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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=angelo.moreno@sbcglobal.net
href="mailto:angelo.moreno@sbcglobal.net">ANGELO MORENO</A> </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Hello all music families, <SPAN
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>I want to highly encourage you all to attend our next big
event to help "Save Our Music" in Davis. I have personally been planning this
event for the past 2 months and can assure you that it will be a fun and
entertaining evening for you and your entire family. We as a music community
have come so far in this effort to support our music program in Davis and
our goal is just in sight! This event is one of the last big efforts
that will take place right about the time of our
deadline. Please tell your friends and plan to enjoy a night of good
food, fine wines, beer on tap by Sudwerk, and a line up of some of the areas
finest musicians. All proceeds will go to Save Our Music campaign. See
below for details:<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Thank you all for your continued support!<SPAN
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Angelo Moreno-Orchestra Director</DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">WHAT:
Joe Craven in concert in Davis</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Where:
May 17, 2008 at 7:30 pm at DHS Performing Arts
Building</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>The Davis Schools Orchestral Music Association (DSOMA)
announced today that Joe Craven will be performing a benefit concert on behalf
of Save Our Music (SOM), a combined community effort that supports raising the
$200,000 needed to continue all Davis schools music programs in spite of budget
cuts.<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>The concert is May 17 at the Davis High School performing
arts hall. Doors open at 7 pm and the concert begins at 7:30 pm with a special
opening act of “Elvis and the E-Men”. Tickets are $35 each and can be purchased
at Watermelon Music and at the door. A taco buffet and no host bar will be
held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1210488763_9
style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Davis Community
Park</SPAN> for those interested in mingling with other music lovers before the
concert. The dinner is $10 tickets are also available at Watermelon Music. All
proceeds go to SOM to maintain Davis’ outstanding orchestral, choral, and band
programs for all Davis students.<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Joe Craven is nationally and internationally known but
lives and contributes to his local community of Davis. According to the <SPAN
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style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Los Angeles Times</SPAN>
“Joe Craven is virtuostic” and a “crowd pleaser” (<SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1210488763_11 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">The
New York Times</SPAN>). Joe Craven is a madman with anything that has strings
attached; violin, mandolin, tin can, bedpan, and cookie tin, to name a
few. Educator, former museum curator, visual artist, actor/storyteller,
festival emcee and former 17-year vet for mandolinist David Grisman, Joe has
recorded and played with many folks ranging from jazz violinist <SPAN
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style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Stephane
Grappelli</SPAN> to Grateful Dead Guitarist Jerry Garcia to The
Persuasions.<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal> Learn more about Joe Craven at his website, <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><A href="http://www.joecraven.com/" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT
color=#003399>www.joecraven.com</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN>. <SPAN
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<DIV class=MsoNormal> For more information, contact DSOMA at
http:/groups.dcn.org/DSOMA. For tickets, contact Watermelon Music at
758-4010.<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><B>Contact info for release</B>: Sarah Rock, <SPAN
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