Posts Tagged ‘Jeremy Messersmith’
“SING OUT FOR KIDS”
Join local hip hop star Dessa alongside Jeremy Messersmith, Toki Wright, Gabriel Douglas, Taj Raj, Robbie Robinson, and Caroline Smith & Jesse Schuster. Join some of Minneapolis”' finest performers in concert to benefit Southside Family Nurturing Center on August 26th at 7:30pm at Hell”'s Kitchen, 80 South 9th Street. Seven amazing artists are giving their time, talent, and energy to support this Phillips based community social service agency. SSFNC pioneered therapeutic early childhood education based on the belief that all parents want the best for their children and that the chaos and trauma of troubled lives can be overcome as families are stabilized with care, education, and support. www.ssfnc.org Dessa, who helped coordinate the event, will host the evening and play a few songs with her band. Special thanks to Hell”'s Kitchen for donating the use of their Underground Room for this event! Ander Other will DJ the event. Come for this intimate [...]
Friends of the Cemetery 2011 Cemetery Concert Awarded by Mpls. Heritage Preservation Commission
The Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Awards ”” a joint project between Preserve Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission, and the Minneapolis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects made seven awards for 2011 recently. Friends of the Cemetery was honored for their innovative advocacy efforts, in particular their first-ever benefit concert at Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery, which drew and educated a diverse audience of city residents. Category: Community Education and Advocacy. Project team: Friends of the Cemetery, Sue Hunter Weir, and Aaron Hanauer, and Colleen Ayers, Nancy Benson and Jack Ferman. (Participating musicians were Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, and Jeremy Messersmith.)
Bra·vo! Bra·vo! Bra·vis·si·mo!
By Sue Hunter Weir It was an event like no other in Minneapolis. As far as we know the concert on October 8th was the first rock concert ever held in a Minneapolis cemetery. And, what a concert it was! It was one of those days when everything came together: beautiful weather, fantastic music and a wonderful, wonderful crowd. How big was the crowd? Our best estimate is that 1,500 people attended. We sold about 900 advance tickets and between three and four hundred tickets at the gates. Kids under twelve and volunteers got in free. Many who attended said that, although they had driven past the cemetery hundreds of times, this was the first time they”'d stopped into the grounds. Many also told us that they had no idea how much history could be learned there. One of the big hits of the day was the smartphone history hunt which enabled people to use their phones to learn more about 25 of the people buried in the cemetery. Kids had their own history hunt and could get their [...]
