Friday, October 24, 2008
Get Out: Wrap Up the with Mummies
What is a civic-minded organization to do when Roanoke’s high schools need good musical gear? Call in some mummies.
Valley Forward has hired a group called Here Come the Mummies — complete with gauze wrapping — to play Awful Arthur’s Towers tonight . If the show sells all of its 300 tickets at $25 a pop, Valley Forward will have raised $7,500 to help buy grand pianos for William Fleming and Patrick Henry high schools.
So, who are these undead nomads? Band publicist Jason Gray says they are “nine mummies cursed to cruise the earth in search of groove and amorous adventure.
“For the last several decades, they have been working the Nashville and L.A. recording industry due to their prodigious talents and the fact that the darkness and air conditioning suits their complexion and decomposition,” Gray said.
According to the band’s Web site, it is doomed “to wander the earth throughout eternity, seeking the ultimate riff, the one that would allow these souls to finally rest after 5,000 years of banging out solid fly grooves.”
Wrapped or unwrapped, they’re killer players. Read a Q&A on the cutnscratch music blog.
Who: Here Come the Mummies
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Where: Awful Arthur’s, Towers Shopping Center, Roanoke.
How much: $25
Contact: 777-0007
More info: mummiesfundraiser.com
