It takes a village

Wow.

What a day yesterday. It's probably going to take me a full week to recover properly!

Stamp Out cancer, A Benefit for Nick Curran was a huge success! I am unbelievably grateful to everyone involved, but I'll get to that in a moment.

We raised nearly $5000 in just 4 short hours to help Nick with bills and living expenses while he continues to recover from that bitch called cancer. UNBELIEVABLE. (And this doesn't even include the folks that I know that couldn't make it, but decided to use PayPal and send a donation directly to Nick in lieu of attendance!) The ones I know of that did this were Blake and Libbi. Stevie B, I appreciate all of your efforts to get a donation to Nick after your own gig!

Amy K set up a live stream so Nick's family in Maine could watch from afar. Nick's mom was online the whole time!

Nick was at the club all day and was smiling every time I saw him. There was an unbelievable amount of love in the room and I'm so proud of everyone involved. You all ROCK harder than Zeppelin's first album.

The first person that I have to thank is Steve Wertheimer and the Continental Club for allowing us to host the benefit. The staff was just fantastic and a great time was had by all.

Next, I have to thank my co-organizers, JoRae DiMenno of Hard Pressed Publicity and Dianne Scott of the Continental Club for not only agreeing to help me pull this off, but for all of the time they put into pre-production and execution of it. We might make it look easy, but it really is exhausting.

Other invaluable behind-the-scenes helpers were Amy K, Paula Ribeiro/No 13 Design, Carrie Carroll/Build A Sign, Nakia, Jorie/Cardinal Cyn, Heather Kinley and John Denier. Thank you for doing your part to help everything run so smoothly!

Invaluable in front-of-the-scenes helpers were the bands! I thank you all times infinity!

In order of appearance:
The Moonhangers 
Hot Club of Cowtown 
White Ghost Shivers 
The BellFuries 
Alejandro Escovedo

Each and every member donated time out of their holiday weekend to take part of our show. Extra special thanks to HCC for appearing on KUT and KEYE and hyping the show. (AND for donating the CD sales of the afternoon as well.) Ah-mazing.

Thanks to everyone that attended the show and made bids and purchases in the auction!

There were so many generous souls involved in the donation of goodies for the auction. I hope I haven't forgotten anyone!

Alphabetically...

Austin Chronicle
Austin Vintage Guitar
Aveda Institute
The BellFuries
Bloodshot Records
Blue Suede News 
Blush Skincare
Bob Bullock Texas History Museum; IMAX Theater
George Brainard Photography
Cap City Comedy  
Cheapo Discs 
Rebecca Elder
Embody the Body
Evangeline Cafe
Rosie Flores
Foodheads
Galaxy Theater
Guero's Taco Bar
Hotel San Jose
Hyde Park Bar and Grill
JWW and the Prospectors
Justine's Brasserie
Opal Divine's Penn Field
Playing in Traffic Records
Requiemme Management & Booking
Rykodisc
Satellite Amplifiers
Southside Tattoo
Spellbound Studio
Alberto Telo
Tesoros
Texas Performing Arts Center
Urban Betty
Patricia Vonne
Waterloo Records
Will White 
Yoga Yoga

I also have to thank the countless folks that posted, re-posted and posted again to help us promote the show. Mike Thompson gets a two thumbs up for making it the lead story on Alejandro Escovedo's site. We Are Austin/KEYE, KUT- especially Night Owl-Kevin Connor and Laurie Gallardo of Austin Music Minute.

In the immortal words of my beloved Freddie Mercury: I Thank You All.

xo-Trish
Violet Crown Media