JON JOHNSON BENEFIT SERIES, 2/8 - 2/11 2007, MASTER THREAD: News, Posters, Lineups, Press Info... Options

[MizValentine]

Since the 'pinned' threads are many and there is information in several places, I wanted to create a single thread where info about the benefit series can be posted, particularly for the benefit of non-regular Noise Board users. So, in this thread you will find (and/or should post):

1. Up to the minute lineup changes and additions.
2. Links to the venues and contact info for the organizers.
3. Poster art, in both web and printable versions.
4. Offers of and requests for promotional help leading up to the shows.
5. A press release and media contacts (coming shortly).

Thank you for your help in keeping all this information clear and in one place.

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Press Release for the Jon Erik Johnson Memorial Concert Series (PDF)

Contact information is included in the above document. Interested parties may also PM users MizValentine or ladyeleanor via the Board.



This post has been edited by ladyeleanor: Feb 6 2007, 08:07 PM

[MizValentine]

For a high-resolution, printable version of this poster, please click here (.zip file, 11x17, PDF - 5MB FILE!).

[MizValentine]

Poster for the Abbey show, courtesy Mike Byrne:

For a high-resolution, printable version of this poster, please click here (.jpg file).

[christocon]

jonerik would be proud. kudos to all involved.

[ladyeleanor]

Gorgeous poster MizValentine!!

[MizValentine]

Wanted: Folks to help hang posters.

If anyone can help hang some of the 4-bill posters around town, particularly before this weekend, please PM or email me at wgsinners@gmail.com as soon as possible. I can provide you with some nice, 11x17 full color prints...I can even meet you with them if you like.

Thanks for your help.

[smcd]

[DJKyttyn]

Wanted: Raffle Prize Donations

Do you own a business? Provide a useful service? Make cool art? Have a new CD? Work someplace cool? Just feel generous?


If so, please drop me a PM. I'm looking for donations of all types for the raffle which will take place on the 11th. Tickets will also be available on the 8th and 9th (i believe).

so far prizes include bath products, a hair and beauty basket, pies, cds, tshirts, tickets to IMAX and the Aquarium, and more!

we can use more, though. every donation helps. contact me for details.

[MizValentine]

This Just In: Benefit Music Sale at 2/8 Baseball Tavern Show!

Johnny Carlevale will be donating $5.00 per 2-record set sold to the Johnson family at the 2/8 show.

Get his 2005 and 2006 releases of Johnny Carlevale's Band Of All-Stars, on sale together for just $15.00,
with $5.00 going to the fund.

Thanks Johnny!

[DJKyttyn]

Wanted: Raffle Ticket sales assistants, 2/8, 2/9, and 2/10

I need a few people to sell raffle tickets at the shows on the 8th, 9th and 10th. We hope to compensate volunteers with beer and food Meet new people! Help raise some money!

PM me if interested!

[Jesse Vön Kenmöre]

Terriffic job on those posters!

[Dakota]

Official lineup addition to the February 11th show at the Abbey:

The Steamy Bohemians will be performing a short set of female harmony duo Appalachian traditional music, in the exact style of the Kossoy Sisters, who are acclaimed keepers of that flame.

It's fantastically awesome stuff, dark and beautiful and at the core of the soul of American music. My brother is the one that turned me on to the Kossoy Sisters years back (he'd also interviewed them - they grew up in NYC but live in Sommerville now), and their 1956 album "Bowling Green" is in my opinion one of the coolest albums ever recorded.

Add to that, my brother and I grew up with our grandmother Virginia living with us, and she was herself a singer/guitar player who grew up in West Virginia and sang all these strange traditional songs for us all the time - the very same living tradition that gave us the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers and Johnny Cash. Jon and I were very lucky to be a part of that living tradition, didn't have to get it from any NPR polite lame cleaned up revisionist idea of what American folk music is. The real deal version is darkly edgy and fascinatingly strange.

Steamies as Kossoys on the 11th show. I'm thrilled.

[MizValentine]

Information for Members of the Press

Thanks to Board Moderator ladyeleanor, we now have a press release for the events.
(I did edit her original release, so if there are any errors or less than stellar turns of phrase, its definitely my fault!)

It has been distributed to the local media, but it is also available for download by clicking here:

Press Release for the Jon Erik Johnson Memorial Concert Series (PDF)

Contact information is included in the above document. Interested parties may also PM users MizValentine or ladyeleanor via the Board.

Members of the community are encouraged to distribute the release to any and all media contacts you may have.

[Dakota]

Is anyone going to be videotaping these shows? I'd love to have something my parents could watch, as they won't be able to make the shows in person.

[coughlin]

Wanted: Folks to help hang posters.

If anyone can help hang some of the 4-bill posters around town, particularly before this weekend, please PM or email me at wgsinners@gmail.com as soon as possible. I can provide you with some nice, 11x17 full color prints...I can even meet you with them if you like.

NOT AT ALL to be a killjoy, but every so often, the cops bust for these, and i would hate to see a show (especially one of these) shut down for illegal flyer-ing... inside clubs, stores, whatever, is OK w/owner's consent, but when a club gets fined (or worse) for this, the bands in question are usually not asked back.
again, i say this from a good place, seriously.
just FYI.

