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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: freddiewaht on January 08, 2010, 10:07:24 am
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and this:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=299141218100
Community\'s All-Star Benefit For Travis Moody
Type: Music/Arts - Jam Session
Start Time: Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 3:00pm
End Time: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 1:00am
Location: CAFE NINE -- 250 State St. -- New Haven, CT
Description"B l u e s f o r M o o d y"
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The New Haven Music Community\'s Feb. 21, 2010 benefit
for Travis Moody at CAFE NINE
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Members of the New Haven music community have put together a stellar lineup of donated talent for an all-star benefit for New Haven-area guitarist bandleader Travis Moody to take place on Sunday, Feb. 21 from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. at CAFE NINE, 200 Crown St. in New Haven.
The benefit will include raffles, a silent auction, food – great New Haven pizza – and a fundraising and informational website at http://www.bluesformoody.com. Tickets, which are $15, are available in advance at CAFE NINE and online at http://www.bluesformoody.com. (All tickets bought online will be will-call. Purchasers will be on a list at the door.) Larger donations also may be made online with a credit card or e-check via Paypal.
The lineup includes a who\'s-who of Greater New Haven blues and roots rock musicians – some of whom rarely play locally. Among them are the B. Willie Smith Band, George Baker, The Bernadettes, The Manchurians, The Crown Street Orchestra – a band Travis plays bass with when he\'s healthy – The Cobalt Rhythm Kings, Greg Sherrod Band, The Langley Project, Ponybird featuring Chris Santala, The Downshift Band and bluegrass openers One Way Track.
Additional special guests will include some of the best blues and roots players in Connecticut, including DW Armstrong, Rocky Lawrence, Paul Gabriel, Robert Crotty, George Lesiw, Jim Oblon, Chris Michaels, The Hellbound Horns and others TBA.
--->JUST ADDED: Dobro, lap steel and fiddle player Stacy Phillips and harmonica man Mike Crandall!
Moody, a great New Haven-area guitarist and bandleader, along with his brother, Rory Moody and their friend and boss, Billy Twyford, recently survived a way-too-close Jan. 9, 2010 encounter withn13,200 volts of electricity in a construction workplace accident in Branford, CT. It will be some time before he is able to work. He can\'t play guitar just yet.
Hopefully, some of his astronomical expenses will be covered by workers compensation insurance, but that take time and remains up in the air. In the meantime, Travis\' expenses continue to mount, not the least of which is a son he continues to support in addition to himself.
“This benefit, put together as a labor of love by close friends, aims to give Travis some immediate support – without red tape – to help keep things on an even keel during the tough period while he heals, and before any other source of assistance kicks in,” said Mark Zaretsky, lead vocalist and harmonica player for The Cobalt Rhythm Kings and one of the organizers.
“We hope everyone who knows Travis – or just appreciates great music – will come out and join us, have some fun and help us ease Travis\' road to recovery.”
The CAFE NINE benefit follows on the heels of a highly successful Jan. 31 “Sunday Jam at the Castle” benefit at Bill Millers in Branford, organized by another group of friends led by Paul Clow and Mary Calistro. It is complimentary to that effort, which raised money for all three victims.
CAFE NINE owner Paul Mayer said that “when something like this happens, I think the music community comes together and helps their own. Travis is a big part of the music scene” in Greater New Haven, he said. “There are a lot of people who want to help.
Prior to the accident, Moody led the long-running CAFE NINE blues jam one Sunday per month. “He\'s a big part of the CAFE NINE family,” Mayer said.
“We\'re doing it to help out our good friend, Travis Moody,” said Peter Blossom, who plays with Moody both in the Moody Blossom Band and in an acoustic duo. He also is a member with Moody in The Crown Street Orchestra, which is one of the bands slated to perform and will be the only band to perform both in the Jan. 31 benefit and the Feb. 21 benefit.
“I know that he probably needs help with the money because he\'s got big medical bills and he\'s got a long recovery ahead – and we just want to show him we care,” Blossom said. “I don\'t think he had any insurance.”
