Dear friends and family,
As many of you know, Eileen is battling cancer. She is doing quite a bit better than when she was diagnosed in early February, but we still have a long road ahead till she is clear, clean and healthy.
Many of you have expressed a desire to help us out financially, as Grant has had to cut way back on his work in order to care for Eileen. In response to these kind offers, a friend of ours helped us set up a FOB (For The Benefit of) account at Washington Mutual Bank.
Deposits can be made at any Washington Mutual branch under our name. You may add the account number 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
If you are not in a position to help us out financially, no worries, just keep those prayers and good thoughts and visualizations of a clean, light and healthy Eileen coming. If you have special healing music or poems or books or stories you would like to share with us, that would be wonderful and we always have room in our ever-growing army of chefs that help keep us well nourished.
Our address is
3945 South Edmunds Street
Seattle WA 98118
Two benefit concerts for Eileen Dermody are planned for the month of June.
On Sunday June 1st a concert will be held at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle Washington. 5213 Ballard Avenue NW Seattle WA www.tractortavern.com
An acoustic concert featuring Jim Page, Orville Johnson, John Miller, Scott Law, Forrest Gibson, Gary Westcott, and many other luminous musicians will start around 5 pm. Later in the evening an electric jam featuring The Harmonicasters and a slew of guest artists will take us into the night. Please e-mail me for more details.
On Saturday, June 21 at 8:00pm a Special Fundraiser for Eileen Dermody at Brookmont Church, Bethesda, MD.
One of the finest blues harp players in the country, Grant Dermody has performed around the world, including in the Washington, DC area, and taught at blues music camps, including many times at Blues Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia. Grant's wife Eileen is from Bethesda, Md and is battling cancer. Grant has asked for some financial assistance from the blues community, and so a terrific line up of outstanding musicians has volunteered to perform at a fundraiser for Eileen on Saturday evening, June 21, at 8:00pm at the Brookmont Church, 6506 Bethesda Md 20816, just two miles south of Glen Echo Maryland (West on Maryland Avenue off MacArthur Blvd, right on Broad Street.) $15 suggested contribution. Here is the lineup that shouldn't be missed:
Phil Wiggins and Mark Puryear
Gaye Adegbalola
Dennis Gruenling and Frank Fotusky
Mike Lessin and Tommy Hannigan
Mike Baytop and Rick Franklin
Allison Chase Radcliffe and Allen Holmes
Jeff Glassie and Julie Littell
It should be a great time, in a wonderful old venue, for a great cause. Please support your blues musicians!This will be an acoustic concert Other events and concerts may spring up around the globe.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone and anywhere that feels right to you.
love and all the best to you all
Grant and Eileen
Listen to: "Springtime Blues" from Deceiving Blues
What folks are saying about Grant:
"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
