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September 26, 2003
Peter Read's friends step up - October 19, 2003
By Jim Harris, Arkansas Times
September 26, 2003
For more than two decades, Peter Read has been there for the musicians, the club owners and music lovers of Arkansas with his Nightflying publication. Now, many of those people can and will be there for Read.
In late May, Read suffered an aneurysm, and while hospitalized he suffered a stroke. He recovered, is home and recuperating now, and he described his ordeal in comical, multiple-choice-test form in the most recent issue of Nightflying, a free publication that highlights the bands, clubs and the people that enjoy both.
The problem is, the self-employed and under-insured Read ran up a significant medical bill that has to be paid - something in the neighborhood of $250,000.
His musician friends from every aspect of the business are stepping up with a benefit in Little Rock to help defray some of that debt with what is being called "Peterpoolza: The Fund-Raiser for Peter Read and Nightflying."
Clear Channel Communications is waiving the rental fee of its Metroplex on Colonel Glenn Road at Interstate 430, as well as other associated costs, in being host to the central Arkansas version of Peterpoolza on Sunday, Oct. 19. Clear Channel owns KMJX, Magic 105, and Read has partnered with Magic on its concert calendar for years.
Peterpalooza will start at noon and run until 10 p.m. with 12 bands performing, some on a stage inside the metroplex and others on an outside stage. Bands scheduled for Little Rock are Trout Fishing in America, Jed Clampit, Big John Miller, Runaway Planet, Mojo Depot, Shannon Boshears, Greg Spradlin Outfit, Liquid Groove Mojo, Parachute Woman, B-Side Folk Union, John Von Orman and the Flowers O' the Prairie, and Sharpe Dunaway and the All-Stars. Many of these musicians, as well as more in the crowd such as Amy Garland and her group, will take the stage at the close of the show for a huge jam session. Call it the "Peterpalooza $ymphathy Billharmonic Orchestra."
Entertainer Harmless T. Jester will be roving the complex with his fun routine throughout the day.
While the musicians play, some of the best production people around will be recording the music on both stages, and CDs of the event will be presold during the benefit. Everyone who purchases an advance CD will have his or her name listed a co-producer in the CD liner notes.
The event also features a silent auction that will offer a variety of special items, many carrying the music-profession theme of the day. Evanescence's Amy Lee and Ben Moody, both from Little Rock, have signed a guitar that will be among the auction items. Also, David Starr at Starr's Guitars is donating a new Gretsch Hawaiian acoustic guitar (retail value, $640).
Admission will be a minimum $10 donation at the gate (there will be no advance-sale tickets), and beer, wine, soft drinks and food will be available, as well as commemorative T-shirts. A portion of the beer proceeds will benefit the Humane Society of Pulaski County, a cause Read deeply believes in.
For more information, visit www.nightflying.org via the Internet.
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