“Raising $300-$500 off a charity gig is an admirable target for any local band, but there’s one saintly rock group in town that garners that amount for needy families almost every week — and they’re celebrating with an all-star year-end party Tuesday that will raise even more.”
“St. Dominic’s Trio , the rocky and rawer offshoot of the Van Morrison tribute band Belfast Cowboys, passes a donation bucket around every Tuesday night in lieu of a cover charge at its marathon-like gigs at the family-room-like south Minneapolis hangout the Driftwood Char Bar (4415 Nicollet Av. S.). The final tally for their efforts in 2019 is nearing an ultra-impressive $25,000.”
Foothold Twin Cities, a nonprofit founded by the five-man “trio’s” frontman Terry Walsh and his longtime partner Amber Lampron, who works in education. Lampron alerted the band to a family that needed $600 to fix a furnace four years ago, and that sparked the first donation night.”
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