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The Fourth Annual "Major Night for a Major Cause: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime" will take place on November 12, 2011 at Indiana Downs in the second floor clubhouse. For the ridiculous portion of the evening, the Foundation has booked nationally known comedian Heywood Banks. According to Heywood's website, www.heywoodbanks.com, he is simply one-of-a-kind, almost impossible to describe, with a style his very own. Equal parts genius and buffoon, this songwriter-comic-singer-poet-musician has become a cult hero and a pop icon, with a show that appeals to college students, stoners, businessmen, yuppies, rednecks, punks, kids or your grandmother. Heywood intersperses his humorous observations of life with twisted, inventive, bizarre songs, sung and played in a variety of styles, from folk, to country to rock to pop, and way beyond. The sublime part of the evening will again be provided by the Gust Spenos Quartet. Dr. Spenos, a neurologist who brings his practice to the Major Health Partners Medical Specialties Clinic and talented saxophonist, always books a special guest musician to play with his quartet. This year, it is tenor jazz saxophonist Eric Alexander, www.ericalexanderjazz.com. Alexander has toured the world with his sax, and bases himself out of New Your City, where he appears regularly in New York clubs, including Smoke Jazz and Supper Club Lounge, www.smokejazz.com. He has been a musician all of his life, starting with piano at age six, picking up clarinet at nine, and the alto sax at twelve. He became passionate about the tenor sax during his one year at I.U. in Bloomington, finishing up his degree at William Patterson College in New Jersey. He notes Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McClain, John Coltrane, George Coleman and Joe Henderson as musicians who have influenced his style. He says, "The legacy left by……all the bebop pioneers, that language and that feel, that's the bread and butter of everything I do. The people that I listened to in college are still the cats that are influencing me today." The evening's festivities will include a drawing for a one-carat unset diamond from Reis-Nichols of Greenwood, a silent auction featuring the popular BidPal technology used at last year's event, and dinner prepared by Chef Greg Scheisser of Indiana Downs.
Tickets are $75 per person, and sponsorships are still available. Call the Foundation at 317-421-0361 to reserve your tickets or inquire about sponsorship.
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