Everyone’s heard of twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah. But three days of Thanksgiving?
That’s exactly what local promoter/manager Tamara Dunn is looking to accomplish this year, bringing several acts to Joanna’s in Somers, Conn. Nov. 26, Nov. 28 and Nov. 29 for a holiday hat-trick of “concerts with a cause.”
According to Dunn, the concept for a Rock ’n’ Roll Weekend for Charity was conceived when club owner Jeff Lipton approached her about helping out for the holidays and she … um … gobbled up the opportunity?
“I’ve known Jeff for many years, and he knows that I manage the band RTM,” Dunn explains. “I asked him if we could collect for food pantries and some other charities dear to me, and he said that if I could put the whole thing together, all proceeds from the door will go to charity. I was sold.”
In addition to RTM on Nov. 26, Dunn will deliver Change Up, Point Black, Equinoxx, Crazy Alice’s Traveling Show and Maxx Explosion. Recipients of the altruism include Rescue Me for Peach Marie — a nonprofit rescue she runs that provides food, shelter, and medical care for abused/neglected/abandoned animals in Greater Hartford — as well as the Somers Food Pantry and Enfield’s Network Against Domestic Abuse.
“The Network is also very near and dear to my heart as both my childhood best friend who grew up in Enfield and my first husband lost their lives — were murdered — at very young ages as victims of domestic violence,” Dunn says.
Doors for the Holiday Rock ’n’ Roll Weekend for Charity open at 7:30 p.m. each night. There is a $10 cover for each show. Non-perishable food items will be collected on-site.
Since we’ve dipped into the Nutmeg State, perhaps it’s an opportune time for the Crawler to clear up some recent static surrounding Stafford’s Palace Theater. Specifically, the passing of Static-X frontman Wayne Static just days prior before his scheduled show at the restored theater.
Fans took to the Palace’s website and other outlets mere hours after it was declared Static had passed at the age of 48, inquiring about the status of the planned multi-band show. The evening’s headliner, Powerman 5000, provided the answer with an official statement on their website shortly thereafter.
“After much consideration, we have decided to continue with the tour as planned,” the band declared. “This has been a difficult couple of days but we feel getting out and playing for you guys is the best thing we can do right now. We are pretty sure Wayne would approve, too!”
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap? Actually, the New Zealand police never disclosed the amount of money AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd allegedly offered to have a couple of people offed. They arrested him earlier this month on charges of murder-for-hire. Then, in a complete about-face, they dropped those charges a couple of days later. Charges of threatening to kill as well as possession of methamphetamines and marijuana still loom large — and could carry a maximum penalty of seven years in prison if Rudd is convicted on all counts.
The news comes on the heels of a photo of AC/DC without Rudd a couple of weeks earlier, and just a few weeks before Rock Or Bust — the band’s first new album in six years — is set to drop.
While the band has no official comment on Rudd’s legal woes, the thunderous boys from down under do say that his absence will in no way derail the Dec. 2 release date or any subsequent live shows.•
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