Second Saturdays at Sunnyside Up
116 NW 3rd St. Feb 13, 6 - 8 PM
A Benefit for Haiti
Suggested Donation $5.00 or More
All Proceeds Go to Partners in Health
Featuring the Alex Hargreaves Trio
With Dave Storrs on Drums and Steve Willis on Bass
In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Second Saturdays Benefit Concert team looked at many potential aid organizations for February’s benefit concert. Partners in Health (PIH) was our choice for the following reasons: 1) PIH was designated by the World Health Organization to serve as the primary coordinators of University Hospital in Port-au-Prince (HUEH). 2) The trusted charity evaluator, Charity Navigator, gives PIH their highest rating. 3) For over 20 years, PIH had already been active in some of Haiti’s most impoverished areas, establishing small clinics, working with the Haitian Ministry of Health and other health care professionals to not only care for patients but to work towards alleviating the root causes of disease and to break down social and political obstacles that get in the way of doing so.
Before the earthquake struck on January 12th, PIH had more than 100 doctors, 600 nurses, and 4,000 employees already on the ground, working from 12 existing PIH medical facilities. Since the earthquake, they have opened and staffed at least 20 operating rooms, now functioning 24 hours a day. Still, it’s not enough - not even close. To keep up with urgent medical demands PIH needs more supplies, more doctors and nurses, and better communication with others in the rescue and aid efforts. It’s a daunting challenge. Please give as much as you can to this effort. Together we can make a difference.
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Alex Hargreaves
The Alex Hargreaves Trio, with Hargreaves on fiddle, Dave Storrs on drums and Steve Willis on bass. Although Hargreaves is considered a virtuoso fiddler, having won in 2007 the Grand Champion division at the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest in Weiser, Idaho - Alex was the youngest ever to win this award! - don’t expect this performance to consist solely of old-timey tunes and riffs. Alex’s talent spans multiple string styles, including jazz, classical, new acoustic - most likely any style he sets his mind to. As Alex joins with guest musicians Dave Storrs and Steve Willis, we can expect to enter into a deep, supple musical realm and to be surrounded by the creative music of some of Oregon’s most accomplished and talented artists. In addition to his prolific musical career in and around Oregon, drummer Dave Storrs owns and operates his own music label, Louie Records. Bassist extraordinaire Steve Willis is frequently heard in and around Corvallis, playing with musicians such as John Bliss, Rob Birdwell and many others. Storrs and Willis are also members of the improv jazz band, The Tone Sharks.
We thank The Hargreaves Trio for their generous donation of time and talent to this vital effort for the people of Haiti.