Image Credit : Nanci
via Mr. Matt Burr . . .
Grace and I are throwing a Haiti benefit at the Big Picture Theatre and we’re only notifying TIS.Com and Mad River Valley outlets about the show.
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Event Title: Grace For Haiti
Event Headliner: Grace Potter
Support Act: The Eames Brothers featuring Matt Burr
Waitsfield’s own Grace Potter will perform a rare solo set at the Big Picture Theatre on Monday, February 15th. All proceeds for the event will be donated to Amurtel’s disaster relief efforts in Haiti.
Local favorites The Eames Brothers will open the show and feature Matthew Burr, drummer for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Tickets are the following;
$50 (general)
$75 (w/ an autographed poster)
$100 (includes a meet and greet with Grace Potter)
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets Gg on sale at noon on today and can only be purchased by calling or visiting the Big Picture Theatre and Cafe in Waitsfield,
VT. 802.496.8994
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Ralph just told me!!! Oogitty boogity!
PS must not forget the night before at the Rusty Nail in Stowe! Eames Brothers, Blues & Lasers and See-I!
Still not in possession of a TARDIS, so I won’t be able to make it.
Hey Todd, I thought the B&L show on the 14th got canceled? No??
wonderful gesture by kindhearted music folk. So wish it weren’t right smack at the heart of President’s week holiday hell for me – otherwise I’d be there in a heartbeat. Would love to see Eames Brothers and Matt open for Grace – sighing sadly . . .
This is tempting!!!! I think I’m in!!
I’m so there!
I have to say, I was in need of a good Grace Potter show.
It’s been over a month without one now… was starting to have withdrawals…
Shades of Bennington dancing in my head!!
Tickets ordered. It’s official!!
Crew of 6 planning to go.
Jay and I are in!!
Got this email from the Theater this AM
“Yes there will be preferred seating (for Meet & Greet). The theater holds about 170 people.
I am still finding out from Grace when and where she wants to do the meet & greet but I think most likely after the show in the theater!
Thanks for supporting this event and the relief efforts in Haiti!”
So who all is in?
Nancy
I may have found a way to both support this cause and be there – wonders never cease. Sometimes you just need to go that extra yard.
Enjoy all! Sounds like a great time!
Woooooooooo!
Lundi Gras in Vermont – great idea!
should be a special night – enjoy!
yay, snowbird . .
too far for me but was hoping you’d figure out a way after missing out on the NYE run
NYE and the Ramble, TFN. Feeling a little better now, TY!!!
hoping to be there. need to call and get a ticket and make the venue is cool with taping. if i do tape, i’ve been asked to not release the show following the same standard that was set for other grace solo shows. i think they’ll see the light of day someday, but i’m not sure when.
hopefully there are still tickets when i call tomorrow!
I’ll be there!
Anyone else going?
I’ll be there! Super excited!
Greppson – there will be a mini posse there – want to join up pre-show at the cafe for a bite to eat/drink? Wally and Kathy, Todd, Nancy and Jay, Dave and my sis and I will be there at 5:30. Dayna and Jackie will be coming down with friends as well a bit later I think. Glad to hear you will be recording. Hope someday to hear all these great shows going straight to the vault.
See you Monday?
Yeah, if I can be down there at 5:30, I’ll be there!
AWESOME! Catch ya Monday!!
hey all. change of plans. no taping allowed. looks like after matt gave me the thumbs up there must have been a bunch of other tapers that inquired as well and the venue has decided to not allow taping. not sure if i will make it down. it’ll certainly be a special show, i just have a hard time going to shows i can’t tape. haha. taper mentality i guess. maybe you’ll see me there, maybe you won’t… who knows.
we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Big Picture’s site says .. Mon. Feb. 15, GRACE FOR HAITI – SOLD OUT!
Not exactly a surprise I know.. just wanted to put it in the thread ” for posterity ”
To those of you going tonight — have a blast & safe travels !
Thanks TFN – a blast will surely be had – we’ll be thinking of you and those that are also too far . . .
Show just ended……225 ticket sell out. Raised over $10K for Haiti!!
Grace, Matt, Benny and the Eames Bros played together!!
We were almost ON the stage since it only was up about 12 inches off the floor……..security was a bright orange one inch wide piece of tape!!
Grace was one arms length plus a foot away from me…sounded and looked fabulous!!
I’ll let Van fill you in……late now.
Need sleep so I can beat the snow tomorrow.
Grace For Haiti
Big Picture Theater
Waitsfield, VT February 15, 2010
Waitsfield resident Grace Potter, of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, performed a benefit for Amurtel’s disaster relief in Haiti. Just over one month ago a magnitude 7.0 earthquake tore apart the Haitian capital, Port au Prince and left over 230,000 dead, 300,000 injured and an estimated 1,000,000 homeless. Joani Zweig of Amurtel reported that the “Grace for Haiti” show raised over $10,000 for Haitian relief. Zweig told the audience of 225 that Amurtel has had a presence in Haiti for the last 18 years; they were on the ground when the earthquake hit.
“I have never seen any amount of devastation that I have seen after the quake in Port au Prince” Zweig told the crowd. She explained that Amurtel has two teams in the Haitian capital: one short term group for distributing food, water and medical supplies and a second long term group for recovery and “what’s next.” She said the “next” is really critical now because the spring rains have come early and with 100,000 living in the open air in and around the capital, shelter is needed immediately. “Music and dance are the heart and soul of Haiti. The Haitian people are strong and resilient, (they) refuse to bow (to disaster); we have to refuse to bow to complacency” Zweig said. “Don’t turn your backs on Haiti!” she shouted to the crowd. She said she was driving down the road and saw a kid hitch-hiking with a guitar and gave her a ride, she told the kid she was just back from Haiti and as a musician would she do a benefit? Grace said YES.
Grace Potter took the stage before the screaming crowd of mostly people from the Mad River Valley but some as far away as Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and for one hour and forty-five minutes had the crowd eating out of her hand.
She opened with “Nothing but the Water”, “Ah Mary”, “Colors” which she wrote right after Obama was elected President, and “Low Road.” She was joined on stage by Benny Yurco and Matt Burr for “Medicine”, “Paris”, “Tiny Lights”, “Ain’t No Time”, “One Short Night” and “Treat Me Right.” She soloed on the Hammond B3 for “Apologies” and “Big White Gate”, and was again joined by Yurco and Burr on “Things I Never Needed”, which she dedicated to the people of Haiti.
The Eames Brothers (with Matt Burr), Ralph and Seth, who opened for Potter joined her, Yurco and Burr for “2:22”, and for some “easy shimmying, no hip breaking shit” on Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay.”
Potter moved back to the B3 and said she was going to play a song that “brought me down and lifted me up at the same time” she slowly started “I Shall be Released.” During the second verse she was joined by the Eames brothers, Yurco and Burr to close out the song.
The show was closed with “Down By the River” that lasted a good 20 minutes featuring solos by Seth Eames and Benny Yurco on guitars.
Photos tomorrow on: http://www.photosbynanci.com/gracepotter.html
$10,000 is wonderful – kudos to all involved
neat how the show came about ( Grace hitch-hiking makes me chuckle .. or was this an old “yes” being taken up on now ? )
and that is a set list to cause much envy – I Shall Be Released being the proverbial icing . . .
Thank you Nancy and Walt . . will watch for Van’s travelogue