know exactly where your money is going.
Mark Folse saw the Hot 8 Brass Band perform at Jazzfest and wrote about it. Little Dinerral Shavers, Jr., also known as DJ, performed with the band. As you probably know by now, his father, Dinerral Shavers, music educator and Hot 8 bandmember, was shot dead right in front of his family at the end of 2006. Since then, Shavers’s alleged murderer, David Bonds, has twice walked out of court free due to unwilling witnesses and possible witness intimidation. It is hard to look at Mark’s pictures of DJ; I wish I could bring his dad back. In the absence of such an ability, donate to the fund set up for his education. (At the time of this post, the DSEF website is experiencing problems in Internet Explorer. Please go back later once the Donate button is fixed for all browsers.)
