Release No. 09202004

Date: September 20, 2004                                                                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Alice Settle-Raskin, Public Relations
             Dee Danmeyer, Executive Director
             Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County, MD
             4 East Church Street
             Frederick, MD 21701

Phone: 301/854-6305 (Alice) or 301/698-2449 (Habitat)

Fax: 301/698-1697 (Habitat)

Email: alice_settle-raskin@xecu.net or director@frederickhabitat.org

Rockin' Blues and R&B for da' house!
Batesville Blues Band benefit performance for Habitat

“The Batesville Blues Band's Rockin' Blues and R&B for da' house!” benefit for Habitat for Humanity will be on Saturday, September 25, 2004 starting at 9:00 p.m. at the Bentz Street Raw Bar, 6 South Bentz St., Frederick. A $10.00 donation at the door goes to Habitat.

The Batesville Blues Band started in the late 1980s when seven University of Virginia grad students loved jamming to blues and R&B every Thursday in the foothills near Batesville, Va. Hailing from up and down the East Coast, the band gets together once a year at one of their hometowns to relive good times.

Each year they play to benefit a local charity. This year they will play at the Bentz Street Raw Bar in Frederick -- where they last appeared to a packed house in May 1999 -- to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County.
The seven-piece band features a horn section (trombone, sax, harmonica), guitars, bass, and drums; and rocks with up-tempo, danceable R&B, swing, and blues favorites.

Like many bands, all of the Batesville Blues Band members
lead full and interesting lives.

Larry "Mr. Good Sax" Bracken is a saxophonist and vocalist from Alpharetta, Ga. Bracken is a senior partner with Hunton Williams, a law firm in Atlanta.

Tony Dios is a guitarist and vocalist from New York City. Dios is an attorney with Ernst and Young in New York City, and a songwriter and surfer in Myrtle Beach when he has the time.

Walton "Big Bone" Davis is a trombonist and vocalist from Asheville, N.C. Davis is an estate lawyer in Asheville, and regular trombonist with local R&B and swing bands.

J. P. Fisher plays bass and is from Pemaquid, Maine. Fisher runs a property management firm and a recording studio, and is the bassist in a several area bands on the Damariscotta, Maine area.

Bates Gill plays the harmonica and is a vocalist from Hyattstown, Md. Gill works for a think-tank in Washington, D.C. as a China specialist.

Mark Maslyk, drummer and vocalist, is from Charlottesville, Va. Maslyk is a senior officer with a title insurance firm in Charlottesville, and the drummer for two local bands.

Chris Simpson is a guitarist from Whitefield, Maine. Simpson is a lawyer and professional arbitrator in the Augusta, Maine area, a volleyball afficianado, and a guitar player with a number of local groups.

The Batesville Blues Band has played each year up and down the East Coast in places like: Cotton Exchange, Miller's and Durty Nelly's, Virginia Blues Festival, Sully's Place, Outback Lodge, and Wolfie's, in Virginia; the King's Mill Union Hall, Kennebec Wharf, and Schooner's Landing, in Maine; Mica's in North Carolina; and Bentz Street Raw Bar in Maryland.

The Batesville Blues Band - they're still rockin' at midnight!

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