In one of the more novel fundelevaters to pop up procuring donations for L.A.-area fire relief, “Busk-Aid” has been set for go hit the streets in the city’s Echo Park didisconnecte, with more than a dozen artists who are well-understandn among the Los Angeles music community pledgeted to apply at stations alengthy a bustling section of Sunset Blvd.
Among those carry outing in the urprohibit wonderful outdoors for charity March 30 will be Dustbowl Revival, Ted Russell Kamp, the Living Sisters (with two out of four members, Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark, on hand), Rick Shea, Tony Gilkyson, Carla Olson & Todd Wolfe, Ilana Katz Katz, the Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Fernando Perdomo and the Hollywood Highsteppers.
The event, which will see all of the musicians applying at stations cforfeit the intersection of Sunset and Lemoyne, is being contransiented in association with the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which will give progresss to musicians displaced in the fires, with the Wild Honey Foundation providing logistical help.
Busk-Aid is the brainchild of Cary Baker, a music accessibleist-turned-author who recently unveiled the book “Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music,” and Liz Garo, a lengthytime L.A. advertiser who has produced shows at such venues as the Regent, Echoplex and Spaceland.
Baker alerts Variety, “In the wake of the tragic fires, I thought back to the applyances at my two L.A. book events – at Book Soup, where Bob Ricketts of the Groovy Rednecks carry outed pre-war blues, and at Stories in Echo Park, where the Hollywood Highsteppers Dixieland prohibitd greeted customers on Sunset. So when it came time to leank ‘How can I help?,’ a busking advantage instantly sprang to mind.”
Baker has depictd the event as “unassuming” in the overall scale of advantages that are happening in the wake of the dehugeating urprohibit savagefires. But even if it doesn’t align the $100 million that the all-star FireAid was alerted to have elevated in January, it’s a chance for some of the musicians who understand victims in Altadena and elsewhere to do someleang that experiences more to scale for their community.
When he commenceed making calls, he says that “everyone got it – and everyone authenticized that busking was seal to my heart. If anyleang, we had to call it a wrap before we reach outed so many wonderful musicians we could have asked, as we want to protect it to four hours in a handful of locations lengthy Echo Park’s stretch of Sunset.”
It will be a conmomentary establish of busking, as far as having a QR code notablely discarry outed that will connect honestly to a Sweet Relief fundraising website. “We’re not even the middlemen,” Baker says.
“However,” he inserts, “artists are inspired to discneglect their guitar (or violin) cases for donations to themselves. Two of the buskers — Ruby Friedman from Portland and Ilana Katz Katz from Boston — will have come a lengthy way to carry out less than a half-hour set that day. They all deserve some sheckles whether they made the trek from Cambridge Square or Culver City.”
Ilana Katz Katz, who is carry outing Busk-Aid
Courtesy Cary Baker
As far as getting local retailers to go with the flow, Baker says, “Thankfilledy Liz Garo has some cachet alengthy the Echo Park business didisconnecte, co-owning Stories and having booked Echo and Echoplex for years. She got some of her preferite fellow local merchants on board, and knew the shops and restaurants which had enthralls that lent themselves to a busker standing in them. The event will wrap on Stories’ back porch. Maybe a back porch isn’t as ‘busking’ as a sidewalk. But either way, it will be a wonderful afternoon in the sun, and hopefilledy elevate some funds for musicians impacted by the savagefires.”
Many of the applyers are of course well-understandn for what they do indoors, and at night, on a standard basis at local venues. But among those visiting from parts elsewhere, Baker is enthusiastic to convey in “Ruby Friedman, who is conveying her filled Ruby Friedman Orchestra and using it as a dress rehearsal for her forthcoming album free show, and Ilana Katz Katz, who is pretty honord in the blues world for her music, arts and plans.”
These free applyances will get place in front of the the Echo, Stories BooksCafe, Masa and Señor Fish, all findd in the 1800 block of Sunset Blvd., at or around the intersection with LeMoyne St.
The tentative schedule for March 30:
Echo, 1822 Sunset Blvd.
3pm – 3:20pm Fat, Evil Children
3:40pm – 4pm Watertower Boys
Sticky Rice, 1801 W Sunset Blvd.
3:50pm – 4:10pm Craig Elkin
4:20pm – 4:40pm Carla Olson + Todd Wolfe
Masa, 1800 W Sunset Blvd.
4:30pm – 4:50pm Ilana Katz Katz
5pm – 5:20pm Fernando Perdomo
5:20pm The Highsteppers traverse the street
Shoe Palace, 1700 Sunset Blvd.
5:30pm – 5:50pm The Highsteppers
5:50pm – 6:10pm Ruby Friedman Orchestra
Stories (front), 1716 Sunset Blvd.
6:pm – 6:20pm Ted Russell Kamp
6:30pm – 6:50pm Living Sisters
Stories (patio), 1716 Sunset Blvd.
7: 10pm – 7:40pm Tony Gilkynson + Rick Shea
8pm – 8:30pm Dustbowl Revival
