{"id":5980,"date":"2011-10-02T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=188"},"modified":"2021-02-16T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:29:22","slug":"bluegrassroots-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/bluegrassroots-support\/","title":{"rendered":"(Blue)grassroots Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bluegrass music and grassroots support were combined to  raise $825.00 for Alabama Water Watch at an Auburn,   AL  restaurant recently.\u00a0<br \/>\nAWW monitors Liz Brennan, Brian Simpson and  Donnie Addison, members of the &ldquo;High Strung Dew Sippers&rdquo;, along with fellow band members, Ross Wall,  Lindsey Lester and \u00a0Sidney Simmons,  put together an evening of fine music  to benefit Alabama Water Watch.\u00a0 The Big  Blue Bagel was the scene and $3 was the cover charge to hear music performed by  The &lsquo;Dew Sippers&rsquo; and the lead-off group, &ldquo;Band of Mothers&rdquo;.\u00a0 The place was packed, and strumming of banjo, mandolin, guitar, base,  fiddle and washboard filled the air. \u00a0Many  customers chose to donate above the cover charge for the cause.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/09\/dewsippers.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" hspace=\"70\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When these young, talented Alabamians  heard that AWW was facing serious funding cuts that will seriously impact AWW&rsquo;s  statewide citizen water monitoring program, they decided to act. Brennan  said, &#8220;The High Strung Dew Sippers realize that  what AWW does is of great importance to Alabama,  and is in jeopardy. Since their funding was cut, one way to help save AWW is to  get the word out, and encourage people to get involved by donating time and  money for this cause. The benefit concert was a fun way to spread the word and  raise some money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AWW would like to express sincere gratitude to the Dew  Sippers, the Band of Mothers and the Big Blue Bagel for their support.\u00a0 The Dew Sippers set up the venue, arranged  the details and publicized the event.\u00a0  Their initiative shows that great things can be accomplished, and  encourages all of us to think of creative ways to keep AWW alive.<\/p>\n<p>Along with raising money, the event also  raised a sense of hope and faith in the goodness of our fellow woman and man.  Thank you, Dew Sippers for your most generous gift of your time and talent in  support of AWW! <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluegrass music and grassroots support were combined to raise $825.00 for Alabama Water Watch at an Auburn, AL restaurant recently.\u00a0 AWW monitors Liz Brennan, Brian Simpson and Donnie Addison, members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}