How do you console a father who is a musician that just lost his 18 year old son, who was also a talented musician? The name for the event held Thursday, May 7, 2009 at Bert's Warehouse in Detroit could not have been more aptly named. The One Love Jam - musicians came from all over the area to downtown Detroit to jam in the name of love and raise funds for a funeral to bury Dorian Fiddler. The press announcement was ran May 7 in the Detroit Free Press.
Dorian Fiddler died Friday from heart failure, a complication of diabetes. In his short life, Dorian made an impression playing with his father's band, and performing at his school with Parliament-Funkadelic, the group in which his father played keyboards before launching a solo career. His percussion skills are captured on record with his band, Bsmnt City Anymle Kontrole.
Tonight, a who's who list of Detroit musicians will pay tribute at Bert's Warehouse Theater at a memorial fund-raiser billed as the One Love Jam. The lineup reflects Amp Fiddler's stylistic swath: He traversed the worlds of funk, hip-hop, techno, jazz and R&B... (read more)
A Family Business
Family in the business together grows tight. Detroit has many families in creative businesses - art, music, film making, and more. One generation's connections become connections to another and the web woven becomes a beautiful canvas. Those who know the experience call it ONE LOVE.One Love
When you can reach out to anyone and treat them as your brother, mother, friend, or lover. So many cloudy definitions of the word LOVE in language, such that many have derivations to classify the type of love experienced. But if you bring those all together you realize ONE LOVE.Photos from the One Love Jam
Money raised from purchase of photos may be late in coming, but I will see to it that profit raised gets into the hands of Amp Fiddler. If you click on a photo from this slide-show it is linked out to my hosted gallery where you can add it to a shopping cart, select size, finish, and quantity. Photos ordered are sent directly from the print lab to your address.
