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Second Annual

Summer f Lve
Benefit For
Real Change Newspaper

2nd Annual Summer of Love Full-Size Poster

2nd Annual Summer of Love 4-Per Page

2nd Annual Summer of Love Black and White Poster

Listen live Friday, June 16th at 2PM on the John Sincock Show
KBCS, 91.3 FM. Click here to link to the Listen Live Page

Poster Design By Keynote Speaker Timothy Harris

Timothy Harris

Timothy Harris is the founding Director of the Real Change homeless newspaper in Seattle, and has led several successful organizing campaigns, including the 2001 Initiative 71 ballot measure to increase shelter and other resources for homeless people. Prior to moving to Seattle in 1994, Harris founded the Spare Change homeless newspaper in Boston in 1992 while working as Executive Director of Boston Jobs with Peace, an organization that organized direct action style protests with homeless people while drawing connections to militarism and other misplaced federal budget priorities. Harris founded his first alternative newspaper, critical times, in 1984, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he graduated with a BA in Social Thought and Political Economy. Prior to founding the Spare Change homeless newspaper, Harris edited Street Magazine and The Central America Reporter in Boston. He is a leader in the international streetpaper movement, and is a co-founder and current chair of the North American Street Newspaper Association.

Celeb Emcee
Cindy Polly Payne

Cynthia Polly Payne, Payneless Promotions.
A one woman powerhouse featuring PR, Marketing, Graphic Design and Logistical Planning for Special Events. Favorite projects are Festivals, but also work with Theatre, Trade Shows and Conferences. Current clients include Ballard SeafoodFest, Washington Women in Trades, ROCKRGRL, GreenStage and What's Cookin' in Wallingford. Past clients include NW Folklife, Bumbershoot, Cirque d' Broadway, Late Nite Catechism and Hattie's Hat.

Payne is also an artist, wedding officiant, caterer, and once in awhile florist.

What began as a series of solo acoustic performances in the Czech Republic and Ireland erupted into a hard drinking, blues-based, Latin-tinged, live rock band with a razor-edged brass section called The Red Note. Based in Seattle, The Red Note regularly packs fans into the city's favorite venues, including routine gigs at ToST, The High Dive, The Fenix, The Central Saloon and the Capitol Hill Arts Center. Memorable Mardi Gras concerts and sold-out CD release events aren't enough for the fans, as The Red Note finds themselves invited to parties ranging from ski weekend getaways and artsy fund-raisers, to blackbox shindigs and suit-and-jacket benefits.

The Red Note's debut album "Weatherman" has been getting rave reviews, including a recent mention in the daily Seattle Post-Intelligencer which chose The Red Note as one of ten local bands to watch in 2006!

The Red Note

Katie Davis

Singer-songwriter Katie Davis is on the verge of releasing her highly anticipated first full-length album. Her introspective and hauntingly beautiful songs – the kind you hear in the movies over kissing or crying scenes – liken her to other straight-voiced ladies like Beth Orton, Feist, and Jenny Lewis.

Since Katie's "Terrible, Terrible" EP debuted in late 2004, she has earned unprecedented national press, worldwide radio play, and a packed schedule of live shows with nationally touring acts. In early 2005, Katie played her first solo shows to small but delighted crowds in the beer-soaked dive bars of Seattle's Pioneer Square. And by 2006, Katie enjoyed her first four-story marquee at the Showbox, a musical institution and one of the northwest's biggest theaters.

This fall, Katie will tour the US and Canada with her upcoming album. As fans move quickly to pre-order signed copies, the music world waits expectantly for big things to come. "I have predicted to my listeners," says DJ Jerry Jodice at Virginia's WRIR FM 97.3, "that Katie Davis may be one of those indie artists who break through to the mainstream, she's that good."

Seattle resident Paul Benoit is no stranger to the road. Throughout the '90s he toured rigourously with bands, including Crosseyed and the instrumental combo Hanuman. Benoit released his first solo record in 2002 and now follows with Combustible, an album of glorious pop rock, complete with a wash of electric guitars and his husky, perfect-for-new-rock vocals singing about existential quandaries and getting through the tough times.

