A Benefit for Chad Weis featuring MASON JENNINGS
TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST presents A Benefit for Chad Weiss Featuring MASON JENNINGS with CLOUD CULT, HALEY BONAR, THE PINES and other VERY SPECIAL GUESTS TBA Chad Weis is like a brother to me. He and I have traveled the world together. He has been my sound engineer and tour manager for 5 years. He is hands down one of the most kind, compassionate, loving, talented, and positive humans I have ever met. I feel blessed to know him. Two Months ago he underwent emergency surgery to remove a rare fungal mass in his sinuses that had slowly broken his nasal bones and the bone protecting his brain. Without going into details, the surgery was massive. It was a total success and he is now on the mend. But, his health insurance only covered a tenth of the bill. So, on top of the fact that he has been laid up and unable to tour this Fall, he is also now saddled with an enormous hospital bill. That is where we come in. Let's help get Chad back up and running! Please come join us for a wonderful night filled with music, love, and hope at First Avenue January 17. All proceeds will go to a foundation my friend Myles Kennedy started to help musicians without insurance. The foundation will put all the night's proceeds towards paying down Chad's bills. Joining me will be my (and Chad's) good friends Haley Bonar, The Pines and some special guests that I can't announce until it gets closer to the show.. We will also have some cool auction items available. We hope to see you there! Love, Mason
MASON JENNINGS
Singer/songwriter Mason Jennings blends the deeply personal insights of a poet, the political broadsides of a protest singer, and the broad musical eclecticism of a jazz musician with a rock & roller's passion. The result made him one of the most talked-about new artists on the acoustic music scene and earned him a loyal cult following, as he moved over 30,000 copies of his first two albums and sold out shows around the country without the benefit of a major-label publicity department.
Jennings was born in 1975 in Honolulu, HI, but moved to Pittsburgh with his family shortly after. While still a young boy, his father moved to Minneapolis, MN, and sent his son a series of tapes that featured bands who were storming the then-fertile Twin City music scene. ... Read More...
by Mark Deming
