Concert For The Cause
By Lydia Lowe
Rain threatened
the event in the morning but after lunch the rain ended and Concert For The
Cause got off to an exciting start with guitar stars on Saturday night.
Two members of
Dominus X, Burgess Martin and Josh Keeling, opened the show. Martin has been perfecting a new method for
playing the guitar called “the tap method”.
He first introduced this at day one of a two day show for Sterling
Autism that was held near the first of the year at Hutch Vapor. He’s obviously been putting in a lot of
practice on this method and what a great way to open the show. He was backed up on guitar by Keeling which
added to the overall effect. At one
point, Martin played the guitar and the bass simultaneously. When he announced at the beginning of the
night that he was going to do this the crowd was not quite sure whether to
believe it or not. Then he actually did
that very thing. It was truly amazing. And what a crowd these two drew. Last week the new and improved Dominus X
played and word must have gotten around because Martin and Keeling played to a
rather large crowd to start out the night.
Next up was Josh
Lightsey AKA J* Wheelz. Lightsey did
some guitar work at the beginning of his set.
But Lightsey is primarily a rapper and before too long he was joined on
stage by Keyboy and Rocket Man. They did
several raps together as a group and then various combinations of one, two or
all three together. Their styles were just a bit different than
most rappers and the crowd was intrigued with their music. The Boys and Girls Club was the featured
non-profit for the evening and I found out that these three young men had been
a part of that organization when they were younger.
The final act for
the evening was Kevin Seig. Seig played
guitar and seemed to be fairly competent on this instrument. Unfortunately, instead of seeing this
opportunity for what it’s intended to be which is food, music and fun in the
park on a Saturday night with the family, Seig used it as a platform for his
views about the military. He mentioned
several times that folks shouldn’t join the army. This came across to the crowd as an attack on
veterans. The crowd began to dwindle
until there were very few left in the park to listen.
The few hardy
souls that hung in there got an unexpected treat as the night wrapped up with some
acoustic guitar by Sean Story of VOS, who helped run the sound for the evening,
as well as a one last rap by J* Wheelz, Keyboy, and Rocket Man that got those
left in the park up on their feet to jump around.
Next week is our
4th of July show on July 5th. Come over to Avenue A Park and check out this
line-up: VOS-Victims of Spotlight will be there as well as Fraktured Black and
Godzillionare. The featured non-profit
will be The Salvation Army, and remember that the sales of the food and drink
always goes directly to the non-profit that is featured each and every Saturday
evening throughout the summer.
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