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Oglethorpe Students to Hold Concert Benefiting
Rape Crisis Center
Atlanta – Oglethorpe University’s Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance presents “Stop the Silence,” a concert to benefit the
DeKalb Rape Crisis Center on Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Conant
Performing Arts Center. General admission is $10. Doors open at 7
p.m. For tickets, e-mail
stop_the_silence@yahoo.com or call 404-364-8447.
A silent auction will be held from 6:30 until
end of concert with featured items including massages, gift
certificates, wine tastings, and apparel. Sponsors include Peachtree
Wine Merchants, Nut n’ Berris, The Braves, Mellow Mushroom and
various other companies.
The event will include four performers
including Clay Cook who co-wrote three songs on John Mayer’s current
CD entitled “Room For Squares,” Nashville native Wise Child, Pete
Schmidt and Fairewing, a conglomeration of etheric folk-rock,
jazz/blues, and world music.
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Wise Child: An eclectic
bluegrass/rock group, Wise Child is a young band from Nashville
made up of Luke Bulla (vocals/fiddle/acoustic), Casey Driessen
(acoustic and electric fiddle/mandocaster), Matt Mangano (electric
bass), and Pasi Leppikanges (drums). Compared to Nickel Creek,
“Wise Child is a band that, given the right break, could bust out
of Nashville in a way no other group beyond the Music Row machine
has,” said Drew Walen of “The City Paper (Nashville, Tenn.).”
www.wisechild.net
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Clay Cook: In 1998, Clay Cook quit
college at the Berklee College of Music in Boston to move with
John Mayer to Atlanta to work on songwriting. In 1999, they parted
ways and Clay moved to southern California to tour with The
Marshall Tucker Band for three years. Clay is now back in Atlanta
playing guitar for The Chris Hicks Band and bass for Sugarland, an
upstart country band in Atlanta that consists mainly of singer
songwriters with already flourishing careers such as Kristen Hall
and Jennifer Nettles.
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Pete Schmidt: A native of Alpharetta,
Georgia, Pete Schmidt has been compared to Jack Johnson and Pete
Yorn. Writing most of his songs about relationships past and
present, Pete offers listeners and fans a peak into his personal
and reflective side.
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Fairewing: With roots in several
traditions, Fairewing has emerged as an eclectic conglomeration of
etheric folk-rock, jazz/blues, and world music. Consisting of
Shelia Pattee, Jenny Kerr, and friends, the group organized
approximately a year ago in Carrollton, Georgia and their debut CD
was released in May 2002. Their sound is homey and haunting, a
nostalgic resonance.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the DeKalb Rape Crisis
Center.
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