Hey, hey, hey! Buy your raffle tickets from Tenant Resource Center when you go to the Central Park Sessions this Thursday to see The Silk Road Session July 30th at Olbrich Park . . . did that say Olbrich Park, why yes it did! 5:00 pm– Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 6:30 pm— Dengue Fever and 8:30 pm —Hanggai (Inner Mongolia)
Thanks to the Greater Williamson Area Business Association for partnering with the Tenant Resource Center (and the Literacy Netwrok) to bring you the first int he series! Tenant Resource Center (and the Literacy Council) volunteers) will be selling raffle tickets at the performance. Tickets are also available at Tenant Resource Center (1202 Williamson St.) 9 am – 6:00 pm Monday through Friday. All proceeds will benefit the Tenant Resource Center (if you buy them from us! but we like the Literacy Network too . . . so we won’t be mad if you buy your tickets from them . . . ).
Drawings will be held on August 16th and September 10th. Here’s a list of all the great prizes including nights out to great restaurants and other music events.
Other great Central Park Session coming up include . . .
El Gran Sabado (The Big Saturday) Session 8/8 –2-10:00
2:00 pm — Grupo Candela
3:30 pm — Son Contrabando
5:00 pm— Madisalsa
6:30 pm– –Los Cojolites (Mexico) TBC
7:50 pm –Handphibians (offstage)
8:30 pm — Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
The Bamako/ Blues Session 8/15-16 (Sat Africa Fest)1- 10pm
1:00 pm – Tani Diakite and Andy Ewen
2:30 pm– The Joel Paterson Trio with Jim Liban
4:15 pm– The Jimmys
6:15 pm — Lurrie Bell’s Chicago Blues Band
8:30 pm — Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba Band (Mali)
The Southern Fried Session 9/3
5:00 pm— Evan Murdock and the Imperfect Strangers
6:30 pm— Robbie Fulks
8:30 pm—-An Evening with the Royal Southern Brotherhood
The City of Angels Session 9/ 10
5:00 pm—-The Rousers
6:30 pm—Eric Lindell
8:30 pm—La Santa Cecilia
Other organizations will be out there selling tickets too . . . whomever you buy your tickets from benefits! It’s hard to compete with great groups like WORT, Centro, Literacy Network and others, all worthy causes . . . but the county isn’t cutting $90,000 from their budget, so please buy them from us!
Eight non-profit organizations will be active partners at the Sessions this summer and will benefit from our profit-sharing plan and will be selling raffle tickets at the concerts and throughout the community. Below is the list of partners and the Session where they will have an enhanced presence/ visibility.
The Silk Road Session July 30 (Olbrich Park) – The Literacy Network/ Tenant Resource Center
El Gran Sabado Session August 8th – Centro Hispano
The Bamako/ Blues Session 8/16 – The Urban League of Greater Madison/ Project 1808
The Southern Fried Session September 3rd – The River Alliance/ Madison Parks Foundation
The City of Angels Session September 10th -WORT
More info on the event here and on facebook.
