A group of musicians and actors orchestrated a new way to raise funds for the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center using a vaudeville format. The founders call it “The Greatest Show on Earth Spectacular.” The event is scheduled for the last Friday of each month at Blues Backyard BBQ on Northside Road.
On Friday, at the Spooktacular – to celebrate Halloween, Adrian Rogers, Sean Bailey, Will Smith and Laurelle Day Holley played instruments, sang and danced between open mic acts.
The Animal Welfare Center hosted a doggy costume contest. The contest winners, Sarah Klink and Michael Yearicks passed off Bean and Charlie as hotdogs and won name tags donated by Sonja’s Ltd. SCAWC also raised funds by selling plastic cups, masks hand-painted by Nikki Assalone, and other merchandise.
Walk-on acts included music by Sammy Lopez and Wayne McCallum and fire dancer eighth grader Tallon Page. The featured artist was singer/songwriter Eugenia. A film created by Marjo Aho, “The Final March,” with music by Rogers, captured the audience. It is available on YouTube.
Children and adults sported costumes to stay in the mood, including Leslie Walcott, Holley and Diane Butler – the new co-owner of Blues BBQ (with Nick Goldman).
