The Jive Mill and Jack and Kitty Norton

The other day I had this great gig of which I can’t even begin to say how excited I was about. I got to open up a show for an Emmy award winning vaudeville duo who also happen to be great old friends of mine.

They asked me to open for their show at a new local hot spot called, ‘The Jive Mill’.

The Jive Mill is owned and operated by Noelle and Christopher Roberts. What began for them in 2012 as a hope for building community and broadening the arts has culminated in a wonderful, large, and vibrant performance space.

Not only was I fortunate enough to play here I also got to open for the Nortons; although, we didn’t get any footage of my portion of the show I sure got some great stuff of their show.

What is vaudeville?

A short answer is it’s entertainment. Music, acting, clowning around. Before television and radio any sort of entertainment was great. Small bands of traveling musicians went around and entertained the masses. You can trace the evolution of where we are at today to those same wandering folks. Lucille Ball, Red Buttons, all three styles of clowns come from those times. If you want to go down a little Youtube hole check out any of those, or just watch the video of the show. Here. 

I'm a Shavee

    For the past three years I have participated in an event designed to help gather funds for researching cures to childhood cancers. I am a ‘Shavee’. I can hear you saying, “Well that’s all fine and dandy but what the heck is that?” I’m so glad you asked.

First of all let’s start with what St Baldricks is. Here's a LINK.

    St Baldricks has been around for seventeen years and has become the largest private funder for researching cures to kids cancer in the nation. It's also the organization I shave my head for.

Here’s how it works, and I encourage you to visit their website. It has a lot of great information on it, so don’t just take my work for it.  In the last seventeen years four hundred thousand volunteers have done this and the results are very real. Real change happens as a result of these acts. The St Baldricks organization has given two hundred million dollars to cancer research. 

     In case you’re wondering what the number one killer of children in the U.S. is it’s cancer. According to their press release 1 out of 5 children with cancer won’t survive and a good number of the ones who do have major after effects for the rest of their lives.

They have many different grant types and grants going on at any given moment. Scientists looking for treatments as unique as the person receiving the treatment.

Here’s a photo of us bald and beautiful and here’s a link to my page which you can still donate too.

https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/participant/917325/2017

After St Baldricks 2017

I don’t get any of the money. They don’t give me anything but a bald head and a smile.

If you’re curious about where all the money that gets donated goes to here’s what I found on their press release

71% goes to funding

26% goes to the events

And

3% is administration.

Here is a link to my own page there. I just want to say again that I’m not seeing any of this money. It’s going straight to the St. Baldricks organization.

https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/participant/917325/2017

Thanks again for considering, and if you feel moved why not sign up for an event or start one.

See you next week when we chat about the bed in the van.

Date Night

Today’s entry is a night out on the town.

Elissa and I went for a long walk on a date night earlier this Winter. We have several favorite places to eat where we live and one of them is our very own Food Coop.

Follow along as we go for a nice little walk to the coop, but stay tuned because in the end you get to hear all about how good it was.

We hope only joy for you.

Trevor