Tuesday, September 25, 2012

My Thank You Note

This will be a lengthy post as there are so many people we would like to thank.. Wanted to take a whole day to rest, absorb, and reflect on the magical night we had at the Nursery At Mount Si. First and foremost, thank you to Nels & Anne Melgaard for opening up their land and stage so we all could enjoy a night of great eclectic music and come together to donate money to help the Taylor Bridge Fire victims in Cle Elum. Thank you to Wilkins Melgaard for opening up the show. What a wonderful person and singer/songwriter. Remember this guy, you'll hear more great songs come from him. Thank you to David Ayers & Marlin Martindale for doing an extraordinary job w/ sound. We sure gave them a challenge w/ all the switching we did, but they handled it like masters and on top of it all, they are genuine & very kind people. Thank you to Chris Smith for letting this night use your spotlights so we all on stage could feel like rock stars! Thank you to Leah & Larry from the Sallal Grange for doing an excellent job in running concessions and keeping our bellies full and coffee hot :) Thank you to Frankies Pizza of North Bend for donating all that good pizza to a great night and cause. 

Thank you to Clint McCune and Jim Marcotte for agreeing many months ago to play Under The Sky At Mount Si on 9/8/12. Your individual talents and hearts added so much to this night. To all the other guest musicians, thank you for making it way out to North Bend to add and contribute your waves of love and music to the night.Kevin OaksDeborah OaksAnita EnsleySara Pelfrey, Laura LagerstedtSam Straub, & Bill Riach. A special thank you to Geli Wuerzner for adding her wonderful violin sounds to many of the songs from that night. Your talent and musical instincts are awe inspiring. Also your ChiLLing original song "Spirit" that you played w/ a lightning show behind you. Mike Antone & Camelia Jade were playing at the Snoqualmie Brewery that evening - in the spirit of the "Give and let give" night.. they collected donations during their performance and added that to what was collected at the Nursery Concert. So many people came together that night! Thank you Mike and CJ!

A very special hug and thanks to Mary for being such a great organizer/planner and teammate. All the hours she put into creating flyers, promo video, traveling together to Cle Elum/Ellensburg, walking w/ me up and down streets passing out flyers. OH, and not a bad drummer either! Yes, face it, you are a drummer :) Thank you to Kinko's for having 24hr locations within driving distance.


Thank you to Susan Grindle, CEO of Hopesource, and her colleagues for coming out to the show to talk to all of us about updates in Cle Elum and how the donations will help the Taylor Bridge Fire victims. 

I hope I am not forgetting anybody. If my brain forgot to tell my fingers to type a thank you to anybody, please know that my heart is thankful to EVERY person who attended this night, EVERY person who wanted to attend but could not, EVERY person who donated time and money, and EVERY person who put out a prayer / positive thought towards this night and to the people it will help. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Many hands make Light work .... Give and let give.

Chris Kendziorski

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