Four local Santa Maria bands will come together Feb. 16 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at St. Joseph High School to perform a benefit concert for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The event will feature the talents of area bands The Only Rational Thing, Time for Secrets, Liquid Grasshopper, and Brandon Martinez & Cody Taecker. Band members performing are James Fosdick, Chris Green, Jason Iliff, Gabe Marin, Mike Teixeira, Dustyn Felix, Jordan Field, and Mark Arkinson.
“This is a great opportunity to do what we love to do as well as give back to the community,” said Mike Teixeira, a Time for Secrets band member and current St. Joseph High School student, in a recent press release.
Concert organizer and St. Joseph alumni Gabriel Marin added, “St. Jude’s is a great organization benefiting children and we wanted to do something to help out … we wanted to follow through on our awareness of them. It’s great that St. Joe’s is allowing us to use their campus to hold this concert and the majority of these band members are either current students or alumni of the school.”
St. Jude’s is located in Memphis, Tenn., and was founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. No family ever pays St. Jude’s for anything.
Tickets for the outdoor concert are available at the door. The event is open to the public with a $4 donation, all of which will go directly to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The concert was originally scheduled for Jan. 23, but was rained out.
For more information, call Marin at 264-4377 or email him at careermarin@hotmail.com. St. Joseph High School is located at 4120 S. Bradley Road, Santa Maria.
Intern Pamella Wood compiled this week’s School Scene. Information should be sent to the Sun via fax, e-mail, or mail.
This article appears in Feb 9-16, 2012.