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Kewaskum - It was announced that The Susan Cowsill Band will headline a benefit concert at 7:00 pm on Sunday, July 20 at the Kewaskum Theatre in Kewaskum High School. Sponsored by Statesman Publications, "An Evening for Tanzania!" is a benefit to raise funds for Brick by Brick for Tanzania!, Inc.
Incorporated in October 2007, Brick by Brick for Tanzania!, Inc. works with donor communities in the U.S. to build preschools in Tanzania, Africa. They are currently working on a project in collaboraton with Fox Point Lutheran Church and with the children of the Kewaskum Middle School to build a preschool - The Malaika School - in Usa River, Tanzania to be dedicated in August, 2008.
"We are thrilled that Susan Cowsill is coming to play in Kewaskum." Brick by Brick's President, Karen Berg exclaimed. "Susan and her husband, Russs Broussard are members of our Board of Directors and have an innate, almost visceral understanding of the needs of the children of Africa and our role in helping them. Their efforts with us will assure that the Malaika School will be finished as scheduled in August of 2008."
Susan Cowsill made her initial mark on popular culture at the tender age of eight with The Cowsills, the 60s family pop group that not only scored Top Ten singles "The Rain the Park and Other Things," "Hair," and "We Can Fly" but also served as the real-life inspiration for TV's fictional Partridge Family. During Susan's decade with New Orleans' roots-pop supergroup The Continetal Drifters, she won the hearts of discerning listeners with her impassioned vocals and personally charged songwriting, gracing three widely-aclaimed albuums and a decade's worth of riveting performances.
According to family lore, Susan's husband and bandmate, Broussard was so mesmerized by National Georgraphic photos of the Ituri drummers in Central Africa as a child that he would cry himself to sleep because he was not a part of the drum ceremony.
His dreams held firm and Russ graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in classical percussion, which led to the beginning of his professional career at the age of fifteen. Broussard can adapt his drumming skills to any style and has played with artists as diverse as Paul Simon, Robert Palmer, Kim Wilson, James Cotton, Terrance Simien, Bluerunners, the Continental Drifters, and Bay City Rollers.
Broussard continues to play with The Cowsills, Johnny Sansone, and with his wife Susan Cowsill. Russ and Susan were just named Best Roots Rock Band by New Orleans OffBeat Magazine in January 2008.
Tickets for The Ssuan Cowsill Band in "An Evening for Tanzania!" are available at a price of $25 and can be obtained at The Statesman office, Trinity Lutheran Church, M&I Banks or via PayPal online at www.brockbybrickfortanzania.org.
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