Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos headline Annual Benefit Show, raise $28K+ for Calling All Crows -- nearly 2x last year's event!

BG Photography - http://www.facebook.com/bobgphoto Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos, the new solo project of musician Chad Stokes (Dispatch, State Radio), headlined Calling All Crows' 4th Annual Benefit Show on Saturday night at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. The show netted over $28,000 - nearly double last year's Annual Benefit Show total - for Calling All Crows, the non-profit co-founded by Stokes and tour manager Sybil Gallagher. Calling All Crows partners with musicians and fans to create change through hands-on service and activism.

Joining The Pintos were the Boston-based Parkington Sisters and Stokes’ Ruff Shod labelmate, The White Buffalo, who made his third Annual Benefit Show appearance in as many years. In addition to their opening sets, The Parkington Sisters took the stage after the encore break for a take on the State Radio rarity, The Story of Benjamin Darling, Part I, and The White Buffalo sat in with The Pintos for a raucous rendition of Black Bottle, which takes place at Cloudberry Farm, Stokes’ childhood home in nearby Sherborn, Massachusetts.

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A staple of Calling All Crows’ Annual Benefit Shows is the presentation of the Lauzie Award, which is dedicated in honor of Sybil’s late mother, Laura “Lauzie” Gallagher, a woman who embodied a true spirit of service and inspired others to do the same. This year, the Lauzie Award was dedicated to Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of Troy Davis, who was executed by the State of Georgia on September 21st for the murder of an off-duty police officer more than two decades ago. Martina was the leading advocate for her brother to receive a new trial due to holes in the case against him. Martina had planned to be in Boston to accept the Lauzie Award on Saturday night until her 13-year battle with breast cancer claimed her life less than two weeks ago. She will be remembered for her fight to abolish the death penalty across the country and her unwavering commitment to family. 

Since December 2008, Calling All Crows has invested more than 17,000 volunteer hours at pre-show service projects in local communities across North America and Europe and donated over $250,000 to empower and protect women in Sudan and Afghanistan. Calling All Crows works for a future when the success of live music is measured not only by ticket sales, but by the impact of fans and musicians mobilizing together to make a difference in the world.

Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos

Calling All Crows *  

Flying Horses *

Adelaide

Crowbar Hotel +

Back to the Races

Rainsong

Josephine %

Indian Moon > Gunship Politico > Indian Moon *

Religion on the Rails

Spider & Gioma

Black Bottle #

All My Possessions (in memory of Martina Davis-Correia and Troy Davis)

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The Story of Benjamin Darling, Part I ~

Coffee & Wine

Elias

* Chad Stokes solo

+ with Darren Buck

# with The White Buffalo

% Chad Stokes with Willy Urmston

~ Chad Stokes with The Parkington Sisters

The White Buffalo

Into the Sun
Wrong
The Madman
Every Night, Everyday
Love Song #1
Damned
How the West Was Won
The Bar and the Beer
The Pilot 

Parkington Sisters

Siren
Cruel
September
Sarah's New Song
Drowning in Blue
Plastic Islands
Me Oh My
There There (Radiohead cover)