[nueva jerk]

NOT AT ALL to be a killjoy, but every so often, the cops bust for these, and i would hate to see a show (especially one of these) shut down for illegal flyer-ing... inside clubs, stores, whatever, is OK w/owner's consent, but when a club gets fined (or worse) for this, the bands in question are usually not asked back.
again, i say this from a good place, seriously.
just FYI.

not to mention all the harmful rays you might get from hanging those things outside.

[mercyjames]

The 11th will also feature a set by a bunch of Noise Boarders playing George Harrison tunes. More details to follow.

[LexiKahn]

If 8x10 is okay, I will print some at work and hit the Harvard/Comm/Brighton Ave section of Allston tonight.

[MizValentine]

If 8x10 is okay, I will print some at work and hit the Harvard/Comm/Brighton Ave section of Allston tonight.

Lexi, this would be truly wonderful and appreciated.

[LexiKahn]

Lexi, this would be truly wonderful and appreciated.

I'm on it!

I'm good at flyering, I did it a thousand times when I was booking/promoting a lot. Allston has specific spots that are good and won't get anyone in trouble like what mercyjames was talking about.

(mercyjames is right about watching where you flyer. Stick to the "sanctioned" places. Here's a crazy thing - Friday night I saw an older Asian woman on Harvard Ave, with a stack of bright yellow war protest posters, big ones, and wasn't doing the simple "tape" job the rest of us do, AND she wasn't just sticking with the music shops and flyer boards -- she had a fucking bucket of glue. She would slap a great gluey mess on the surface and plaster two, three, four of those suckers. She did light poles. She did signs. She did MAIL BOXES -- the blue, official kind. You can't put a poster on a mail box! That's not merely private property, that's government property. And glue so the cops can't even just yank it down like they usually do.)

[MizValentine]

Just added to Friday's show at the Baseball Tavern: Black Fortress of Opium http://www.myspace.com/blackfortressofopium

One of my favorite new bands around, just back from recording in NYC with Martin Bisi (Dresden Dolls, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, lots of others)...so very glad to have them on this bill. So Friday was a long time coming togther but it'll be:

Friday, February 9
Black Fortress of Opium
The Radio Knives
The Swinedells
Cheap Trick Tribute feat. members of the Rudds & the Neighborhoods
DJ Jordan Valentine spinning before and between

AND don't forget country/rockabilly/gospel/old-time night on Thursday 2/8, featuring:
The Dirty Truckers
Nate Gibson
Ellie Vee & Joe Wizda of the Charms with Steve Toebes
Johnny Carlevale and His Old Time Trio
DJ Andrew of the Alrighters spinning before and between

AND the Idle Baron's Ball on 2/10 and of course the Abbey Lounge on 2/11!

Thank you thank you thank you to all the talented bands who've donated their time to make these events a success for the Johnson family as well as a true celebration of life. Hope to see you all there.

[MFD]

Just added to Friday's show at the Baseball Tavern: Black Fortress of Opium http://www.myspace.com/blackfortressofopium

One of my favorite new bands around, just back from recording in NYC with Martin Bisi (Dresden Dolls, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, lots of others)...so very glad to have them on this bill. So Friday was a long time coming togther but it'll be:

Friday, February 9
Black Fortress of Opium
The Radio Knives
The Swinedells
Cheap Trick Tribute feat. members of the Rudds & the Neighborhoods
DJ Jordan Valentine spinning before and between

AND don't forget country/rockabilly/gospel/old-time night on Thursday 2/8, featuring:
The Dirty Truckers
Nate Gibson
Ellie Vee & Joe Wizda of the Charms with Steve Toebes
Johnny Carlevale and His Old Time Trio
DJ Andrew of the Alrighters spinning before and between

AND the Idle Baron's Ball on 2/10 and of course the Abbey Lounge on 2/11!

Thank you thank you thank you to all the talented bands who've donated their time to make these events a success for the Johnson family as well as a true celebration of life. Hope to see you all there.

I'm sure the Tavern will have some redsox tickets for the raffle, right Harvey? Martin

[Mike Qube]

I'm hoping to have the final lineup tonight for the Abbey show.

[bopinit]

Can someone email me a pic of John for the Phoenix, please send it as an attachment. Hi res I guess... not to savvy with that stuff!
jitteryjackmgt@aol.com
Thanks!

[DJKyttyn]

Wanted: Raffle Ticket sales assistants, 2/8, 2/9, and 2/10

I need a few people to sell raffle tickets at the shows on the 8th, 9th and 10th. We hope to compensate volunteers with beer and food Meet new people! Help raise some money!

PM me if interested!

Update: I have volunteers!
If you want to buy a ticket, you get to meet Ms. La India Luba on thursday, and the lovely Mal on Friday. my show saturday was cancelled, so look for me to buy tickets saturday and sunday.

still looking for cool donations for raffle prizes. CDs and t-shirts encouraged. pm me.