Dan Lucas Memorial Fund

I am also writing now to let folks reading this know about a new project the Lucas Family is starting as a way to honor the life of Dan Lucas. The Dan Lucas Memorial Fund will finance a yearly concert in Asheville. The initial focus will be jazz, one of Dan's great passions as a musician and areas of massive knowledge as a student. The first concert will be held next February around Dan's birthday.

Greg remarked to me that the suicide seemed so secondary to Dan's life that he wanted to create something that was about celebrating life in general, and things in Dan's life in particular that were a source of positivity and community, as well as deep artistic expression and inquiry.

Greg, Dana, Peter, and a few other board members will administer the endowment and select performers for the series

Given the large community we all call family, in Ashevegas and way way beyond, all over the country, through the desert, and all over this planet(!), I think one of the hopes is that as a seasonal event...and likely after-party...concerts in the series can also be a way for those of us proximal or mobile enough to Asheville to get up-get up And get down.

I know the Lucas family is starting the fund themselves. I've contributed. If anyone else wants to make a gift, you can mail a check (they make fun of themselves for not having an on-line button...oh well) to:

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
Attn: Dan Lucas Memorial Fund
P.O. Box 1888
Asheville, NC 28802



I lastly want to say that there are lots of ways to rock some solidarity for the Lucas family. In the end, and I think from talking with Greg about it a lot recently, its really more about just reaching out to connect with each other. See y'all soon.

Billy