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Performance Listings ............. Show Calendar Norton & The Knockouts ..... Norton & Friends ..... Norton Buffalo & Roy Rogers ..... An Evening With Norton Buffalo Biography ..... Discography ..... Reviews Merchandise ..... Albums, Lyrics and Sound Clips ..... Photo Gallery Promo and Stage Tech Downloads ..... Booking Info ..... Links ..... Fan Club E-mail What Can I Do To Make This World A Better Place? Newly Updated Listing of 2008 Performance Listings Now available (Updated March 4, 2008) You are welcome to visit my MySpace page ... It's a good place to find out more information about me ... influences, band members, check concert listings, new photos ... and to listen to a few of my tunes. Hope to see you there! myspace.com/nortonbuffalo The Second Annual An Evening With Norton Buffalo Benefit Concert Paradise Performing Arts Center 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise, CA Saturday May 10, 2008 Doors Open 6:30pm This Performance will benefit: Paradise Exchange Club Charities Paradise Rotary Club Charities Paradise Center For Tolerance and Non-Violence Paradise Performing Arts Center Doors will open @ 6:30pm with a Silent Auction. Please come early to check out these items and make your bids. Beer and Wine sales, which will benefit this evening's charities, will also begin at 6:30pm Showtime @ 7:30pm Tickets can be purchased at PPAC (hours M-F 12-5:30 Sat 12 -5) 530-872-8454, or online at the link below Paradise Performing Arts Center An Evening With Norton Buffalo features my acoustic group, Norton & Friends, and my electric band, Norton & The Knockouts, This evening's performance will also feature our special guest Carlos Reyes Carlos is a phenomenal talent on both Paraguayan Folk Harp and Gypsy style violin. He has a wonderful stage presence and magical musical qualities that will absolutely heighten the evening's performance. All those who caught last year's show, will attest that a great time was had by all!!! Please come down to share in this wonderful evening of music, while supporting these great local causes. I hope to see you there. (Click Poster to view large image) 
From June 15 - 22, 2008, I will be on Maui, Hawaii to teach harmonica as part of George Kahumoku's Maui Slack Key Guitar and Ukelele workshop 2008. This will be a wonderful series in which I will focus on basics of the harmonica as well as how to apply harmonica to Hawaiian music. I will also talk about songwriting and other aspects of this crazy business of music. For those of you who love harmonica, Hawaiian music or just Hawaii this will be the place to be in mid June. I'll have more information here as I . Hope to see you there!!!! 
I've been forced to use my down time this fall and winter to take care of my hurting old bones. Caused by whiplash injuries from auto accidents in the past, and exacerbated by the stress that my neck goes through while playing harmonica, my condition has gotten worse over the years, and recently, became both intolerable and unrelenting. I was in a great deal of pain while traveling and performing throughout 2007. Thanks to acupuncture, physical therapy, along with both movement therapy and wonderful TLC from my darling wife, I've finally been getting some positiverelief. It seems like I should be ready to be back dancing and wiggling around on stage when the shows start again in 2008. (Although I'm going to have to keep working on this for quite some time)
Below are some personal commments. I understand that these views may not be your views, however, as a Citizen of this great nation, I can no longer be silent (I never have been silent). As I highly respect and honor your rights to voice your opinions, I hope you will respect my rights for that as well, for I do so as a patriotic and involved citizen of our great country. These comments are in my own words. I love this nation and I love this globe we live upon. I pray that we can make the changes needed to guarantee that humans can continue to live on this planet we call Earth. I write these words, not as a Democrat or Republican, but as an American citizen who loves his country and loves the Earth that we live upon. As a citizen who feels that it is my duty to speak out and urge us all towards positive change. Paul Revere wouldn't have enough wind, nor enough horses to make the call to rise up against the monster we are currently facing. Please, let us First, study, and learn the issues at hand, a huge but important task. With knowledge comes power. Truth is only found when we seek it. Second, pray, to whatever diety we believe in, that we can make a positive change. That any action we take will be blessed and will bring good to this nation and to all peoples of the world Third, stand up, speak out and be held accountable for our beliefs, what ever they may be. In this way, we can make change happen. Use our power and numbers as citizens of the world to deliver whatever message will convey our truths. This is one of the most essential freedoms that we are blessed with here in this nation. I feel that it is imperitive now that we use it.  