Weekend of local rock volume 16

You knew that you couldn't stop this, but could only hope to contain it. Luckily I'll contain it for you.

I took well over 100 pictures at this event, some just for my own personal collection and some for later publication. But since this was a benefit show, I decided to do some of the more newsworthy items here and save the music review for a future post over on the monoblogue Myspace page. This way I keep a manageable amount of photos and text here in this post, and if you dig the local music portion of it anywhere as much as I do you'll look forward to reading my thoughts on the show over on Myspace.

For those of you out of the monoblogue loop, the event was set up to benefit B.J. Mohr, who was seriously injured in an accident. Spearheading the effort was BJ's brother Bill, who plays in a local group called Another Vicious Cycle. Here's Bill helping out on drums for the first musician up, C.J. Hearn.

Working through the musical grapevine, Bill convinced eight other bands to give up some of their time on a prime working day for bands to help out the cause. While most of these groups hail from points local, two of them traveled down from the Baltimore area to appear as well. The next nine pictures will be of each group, just read the caption for the name.

I would be remiss in not pointing out that between sets we were entertained by DJ Bczar, who also does the turntables for Another Vicious Cycle.

While the bands kept me and a lot of others entertained, of more importance was the amount of money raised to help defray the expenses incurred by the Mohr family since BJ's accident. The event itself attracted around 125 people, while the concurrent 50/50 raffle raised about $250 more. However, this doesn't take into account other donations like what was placed in this pocket:

It was also a pleasure to meet several of the Mohr family members who put a lot of effort into this themselves, including the "average girl" by whose blog I first became aware of this. Hopefully I provided a wee bit of help in getting people there, but the one suggestion I would make if they need to do another fundraiser is to do it during the non-summer months. It seemed like there were just too many other competing events in OC, Rehoboth Beach, Salisbury, and elsewhere.

Once again though, yesterday was another example of good bands doing good works. It's another reason they deserve your support and a few of your entertainment dollars.