![]() Carey Eyer, Lara Hemingway and their daughters Neilia Eyer and Ivy Eyer set up inside the Lincoln Barber Shop. ![]() The Eyer Family Band, which has participated since 2012, made a return to Street Music Week on Monday. “I remember like the 15th year, I think we’d barely gotten $10,000 of donations, and then it sort of took off and we just started making more and more money for the food bank.” “It’s been a really good thing and I’m really proud of the way it’s grown,” Clark said. He said folks also can donate online at, or through the event’s Facebook page. Clark said the fundraiser passed the $300,000 over the weekend, thanks to a $15,000 donation from a longtime supporter of Street Music Week.Ĭo-organizer Jim Lyons said Monday’s busking raised around $400. In the last 19 years, Street Music Week has raised over $290,000 to help feed folks in need. Monday’s performers included Kenyon Fields and his bagpipes, Curt Donner and Key Yohannan playing rock and country classics, and the Jambonis– a ragtag group of eight musicians with an Americana feel. Organizer Doug Clark, a retired longtime columnist for The Spokesman-Review who founded the event, said more than 36 different performers braved the rain between the three areas, a much better turnout than he anticipated. ![]() all week and can be easily identified by the bright red buckets that read “FOOD BANK DONATIONS” and “$1 = 5 MEALS.” Performers are scheduled to be performing from noon to 1 p.m. This week, musicians and performers are taking to the streets of downtown Spokane, the Garland District and Coeur d’Alene to raise money for the Second Harvest Foodbank. Main Street in downtown Spokane turned into a bustling busking corridor Monday afternoon as Street Music Week returned for its 20th year.
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