Reminders, Threetles performance to benefit Rehoboth Writers Guild
The award-winning musical group The Reminders will perform at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats Monday, Dec. 12, in Rehoboth Beach, along with the threesome, The Threetles, who will be playing a vast range of Beatles cover tunes.
Both groups are performing in this special event as a benefit for the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild, a nonprofit association that for five years has been offering over 20 free literary events a week for adults and children in coastal Delaware. Dogfish Head will also be supporting the guild by donating 10 percent of its sales of food and drink for that night.
“To have the both The Reminders and The Threetles donate their time and talent to our organization is huge,” said Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild Executive Director Maribeth Fischer. “It’s a wonderful show of support and we’re hoping that the community will support them and us by coming out to Dogfish Dec. 12 for this event.”
The Reminders, who will take the stage from 8 to 9 p.m., are Ed Shockley, a lifetime musician, singer and songwriter; singer and bass player Kevin Short, owner of a full-scale concert/theatrical production company, providing sound, lights and production services for events all over the eastern United States; and John W. Thompson, whose 1983 Grammy-winning song “El Shaddai” was named one of the songs of the century by the RIAA, and the Gospel Song of the Decade in the 1980s by Billboard Magazine. In addition to their popular gospel songs - from the offbeat “I’ d Like to Buy Jesus a Beer,” to the more elegiac “Outrageous Grace,” the Reminders will also sing original holiday songs from their most recent CD.
The event also includes the Threetles, Rehoboth native Cliff Hillis, who continues to release solo albums and regularly performs with Eric Bazillion of The Hooters; Pete Wiedmann of the renowned Love Seed Mama Jump; and Dennis Schocket, who leads the harmony-laden band Starbelly. The Threetles, who will take the stage from 7 to 8 p.m., evolved when the three musicians, all of whom are friends, would now and then join one another in gigs and in the process, do a Beatles tune.
“This is a one-of-a kind night in terms of the opportunity to hear two such fantastic and very diverse groups on the same stage,” says Terry Plowman, publisher of Delaware Beach Life magazine and a guild board member, who will emcee the night.
The guild is asking those who attend to make at least a $10 donation to the organization, which takes pride in the fact that 90 percent of its activities - monthly readings, book club for writers, kids' Free Writes! and kids’ writing contest, volunteering to teach in the schools, even adult Free Writes! - are all free and available to anyone, guild member or not.
"We truly care about creating opportunities for people to write and share their stories,” Fischer said. "But all these things cost money to run. We’re asking the community for help."
The music will start at 7 p.m., but anyone who eats at Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats in Rehoboth between 5 and 9 p.m. will be contributing to the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild since Dogfish is donating a portion of all proceeds from the night. For more information about this event or about other writers’ guild offerings and events, go to www.rehobothbeachwritersguild.com.