Take a close look at this number. Over a million Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of the illegal war that the United States has waged against this sovereign nation. Over 2 million more Iraqis have been left homeless and displaced by the bombing and the violence that this administration has wrought. That's more damage and more death than ever caused by Saddam Hussein. That our great nation, which I love so dearly, has policies that allow this, hurts me deep in my core. It is time to end our nation's terrible policies of war. It is time to bring our current situation in Iraq to the best end we can, considering the foul mess it was from the beginning. The only political change that this war brought to Iraq was a shifting of power from a corrupt Sunni to a corrupt Shiite regime. We did not bring "democracy as we've ever known it to that nation. That seems to have never been the intention of this administration. It has not made our world, nor our nation, a safer place and it has meanwhile been bleeding our treasury to the point that our nation is on the brink of financial catastrophe. The death casualty numbers above cannot possibly express the sadness brought on by the millions of injuries and over 3 million displaced Iraqi citizens not mentioned in this statistic, as well as the destruction of families, neighborhoods, cities, businesses and the disruption of life as they had known it. Had we never gone there, Hussein would have eventually been pushed out of power, and the citizens of that nation would have made the changes they needed to make by themselves. It is not, and never was our right to invade, murder and destroy so many for such a desolate result, nor was it right to risk so American lives to do so. Remember that the absolute and undisputed truth, is that there was no involvement of the people nor the government of Iraq in the events of 9/11. At this time, along with the above mentioned Iraqi casualties, our nation has lost over Four Thousand of our brave and noble soldiers, both men and women, as a result of this war. I honor all of our brave men and women in arms, and I pray that no one ever misconstrue my disagreement with our nation's policies regarding this war, and my respect and honor of our military from the lowest to the highest levels. They are bound to follow the directives of their Commander In Chief. I have never, at any level, meant to convey any feelings of disrespect or dishonor to any of our soldiers present or past. It is time to hold this administration accountable for all of these deaths, the horrible damage that has been brought to Iraq, and the lessened security, safety and stability of our nation and it's economy here at home. Please note, that this is not the first nation that we have invaded and created such death and havoc. If you research and study the "true" history of our nation, you will discover the reasons why so many nations have become disenchanted with the U.S. It is not the "public policy" that we Americans are being spoon fed by the media and the government here at home. Most Americans truly believe that we have done nothing to upset any one! "Why do they hate us" .... Keeping us ignorant of those truth,s is what allows this administration, and others who are reaping great profits from the "war machine" and our government's "silent" imperialistic foreign policies, to continue rallying our support. It is rather the secret agendas and clandestine acts that are commited, that somehow never end up in the books that are used to teach our students the history of our nation. These acts have, year after year, caused so much death and suffering around the globe, all for the sake of the financial gains of US corporations and their global interests. Do we as a nation truly wish to embrace and endorse such policies? I believe that if all our people knew the truth regarding this, that we would rise up against it. Despite all of this, The United States is, nonetheless, a great nation. It is imperitive that WE THE PEOPLE educate ourselves, stand up, speak out, and take back this great country that has been stolen out from underneath us by our silence and apathy. We can do so at the voting polls, we can do more by organizing and creating a movement that will be seen and heard and which, through that visibility, will promote a positive change. If only 40 percent of our nation"s eligible voters go to the voting polls, can Democracy truly continue be alive in our nation? Even in the most underdeveloped nations in the world, the people do all they can to get out and vote. What has happened to us, that we have grown so complacent and uninvolved?? Have we not, as citizens of this great nation of the United States of America, had enough of this administration's stripping of our rights, untold numbers of outright lies, the breaking of scores of our nations laws and international laws, the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, the death of over four thousand of our brave men and women in uniform, the death of several hundred thousand Iraqis, almost all of them innocent civilians, the displacement of millions of citizens, and the destruction of the private property and vital infrastructure of that nation, the stripping of so many public services here in the US, the inadequate resources of our own National Guard, the takeover of our politics by special interests and big money, more lies, the rape of our planet by greedy corporations, the drugging down of our citizens by pharmeceutical companies, the control of big tobacco that allows them to continue spreading death to the world, the stripping of our education system, and thus the "dumbing down" of America, and so much obstruction of justice and abuse of power, the disenfranchising of hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters and so many other crimes that have happened in the hands of those who currently lead this nation? .... Have we not had enough of this???? When are "we the people" going to wake up and demand accountabliity??? We demand thar murderers, theives and drug dealers be put behind bars every day, yet our nation is currently being led by an administration that makes the crimes of Richard Nixon, which shook our nation years ago, seem like nothing. Are we willing to stand by, and let the values that we as a nation stand for, be wiped out by these "evil doers", to be replaced by a government that acts with compete impunity and contempt for all that we stand for as a 'Free and Democratic Nation", and toward us, the citizens that it represents, as well as to the entire world?? I love, support and pray for all of the men and women of our armed forces. They are our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. I beleive deeply that the absolute best way we can support them is to bring them home from this illegal war as expediently and safely as possible. This will not be an overnight affair. We must be ready to face the challenges and dangers that will come with withdrawal from this mess. To best facilitate this happening, we must have a serious "regime" change in Washinton DC, with new leadership that is dedicated to use our armed forces for "Defense" rather than "Offense" both in our military actions and in our diplomatic policy. This current war is not the fault of our U.S. military, but rather the fault of the policy makers of this current administration in Washington DC and the members of our Congress who allowed them to go forward with these policies. The only way we can create change is to be politically active, to speak out, demonstrate and to become visible opponents to the policies that are continuing to promote this deadly quagmire. Voting is a powerful tool ... however we need to be heard above and beyond the voting booths. I recentlyI read that while "The French government is afraid of their people", here in America, known as a nation "of the people, by the people and for the people, "The People of the United States are afraid of their government" This is the sad reality of the state of our union. What can we do???? How can we turn the table on that conundrum?? If we do not stand up and become active participants in that change, then we are willingly complicant in the actions of our nation, and are due and deserving all of the wrath and hatred that may come toward our nation for allowing this bad government to continue. It will take a lot more than a political change from Republicans to Democrats, to heal the sadness that this planet is suffering around the globe, it will take a change of heart, and the conviction to follow through with that change. It needs to start by holding those guilty of crimes at the highest level of our nation's government accountable. Can the people of The United States Of America stand up and make that change, despite the power and influence of the corporate monsters that are intent on keeping us in perpetual wars, perpetual addictions, perpetual bad diets, perpetual spiritual abandonment? In my travels around the world, I have always found that people all want to live in peace and harmony. It is always misled governments, bad politics, corporate greed, or religeous zealots (among others) that create the chaos, the wars and the sadness that cause so many to suffer and so many to die. I pray that everyday people all over the world, will begin to awaken, stand up and speak out about what they really believe in, and what they really want for this planet. "We The People" Can Make A Change!!!! My hope is that this whole world may become a place of peace. That our great nation can once again become a beacon of decency and honor that cares for it's own people first, and that we use our wealth, brilliant minds and first class technologies to help the entire world become a better healthier place. I pray that we all become better caretakers of Mother Earth, that this planet that we live on is left a better place for our children. Although these hopes sound like pipedreams ...They Are All Possible!!!! Read books and other publications that will inform you of what is truly going on in this world. ... Do not trust the news that you hear and see on commercial radio and television as those have almost all been bought up by big money corporations that have special interests, and are programmed to give us a manipulated view of what is happening around the globe. They have been especially complicit in promoting the fear mongering that this administration has used to strip our civil liberties and promote war. Question Authority ... especially those that are spending your tax dollars! Get involved in the process that makes this nation the best in the world. Talk to your friends, contact your representatives ... enact change through speaking out. U.S. House Of Representatives • U.S. Senate Be sure to get out and vote!!!!! Run for office ... give us leadership that we can all be proud of. Use your power as a consumer to only purchase products from companies that are supporting a sutainable earth and who demand good pay and care for their workers all around the globe. Lets make a difference by letting all of our voices ... and our wallets be heard!!!! Blessings to you all, Norton Webmaster: Norton Buffalo |