Watch Lowen & Navarro's "Learning to Fall" - The song, as Eric explains, demystifies being disabled and especially having ALS. Each person in the ALS Choir has been profoundly affected by the disease. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, for which there is no cure.
Each viewing of the video raises $1 for ALS research through Augies Quest via the web site: whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com.
About Lowen & Navarro
For Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro, the road is home, the stage is the runway and the studio the garden. Songs of loss and change, hope and acceptance, fear and deliverance color their seven studio albums. Voices locked in synchro-step weaving in and out of the flow, telling stories of real lives in the balance. The connections between singer and song, between audience and stage melt into a rich brew that brings them deeper into the heart of the matter and that much closer to the fire in the hearts of their people. There is no road too long that their people don't travel far and wide to see and hear them. As it has been for over twenty years, it still is today.
Presently centered in the crosshairs is their newest release, out July 24, 2008, "Learning To Fall". Seen through the lens of the realizations that come with living some of our dreams, releasing those that may never come to pass, and dealing with the acceptance of now as the only reality. The pattern of wanting and waiting, balanced with holding on and letting go, informs all the songs on "Learning To Fall" and makes them the truest, while sometimes most stark, expressions L&N have ever put on disk.
Much of what is said is seen through the filter of ALS, the neuromuscular disease contracted by Eric Lowen in 2003. His realizations have been revelatory, without moroseness or rage, nor precious sentiment, but are rather the simple statements of life lived at the crux.
About Augies Quest:
Augustine (Augie) Nieto, a prominent leader in the nation’s fitness industry for nearly three decades, received a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) in March 2005. Augie, 50, is approaching his role as co-chairperson of MDA’s ALS division with the same ironclad will and determination that catapulted him to entrepreneurial heights in the fitness world.
MDA Involvement and Augie’s Quest
The Nietos work closely with MDA staff to coordinate fundraising events that will benefit MDA’s worldwide ALS research program. In his campaign called “Augie’s Quest”, Nieto has raised millions for MDA’s ALS Division.
Augie also serves MDA as a national vice president. As co-chairs of the ALS Division, the Nietos help raise awareness through public appearances, speaking engagements, media interviews, and public service announcements.
“We’re thrilled and honored to be working with the MDA. We’re going to help put a face on this disease and raise money for research in a fast-track format.”
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