Concert at OK to benefit Creating Memories
Published 1:01 pm Tuesday, April 28, 2015
- Steve Tool/Chieftain Local Americana group Saigon County will perform at the benefit for Creating Memories, May 2 at the OK Theatre. From left: Eric Sinclair and Brian Buck.
A quiet nonprofit aimed at bringing joy to the disabled will make its public debut Saturday, May 2, at the OK Theatre in Enterprise. A concert plus food will be provided on a donation basis by Enterprise-based Creating Memories, the entity that has secured a long-term lease on 90 acres of property at Wallowa Lake owned by the Blue Mountain Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Three artistic groups will perform beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, including headliner Jessie Leigh Band, featuring Enoch Stalcup. Stalcup is on the board of directors for Creating Memories and physically disabled.
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Also scheduled to perform will be flute player Roger McGee and the local band Saigon County.
From Portland, the Jessie Leigh Band has an interesting dynamic in that Leigh, lead guitarist Chris McEnaney, and Stalcup began singing together while in high school in 2001 and met with significant success. Although they stayed in touch, life took them different directions for several years until Leigh and McEnaney rejoined forces and formed the four-piece Jessie Leigh Band that’s become a mainstay in Portland. Other band members are Mike Henke and Eric Benson.
Although without arms and legs, Stalcup, as a singer, often has shared his talents with the Jessie Leigh Band and has been instrumental in bringing that musical group to the OK Theater to stage a donation-only benefit concert for Creating Memories.
Prior to the concert beginning at 4 p.m., smoked barbecue pork and turkey sandwiches will be served to all-comers.
Speaking May 2 will be Ken Coreson, who founded Creating Memories, a fast-growing nonprofit centered around hunting and fishing opportunities, plus vacations, for the disabled, their caretakers, and their families.
Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be theater owner Darrell Brann.