The April 1 Gene Loves Jezebel/Missing Persons show at Club 101 has been canceled.
Promoter Hector Amparan of LocoHec Productions said he was told singer Dale Bozzio got sick "and the doctor has not cleared her to travel."
Club 101 co-owner Joe Dorgan said the show will be rescheduled.
Bozzio was in the news last year for her conviction and sentencing on animal cruelty charges in New Hampshire.
Amparan said tickets purchased in advance are "fully refundable." Refunds are available at the point of purchase.
In other concert news:
• Sleepercar's Jim Ward has been keeping a low profile lately, mostly, I'd guess, cuz he's been trying to work on a new album.
But he'll emerge April 15 for what's being billed as his only solo performance in his hometown this year — a benefit concert for "Red Mesa," the short film by former Las Cruces resident Ilana Lapid.
It's from 6-11 p.m. on tax day at the Garden restaurant in the Union Plaza.
Like a similar fundraiser last fall, will include a screening of the film, says co-star Gabriel Rivera, an El Paso native who may do an audience Q-and-A with Lapid before Ward's performance.
Rivera, a Christian singer-songwriter, may perform, too.
Admission is a suggested donation of $10.
"I wasn't planning on performing in 2010, but after seeing 'Red Mesa' it made sense that we should all do our part as a community to get this film and its message out to the rest of the world," Ward said in a press release announcing the event.
"Red Mesa" is about a white woman who falls in love with a migrant farm worker and is based in part on real events in Lapid's life, she told me last year.
The concert is another in an ongoing series of events designed to raise money for the filmmakers' efforts to mount a campaign for a 2011 Academy Award nomination in the best live action short category.
They need money to strike a required 35mm print, which is expensive, and to get the film into more film festivals.
You may remember that "Red Mesa," which premiered at the New York Latino International Film Festival in 2009, showed last August at the Plaza Classic Film Festival.
It won best short at the 2009 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, thus qualifying it for Oscar consideration, and has played at other film festivals, including ones in San Diego and Santa Fe.
It's scheduled to play the White Sands International Film Festival (go to wsiff.com for a schedule), which is April 15-18 at the Allen Cineport 10 in Las Cruces, and the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival in Austin April 21-29.
If you can't go but want to donate, you can make a contribution to a fund set up by the El Paso Community Foundation at epcf.com/donate, or send a check to EPCF at PO Box 272, El Paso, TX 79943. Checks need to be made out to the foundation, with "Red Mesa" written on the memo line.
You an follow the movie's progress on its web site, redmesamovie.com.
• On a related subject, and, yes, I realize it's not a concert we're talking about, the Plaza Classic Film Festival has begun a series of monthly ads in Film Comment, the highly regarded magazine geared to serious film fans (the kind who wouldn't have nominated "The Blind Side" for a best picture Oscar).
The ads will run through August, when the third edition of one of my favorite local events returns Aug. 5-15.
PCFF also is running banner ads on the Film Comment web site.
• Promoter Kris Johnson of Thin Wild Sound says tickets for Deer Tick's pre-Coachella show April 13 at The Percolator are $7 in advance, $10 day of show.
They're on sale at All That Music & Video, the Headstand and the Percolator.
Lubbock's One Wolf Howl and El Paso's Lusitania and Westbound Duo will open the show, which starts at 8:30 p.m.
Johnson, by the way, is the guy who promoted a week-long series of SXSW-related shows, including stops by Titus Andronicus (whose former guitarist, Ian O'Neill, is now in the Ticks), Nice Nice and others.
Jim Ward as solo... my thoughts.
Jim has lots of talent. This is his best move as it relieves him of the dependancy he's had with other members that hold him back right as things are looking good. Go JIM!
Posted by: kuate | March 30, 2010 at 12:16 PM