The Catskill Chronicle

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY (January 24, 2012) –The Great Sullivan County Foodraiser is back with two new venues.

The Foodraiser, which will be held on February 4, 2012 ,is sponsored by Stacy and Friends and Community Unity.

Too large for any one venue, there will be live music at six different locations. Mr. Willy’s Restaurant in Monticello, The Dancing Cat Saloon and The Dancing Cat Distillery in Bethel, Dutch’s Tavern in Rock Hill, and for the first time this year Bum & Kel’s in Loch Sheldrake and the Woodsongs Coffeehouse at the Hurleyville Museum.

Everyone in the county is invited to come down and play music, listen to music, or just hang with the crowd.

Starting at 3:00 p.m., The Dancing Cat will have music in both the saloon and the distillery, featuring Stacy and Friends, Barry Scheinfeld Band, Third Degree, Lot 14, Small Town Sheiks, Drew Kelly, The Raddyos, Jason Rosen Band, Yasgur and Peter Florance and the New Kings.

Starting at 6:00 p.m. Mr. Willy’s on Route 42 in Monticello will have Yasgur, The SJP Band, Somerville, Peter Florance and The New Kings and Dennis Newburg. 

All other locations will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday night and their lineups will be released soon.

The Dancing Cat will continue the Foodraiser on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. with Little Sparrow, Albi Beluli, Mike Baglione and Anne Loeb, Mike Jung, Antoine Magliano and Steve Schwarz, and Dan Brother. 

There is no cover charge to enter the FoodRaiser, but while there Community Unity will be raising funds to support the 21 food pantries of Sullivan County. Five dollars sponsors one person for one hot meal at the soup kitchen at the Federation for the Homeless. Twenty-five dollars sponsors a bag of food for a family to get through a weekend. And you can even choose which food pantry you wish to sponsor.

Over the past three years the FoodRaiser has brought in $37,000 for the food pantries of Sullivan County.

To make it easier to get to all the venues, Yellow Cab will be providing 2 -14 seat shuttles traveling between all of the venues all night long.

For more information call Steve White at 845-583-4808 or Claire Sullivan at 845-557-3642 or check out the Dancing Cat Saloon website at dancingcatsaloon.com.