Willie and Annie Nelson, receive guitar from Hard Rock International CEO Hamish Dodds on Willie Nelson’s tour bus, Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, in New York, as part of Hard Rock’s Ambassadors of Rock concert tour.
The concert launched the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, co-founded by Annie Nelson and actress Daryl Hannah, which promotes sustainable biodiesel practices.
(AP Photo/Hard Rock Cafe, Diane Bondareff)
Photo credit: Janis from Texas, taken at Abbott, Texas in 2008. (Thank you, friend.)
photo by Larry Kolvoold
Annie Nelson and Family
Hard Rock Cafe, September 2007
On a beautiful April Sunday evening in Austin, Texas, Lyle Lovett, Bill Paxton, Kyle Chandler, Ricardo Chavira and 40 more great Texas artists gathered at the Four Seasons Austin to honor Willie Nelson, one of the stars of the new film, One Peace at a Time, now known as “The movie that built a high school!”
Annie & Willie Nelson with Chrisy and Turk Pipkin, producer and director of One Peace at a Time. photo by Gary Miller
“Willie’s magic – in the film and in the room – enables us to build a great school in Kenya.” — Turk Pipkin, the Nobelity Project
Money raised at this “incredible evening” complete funding for Mahiga Hope High School, which The Nobelity Project is building in rural Kenya.
“Party of the year!” “Best Austin charity event ever!” Austin American Statesman.
About One Peace at a Time
Filmed in 20 countries on 5 continents, One Peace at a Time looks at the possibility of providing basic rights – water, food, healthcare, education and more – to every child. The film features Willie Nelson, Secretary of Energy Steve Chu, Muhammad Yunus and more. Following its sold out World Premiere at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, One Peace played before an audience of 3,000 at the Maui Film Fest where it received the Audience Award, and has screened at additional film fests and at the World Economic Forum in Geneva.
More info on the high school & the trailer to the film is at: http://www.nobelity.org
One Peace at a Time is now available on DVD at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, independent video, book and music retailers, and at the iTunes Store.
The Nobelity Project’s Artists and Filmmakers Dinner
The forty Texas celebs hosting tables at the dinner included Bill Paxton, Lyle Lovett, Kyle Chandler, honorary Texan Peter Fonda, Ricardo Chavira, Robert Earl Keen, Dana Wheeler Nicholson, Shawn Colvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hannibal Lokumbe, Charlie Sexton, Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis, and many more.
The culmination of the night included Willie, Lyle, Robert Keen, Joe Ely, Ray Benson and Texas jazz legend Hannibal Lokumbe on an inspiring rendition of Willie’s On the Road Again and an uplifting 500-person sing-a-long with Willie on Amazing Grace!
The Nobelity Project is a 501c3 nonprofit that collaborates with Nobel laureates and other inspiring leaders to provide reliable information and innovative thinking on pressing global problems and solutions that work
One Peace at a Time – Distributed by: Monterey Media
For more information, contact The Nobelity Project christy@nobelity.org
Karen Frost kfrost@frostmedia.com
Willie Nelson was honored on Sunday night, April 11, 2010, at the Nobelity Project’s Artists and Filmmakers Dinner, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, TX. Photographer Donald Winslowtook these great photos.
You can see more of his wonderful photos at his Facebook site, look at his albums on his facebook page:
www.facebook.com/donald.winslow
Kat Edmonson and Willie Nelson.
Kat Edmonson and Annie Nelson
Thank you, Donald Winslow, for letting me share your photos here.
Photo: Rod Aydelotte
Country singer Willie Nelson leaves the McLennan Country courthouse Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Waco Texas. Nelson was subpoenaed to appear in court where Billy Joe Shaver is on trial for a shooting incident in Lorena Texas on April 1, 2007.
Photo: Rod Aydelotte
Actor Robert Duvall, left, shakes hands with Billy Joe Shaver during a break in his trial Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Waco Texas.
Shaver, 70, is charged with shooting Billy Bryant Coker outside Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in Lorena, Texas on April 1, 2007.
