Dear Connections Friends, 

As it says in Ecclesiastes, “For everything, there is a season….” 

So it is that we are announcing to you that Connections Band intends to take an indefinite hiatus, following our current season of concerts. 

Many of…

We passed a significant milestone with Connections last Sunday night.

We officially passed the $300,000 mark in funds raised by the band.

Wow. Pretty freakin’ awesome.

Key numbers:
10 years.
58 shows.
$301,262 raised.

Below, you’ll find some graphs, that…

We’re still tabulating expenses and computing exactly how many folks came to Friday night’s big show (We think: 500-600) in Allen. And we’re still figuring out just how much we raised for our beneficiaries.

James Taylor Signs the Guitar

But…

As many of you know, Connections started with Dan Fogelberg. At the “core” of what drove us to ever get our crazy band together ten years ago was a chance to play Dan’s music, and to do in a BIG…

Connection is playing a show this Friday at Northaven. We’re again raising money for a good cause: fighting the scourge of Ebola in Africa.

But this morning, the show became a little more poignant. Hours ago,  Dr. Martin Salia…

“Sometimes in the night I feel it,
Near as my next breath and yet untouchable.
Silently, the past comes stealing,
Like the taste of some forbidden sweet.”
 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞

A…

It’s late at night, after the Fogelberg Tribute Show in Allen tonight.
I’m still exploding with adrenaline and love for how it came out…

1,000 of you came.
We raised over $12,000 for the relief of Hurricane Sandy.
80 musicians…

One hundred thousand dollars is an awful lot of money.

So, this morning, we pause in awe to reflect on this:

Connections has raised over $100,000 to eradicate malaria from the face of the planet.

We passed this milestone last…

We’ve got some year-end stats now for Connections in 2011. And, the results are pretty amazing.

It was clearly our best year yet. This was on the back of our single-largest concert ever: “The Concert for AMK,” last June. That…