"Think I'll buy a bird today, kiss it as it flys away...we're here so short and gone so long, "Benoit sings in "Elevator Ring" as electric guitars wail like a freight train. The title track proffers a South African guitar riff and a descending piano line as Benoit asks "Did it make you sad to find that you were burnable?" Lyrics are rich with imagery. Rhymes are fresh, lead lines are mellow and the whole package is solidly grooving and easy on the ears.

Listen for part of Paul's song "Electricity" used as the background for the radio Public Service Announcement for the Real Change Benefit.

Paul Benoit has been playing music in the Seattle area and touring for almost twenty years.

He’s performed and recorded with numerous songwriters including Dan Bern, Reggie Garrett and Laura Love.

Paul Benoit

Barbara Buckland

Many times throughout her life she has tried to walk away from music...but it would not let her go. So to this day Buckland remains true to her great love for the mystery of self-expession.

Her formative years saw popular music transitioning from beat to
soul to surf to the British Invasion to psychedelic to folk and back again.

She tended toward music that was dark, moody, visceral, and was inspired by The Byrds, Gene Clark, Larry Hosford, Bruce Cockburn, Townes Van Zandt, Mickey Newbury, Jane Siberry, Rickie Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin, and Joni Mitchell.

Many Northwestern musicians have played with Buckland, including
Joel Tepp, Paul Benoit, and Bill White.

White, a regular contributor to the music pages of the Seattle PI, has described her music as “combining the long, poetic phrases of Eric Anderson with the beauty and sensitivity of a Tom Rapp melody.”

Buckland enjoys answering the question "What if whenever possible."

Eva graduated from Selkirk College of Music as a performance major in 1994, and has studied voice with Patti Cathcart (Tuck and Patti), Leora Cashe, Pat Wright (Total Experience Gospel Choir), Dee Daniels, Laura Landsberg and Cheryl Hodge.

Eva has toured extensively throughout the USA and Canada since 1994. She has shared the stage with signed recording artist Brandi Carlile, L.A. transplant recording artist Joel Tepp (Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, Chris Williamson), Jim Page, Kellee Bradley, Willow, Jonathan Kingham, Richard Middleton, Melissa Reaves, Frazey Ford (Be Good Tanyas), The No Shit Shirleys, Sheri Ulrich, Leora Cashe, Universal Gospel Choir, The Total Experience Gospel Choir, and many more… From 1994-7 she toured internationally with The Pink Flamingos, a 14-piece show band based in Albuquerque, NM.

She was chosen as a featured contender for the Maryhill Singer-Songwriter Competition 2003, and was a featured artist on a CD for World Harmony released 2003-2004.

Embracing the local music community, Eva hosted a singer-songwriter showcase at the Hopvine Pub in 2004-2005, and has performed at numerous charity events around Seattle, establishing a strong presence on the Seattle scene.

Eva Tree

Joel Tepp

Joel Tepp is a familiar face as a multi-instrument accompanist at Northwest concerts, in California, Kerrville and beyond. He has regularly added his slide guitar, harmonica and clarinet stylings to the music of Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, Danny O'Keefe, Iain Matthews, Spencer Davis, Caroline Aiken and many others. In addition to these artists, his recording credits include Jerry Garcia, Crazy Horse, John David Souther, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, several major films, television shows and much more. In his early years, he learned from the masters, not through recordings but by accompanying them on tour and gaining his musical knowledge face to face, one on one. His teachers and departed friends include Johnny Shines, Bukka White, Earl Hooker, John Lee Hooker, Sippi Wallace, Magic Sam and Shakey Jake.

“Joel is a tremendous musician, very inventive, innovative, creative and versatile.” “He has a great deal of musical depth, particularly in a historical sense (and)… he can play a wide range of styles on any of his instruments.”

Danny O’Keefe