PDX Area peeps. Coming up next Thursday (the 7th) there will be a benefit concert for the charitable organization I volunteer for, the Christmas Valley Music Festival. If you want to help us "Feed the babies who don't have enough to eat", come on down.
Christmas Valley is a very small unincorporated village in the northern part of the Great Basin, sometimes called the Great Sandy Desert or Oregon High Country. Poverty and unemployment are high. Children go hungry. We hold a music festival every year to raise funds that goes towards a program called “Brain Food” which provides after school food for the children who go home to an empty pantry.
Our efforts last year were able to raise enough money to provide the Brain Food program with three months of feeding hungry kids. This year is going to be even better.
This annual event, put simply, is a blast!
Last year's celebration featured over 30 of Oregon's most dedicated and talented musicians and dozens of Oregon businesses giving their all for our charity.
And (of course) we are planning on making this year's event even better!
Here is just a partial list of the musicians that will be crooning, croaking, stroking & smoking the night away...
LOOSE CHANGE
DC MALONE & the JONES
MA FONDUE
MICHAEL MANNING
ALEXA WILEY
SAINT JACK'S PARADE
GARRY MEZIERE & NO TOMORROW
CHRIS KERN W/DAN DAVIS & BRETT MALMQUIST
...AND MANY MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED BY SHOWTIME!!
Now on to the RAFFLE!!
Along with this evening of great music and dance, our annual 'Raffle', features goods and services
from businesses of all kinds, as well as all sorts of goodies from the friends, fans, musicians and volunteers that make the CVMF possible each year.
...musical instruments, art work, jewelry & accessories, records
& CD's, gourmet foods and a plethora of gift certificates from
restaurants, breweries, wineries, distilleries, mechanics, masseuses, psychics, milliners, tarot readers...here's a sampling of just some of our contributors:
CENTAUR GUITARS, DESERT INN MOTEL, DESIGN LITE GLASS STUDIOS,
GAZELLE NATURAL FIBER CLOTHING, GER-BROCK MOTORS, GUITAR CENTER,
KENTON ST. STATION, LUCCA, MISSISSIPPI RECORDS, MOON &SIXPENCE,
MUSIC MILLENNIUM, PHOTO SOLUTIONS, PLEW'S BREWS, PORTLAND SATURDAY MARKET, REVIVAL DRUM SHOP, SEW ASKEW, STONE BARN DISTILLERY, THE WILLOWS (Decor & Home Furnishings)...
Many of last year's donations were valued into the hundreds of dollars!!
So don't miss out!!
*$5 COVER CHARGE (includes 1 Raffle Ticket)
Additional Raffle Tickets: 1 for $5.00, 3 for $10.00, 7 for
$20.00, 10 for $25.00