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Benefit Meal, Silent Auction & Concert with Gate 10 and Jim Lloyd & Friends
Venue: Dublin Lions Club Building, Dublin
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Gate 10, Jim Lloyd
Date: Saturday, July 6, 2019
Time: 4:30 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Charity
Cost: Free

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Description:
There will be a Benefit Meal, Silent Auction & Concert with Gate 10 and Jim Lloyd & Friends on Saturday, July 6, 2019 at the Dublin Lions Club Building.

Schedule of Events:
• 4:30 pm: Meal and Silent Auction
• 5:00-6:00 pm: Jim Lloyd & Friends perform
• 6:00-7:30 pm: Gate 10 performs

Enjoy a benefit concert, meal and silent auction to help pay the medical expenses for Nathan Houseman. Nathan is the cousin of Gate 10 band member Jared Houseman.

Nathan was involved in a car accident in Wytheville on March 30, 2019 and was flown to Roanoke Memorial Neuro Trauma ICU where he spent a total of 41 days. Twenty of those days where in the Neuro Trauma ICU on life support for a severe traumatic brain injury, double aspiration pneumonia which lead him to grow five different types bacteria in his left lung that required him to have four chest tubes, and pleural effusions. He also had a trachea, feeding tube, a couple of surgeries, and several imaging exams. Fourteen of the 20 days he was in the ICU he was unconscious. He spent 21 days in the Progressive Care unit at Roanoke.

Nathan has spent the last 35 days at The Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia which is one of the top 10 centers in the nation for his type of brain injury where he has been receiving intense physical, occupational and speech therapy, as well as 21 days of IV antibiotics for his lung infections. He has had to relearn how to walk and how to do all his daily living activities. He will soon be moving to outpatient therapy in Georgia for another 6-8 weeks where he will continue with just as intense therapies to help him to prepare to transition back in the society and the workforce.

As you can imagine the hospital bills are substantial from this injury and we still currently do not know how long or if he will continue to need any therapy once he comes home.

Gate 10 is a highly energetic band that has written its own musical story using the tales of traditional bluegrass, the high energy of classic rock and the heartaches of old country music.

Coupling this with ages ranging from 11 to 22, they have a unique sound that is beyond their years. Located in Southwest Virginia, they have traveled around the south performing and enjoying every moment of it.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/Gate10band/
• https://www.instagram.com/gate10band/

Raised in the coalfields of western Virginia, Jim Lloyd now makes his home in Rural Retreat, Va., where he operates Lloyd’s Barber Shop, a local gathering spot for collecting and trading tunes, stories, and songs. His musical roots extend back through at least four generations of fiddlers, guitar players, dancers, and singers from the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Jim is known especially for his skills on guitar and banjo.

Jim was not only a consummate musician spreading old time music with his guitar, but also a radio DJ on WBRF radio at Galax and hosted a live band show called “Blue Ridge Backroads” for a year. He then moved to The William King Arts Center and hosted an NPR show “Living Traditions” for three years on 50 stations across the nation. It was through Jim’s show, “Living Traditions”, that he worked with Matthew Saunders and Polly King Ewell and became one of the first musicians to perform on the internet.

Jim is an excellent instrumentalist whose work has been documented by the Smithsonian Institute as representative of Southwest Virginia mountain music and story-telling. While accomplished on many instruments, he is known especially for his skills on guitar (finger picking style) and banjo (claw hammer and two-finger styles). Jim shares his heritage not only by performing, but as a teacher to many local students ranging from ages 6 to 70 on basically anything with strings, particularly guitar, banjo, mandolin, and fiddle.

Jim has performed at many regional shows as well as West Virginia’s Mountain Stage, Seedtime on the Cumberland (Appalshop), Birthplace of Country Music Alliance and the Minnesota Old-Time and Bluegrass Festival, just to name a few. Jim has two solo recording projects but can be found on numerous recordings by other fellow musicians.

He currently is a member of the The Elkville String Band, but also plays regularly with Mountain Fling, which plays parlor music often associated with the Carter Family and other early mid-20th century artists. He regularly backs up his friend, Carl Johnson at the IBMA and other locations. He also performs solo and with makeup bands consisting of former students and friends. Whether he is solo or with a band, attending one of Jim’s performances is a real treat has he shares the music and stories that he has collected from life in the mountains. Jim has been nominated for a National Heritage Fellowship Award for his contributions to the preservation of the music and stories of Appalachia.

Links:

• http://www.jimlloydmusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/Jim-Lloyd-412056615505300

Admission is free and any donations are greatly appreciated.

Any donations from the benefit to help with the cost of medical expenses will be greatly appreciated. All proceeds will go directly to Nathan's medical expenses.

Come out for a great cause and good music!

If you are unable to attend the fundraiser, a GoFundMe has been setup and is available at: https://www.gofundme.com/prayers-for-nathan.

The Dublin Lions Club is located at Lions Club Way in Dublin, VA near the Dublin Elementary School.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/UbEQnCB.jpg.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/384884268770990/.