Zaretsky, who also organized the Connecticut Blues Society\'s two tsunami benefits in 2005, is a reporter by day for the New Haven Register who, coincidentally, was the one who covered Moody\'s accident as it happened.
He was already three-fourths of the way through writing the first day\'s story about the Branford accident when he discovered that one of the victims was a close friend – something that literally caused him to stand up in the middle of the Register newsroom and shout. (Exactly what it caused him to shout is not printable.)
Travis Moody, a longtime friend, in addition to his regular work as a musician has been an occasional sub guitarist for The Cobalt Rhythm Kings over the past year.
“I told Travis when I visited him in the hospital that I would much rather play the blues with him and be his friend than write about him,” Zaretsky said. “Hopefully, I\'ll be doing lots of the former and none of the latter in the years to come...”
Please feel free to redistribute and invite your own lists of friends to this event!
Mr. Global Moderator: throw $10 in for me tonight and I\'ll get you.
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so,for anyone not goin to the breakfast show tommorow night,theres a benefit for travis at the crooked shillelagh(the pub next door)...
a 5 dollar donation at the door will get u in and all proceeds go to travis for help towards any bills and whatnot..
there will also be live music and rumor has it travis will be playing a set on the lap steel..should be a good time..
come down and show your love to a great kid..
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Sorry to hear about your bro Freddie, glad he\'s doing better and is gonna make it through. Electricity\'s scary stuff indeed!
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question--did they have to keep him awake for a certain amount of time? this dude who comes into my bar all the time had a similar experience, and the hospital didn\'t allow him to sleep for two days because of his irregular heartbeat. said it was a rough, rough 48 hours.[/QUOTE]
As far as we know he was in intensive care(Travis and his brother), but no details on the staying up deal
Jordan may know more he talked to him around noon, imagine 12 hours before, it was said he was not doing so good, what a difference a day makes-hallelujah
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no idea.
alls i know is they gave him a shitton of morphine.
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ouch! good to hear things are looking up
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glad to hear everything worked out okay.. and better a toe than a finger.
question--did they have to keep him awake for a certain amount of time? this dude who comes into my bar all the time had a similar experience, and the hospital didn\'t allow him to sleep for two days because of his irregular heartbeat. said it was a rough, rough 48 hours.
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celebratory drinks at my place tonite!
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We are so happy that Travis is going to be ok, we were shitting bricks after we heard this last night, and have been having a difficult time with it.
We love Travis like family, and hope his brother is going to be fine as well.
we are just so happy he is fine.
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Glad to see things looking up.
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travis just called the sequoia and is gonna be ok.
thank god.
gonna probably lose a toe,but no big deal.
That is great news...If you talk to him again, please send my love....
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whoa! best wishes for a speedy and minimally painful recovery!!
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wow, good luck travis!
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travis just called the sequoia and is gonna be ok.
thank god.
gonna probably lose a toe,but no big deal.
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Just heard about this. Wah I am sorry. Please know I will be thinking about him and praying for the best.....
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sending some love xoxo
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only saw him once (with jordan) and he was excellent. he\'s in my thoughts!!
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don\'t know him, but bummer to hear the news. Does he post here? username?
never posted here.
just got a computer a couple of months back.
hes a well known local musician and a **** MONSTER on the guitar.
dude plays the blues like nobodies buisness..
here he is on the right..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzh6Em-yqts
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good vibes good vibes good vibes! terrible news...
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don\'t know him, but bummer to hear the news. Does he post here? username?
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http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/3-roofers-fall-shocked#idc-cover
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((((good healing vibes))))
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ill let u guys know as soon as i know more.
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hoping that travis and the other guys involved will be okay. keep us posted freddie.
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sorry to hear that Freddie... fingers crossed for a speedy recovery to Travis...
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yesterday afternoon our good friend travis moody was seriously injured at work when him,and his brother rory and another fella lost control of a ladder which made contact with 13,000volt powerlines.
evidentally he was in cardiac arrest with serious burns.as it stands now,hes in bridgeport burn unit in critical condition,conscious and breathing on his own.
lets hope he makes it thru this one..