Award-winning Alaskan singer/songwriter Libby Roderick appeared on CNN this week. Her folk classic "How Could Anyone" has struck a chord worldwide as an anthem of empowerment and healing.
August 24, 2005 (Press Release) --
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (August 24, 2005) - Award-winning Alaskan singer/songwriter Libby Roderick (http://www.libbyroderick.com) was featured on CNN this week. Roderick wrote the folk classic "How Could Anyone," a song that has struck a chord worldwide as an anthem of hope, empowerment and healing. See instructions below on accessing the online video clip.
Also featured in the CNN segment singing Roderick's song were AIDS orphans in Zambia; disabled youth in Oregon; women and girls redefining beauty in Maine; cancer survivors in South Carolina; and children at a Quaker school in Brooklyn, New York.
"In the first 24 hours, we received over 200 emails in response to the airing of the segment," said Roderick, an internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter, poet, activist, teacher and lifelong Alaskan. "I am deeply moved by the stories people around the world are sharing with me and how the song has touched so many people's lives."
The song "How Could Anyone" has been recorded by numerous artists, reprinted in books including "Hometown" by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder and was sung by thousands at the U.N. Conference in Beijing in 1995. The song has also been used at hospitals, churches, Alzheimers care units, battered women's shelters, AIDS rallies, weddings, funerals and by countless groups and individuals around the world.
TO ACCESS THE ONLINE VIDEO CLIP:
1. Go to http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/
2. Click on the text link: Browse/Search next to WATCH FREE VIDEO
3. Search for or scroll down to find "From Alaska to the World"
About Libby Roderick:
Roderick's writing has been published in books including "Prayers for a Thousand Years: Inspiration from Leaders and Visionaries Around the World" along with the writing of the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Roderick was a finalist for the national Green Dove Award honoring people whose work links creativity, psychology and ecology. She is a board member of Musicians United to Sustain the Earth producing recordings to raise money for wilderness preservation in the United States. In 1998, she sang the opening invocation as an introduction to Coretta Scott King in Washington, DC. at the "Women's Action for New Direction" national leadership conference. She is the founder of Turtle Island Records in Anchorage, Alaska.
Please contact Aliza Sherman at 307/631-8539 or Lauren Bruce at 907/278-6817 for more information or to receive a VHS copy of the segment. FMI: http://www.libbyroderick.com/.
Also featured in the CNN segment singing Roderick's song were AIDS orphans in Zambia; disabled youth in Oregon; women and girls redefining beauty in Maine; cancer survivors in South Carolina; and children at a Quaker school in Brooklyn, New York.
"In the first 24 hours, we received over 200 emails in response to the airing of the segment," said Roderick, an internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter, poet, activist, teacher and lifelong Alaskan. "I am deeply moved by the stories people around the world are sharing with me and how the song has touched so many people's lives."
The song "How Could Anyone" has been recorded by numerous artists, reprinted in books including "Hometown" by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder and was sung by thousands at the U.N. Conference in Beijing in 1995. The song has also been used at hospitals, churches, Alzheimers care units, battered women's shelters, AIDS rallies, weddings, funerals and by countless groups and individuals around the world.
TO ACCESS THE ONLINE VIDEO CLIP:
1. Go to http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/
2. Click on the text link: Browse/Search next to WATCH FREE VIDEO
3. Search for or scroll down to find "From Alaska to the World"
About Libby Roderick:
Roderick's writing has been published in books including "Prayers for a Thousand Years: Inspiration from Leaders and Visionaries Around the World" along with the writing of the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Roderick was a finalist for the national Green Dove Award honoring people whose work links creativity, psychology and ecology. She is a board member of Musicians United to Sustain the Earth producing recordings to raise money for wilderness preservation in the United States. In 1998, she sang the opening invocation as an introduction to Coretta Scott King in Washington, DC. at the "Women's Action for New Direction" national leadership conference. She is the founder of Turtle Island Records in Anchorage, Alaska.
Please contact Aliza Sherman at 307/631-8539 or Lauren Bruce at 907/278-6817 for more information or to receive a VHS copy of the segment. FMI: http://www.libbyroderick.com/.
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