Vacation Time for NytEyes and Conlaoch

Hello Everyone,

Rick and Ilsa have decided it's time to do a little relaxing and get away from the occupation for a few days, so, Conlaoch and NytEyes are taking a little vacation too beginning at 3pm today. Many of our performers will still be doing their shows while we are gone and we'll pop in from time to time, so please watch your favorite artists groups, the event boards and here in the Cafe Society announcements for their scheduled times. We will return with our regular schedule on Saturday, May 28th! Enjoy the week!

Headliners For Hope results

Well, dang!!! I said that with our generous patrons and performers, that I thought we could maybe make L$50,000 for the event. And I was more right than I knew! We had donations from very small to very large - and they all added up! We hit L$50,000 just before the end of Lance's show, then went on to add even more.

Wow! As of the end of Dilah's show (our last performer) the total in the kiosks at the event was L$62,250! Did you know that even with the conversion rate that Relay For Life in SL has taken in more than US$156,000 this year? And, this event just put about US$250 additional on that.

Do you know that with a dozen performers - a lot of whom sing some similar styles - we had so few repeats of songs that I could count them on both hands? People came and went (I think we had 30 in house at once, 136 total) - though some managed to stay for several hours (especially our co-captains: Sean Qendra and Veronica Ogleby - thank you, you two). The music changed and shifted - some rock, some jazz, some blues, some show tunes, even an SL version of The Streak. But, the L$s kept piling up in the kiosks.

Not only did we meet and exceed our goal, we had a challenge from our own Sean Qendra. Any of you that know him, know that this is a man who does NOT do shoes! Not sure who prompted it, but he challenged us to hit 60,000 before Dilah's show ended. If we did, he would wear high heels - until the Relay in July!!! Sean, NytEyes and Veronica are going to take you shopping for a nice pair of heels. ;)

I want to mention one other thing. Last week we had our one year anniversary of being the club's owners. We didn't mention it because we didn't want to detract from this event. But, to be honest, we saw this event as a great way to celebrate that anniversary. And, I have to say it was! To achieve what we (that's you and us) did today, shows what Ilsa and I have always said: we have the best performers and the best patrons in SL!

Thank you to all who participated, to all who performed, to all who donated, and to all who prayed or sent their best wishes our way. You folks are fantastic.

We relay so, perhaps, next year we won't have to.

Headliners for Hope at Cafe Casablanca!

If you've been to the club in the last month or so, you have seen the kiosk near the piano for Relay For Life (RFL) or heard the announcements about it. We are proud that Cafe Casablanca is involved with this effort, again this year.

Relay For Life is an offshoot of the American Cancer Society, and serves a couple of purposes. Yes, it is a fundraiser - RFL in SL raised over US$200,000 in 2010. It is also a chance to celebrate survivors, remember loved ones, and fight back. Besides the huge main event July 16-17, there are loads of smaller events around the grid for individual RFL teams.

In support of the Rays of Hope RFL team (of which NytEyes and Conlaoch are co-captains), Cafe Casablanca has put together an extravaganza on Sunday, 15 May: Headliners For Hope! We have twelve (12!) straight hours of live performances, back-to-back. These are not back-benchers, either. These are some of the most fabulous performers in Second Life. The event starts at 9am SL time, and runs until 9pm. The scheduled performers include (in order):

• Gina Gracemount
• Annabel Trafalgar
• Kaycee Drayman
• Jewels Osterham
• RichardScott Barcelos
• Eponine Dench
• Declan Greenfield
• Glolo Ling
  
• MrMikie String
• Paulette Oldrich
• Hayden Sandalwood
• Lance Windlow
• Dilah Halostar

This line-up includes off-Broadway performers, professional choral members, 20-year freelancers, and all-around fantastic artists!

All the performers are donating their tips from this performance to RFL. (We will also be donating venue tips for the day.) And, of course, you can always drop extra lindens directly in the kiosk. RFL in SL raises a significant amount of money (they hit their millionth dollar in late April!) for the fight against cancer and in support of those battling it. So far, this year, Rays of Hope has raised approximately L$246,000. I bet, if all of our marvelous patrons turn out, and bring a friend, and are as generous as we know they all are, we could move this to an even L$300,000 during our event.

We all have had cancer touch our lives in some way: family members, friends, loved ones. Some of these we have lost to the disease, others are still with us, having fought and won, and still others are fighting right now (including one of our team co-captains, Veronica Ogleby). Please come out and join us for this fantastic event. Wear purple (the RFL color) and comfortable shoes. (Hmmmm... you ladies and gents might want to find a store event supporting RFL and pick up a new outfit, maybe some new shoes....)

Celebrate, remember, and fight!

Update: Declan will be unable to participate, and Mr Glolo Ling has agreed to step into his time slot. Thank you, Lolo, for helping out.