SEQUIM — Three high-energy fiddle players and three raffle prizes will converge at one place and one time to raise money for a local family in need Monday.
The benefit for the Jason Fallon family will be in the Sequim High School auditorium, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for the free concert, with the music starting at 7 p.m. Drawings for the three winners will be after the concert ends.
Proceeds will go to the Fallon family. Lora Fallon has been battling appendix cancer for four years. She has tried every treatment available to her to stay alive for her husband and four children, ages 11 to 17, organizers said.
Even with insurance through Jason Fallon’s work at the State Patrol, the co-pays, treatments and medicines not covered by insurance and endless trips to Seattle for specialized care due to the rareness of the cancer have been crushing financially, organizers said.
This concert and raffle hopes to change all that.
“The outpouring of generous raffle prizes from local businesses has been amazing,” said Lisa Cowan, the event’s main organizer.
“We have three separate prizes with different themes. The Getaway Package features two nights at George Washington Inn, as well as lunch at Chestnut Cottage and dinner at Next Door Gastropub. It comes with movie tickets and massages and is worth over $700.
Packages offered
“The Adventure Package,” Cowan continued, “is worth over $650 and features two all-day kayak rentals and two all-day bike rentals from Sound Bike and Kayak. There is an amazing fly rod and reel from Water’s West, a tent, camp chairs and sleeping bags from Walmart, a gift card from Swain’s, clothes from Brown’s Sporting Goods and dinner at Gordy’s Pizza, etc.
“The Shopping Package is so huge it would take a day for two people to enjoy it all. You have $100 from Over the Fence; $100 from Mad Maggie’s; gift certificates to Pondicherri, Field Notes and Purple Haze; with gifts from Necessities and Temptations. There is breakfast at The Oak Table, lunch at Sweet Beginnings Café and dinner at Jose’s Famous Salsa.”
The music at the concert will be equally awesome, Cowan said.
“Some people remember Joey Gish as the fantastic fiddle player for the local band Abbie Mae &the Homeschool Boys. Kate Powers is a prodigy virtuoso. It’s likely she will be nationally recognized someday. Fiddle with It is a father who plays guitar and a son on the fiddle. They love to draw crowds on the ferry or on the street or down at the Agnew Grocery. My three favorite local performers all on the same night.”
