Some of Wilmington’s most popular musicians are getting together to raise money for a good cause.
On Thursday, May 6, at The Soapbox, six area acts will jam together as one for The Craig C. Marshall Foundation, a memorial to a local surfer and skater who drowned during a surfing trip in 2009. The foundation awards a scholarship to a graduating senior from Topsail High School in Hampstead, which Marshall attended.
On the bill: No Dollar $hoes, an acoustic bluegrass punk rock led by twins Carson and Jesse Jewell; Oyster Boy, a high-energy Americana featuring singer-songwriter Jesse Stockton and Benji Smith and Ryan Eversole of ND$ (see video below); Owl Laws, an indie folk project of longtime Wilmington singer and songwriter James Reardon; My Wonderful Machine, a spooky, ambient duo playing tunes by Jamin Belmont and Hope Henderson that sounds kinda like a combo of Belmont’s last two projects, Doly Toro and The J Miners; James Ethan Clark, a young singer and songwriter who’s been playing around on the local indie folk scene; and Rachel Ruth Marshall, Craig Marshall’s sister, who’ll play a mix of covers.
In addition to music, there will also be T-shirts, posters, skateboards, local art and other stuff for sale and raffle. There’s a surf contest being held in association with the fundraiser as well. It gets started at 8 a.m. May 8 and 9 on the north side of the Surf City Pier in Surf City.
Once again, this benefit, as have many before it, shows the generous nature of our local musicians, who are always among the first to raise money for others, which is even more commendable considering that most of them don’t make all that much themselves.
Details: 8 p.m. (doors) Thursday, May 6, at the Soapbox, 255 N. Front St., downtown Wilmington. $10, to benefit the Craig C. Marshall Scholarship Foundation. Go to www.CCMfoundation.com for more info.