benefit

Beauty for Ashes is a benefit with Lifewind International, www.lifewind.org held at Chartreuse Muse, Oct 22 through 25, to benefit program for women overcoming poverty in third world. Includes art at silent auction from local artists, central valley, bay area, seattle and more than 44 artists, 55 pieces of art up for bid.

We wanted to pass along this information about next week's benefit for our good friend Ben Jones.

Ben Jones, age 33, suffered a sudden heart attack on Friday, April 13th, brought on by what is believed to have been a viral infection. He passed away this week, leaving behind his wife and two children ages 10 and 15. We are producing a benefit for his family on Tuesday Night 4/24.

I just needed to hop on here as soon as I could this morning and say thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that came out last night to Hero's! The benefit show went incredibly smooth and the money raised will really help me out with medical needs! This community rocks!

Wow! I had no idea I would be this nervous today! I am trying to drown the butterflies in a Grande Mocha from that place with the big green and white signs but they are rising up against me. The show is tonight! It all comes together tonight at Hero's!

So I get this call yesterday from Dan Diaz. If you are familiar with the local music scene, you will know that Dan is the man behind Jiggy. He is also Jiggy's dad. He pulls the strings to get Jiggy all over the place. Jiggy has played with countless rap celebs and credit has to be given to the elder Diaz.

It’s Jack Ass Day. That apparently is a big deal in The United States as kids all over stand in line to see Johnny Knoxville and his band of morons risk life and limb for the second feature-length fiasco of their not so brilliant careers. Does it say something about American Culture that our youth spends more time listening to these geniuses than our own president? That is the question of the day. What do you think?

The Third Modesto Blues Festival, by JB Presents will be coming up September 9, and tickets, at $25 each, for the day, still available for the all day event at SOS Club, and will have a benefit auction again this year, this time some proceeds will go to the California Donor Transplant Network, and auction items likely again from Skip's music.