Concert to raise money, spirits for Raleigh tornado victims
A crowd was forming Friday evening in Raleigh where 12 bands were performing a benefit concert at the downtown Raleigh Amphitheater to benefit the victims of the April 16 tornadoes.
Posted — UpdatedProceeds will benefit four Raleigh-based charities that are helping tornado victims repair and rebuild – Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Salvation Army of Wake County, Helping Hands Mission and Centro International de Raleigh.
The bands performing Friday night are:
- Raleigh gospel singer Marshetta Parker,
- R&B band Red Sonja, recent winners of an audition for Simon Cowell's new show, X-Factor,
- Alissa Morena, the Nashville singer/songwriter whose "Far From Here" is the theme for TV's "Army Wives" series,
- Siler City's Desafiados Musical,
- Motor Skills, a Raleigh band Independent Weekly compared to Radiohead,
- Indie rockers the Young Cardinals,
- Kooley High, a hip-hop group out of New York by way of North Carolina State University,
- Folk group The Small Ponds,
- Marcy Playground, of the 1997 hit "Sex & Candy,"
- The Love Language, a popular Raleigh pop-indie band, and
- The Connells, who have performed on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
A total of 138 Raleigh homes were destroyed and nearly 700 homes sustained major damage during multiple tornadoes on April 16. Raleigh had more than $115 million in residential and commercial structural damage.
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