Benefit Success!!!

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CAME & SUPPORTED OUR EVENT EFFORT on TUESDAY! We initiated our sixth week training with our first fundraising event and it was a huge success. Eric (who opened) & The Loose Digits put on an awesome show, people were screaming in the crowd for our raffle prizes, and so many people showed up & gave generously to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. We raised nearly $1300 in total. The highlights for me were:
* the dancing baby,
* the older couple we didn't know who saw the event posted on Facebook (among many people we didn't know who heard about it through people/publicity) who came because it was for a good cause and they like Bluegrass,
* our friend Lucas helping set-up AND clean-up,
* Studer raffle-soliciting,
* the friend of a friend who came up and told me she came out on a Tuesday (despite not initially wanting to) because she heard it was for LLS. She then told me she had had leukemia as a little girl, and told me how excited and impressed she was by us,
* Lucie's friend who brought her mom who ran her first marathon last year at the age of 50! If she can do that, we can do it in half those years.
* and of course: all the beer got drunk.

Thank you thank you thank you. We will keep posting updates for the date, location & event of our other fundraiser, hopefully to occur in February...(Siri)