WHAT: "Music for Life," a concert starring Austin singer-songwriter Sara Hickman and featuring El Paso Mayor John Cook with his guitar.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 9.
WHERE: Club 101, 3233 North Mesa Street
WHY: To promote dialogue about the death penalty in Texas. Sara Hickman says: "This isn't a 'you must join the anti-death penalty movement' so much as it would open and start the dialogue."
INFORMATION: 543-9808 (you may publish this number)
Sara Hickman's press kit and photos are available at http://sarahickman.com/press/presskit.shtml
Austin singer-songwriter Sara Hickman will perform at Club 101 Wednesday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. Hickman, who has twice been a guest on NBC's Tonight Show, is touring twelve cities in the concert series "Music for Life," in cooperation with the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Each show features local speakers and musicians. Mayor John Cook will sing and play guitar. Two El Pasoans who have been affected by murder will address the audience.
"My thought was that this isn't a 'you must join the anti-death penalty movement' so much as it would open and start the dialogue," Hickman wrote. The tour is truly about raising the dialogue in Texas on the death penalty. Concerts have already happened in Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Houston, Beaumont, and Huntsville. The tour will continue on after El Paso to hit Waco, Ft. Worth, Dallas, San Angelo, and the finale in Austin in October.
Hickman has recorded fourteen albums. The San Antonio Express-News called her "a singing poet." Rolling Stone said, "Her uplifting perspectives have the power to heal."
Tickets, $10 for adults and $5 for students, are available at the door, from El Pasoans Against the Death Penalty members, and from TicketBully.com. Proceeds benefit TCADP. For information call (915) 543-9808.
The following media information sources are not for publication:
Bob Van Steenberg (512) 569-8928
Club 101 (915) 544-2102
elpaso@tcadp.org
www.tcadp.org
