John Prine Birthday Tribute benefit

We had a great time last night at the 7th annual John Prine Birthday tribute, which is a benefit for our local site's work with area children and families. 8 musicians performed for almost 5 hours of music, celebrating the great songwriting and performing of John Prine. It was a pretty big crowd and lots of enthusiasm. There were some fun prizes and winners. There was very good comraderie among the supporters of our local site. This is (probably?) the last event this year, in the 2009 Americana Music Tribute series, but I may squeeze in some more coffee houses. There is still hope that the Greens will be organizing a big live music event for which we would receive the proceeds in December, but I am awaiting finalization of this. Thanks to all the great musicians who performed, to the staff who came out, to the "sound guys" who work awfully hard to make this work, and to Kim and the staff at 6 Pence Pub for hosting us. I hope someone will circulate some pictures, for a follow up post, but if not, you can be assured a "great time was had by all." We raised $622.