Music Player. Jeff was gracious enough to take some time with Jeff Buckley Music and tell us about the song, how it came to be and his inspiration from Jeff Buckley's music. Read more here . The CD is only available in limited release via Jeff's official web site www.catgutnut.com (WaterSongs Music label). Jeff is also a member of the YMT Guitar Trio along with Scott Morris and Steven Thachuk. During the summer and fall of 2009, the trio commenced their first series of concert dates in Florida - Bath, England - Los Angeles - Indiana and Ohio. As 2010 begins, YMT3 will record their first album and continue performing around the globe. If you have written music inspired by Jeff Buckley, we'd love to hear it. Drop us a line at newsletter@jeffbuckley.com  

On this special day, we'd like to share with you, music from past Jeff Buckley Tribute Events which took place at  Uncommon Ground in Chicago.

POETRY

Poetry By: Louise Jacot-Descombes, C. Robbins I, C. Robbins II, L. Lessnau,  Kimberly D. Davis, Tina Lustig I , Tina Lustig II & Anthony Burt 

ART PRESENTATION
Jeff Buckley Portraits Art Spin  By Alain, Dauchot, Kasey Moran, Nick Swann, Tara Thelan & Danielle/ Dream Sister.

Portrait by Cornelia van Werkum

Celebrate Jeff's birthday with The Golden Promise in mind.