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Show 12 Vernal Express Wednesday, July 8, 1998 O . J ; '' ?? Clydesdales complete the parade. w Uintah U'Ettes received honorable IFBDrsft annum nasi COIHIC seined yiedl The first annual Children's Justice Center (CJC) concert is scheduled to debut Saturday, Aug. 22, from 4 p.m.- 9 p.m. at the Western Park amphitheater. Several bands have signed up for the five-hour music and arts festival with all proceeds going to the Duchesne and Uintah County CJCs. Concert organizers include members mem-bers of both CJC Friends Boards and the band, Watercolors. The upcoming up-coming event was the brainchild of the alternative rock band, Watercolors, whose members are Marie Pitchford-Smith, Daryl Hancock, Jane Powers, Keri Mills and Nancy Bostick-Ebbert. "We plan to have five hours of solid entertainment," Ebbert said, "and we are selling spaces for artisans arti-sans to sell their wares." She added that booth space will be available for $25 to those who wish to display dis-play and sell jewelry, art or crafts. "As the idea evolved, we decided to make it a full-scale art and music festival," she explained, "This will be an excellent opportunity for people peo-ple involved in the arts and for our community to help our children while enjoying high-quality entertainment. enter-tainment. We plan to make this an annual event to support our CJCs." In addition to an all-original set of music by Watercolors, the Uintah Community Band will kick off the event by performing at 4 p.m. Also, the ever-popular local blues-rock blues-rock group, Massadona, with Ken Miller, Cliff Grua and Joe Busha, have offered their energy and talents tal-ents for the event. For blue grass enthusiasts, Tom Elder, Leo Karren and Jerry Smith of Blue Mountain Blue Grass, will share a lively selection se-lection of favorites. Encore, a youth performance group from Roosevelt, plans to make an appearance during the show as well. There are still a few openings for others who are interested in-terested in sharing their talents for this worthwhile cause. According to Ebbert, many businesses busi-nesses and individuals have been instrumental in providing funding for this effort. Central to the concert project is a song, "Ring Around the Roses" which was written by Marie Pitchford-Smith and Nancy Bostick-Ebbert. Smith's haunting and delicate melody enhances lyrics penned by her co-writer. Smith points out that the song highlights the pain of children who are being abused and adds that it is a message that is long overdue. "Children deserve de-serve our protection," she said, "no child should ever have to live in fear." The song, arranged by Keri Mills, was recorded by Joe Clarke, owner and sound engineer of Joe's lrWt'&! : I s. .-- Sw ""&-zrri mention in the Fourth of July parade. rt Garage and Recording Studio in Vernal. Clarke's belief in the quality and message of the song was surpassed sur-passed only by the amount of time he spent recording, producing the single as well as designing the artwork art-work for the CD jacket. "Joe has spent more time with this song than I have," laughed Smith. As the group explored how the song could be used to assist in raising rais-ing money for the CJCs and awareness aware-ness about child abuse, Clarke suggested sug-gested that it be made available to the local community. He offered to duplicate the CDs at cost band members took advantage of the offer, of-fer, pooled their money and purchased pur-chased 100 CDs. The local radio stations generously donated air time and many of the CDs were sold with profits being donated to the CJC. Duchesne County CJC board members asked if the group would perform at the Duchesne CJC grand opening Watercolors members agreed and were overwhelmed with the enthusiastic response. Following on the heels of the songs' debut, the band performed for a national child abuse symposium in Midway. It was during this event that the idea for a benefit concert was conceived. It was suggested that sponsors be found to provide a concert fund some of the monies from this fund will be used to produce 500 CDs which will priced at $10 each. The discs will be available at area merchants mer-chants as well as the concert. Duchesne and Uintah CJCs will each receive 250 copies which will return $2500 to each organization when sold. Individuals who wish to purchase a booth space should call soon musicians interested in performing are urged to call within the next two weeks to ensure their participation in the concert. The following volunteers volun-teers can be reached for information. informa-tion. Nancy Bostick-Ebbert, 781-1518; 781-1518; Carolyn Krismann, 722-5001; Rob Caldwell, 722-5164; Jane Powers, 353-4371; Marie Pitchford-Smith Pitchford-Smith 781-2348. Tickets for the event will be $5 per person or $20 for families. "I really re-ally hope to see our communities support this effort," said Smith, "if it goes well this year, it is entirely possible that eventually we will have an event which will rival the blucgrass festival at Telluride wouldn't that be great?" 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