2008
12 audiences
6 venues from Valley to Venice
1 new home at the Talking Stick Coffee Lounge
$0 cover charge
$8,034 raised in 2008 alone
$11,435 combined 18 editions
100% donated
countless paths intersecting
1 Happy New Year to everyone
manymanymany more to come.

In the year of our lord 2008, the following merrymakers, organized iTunes-style by first name, entered into a noble repertory pact to play. Real good. For free. And in doing so, brailled books, bought shoes for Southland schoolkids, gave marching orders to a team of Alzheimer's awareness walkers, contributed toward laptops for kids in transitional housing, supported efforts to preserve riparian habitat, provided vocational & avocational scholarship for senior citizens & at-risk youth, and even, we have learned, helped to rescue teenagers from human trafficking rings.

Looking forward to '09.

Alan O'Day
Alfred Johnson
Andrea Ross-Greene
Andrew Gold
Bob Carpenter
Bret Pfeifer
Bryan Tysinger
Byron Pfeifer
Chris Rael
Cliff Eberhardt
Cydney Robinson
Dafni
Dan Raziel
Daniel McFeeley
David Serby
Deborah Pearl
Debra Davis
Dudley Saunders
Edward Tree
Elsie May Larson-Kunkel
Freebo
Gary Popenoe
Gary Stockdale
Gene Lippmann
Harriet Schock
Jamie Drake
Jane Bolduc
Jeff Daniels
Jeff Kossack
Jeff Silbar
Jodi Siegel
Joe Lomanno
Johnny Townsend
Karen Tobin
Kelly Simmons
Larry John McNally
Lauren Adams
Lauren Wood
Lauri Reimer
Lisa Nemzo
Lisa O'Kane
Lisa Turner
Lois Blaisch
Lorie Doswell
Marc Francoeur
Mare Lennon
Mark Fosson
Mark Islam
Mark Pocket Goldberg
Merrily Weber
Nicole Gordon
Pam Maclean
Paul Zollo
Randy Sharp
Richard Rique Patire
Rick Cunha
Robert Martin
Ron Finn
Rosemary Butler
Royce Nelson
Ryan Guggenheim
Severin Browne
Shira Kreitenberg
Spencer Davis
Steve Seskin
Stewart Lewis
Tom Gramlich
Tracy Newman
Wendy Conrad

2008 NON-PROFIT ORGS
A New Way Of Life Reentry Project
Echo Park Film Center
Showing People Learning & Technology
Friends Of The Los Angeles River
School On Wheels
The Celebration Theatre
Children Of The Night
Shoes That Fit
Alzheimer's Association California Southland Chapter - Memory Walk
WeSpark
Braille Institute
The Nicolette Larson Pediatric Endowment at Mattel Children's Hospital/UCLA

THE VENUES
Synergy Cafe & Lounge, Culver City
Lulu's Beehive, Studio City
Vinoteque, Culver City
UnUrban Coffeehouse, Santa Monica
The Spot Cafe & Lounge, Culver City
The Talking Stick Coffee Lounge, Venice

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 19: 2nd Annual Auld Lang Syne Edition -
One Degree to Edward Tree
to benefit House Of Hope
www.houseofhopesp.org

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 20: Puppy Love Edition
to benefit the Mimi LaRue Fund for sick & injured animals at Much Love Animal Rescue
http://www.muchlove.org/doc/indexX.php?doc=mimilarue

Saturday, March 14, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 21: Hootmasters' Edition
to benefit National Multiple Sclerosis Society Southern California Chapter
http://cal.nationalmssociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=CAL_homepage

Saturday, April  11, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 22: The Catch-Up Edition
to benefit Showing People Learning & Technology
http://splatcharity.wordpress.com/

Saturday, May 9, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 23: The Motown Edition - mid-year reunion of The National InChoir
to benefit The ALS Association Greater Los Angeles Chapter
http://webgla.alsa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GLA_homepage

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 24: 2nd Annual Pride Edition
to benefit This Way Out
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/media/radio/thiswayout/

Saturday, July 11, 2009
Grassroots Acoustica 25: Second Anniversary Edition
to benefit Children of The Night
(www.childrenofthenight.org)