Hi Everyone,

We will be having two benefit concerts on Sunday May 31st, 2009, to help Eileen and Grant
with living and medical expenses while Eileen continues to heal from cancer.
Please pass this on to anyone you think would be interested.

The first concert will be an acoustic, all-ages show from 1pm-5:30pm at
The Nordic Heritage Museum
3014 NW 67th Street
Seattle WA 98117
206 789-5707
nordicmuseum.org

The musicians include:
The Canote Brothers
Ruthie Dornfeld and Forrest Gibson
John Miller and Ginny Snowe
Del Rey
Pearl Django
Jim Page and Orville Johnson
Dave Dederer and Grant Dermody
Bruce Reid and Bonnie Zahno
Pamela Cook
MHB Conant and Rich Hill
The Paint Company
and special guests

An electric, 21+ show will follow at
The Tractor Tavern from 8pm -1am
5213 Ballard Avenue NW
Seattle WA 98107
206 789-3599
www.tractortavern.com

The musicians for this show include:

Reggie Garrett and The Snake Oil Peddlers
Gary Westcott
Will Dowd
Kim Field and The Mighty Titans of Tone
Eric Madis
Dale Fanning
Forrest Gibson
Scott Law
Arne Livingston
Dave Pellicciaro
Ron Weinstein
Grant Dermody
and more special guests

The suggested donation for each show is $15.

Many of you out-of-towners have asked how you can contribute if you can't make it to either concert.

The first and best way of helping is prayer and good energy and visualizing a whole, healthy, healed and cured Eileen.

If you want to help financially as well
Our address is 3945 South Edmunds Street
Seattle WA 98118
you are welcome to send checks here
they can be made out to Eileen Dermody

Grant has been teaching on-line harmonica lessons and so, has a Paypal account. If you like to do finances that way, just go to www.paypal.com and enter gdermody@yahoo.com as the sendee.

We have a benevolent account at Washington Mutual, soon to be Chase Bank. You may add the last four numbers of the account, 7226, to make sure it goes to us if you wish.

Checks can be mailed to:

FOB Eileen Dermody and Grant Dermody
Washington Mutual
Madison Park Financial Center
4020 East Madison Street
Seattle WA 98112-3144

We thank you for the last year of love and support. We are moving in the right direction healing-wise and are grateful for your continued help.

Blessings and all the best to you all

Eileen and Grant
Grant

Listen to: "Springtime Blues" from Deceiving Blues

What folks are saying about Grant:]

“Grant Dermody is one of the greatest blues and roots harmonica players around. His playing reaches deep into the well of tradition and at the same time takes the music to exciting new places with a very personal sound. Working with him in the studio and on the stage is always a pleasure.”

Eric Bibb

"Grant is on the five-finger list of best harmonica players in the country today in acoustic blues and old-time music. His technique and tone are literally breathtaking. He’s a player’s player who elevates the sound and mood of everyone around him. He’s also an audience favorite who wins over crowds the hard way—not by showboating, but by playing tough tunes with taste and subtlety and making them consistently interesting. He’s simply one of the greatest harp players ever to come out of the Pacific Northwest." - Mark Hoffman (Co-author of Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf)

"Grant has it all. Time, phrasing, great ideas, and above all a stunning tone. Totally in the tradition but with a real voice of his own. " - Wayne Horvitz.

"This is a first-rate solo album from a mature musician who really loves what he is doing, and in a world where there is a great deal of competition, this guy can certainly hold his own . " - Bob Tilling, Blues In Britain Magazine.

"Grant's harmonica playing, though virtuosic, is not the bombastic pseudo-virtuosity of the psychedelic fantasy freak-out or cold mathematical noodlerama, but an articulate poetic statement with a big evocative vocal tone the tells the song's story with a moving lyricism. " - Mark Graham.

"Lots of soul and plenty of taste"- Jelly Roll Johnson-Nashville session harmonicist

site: Deepwood Studio

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