The Live Oak Coffeehouse

Welcomes John Flynn

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information –
Jeff Dorsch, Concert Publicity: 925-7874
Concert Line: 219-9008
Coffeehouse Web Site: www.liveoakuu.org/coffee


FEBRUARY 2006 (Austin, Texas) – The Live Oak Coffeehouse this month
presents singer-songwriter John Flynn, in a benefit performance for
Camp Dreamcatcher, a year-round program for children whose lives are
touched by HIV/AIDS. Gordy Quist of Austin will open the show, which
is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 10, at the Live Oak
Unitarian Universalist Church in Northwest Austin/Cedar Park.

Admission is $10 or a season pass at the door. Gourmet coffee and
pastries are included in the price of admission.

The Live Oak Coffeehouse has been smoke-free from its inception in
1998, before it was cool or legally mandatory!

The coffeehouse, a community outreach program for the Live Oak UU
Church, also is alcohol-free, putting the emphasis on the music and
the musicians. Three-quarters of the gate goes to the performers, and
one-quarter to the selected charity. Since the coffeehouse is an
all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization, all of the money from
admissions paid at the door and season passes goes to the performers
and the charity.

Of about 40,000 new AIDS cases diagnosed each year in the U.S., half
are among people younger than 25 and a quarter are among those 21 and
younger. The effects of living with AIDS/HIV leave little time for a
child to enjoy childhood. The mission of Camp Dreamcatcher, located in
Pennsylvania, is to provide safe, supportive, and educational services
to children infected/affected by HIV/AIDS and their families. For more
information, visit the organization's Web site at www.dreamcatcher.org.

Ticket Magazine places John Flynn "at the near end of a long line of
American poets, thinkers, and folk artists, stretching from Henry
David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman, all the way up
to Kris Kristofferson." Kristofferson himself praises John's
songwriting: "The truth is in the details; the gifts are an ear for
accurate dialogue, an eye for powerful imagery and anything funny, and
a heart open to surprises and the possibilities of moving the
emotions." As a young father, Flynn left a Nashville staff-writing gig
and began writing songs for his kids and for his life. These songs
yielded CDs that are informed by the trademark humanity and humor that
Flynn sees as the essential tools for parenthood and living. Recently
the 48-year-old Delaware resident has turned his attention, and his
songwriting, to the world his four children will one day inherit.

As a distinct Americana songwriter with a lyric-driven style, Gordy
Quist is equally at home in intimate listening rooms with just his
guitar and harmonica as he is in front of a five-piece electrified
band. Quist's full band shows span all genres of American roots music,
from country, folk, and blues to rock and soul. He is being touted as
both a unique songwriter with depth and an authentic voice, and as an
inspired guitar player fronting a comfortably loose American folk 'n
roll band.

Doors open at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 10, at the Live Oak Unitarian
Universalist Church, located at 3315 El Salido Parkway, Cedar Park.
For driving directions, visit the church's Web site at
www.liveoakuu.org or call 219-9008.


THE LIVE OAK COFFEEHOUSE – GREAT MUSIC FOR GOOD CAUSES.
NOW IN OUR NINTH YEAR.