You might recall a few posts back about our night at the ballpark in honor of our friend Davenport Firefighter Bob Juarez. Well, Gabe and his bandmate Drew Hence came up with a way to help with a benefit concert featuring some other bands at Central. A great idea! 'Rock For Juarez!...A Benefit Concert' was born.
The idea came a couple months ago from the boys, they asked if I could help. I gave them a list of some things to check on, but I thought the task would be too much to put together. It wasn't until Drew's dad Dan, the manager at the Stoney Creek Inn in Moline offered their banquet room for the event at no charge.....then the ball started rolling.
He gave the boys a date and said he would sell pop and candy at the bar. The boys got four other acts involved including a friend of Drews who played in a cover band at bars in our area that had a decent sound system.
We printed over 500 fliers and the event was included on various media reports about Bob's progress. Signs on schools in Davenport mentioned the event as well. $5 to get in, donations welcomed.
After weeks of rehearsal, the foursome known as Racing Sunsets was the third act of the day, following the Demon Ducks, leading into Firesale. They played for about 45 minutes mostly cover songs with a couple originals mixed in.
After load in yesterday before the gig, I decided to go home and get my Les Paul electric guitar for Luke Bergman to play, I knew how much he likes it, he drools over it when he comes over.
More than 100 people attended and most stayed for a long time. The efforts of the boys raised almost $1300 for Bob's fund. The Argus/Dispatch sent a report and photographer, it was on the front page of the paper this morning! Good Job Boy!
Tiff took a bunch of photos, once she downloads them off the camera we'll get a few posted.
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Rock on Gabe! I left a comment on the QC times comment section under that article. How cool!!
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