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On June 25, Java Joe will hold a fundraiser for the family of bluesman Steve White, who passed away on April 22, following a long battle with cancer.
The event will take place at his new location in the Ideal Hotel. Expect some of San Diego's acoustic heavy hitters, but the artist line up will be fluid. “Its a open stage,” said “Java Joe” Flammini. “Anyone who wants to share something about Steve, or play a few songs, is welcome. Basically, it’s a get together to help say goodbye to Steve, and hopefully raise a few dollars for [his wife] Alda.”
The event start's at 6:30 pm and “goes to no determined time.” A $10 donation will be loosely asked at the door, “any donation will be great. small or large,” said Flammini.
The Ideal Hotel, 542 3rd Ave. http://www.theidealhotel.com
White was a world class touring musician who spent much of his life on the road, singing and playing guitar and harmonica, often as a one-man band. In 2009, due to cancer, he lost his vocal chords and was no longer able to sing or play harmonica.
“The treatments are completed, and my taste buds are returning, so I’m happy chappy,” wrote White in a February 13, 2010 email, five months after doctors removed his vocal chords to fight the cancer in his esophagus. As White underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments, he strummed blues riffs on his guitar and watched the stack of medical bills inside his Leucadia home grow.
To help raise money for White’s mounting medical debt, local blues musicians Steve Mendoza, Shawn Rolfe, and Candye Kane joined efforts and appeared at benefit concerts for White, one at the Encinitas Public Library in December 2009 and another at Old Time Music in North Park a month later.
“I had a chance to perform,” wrote White in his email. “It was cathartic because I was unsure whether I could do it without my voice and harmonica, or that it would work, and I was most happy to find out it did.”
White’s influence and support stretched farther than San Diego County. Benefits for White were held in Italy, Germany, and in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He passed away on April 22, 2011, at the age of 61.
(Thanks to Bart Mendoza for the tip and co-writing above)
On June 25, Java Joe will hold a fundraiser for the family of bluesman Steve White, who passed away on April 22, following a long battle with cancer.
The event will take place at his new location in the Ideal Hotel. Expect some of San Diego's acoustic heavy hitters, but the artist line up will be fluid. “Its a open stage,” said “Java Joe” Flammini. “Anyone who wants to share something about Steve, or play a few songs, is welcome. Basically, it’s a get together to help say goodbye to Steve, and hopefully raise a few dollars for [his wife] Alda.”
The event start's at 6:30 pm and “goes to no determined time.” A $10 donation will be loosely asked at the door, “any donation will be great. small or large,” said Flammini.
The Ideal Hotel, 542 3rd Ave. http://www.theidealhotel.com
White was a world class touring musician who spent much of his life on the road, singing and playing guitar and harmonica, often as a one-man band. In 2009, due to cancer, he lost his vocal chords and was no longer able to sing or play harmonica.
“The treatments are completed, and my taste buds are returning, so I’m happy chappy,” wrote White in a February 13, 2010 email, five months after doctors removed his vocal chords to fight the cancer in his esophagus. As White underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments, he strummed blues riffs on his guitar and watched the stack of medical bills inside his Leucadia home grow.
To help raise money for White’s mounting medical debt, local blues musicians Steve Mendoza, Shawn Rolfe, and Candye Kane joined efforts and appeared at benefit concerts for White, one at the Encinitas Public Library in December 2009 and another at Old Time Music in North Park a month later.
“I had a chance to perform,” wrote White in his email. “It was cathartic because I was unsure whether I could do it without my voice and harmonica, or that it would work, and I was most happy to find out it did.”
White’s influence and support stretched farther than San Diego County. Benefits for White were held in Italy, Germany, and in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He passed away on April 22, 2011, at the age of 61.
(Thanks to Bart Mendoza for the tip and co-writing above)