w/ Pillars & Tongues, Allá, Afri Caribe, Judson Claiborne, Spires That In The Sunset Rise, and Baby Alright! $12 for the whole shebang, and all proceeds go to righteous Chicago non-profit organizations. Plus there will be a raffle for exciting prizes from local artists, artisans and brewers. More details below.
We hope to see you there!
-Kent & his Roommate buddies
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The Hideout hosts first-time3-WAY BIG BENEFIT an eclectic musical showcase celebrating social change groups
Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Tamms Year Ten Coalition,& Young Chicago Authors. (Chicago)
- On Saturday, May 9, 2009, The Hideout Inn (1354 West Wabansia Ave.,
Chicago) will host the “3-Way Big Benefit”, a day-long music showcase
featuring a wide array of Chicago bands. The event will be hosted by Chicago’s own true soul poet and emcee,
Avery R. Young, and will conclude with a dance party DJ’d by soul and hip hop favorite
Itch13.
The showcase will benefit three local organizations – Logan Square
Neighborhood Association, Tamms Year Ten Coalition, and Young Chicago
Authors – all working toward social change in various capacities.
Members of the beneficiary organizations will be on hand to provide
information and sign up volunteers. Homemade treats will be available
in limited quantities. A raffle will be held for prizes such as a Roommate LP and t-shirt, lovely Mexican vases, a bomber of Half Acre's yet-to-be released Daisy Cutter Pale Ale, homemade jams and bread, recording time at Glamour Studios, tickets to Links Hall, and more. Cover is $12.
http://hideoutchicago.com.
As a long-standing supporter of progressive causes and host to
community benefits, the Hideout struck organizers Kent Lambert and
Kristen Cox as the ideal venue for this event. Cox and Lambert chose
these beneficiary groups for their social justice missions and their
timely and urgent community initiatives.
The Logan Square Neighborhood Association
preserves and protects community schools, affordable housing, community
spaces, and offers health and citizenship access as well as financial
and employment counseling for the Logan Square and Avondale
neighborhoods. The
Tamms Year Ten Coalition is protesting the misguided and inhumane policies at Tamms C-MAX, a supermax prison in downstate Illinois.
Young Chicago Authors (YCA) is a literary arts organization that believes teenagers can change their world through creative writing and performance.
Avery R. Young is a poet, educator and curriculum specialist for Young Chicago Authors. He is the author of
lookin fo/words that rhyme: the un- spoken word of avery r. young
(FayeRic) and is currently performing with his band The Urban Griot
Movement and working on an album of original music. Young’s
performances have been featured at The Museum of Contemporary Art,
House of Blues, BET, WGN Morning News, MTV, VH1, Kevin's Room 2, The
Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Dance Africa, Lollapallooza, Wordstock, A New
World Reveal-A-Solution, Denizen Kane, New Skool Poetics, World Can't
Wait and Taste of Chicago.
http://www.myspace.com/averyryoung
Confirmed bands, in order of appearance:
4:00 pm – Pillars & Tongues
(“improvised psych-folk gospel-blues”) is Mark Trecka (vocals,
percussion, bells, harmonica, organ, melodica) , Elizabeth Remis
(violin, vocals), and Evan Hydzik (double bass, vocals).
http://www.myspace.com/pillarsandtongues
5:00 pm - Allá (“latin psych pop”) is Lupe Martinez (vocals
and guitar), Jorge Ledezma (guitar), Angel Ledezma (drums), Ria Neri
(bass) and James Warden (keyboard).
http://www.myspace.com/estiempo
6:00 pm – Afri Caribe (“bomba y plena”) is a percussion and
dance ensemble and academy founded in Humboldt Park by Evaristo “Tito”
Rodriguez. Afri Caribe celebrates the African influence in Puerto Rico
and other countries of the Caribbean through Puerto Rican Bomba
rhythms.
http://www.africaribe.net
7:00 pm – Roommate ("dreamy psych-tinged avant-pop") is Kent
Lambert (keytar/vocals/electronics), Gillian Lisée
(bass/percussion/vocals), Luther Rochester (analog synths, percussion,
vibes), and Seth Vanek (drums/percussion).
http://www.myspace.com/roommate
8:00 pm - Judson Claiborne (“twangy, soulful, countrified
folk-pop”) is Ryan Blaine Boyles (bass), Jamie Daniel Carter (drums),
Darrell Baker Greiwe (electric guitar, vocals), Christopher Claiborne
Salveter (vocals, guitar), Jamie Michelle Topper (frame drum, congas,
vocals), and Ronnie Hana Kuller (violin, vocals).
http://www.myspace.com/judsonclaiborne
9:00 pm - Spires That In The Sunset Rise (“avant-rock psych-folk”) is Kathleen Baird (vocals, guitar) and Taralie Peterson (vocals, guitar, cello).
http://www.myspace.com/spiresthatinthesunsetrise
10:00 pm - Baby Alright (“all-star Chicago
funk-soul-boogie”) is Marvin Tate (vocals), Dan Bitney (drums), LeRoy
Bach (guitar), Matt Lux (bass), and Toby Summerfield (guitar).
http://www.myspace.com/babyalright
11:30 pm – Hideout Dance Party with DJ Seanile and DJ Searchl1te.
beneficiary organizations:
YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORSYoung
Chicago Authors (YCA) encourages self-expression and literacy through
creative writing, performance and publication. YCA provides
student-centered, artist-led workshops free to youth ages 13-19 in
schools and communities. Our process emphasizes artistic development,
mentorship, and creating safe spaces where a young person's life
matters. We believe that through their words, young people can promote
tolerance and remove barriers to transform their lives and society. YCA
is also the producer of Louder Than A Bomb, the largest teen poetry
festival in the country, for which it is a subject of a feature length
documentary by Siskel/Jacobs Productions. YCA will be hosting the
national teen poetry slam, Brave New Voices, in Chicago this Summer!
http://youngchicagoauthors.org
LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONFounded in 1962,
Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) is a multi-issue,
grassroots, membership organization, which unites a diverse group of
institutions, residents, and other stakeholders to address the
challenges facing its community, focusing on education and school
reform, health, affordable housing and economic development,
immigration, and community spaces and the arts. Serving the
multi-ethnic communities of Logan Square, Avondale, and Lathrop Homes,
LSNA's mission is to unite institutions and residents to build and
protect an excellent place to live, work, play, raise children, run a
business, and worship.
http://www.lsna.net
TAMMS YEAR TEN COALITIONTamms Year Ten is a coalition of
concerned citizens who have come together to protest the misguided and
inhumane policies at Tamms C-MAX. In 1998, the first prisoners were
transferred from prisons across the state to Tamms C-MAX in Southern
Illinois. This new prison, designed to keep men in permanent solitary
confinement, was intended for what the IDOC called a one-year "shock
treatment." Now, ten years later, over one-third of the original
prisoners have been there for a decade in isolation—no phone calls,
communal activity or contact visits. Tamms Year Ten and Rep. Julie
Hamos have introduced a Supermax Reform Bill (HB 2633) to the Illinois
House, and 27 legislators have signed on as co-sponsors. The bill would
prohibit seriously mentally ill prisoners from supermax incarceration,
establish clear procedures for how men are transferred to and from the
supermax, and limit terms of solitary confinement to one year, unless
doing so would pose a risk to guards or other inmates. Amnesty
International recently called for immediate changes at Tamm C-MAX and
endorses HB2633 as a first step. Tamms was also featured in a March 30,
2009 New Yorker article on the devastating effects of long-term
solitary confinement.
http://yearten.org
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