Picture this ...

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One simple idea, matched with great vision and heartfelt emotion, conceived from a casual conversation between three friends ...

Musician Chuck Jackson (Downchild Blues Band), Randy Zannett and Terry D. Lane (TDL Group Inc).  A Great desire to make a difference in the lives neighbours who are friends, brothers and sisters.

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A need to reach out in a meaningful way, to make a statement from he bottom of a collective soul.  In a matter of moments, with a multitude of musicial artists, volunteer spirit beyond imagination, hidden talent to organize, a plan to see an idea grow into a fact, a given, a done deal.

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The world was our stage but the reality was in a small, neighbourhood bar with people who truly believed in giving their time, talent and one hundred and eighty-one hours of love and to organize it in 10 days.

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It did not matter if anyone else, outside of that tiny sphere knew what was to be born and blossom, but the end result was a powerful way of standing up to be counted with sponsors who believed in people who would give what they could.

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The Canadian Musicians For Liberty (CMFL) became much more than a name and a dream.

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Thank you to everyone, over 1204 musicians who gave their time freely.  Touchdowns Bar & Grill Staff, the over 30 volunteers, security personnel and the committee members, who never slept.  To the media who noticed, the sponsors who supported, the volunteers who had no limit and the committee who had vision lead by Terry D. Lane who worked tirelessly to get it all done and set up in five (5) days.

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Thank you for all the donations of money, time and talent and for those who followed us through the Longest Internet Webcast in history as of 2001.  The hugs, the laughter, the ears and the exhaustion .. we will have this in our hearts and minds forever.

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Setting out to make a statement of love, believing in the universal family and the power of music, the unselfishness of giving and knowing that the difference between talking and about doing something phenomenal and actually doing it, makes all the difference in the world.  We would do it all over again, and then some.

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Canadian Musicians For Liberty 2001.

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