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The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker to benefit The Community Foundation's Tomorrow Fund

The Tomorrow Fund

September 5, 2008

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Come out for a great night of music to benefit The Tomorrow Fund, a fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, for its annual silent auction and band party featuring the amazing band, The Dynamites. Tomorrow Fund is dedicated to harnessing the energy, enthusiasm, and resources of young Nashville residents above the age of 22 in an effort to serve the community. The Fund seeks to build community awareness, leadership and responsibility by establishing a pattern of community service and charitable giving.

Now about the band . . . if the first attention-grabbing horn lines of The Dynamites album Kaboom! evoke a dramatic curtain call from a late ‘60s funk concert at the Apollo Theater, it’s no accident. After all, that’s exactly where Charles Walker, the band’s singer and front man, first cut his teeth as a performer. Walker deserves his due after decades as an unsung musical hero. He first became a professional entertainer in his native Nashville in the late 1950 then spent most of the 1960s and ‘70s in New York, performing frequently at the Apollo Theater and Small’s Paradise when the original funk scene coalesced. Fronting various bands, including the criminally underrated Little Charles & the Sidewinders, Walker released singles for Chess, Decca, and a number of smaller labels. The records failed to hit the big time but their quality endured and are now prized among collectors. After the recordings gained notice in Europe’s Northern Soul scene, Walker found steady solo work overseas, and he lived in England and Spain before returning to Music City in the 1990s.

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  Tickets: $20/ticket in advance; $25/ticket day of show

  Info Phone: (615) 251-3020

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  Dates:
  September 5, 2008

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  Friday 6:30pm-10:00pm Silent Auction
  9:00pm The Dynamites

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  The Mercy Lounge and Cannery Ballroom

  One Cannery Row Nashville, TN 37203

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