More photos at:
http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/billy-joe-shaver-trial-040610/#73735
Annie D’Angelo and Willie Nelson wed on September 16, 1991
Nelson, Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson, Christy Pipkin
Nobelity Project’s work at St. Joseph Mahiga Primary School in rural Kenya has already resulted in clean drinking water and electricity, a computer lab and new classrooms. Enrollment is up and water-borne illnesses are down. And Mahiga Primary is now the highest rated school in the district!
But education shouldn’t end at the 8th grade. With no secondary school in the area, a complete education for 700 kids in the community depends upon The Nobelity Project’s commitment to build Mahiga Hope High School.
These kids are ready and eager to learn. Let’s open the door to a better future for them and their community!
Nike has announced our Rainwater Court as a winner of the international GameChangers design competition. Architecture for Humanity will oversee construction at Mahiga of the world’s first “net-positive” basketball court that will also collect and purify drinking water for the school, serve as an outdoor classroom, a community meeting space and more.
This is a great beginning, but to build the rest of the high school
we need your help.
The Willie Challenge
To build twelve classrooms, a library, and computer and science labs.
Willie Nelson is once again lending his hand to our efforts. Take the Willie Challenge and make a tax-deductible contribution to make this wonderful school a reality!
• Every $100 donation receives a copy of Turk and Willie’s NY Times bestseller
The Tao of Willie signed by Turk
• Every $500 donation receives a copy of The Tao of Willie signed by Willie too!
• Every $5,000 donation receives signed book AND your name on the door of a classroom
Click here to make a donation today!
Or mail your donation to:
The Nobelity Project
P.O. Box 161925
Austin, TX 78716
www.nobelityproject.org
Bobbie Nelson and Annie Nelson, sister and wife
Janis of Texas took this picture in Abbott, Texas, last year.
Thanks to Janis from Texas for sharing this picture she took of Annie Nelson on May 3, 2009, at the RiverBend Center in Austin. A woman who trains helping dogs brought this puppy to the show.
Janis from Texas took this picture of Bobbie and Annie Nelson in Abbott, Texas, last year.
Today, Al Wallace posted at http://www.aswallace.com
“One of my favorite stores on island is Mana Foods. Great people, all types of organic foods and drinks, and better they have a full assortment of my favorite road snack, Cliff Bars!
So when I get my Organic Lemonade out, and start munching a cliff bar, I notice a nice Mercedes 320 E Diesel parked in front of me as I sit, Indian fashion with crossed legs, eating and drinking. Oddly enough it says ..BIO DIESEL not just DIESEL. Better is a sticker that says ” RUNS ON BIO DIESEL; WAR NOT REQUIRED.” . I grin, thinking this is very cool as Maui has one of the very first commercial bio diesel plants in the country and….
Then the lady starts loading her groceries. I jump up and in the moment asked an innocent inquisitive question, ” Excuse me Ma’am, did you have to modify the car to run on Bio Diesel or can it run it straight from a stock purchase.?”
She politely retorts back, ” You don’t have to modify anything, not since the 1993 models. ” That’s cool I’m thinking. Just about then I have to get out of the way, as her husband now appears and wants to climb in the passenger side.
As I look , I see the beard and sly smile of…
” Hey, you’re Willie!”
“Yep That’s me all right”
“Hi, I’m Al Wallace”
So I just extend my hand , he shakes it , gets in the car, and they drive away!
When I saw him I flashed back to all the work he had done in promoting Bio Diesel both here ( Partnering with Bob and Kelly King to build Pacific Bio Diesel) and in the states, all the volunteer work and charity work on the island and around the world and of course his inspiring music.
Yes, it was just “Hey you’re Willie” that came out of my mouth, and not even a “have Merry Christmas” as they left. One of the bright spots about Maui is you can pretty much do what you want, most people will give you space.
Merry Christmas Annie and Willie Nelson !”
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYfbEWqa2QM]
Includes footage of breaking ground at Carl’s Corner with Willie Nelson, Annie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and more, and an interview with Willie Nelson, and ‘On The Road’ Music soundtrack.
