The Time and Place
Midwinter Kitchen Concert
Saturday February 6, 2010 at the
Delta Toronto East Hotel
2035 Kennedy Rd. Scarborough M1T 3G2
(at the 401 and Kennedy Road)View Larger Map

Doors open at 7:00 pm

In support of

North York Harvest, the primary food bank for northern Toronto. An independent, non-profit organization, the Food Bank’s mission is to feed those in need and work to reduce hunger.

Hunger Stats

• 28% of households have at least one person employed

• 79% of income is spent on rent/mortgage including utilities

• Average monthly rent (market rent only): $975

• After rent and utilities, average amount left per day for food and other expenses: $6.71

 

For more information about North York Harvest Food Bank visit
www.northyorkharvest.com

Statistics from Daily Bread Food Bank’s Who’s Hungry, 2009 Profile of Hunger in the GTA using data collected from six North York Harvest member agencies.
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Sponsors
The Success Network
presents the
Midwinter Kitchen Concert
Saturday February 6, 2010 at the
Delta Toronto East Hotel
Featuring
Two Roads Home
and special guests



Bryan Williston and Abby Zotz are Two Roads Home, a guitar and voice - based folk duo.
listen to their music at www.tworoadshome.com/music.html
Singing So Others Can Have Supper

Midwinter Kitchen Concert Benefit

February 6, 2010 – Bryan Williston and Abby Zotz of acclaimed Celtic folk duo Two Roads Home see early February as the perfect time to do a benefit concert for the North York Harvest Food Bank. “The holidays have passed but hunger in the homes of Toronto families is no less keenly felt,” explains Williston. “And we’re halfway through winter – we need a musical pick-me-up to get us through!”

The duo approached the BNI Success Network, a group of independent small businesses, for help with their idea. The Network volunteered their resources, expertise and contacts, approaching their regular meeting venue, the Delta Toronto East Hotel to host the event. “It’s been amazing how enthusiastically everyone has stepped up to make this event happen,” says member Chris Marcucci. “I think we all understand what a nightmare it must be not to be able to feed your kids.”

Statistics on the North York Harvest Food Bank web site note that 30% of GTA households who are using the food bank have at least one person working. For that reason the organizers and musicians participating in the Kitchen Concert have volunteered their time and energy and set the ambitious goal of 1000 pounds of food through ticket sales and non-perishable food donations, both of which are necessary to get into the event. “Musicians and small business owners know what it means to struggle. We're hoping that the food we collect will help people, on a very basic level to achieve their goals-whether they're a musician, entrepreneur, employee, or even a student,” says Success Network president Andy Hall. “Everyone deserves an equal chance.”

Two Roads Home will be joined by fiddler Sahra Featherstone, bassists Tom Sertsis and the Newfoundland-music inspired trio Daughters of the Rock for an evening that Zotz hopes will “give both hunger and the winter blahs the kick in the pants they deserve!”