Report: GREAT WHITE Victims Feel Bite; Band To Raise Cash For Harp Seals
January 4, 2007Dave Wedge of the Boston Herald reports:
Aging rockers GREAT WHITE are kicking off a reunion tour in Los Angeles later this month, but they'll be raising money to save harp seals in Canada, not to help the hundreds of victims burned when the band's pyrotechnics sparked a deadly nightclub blaze in Rhode Island three years ago.
"I think if you're in the band GREAT WHITE and you're talking about charitable endeavors, I don't see how you look past the victims of the Rhode Island fire," said Steven Minicucci, an attorney who represents dozens of people injured in the 2003 blaze at The Station in West Warwick, R.I.
The '80s nostalgia act is finishing a new album and embarking on a tour with its original lineup to mark its 25th anniversary. The reunited band's first show is a Jan. 27 benefit at Hollywood's Key Club to raise money for Harpseals.org, a nonprofit dedicated to ending Canadian seal hunting, according to the group's Web site.
The new tour comes as the Station Family Fund has run dry after handing out $800,000 to victims' families for housing costs, medical bills and other expenses. Fund president Victoria Potvin, who escaped the blaze, said the account is empty and the fund is “defunct," leaving some victims helpless.
"There are people who are going to need assistance for the rest of their lives," Potvin said.
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