Show Mom how much you love her by taking her out for dancing on Sunday. The Stonewood Foundation and the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana present Spring Swing on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11 at Grant Street Dancehall. The benefit will feature music from The Red Stick Ramblers, the Pine Leaf Boys, and Ann Savoy and Her Sleepless Knights.
The Stonewood Foundation - originally founded by Jim Phillips, Christy Leichty and Jane Vidrine - is a nonprofit organization that seeks to raise the literacy and quality of life standards in Southwest Louisiana through educational programs. Proceeds from Spring Swing will benefit the Stonewood School for preschool through 5th grade children scheduled to open in the fall 2009.
Doors open at 5 p.m., and the show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door, and $12 in advance. For more information on the Stonewood Foundation, visit www.stonewoodfound.org.
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Show Mom how much you love her by taking her out for dancing on Sunday. The Stonewood Foundation and the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana present Spring Swing on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11 at Grant Street Dancehall. The benefit will feature music from The Red Stick Ramblers, the Pine Leaf Boys, and Ann Savoy and Her Sleepless Knights.
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