Benefit Show at the Heartland Cafe

This weekend was pretty awesome. With my band Mapmaker I got to play a benefit concert for children of Invisible Conflicts at the Heartland Cafe. It’s a great cause and you can read about it at the Invisible Conflicts website. The show was trying to raise money for educational materials.

The best part of the whole night wasn’t the show, but the letter that was circulating around from one of the children. I took a picture of it, it was dark so I’ll try to update with a better photo later:

But the point was that this child from a completely different continent had named my band by name in his thank-you letter. I was so touched. This is the kind of gratification everybody wants from doing service, and so few are lucky enough to get it.

The show went really well and all the other bands kicked butt too. A lot of friends from Loyola were there, but there was a good number of Alumni and community members as well. I can’t wait for my next show!