How did this tragedy spur people to do something positive?
HG: The truth is, there are no positive sides of this; there are only less negative ones. We’d all rather have helped Lucinda stay with her kids than to help ease the tragedy afterward, but suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. The positive things that have happened are because of who these kids are and that a strong community has risen and come together to protect their interests, but there’s no doubt that we cannot restore or replace what is lost. We can try to make what comes now better than what came before and we can make sure that these kids know that they are not alone.
Members of Guns N’ Roses, Bad Brains, Ours, and Alberta Cross are just a few of the musicians who will be coming together later this week for a special benefit concert.
Lucinda Gallagher Benefit: Legacies Live On
The online portion of Benefit for Lucinda’s Kids is now open.
Full disclosure: This is not the happiest of stories and has almost nothing to do with me. At the end I will provide a link to donate to an absolutely worthy cause. If you are not interested I won’t hold it against you to move on. Otherwise, please continue.
Of course, if you aren’t in the NYC area or can’t make the shows you can donate through Fundrazr. And if that weren’t enough you can also enter a raffle for some super cool stuff made by super creative people. So far, items include this beautiful quilt by Kaysi Braden of Creative Wanderlust:
Harry Greenberger and songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan visited with me on the air today to let people know about the benefit concerts being held on April 29 and 30 at Bowery Electric in NYC. The “Benefit For Lucinda’s Kids” will be 2 benefit concerts, auction & fundraiser for the children of Lucinda Gallagher.
If you went to see music at The Rockwood Music Hall, The Mercury Lounge , The Living Room or The Bowery Electric, chances are that you would eventually run into Lucinda Gallagher. She was a dark haired, bright eyed and generous woman with an encyclopedic knowledge of local bands. Stick around a little more and you would learn that Lucinda was a single mom with two kids, each kid having his or her own musical taste, which you would learn about too.