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"Mad" Miles
10-02-2005, 03:30 PM
Dear Community,

I thought you might want to know the results of our benefit for survivors of the recent hurricanes on the Gulf Coast

The music was wonderful. Bruce cooked jambalaya. The parade around the courtyard following the Fourth Street New Orleans Jazz Band was the high point at around 5:50 p.m.

We raised $1,055.85 for various organization responding to the damage from Katrina and Rita. Most of the cash raised came from asking a dollar donation for a string of Mardi Gras beads.

DJ Mama got us ready starting at noon. Love Choir really kept the party going at 1:00 p.m. Ari and Chris did sound and stage managing. I tried to grade papers while collecting money and displaying donor options about various regional Gulf Coast organizations. The music was wonderful, the mood joyous in spite of the cause and the good times kept on going!

Thank you to DJ Mama (Susan!), Love Choir (Jim Corbett et al!), Black Bird Stitches (Kirana Peyton!!), Shari & The Deeper Rythm, Trailer Park Rangers (Dave and Rick unplugged!) and The Fourth Street New Orleans Jazz Band (Ron Dubin!). Thank you to Bruce, Jeffrey, Ivy, Raven, Chris, Ari, Susan, Tony, Ron, Molly, Sara, Suze and everyone else who made it possible!

And thank you to everyone who attended or wanted to attend but couldn't. If anyone is interested in my word file of good organizations to give your money to, reply privately and I'll send it as an attachment.

Huzzah! Whoohoo!! Hooray!!!

Miles Mendenhall
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Hurricane Survivors Music Benefit and Charity Festival

Ace In The Hole Pub

10/1/05

Donation Results:

Check totals:

Baton Rouge Area Foundation $10

United Houma Hurricane Relief $50

Backbeat Fund (founded by the Neville Brothers) $100

Humane Society $10

Habitat for Humanity $30

American Red Cross (two checks) $50

Global Exchange/Rebuild Green (two checks) $100

Grassroots International (four checks) $165

(One of these checks to GI was unsigned and has been mailed back to its writer.)

NO Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund $60
(Preservation Hall, two checks)

Friends & Families of $280

Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (three checks)



Checks Total - $855

Cash Total - $200.85

Total Total - $1,055.85

Cover letters and checks go in the mail tomorrow. Jeffrey House, owner of California Cider Company, Inc. has agreed to convert the $200.85 in cash into a check and mail it to the American Red Cross, Sonoma County Chapter, National Disaster Relief Fund.
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