Benefit for the Girls Rock Camp @Duke Coffee House

(All pictures by the fantabulous Kim Gray!)


This weekend we were invited to play a benefit for the Girls rock camp alliance at the Duke Coffee house.

If you’re not familiar with Girls Rock it's a camp put on by local musicians that teach girls how to play
Instruments and learn the fundamentals to forming there own bands. Sort of a "rock101" to get them started

In the music world.

I've been to the Duke Coffee house many times in the past but this was the first time I actually played here.
It’s a BYOB music venue on Duke's east campus that sports a nice stage and sound system and is filled

With chairs, couches, and all kinds of funky art to get you in the spirit of the show.
We kicked off our set around 8:15. Our latest set has been a mix of songs from our first two CD's mixedWith two new songs from our up coming third CD that were in the process of writing..

Princess and the Criminals hit the stage soon after us. We knew before the show that this was going
To be their last show in the triangle. There bass player is moving away so its seems that they are going

To re-group and start a new project. They will be sorely missed in PATC form! They put on a super high energy Set that is hard to get anywhere else! I'm looking forward to see what they have in store for us in the future. They play so well together as group that I could see why they would want to start over after the loss of one!

Soon after Heart of Glass hit the stage. They are a Blondie cover band fronted by Abigail Pearce who is a head Girls rock organizer. Right off the bat you could tell they were going to be good! They had wigs, matching outfits, And the works. They really pulled off the songs extremely well. Thomas & I kept trying to guess what some of the high tech music equipment they were using was!. One guitarist had some kind if midi interface hooked to his guitar that looked pretty interesting.



Near the end of Heart of Glass set we left to catch Beloved Binge over at the Pinhook. They were playing another great benefit that I wanted to contribute my part to. All in all there were 5 different benefit shows going on all over the triangle that night!. we couldn't play or see them all but I'm glad we were able to contribute to some.



Big thanks to the Girls Rock Alliance for inviting us to play this. It was truly an honor and we will do it again
At the drop of a hat if they ask us!