Arts & Entertainment
You are Invited to Jail Break Music Party with Daddy Mellow, the Coco Rico Jazz Trio & Rosewood on Saturday, August 22
Admission is free to the music party at the Mad Art Gallery in Soulard.
You’re invited to a Jail Break Music Party on Saturday, August 22, 2015, at the Mad Art Gallery, a renovated police station and jail house in St. Louis’ Soulard neighborhood.
Admission is free to the event hosted by St. Louis HELP, the nonprofit St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program that loans home health equipment at no cost to any person for any health-related reason (http://stlhelp.org).
Daddy Mellow, the Coco Rico Jazz Trio and Rosewood will individually perform from 7 pm to 10 p.m. in the gallery at 2727 South 12th Street. There is no cover charge to attend and enjoy the event. Menu service will be provided by Capitalist Pig Barbeque on the premises.
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The Jail Break Music Party will feature a raffle and prizes with any donations benefiting St. HELP. In 2014, St. Louis HELP loaned 6,193 items including hospital beds, wheelchairs, scooters, lift chairs, walkers, crutches and other reconditioned home health equipment. Every year, St. Louis HELP diverts about 140 tons of equipment that would otherwise end up in landfills.
Daddy Mellow is a singer-songwriter who performs cowboy ballads, folk music and love songs. The Coco Rico Jazz Trio performs gypsy jazz music popularized by Django Reinhardt in France during the 1930s-40s. Rosewood performs country rock, folk and pop, with harmonious tributes to Crosby, Still & Nash.
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Better call the cops: The Mad Art Gallery is a former 1930s police station and jail renovated into a contemporary art gallery and event space near the Anheuser Busch brewery in historic Soulard. It features the original jail cells where people can hang out, plus a spacious, high-walled outdoor patio.
Capitalist Pig Barbecue uses products from local farmers who raise animals on a primarily vegetarian diet and grow only organic produce. The animals are not treated with antibiotics, hormones or fed animal-by-products. Capitalist Big Barbecue is deliciously tender, tasty and mouth watering.
Call 314 409 5203 for information about the Jail Break Music Party for St. Louis HELP or email cannonstlhelp@yahoo.com.
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