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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Olga Wilhelmine (901-272-0049)
Amy LaVere (901-278-3784)
Memphis Midtown Musicians Come Together for Disaster Relief:
When the Levee Breaks: A Benefit Concert for Katrina Survivors
October 14, Hi-Tone Café, doors 7pm, show 8pm
Tickets $12, or $10 with canned food donation
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay
Memphis, TN - These lyrics to the 1929 song by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie refers
to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, but are eerily prescient in 2005. In true, “indie” Midtown spirit, a
loose and free-flowing coalition of some of Memphis’s best independent musicians are getting together for a
night of musical relief Friday, October 14, 2005 at the Hi Tone Café starting at 8pm. “When the Levee Breaks:
A Benefit Concert for Katrina Survivors” will feature Jim Dickinson, Jimbo Mathus’s Knockdown South, Jack-O
and the Tennessee Tearjerkers, Johnny Vomit and the Dry Heaves, Luther & Cody Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars),
Jimmy Crosthwait, the Bo-Keys, Paul Taylor, Amy LaVere, Olga, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans, Duff Durrough, Bill Ellis,
Larry Fry & the Livewire Band, plus other special guests. According to singer-songwriter and event co-organizer
Olga Wilhemine, “Almost everyone in Memphis either knows someone or has since met someone displaced by Hurricane
Katrina, and while the city of Memphis has already done a lot to help these survivors, our close-knit Midtown
music family wanted to show our support the best way we know how – by playing our hearts out, getting’ down and
rockin’ out!” Proceeds from the show will go to the Memphis Red Cross chapter. Tickets are $12, or $10 with a
canned good donation.
Additionally, the concert will be recorded and released in 2006 with CD proceeds benefiting
local New Orleans charities working to rebuild the city, such as Tipitina's Foundation, whose mission is to provide
instruments to students and musicians in the New Orleans area.
For more information contact Olga Wilhelmine (laolga@laolga.com),
Amy LaVere (amylavere@bellsouth.net)
or the Hi Tone Café (901-278-8663).
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